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Fully Booked Literature Live: Eimear McBride

19:30 - 20:45 17 February 2020
*This event is now fully booked* Manchester Literature Festival and the Centre for New Writing are delighted to present an evening with Eimear McBride. One of our most arresting writers,…

Collaborate Seminar Series: BBSRC LINK Case Study - Professor Alan Dickson with UCB

12:00 - 13:00 17 February 2020
The Research and Business Engagement Team welcome you to the Collaborate Seminar Series highlighting opportunities and mechanisms for collaboration. The series will be kick-started…

Creative Manchester presents Music on Campus

12:15 11 February - 13:30 24 March 2020
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: In light of the developing situation around COVID-19 and the Government’s latest advice for people to avoid non-essential contact, we have taken the decision…

Creepy-Crawly Chronicles Children’s Story Competition

7 December 2019 - 9 March 2020
From ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ and ‘Charlotte’s Web’ to 'Spiderman’, insects have inspired countless much-loved stories and comics. Enter your ideas into our story competition to…

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…

DMDS Divisional Seminar Programme - Monday 17 February 2020

13:00 - 14:00 17 February 2020
DMDS Divisional Seminar Programme Date: Monday 17 February 2020 Time: 1.00pm Venue: Stopford Building, Room 2.823/5 Lynne Macrae – “Research Governance and Ethics.” Research Practice…

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…

February Half-Term: Meet the Expert

12:00 17 - 12:00 21 February 2020
Here’s your chance to meet one of our resident science and astronomy experts. You’ll learn all about their work, plus have the chance to ask the space questions you’ve always wanted to ask!

February Half-Term: Space Crafts

15 - 23 February 2020
Join us for our arts and crafts activities centred around all things space! Whether you enjoy drawing or making, drop-in anytime between 11am-4pm and find something for all the family to enjoy.

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…

Neil Thacker - Fundamental Issues Regarding Uncertainties in Artificial Neural Networks

14:00 - 15:00 17 February 2020
(Zochonis Lecture Theatre D) Join us for this seminar by Neil Thacker (Manchester) as part of the Mathematics in the Life Sciences Series. Abstract: The problem of assessment of uncertainty…

Projections of random measures on products of $\times m,\times n$-invariant sets and a random Furstenberg sumset conjecture - Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar Series

15:00 - 16:00 17 February 2020
Catherine Bruce will be speaking at this research seminar, part of the Dynamical Systems and Analysis seminar series. Abstract: In 2012 Hochman and Shmerkin proved that, given Borel…

Robots and the origin of their labour-saving impact

15:30 - 16:30 17 February 2020
Join us for MIOIR External Seminar Series 19/20, seminar hosted by Professor Fabio Montobbio. Abstract: This paper investigates the presence of explicit labour-saving heuristics within…

Science show: The science of a world heritage site

15 - 23 February 2020
Show Times: 11am, 12pm, 2.30pm Jodrell Bank became a World Heritage site in July 2019. In this show find out about some of the important moments in this site’s history which make it such an important place.

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Florian Muehlfield

16:00 - 18:00 17 February 2020
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 17th of February 2020 Prof Florian Mühlfrield Ilia State University, Georgia Mistrusting the Obvious Facade Politics and their Responses in…

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,…

Tinkering Studio

10:00 - 14:00 17 February 2020
Monday 17 – Friday 21 February 2020 A hands on, creative studio for trying out ideas and playing with materials. Throughout the week, our studio will be full of nuts, bolts, tools…

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…

Utopias

31 January - 4 October 2020
Utopia is, at its essence, about creating a perfect world, yet in this way, it is always in opposition with the present. In his seminal book Utopia (1516), Thomas More gave name and…

EPSRC Open Meeting – Plenary Talk by Prof Lynn Gladden, EPSRC Exec Chair

12:00 - 13:00 18 February 2020
Prof Lynn Gladden, EPSRC Executive Chair, will be hosting an open meeting at the University on Tuesday 18th February 2020. The meeting will include a formal presentation around the…

Tinkering Studio

10:00 - 14:00 18 February 2020
Monday 17 – Friday 21 February 2020 A hands on, creative studio for trying out ideas and playing with materials. Throughout the week, our studio will be full of nuts, bolts, tools…

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