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Applied Economics Seminar - Patrick Nolen (Essex)

13:00 - 14:15 5 December 2019
Title: TBA

Aviation and the Environment: New Regulatory Standard for Aircraft Engine non-volatile Particulate Matter Emissions

13:00 - 14:00 5 December 2019
The civil aviation sector has been forecast to grow at the rate of ~5% per year for the foreseeable future. There are increasing concerns about the impact of aircraft emissions on local…

Botanical Christmas craft at Manchester Museum

18:00 - 19:00 5 December 2019
Please arrive 10 minutes before the start of the workshop at the Welcome Desk as this activity takes place behind the scenes. Go behind the scenes at the museum to create your own…

Botanical Christmas craft at Manchester Museum

19:00 - 20:00 5 December 2019
Please arrive 10 minutes before the start of the workshop at the Welcome Desk as this activity takes place behind the scenes. Go behind the scenes at the museum to create your own…

CMI Seminar: A Counter Public of the Right

15:00 - 16:15 5 December 2019
The Cathie Marsh Institute welcomes Andreas Jungherr from the Center for Data and Methods, University of Konstanz who will be speaking on the topic: A counter public of the right:…

Collection Encounter: Medicine through Time

15:00 - 16:00 5 December 2019
Join our Collection Encounter to get close up to some of our most fascinating medical materials. Find out more about the fascinating history of medicine and how many cultures contributed…

Community Curators; inside the pharmacy collection

10:00 - 16:00 5 December 2019
Community Curators; inside the pharmacy collection Have you ever wanted to discover the hidden world behind the scenes of a museum? Or want to have a go at conducting academic research?…

Creative Writing for Carers

19:00 - 20:30 5 December 2019
Creative Writing Be kind to yourself. Take a break. Caring for someone can be rewarding, but it may also be a challenge. The needs of the person you care for may often come before…

CTIS Seminar: Shifting Characterisations of the ‘Common People’ in English Retranslations of Thucydides: A Corpus-based Analysis

14:00 - 15:30 5 December 2019
Characterisation is the process through which readers may distinguish from each other the various actors depicted in a narrative and develop an understanding of their individual traits…

Cézanne at the Whitworth

24 August 2019 - 1 March 2020
This exhibition celebrates an extraordinary collection of drawings and prints by Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) that has been gifted and placed on long-term loan to the Whitworth by gallerist,…

Daily: Art Hampers – resources for families at the Whitworth

10:00 31 August 2018 - 10:00 31 May 2020
Are you and your family hungry to get creative? Pick up a picnic hamper with a difference. Come to our Oxford Road or Parkside entrance and pick up one of our special hampers - free…

Display It Like You Stole It

17:00 - 18:30 5 December 2019
A Whitworth Studies Event Alice Procter, independent tour guide for ‘The Uncomfortable Art’ Tours and historian of material culture at UCL Display It Like You Stole It The Whitworth, Study Centre

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Adrian Curtis (University of Manchester) “Weeping at Bethel: An Old Idea Revisited.”

14:00 - 16:00 5 December 2019
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. These seminars are free with no registration required. Seminars last 90 minutes including a 30 minute Q&A session. Tea and biscuits…

Elena Luca - Physical Applied Mathematics Seminar

14:00 - 15:00 5 December 2019
Elena Luca (UC San Diego) joins us for the Physical Applied Mathematics Series. This seminar is unusually scheduled for Thursday 5th December. The seminar will be in Frank Adams 1 at…

Elizabeth Price

25 September 2019 - 1 March 2020
Bringing together many new and acclaimed works - including drawings, sculpture and video - this exhibition engages with Price’s pre-occupations of technology, history, politics and…

Exchanges

24 March 2018 - 2 February 2020
Exchanges sets art and artists together, sometimes in harmony, sometimes in opposition – always with insight and intention. In this evolving exhibition, art that has recently been…

Family Stargazing Night

19 October 2019 - 8 February 2020
6pm – 9pm Calling all budding young stargazers. You are invited to join us for an unmissable opportunity to get started in astronomy. During our fun-packed evening you will enjoy…

Fugitive Words: Deep Learning and the Deep Past in Australia - Michael Falk, University of Kent

16:00 - 17:30 5 December 2019
Digital Humanities Seminar

Getting to Know Your Camera: Photography Workshop

24 November 2019 - 12 January 2020
10am – 1pm Ever wanted to take your camera off the auto setting and see how you can be in more control of the images you make and be able to explore more creative options? In our introduction…

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…

Introduction to Astrophotography

23 October 2019 - 26 February 2020
Introduction to Astrophotography Wednesdays 23rd October, 20th November, 15th January and 26th February, 7.30pm – 10pm Jodrell Bank's popular Introduction to Astrophotography workshops…

Li Yuan Chia: Unique Photographs

18 May - 15 December 2019
In his lifetime, Li Yuan Chia (1929-1994) travelled from China, to Taiwan, Bologna and London but found his home in a house that he bought in 1972 from Winifred Nicholson in Banks at…

Linnean Society: Irene Manton Lecture 2019

17:00 - 19:00 5 December 2019
The Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health in collaboration with The Linnean Society will host the 2019 Irene Manton lecture at The John Rylands Library. The lecture celebrates and…

Noemi Gyori (flute) and Julia Klimek (piano)

13:10 - 14:00 5 December 2019
M. Weinberg 12 Miniatures for Flute and Piano Op.2 M. Weinberg Five pieces for Flute and Piano Join flutist Noemi Gyori with Julia Klimek on the piano as they perform a recital celebrating…

Philip Arathoon - Singular reduction of the 2-body problem on the 3-sphere and the 4-dimensional Lagrange top

15:00 - 16:00 5 December 2019
Title: Singular reduction of the 2-body problem on the 3-sphere and the 4-dimensional Lagrange top Abstract: For the motion of two attracting bodies in Euclidean space, the translational…

Public Flute Masterclass with Noemi Gyori

14:30 - 16:00 5 December 2019
Join Noemi Gyori, international soloist, for her laboratory flute masterclass. Spend the afternoon delving into experimentation with various means of musical expressions, exploration…

SCI Festival 2019

14:00 - 19:00 5 December 2019
The Sustainable Consumption Institute will hold a half-day event to celebrate over a decade of cutting edge research and to launch a new research agenda marking our next phase as an…

Stargazing Night

15 November 2019 - 20 March 2020
7pm – 10pm Join us at Jodrell Bank for an unmissable opportunity to get started in astronomy. You’ll learn how to navigate the skies and locate the stars in our inflatable Planetarium,…

Tapestries

12 October 2019 - 1 March 2020
A tapestry is a coming together of people or things, usually thread, to make an intricate whole. This exhibition shows the breadth of the textiles at the Whitworth that are made with…

The Reno at the Whitworth

15 March 2019 - 1 March 2020
For a period of one year Linda Brogan and a group of local residents, who went to the Reno nightclub in the 1970s and 80s, will occupy the Whitworth. The Reno, located in Moss Side,…

The True Cost of Christmas

2 - 16 December 2019
Want to learn how to live more sustainably? This interactive installation highlights hidden environmental impacts and shows exactly how small changes can help us all live more sustainably.…

Toddler Tales

11:00 - 11:45 5 December 2019
Find a cosy corner, pull up a cushion and listen to fun stories. Join in playtime, creating a story world of your own. Free, no need to book, just drop in. Family friendly, children 5 yrs and under.

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…

Unreformed: Wallpaper and Design Diversity

17 August 2019 - 5 July 2020
Unreformed: Wallpaper and Design Diversity In the middle of the nineteenth century wallpaper design suddenly became diverse. English manufacturers began to excel at the quick production…

Winter Market at Manchester Museum

17:00 - 21:00 5 December 2019
Following the success of lasts years’ event the Winter Market returns in partnership with Levenshulme Markets. There will be a host of beautiful handmade Christmas presents to buy,…

Young, Rich & Famous

10:00 1 October 2019 - 17:00 1 January 2020
In this digital age of collecting selfies and more on social media, what does immortality mean? Manchester Museum’s latest installation at Manchester’s Central Library, Young, Rich…

‘New Directions in the Study of (pre-modern) Empire’

16:00 - 17:30 5 December 2019
‘New Directions in the Study of (pre-modern) Empire’ Research event organised by Stephen Mossman (with Domantas Audronis and Ben Pope).

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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