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Bolton (BOSCEP) Network - Spring meeting

13:00 - 16:00 27 February 2020
Join us for our termly Primary Science Network Meeting for Bolton (BOSCEP) schools. To register for this meeting, please click on the 'register for this event' link under 'More information'

CMI Seminar by Dr James Laurence (UoM) "Together and Apart: the Dynamics of Ethic Diversity, Segregation and Social Cohesion among Young People and Adults"

15:00 - 16:00 27 February 2020
The Cathie Marsh Institute welcomes James Laurence from The University of Manchester who will be speaking on the topic: Together and Apart: the Dynamics of Ethic Diversity, Segregation…

CoDE Seminar: Diane Abbott, misogynoir and the politics of Black British feminism

12:00 - 13:00 27 February 2020
This seminar presents Dr Lisa Palmer's paper that argues that we cannot understand the acute intensification of white supremacist politics in contemporary Britain without paying close…

Collection Encounter: Medicine through Time

15:00 - 16:00 27 February 2020
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…

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…

CTIS Seminar: Computer-aided Literary Translation: An Opportunity, Not a Threat

14:00 - 15:30 27 February 2020

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…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Caroline Kaye (Manchester Metropolitan University) ‘What's Luke got to do with it? Relating the disputation as portrayed in painting to its textual origins’

14:00 - 16:00 27 February 2020
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…

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…

Exhibition: The Soul of the Black Earth - 60 years of Contemporary Chinese Printmaking

19 February - 13 March 2020
The Confucius Institute is delighted to bring this fascinating exhibition to Manchester, telling the story of four generations of printmakers from Heilongjiang Province in the north-east…

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 the Lattice Lightsheet Microscope

12:00 - 13:00 27 February 2020
Introductory seminar on the use of The Lattice Lightsheet Microscope

NCHS: Making Bird Boxes with City of Trees

12:00 - 14:00 27 February 2020
Come and join City of Trees at the Whitworth to make your very own bird box. During this session you will also learn how to look after and monitor your bird boxes. All equipment will…

NCHS: Meditating in Nature

17:30 - 18:30 27 February 2020
Meditating in Nature is an opportunity for you to switch-off after work and experience a deep sense of calm whilst enjoying the beauty of the grounds at The Whitworth. When we are mindful…

NCHS: Yoga

08:30 - 09:30 27 February 2020
No emails, texts, updates or alerts –yoga that takes full advantage of the Whitworth’s peaceful setting. No need to book. When the weather is fine, this session will take place in…

Nick McGee - The ‘Coolie’ and the ‘Comity of Nations’: Human Trafficking, Foreign Advisors and the Incorporation of Qing China into an Unequal Liberal Order [ECR Workshop]

12:30 - 13:30 27 February 2020
By the 1860s, Qing China was facing an unprecedented crisis of human trafficking in coerced “coolie” labourers from its southern coast to the Americas. For assistance with this intractable…

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