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Instruments of Change

19 March 2019 - 31 December 2020
Instruments of Change is an exhibition that showcases objects from the Beswick Collection at the Museum of Medicine and Health, telling the stories of the people of Manchester whose…

Playtime: Free things for families everyday this summer

11:00 27 July - 15:00 1 September 2019
All summer the Whitworth will be exploring the art of play. Have a wander and find things to do both indoors and out. With our Splash Studio, giant garden games and a sensory area…

Tours at Two

14:00 20 April 2018 - 14:45 31 December 2019
Each day our public tours are led by our Visitor Team and are an insightful view into our history, collections, exhibition spaces, architecture and park. Daily tours are designed for…

Guided Campus Visit

13:30 - 15:30 31 July 2019
Can’t come to one of our open days? Join us for one of our regular guided visits of our campus instead and get a feel for the facilities, amenities and atmosphere you’ll enjoy as a…

Open Minds XIV

1 - 2 August 2019
The fourteenth annual philosophy conference for postgraduate students in philosophy. Sponsored by the University of Manchester. Event date and location *1st-2nd August 2019 *The University…

Guided Campus Visit

13:30 - 15:30 7 August 2019
Can’t come to one of our open days? Join us for one of our regular guided visits of our campus instead and get a feel for the facilities, amenities and atmosphere you’ll enjoy as a…

See, Make & Do at the Museum

09:15 - 10:30 10 August 2019
See, Make and Do at the Museum: 9.15-10.30am Join us for our early openings at the Museum aimed at children who have autism and other needs, along with their families and carers, and…

Aperture

10:30 - 11:30 18 August 2019
Calling all photographers! This is a fantastic opportunity to capture the beauty of our Historic Reading Room, before the Library opens to the general public. You’re welcome to bring…

Documenting history: Book Panel Event

18:00 - 20:00 5 September 2019
Documenting history: Book Panel Event (In partnership with Blackwell’s) Why should Jallianwala Bagh be remembered? How can we understand what really happened that day in 1919? Hear…

Integrating and analysing multiple datasets

12 - 13 September 2019
This workshop will enable participants to: • Produce data descriptions and summaries to understand the data. • Use statistical tools to clean and manipulate data • Integrate relational…

See, Make & Do at the Museum

09:15 - 10:30 14 September 2019
See, Make and Do at the Museum: 9.15-10.30am Join us for our early openings at the Museum aimed at children who have autism and other needs, along with their families and carers, and…

Aperture

10:30 - 11:30 15 September 2019
Calling all photographers! This is a fantastic opportunity to capture the beauty of our Historic Reading Room, before the Library opens to the general public. You’re welcome to bring…

Spotlight- music event at the museum

18:00 - 22:00 20 September 2019
Come and join us for a free evening of music event and activities in aid of a charity, put together by a group of local students working with the Museum. Bands confirmed are the following…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Marco Di Nunzio - 23 September 2019

16:00 - 18:00 23 September 2019
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 23 September 2019 Dr Marco Di Nunzio – University of Birmingham “The Act of Living. Street Life, Marginality and Development in Urban Ethiopa…

GDI Lecture with Prof Stephanie Barrientos: Gender and Work: Capturing the Gains in Global Value Chains

17:00 - 18:30 25 September 2019
The Global Development Institute Lecture Series is pleased to present Prof Stephanie Barrientos: Gender and Work: Capturing the Gains in Global Value Chains The Global Development…

Research Uncovered

17:00 - 21:00 27 September 2019
Friday 27 September is European Researcher’s night and for the fifth time Manchester Museum will be hosting a special late opening showcasing Manchester’s finest researchers and their…

Royal Statistical Society Course - Spatial Data Analysis in R

27 September 2019
A one-day foundation course delivered by the Royal Statistical Society in partnership with methods@manchester Course Outline As spatial datasets get larger and more sophisticated…

Undergraduate Open Day

28 September 2019
Open days give you the chance to find out more about the challenges, opportunities and rewards of academic and social life at The University of Manchester – and explore our bustling campus and exciting city for yourself

CoDE Seminar: Conviviality at/from the border

12:00 - 13:00 4 October 2019
Luke de Noronha presents a CoDE seminar on Conviviality at/from the border: Paul Gilroy’s theorisations of ‘conviviality’ have been profoundly generative, leading some sociologists…

Literature Live: David Nicholls in Conversation

19:00 - 20:15 4 October 2019
Remember the summer you left school and fell in love for the first time? Charlie Lewis, the protagonist of David Nicholl’s excellent new novel Sweet Sorrow does. But Charlie also has…

Jeanette Winterson: Frankissstein

19:30 - 20:45 5 October 2019
Manchester Literature Festival and the Centre for New Writing are delighted to host one of our most innovative contemporary writers, Jeanette Winterson, performing a unique, one-woman…

Brilliant and Black presents Professor David Olusoga

12:00 - 14:00 10 October 2019
Public lecture given by David Olusoga OBE to celebrate Black History Month at The University of Manchester About this Event To celebrate Black History Month we are delighted to…

2019 Booker Prize Shortlist

19:00 - 20:15 11 October 2019
Meet some of the authors of the 2019 Booker Prize for Fiction shortlist at this special event at Manchester Literature Festival. The Booker Prize is a byword for the finest literary…

See, Make & Do at the Museum

09:15 - 10:30 12 October 2019
Sat 12 Oct: 9.15-10.30am See, Make and Do at the Museum: 9.15-10.30am Join us for our early openings at the Museum aimed at children who have autism and other needs, along with their…

Undergraduate Open Day

12 October 2019
Open days give you the chance to find out more about the challenges, opportunities and rewards of academic and social life at The University of Manchester – and explore our bustling campus and exciting city for yourself

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