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Aperture CANCELLED

10:30 - 11:30 19 April 2020
THIS EVENT IS NOW FULLY BOOKED. Calling all photographers! This is a fantastic opportunity to capture the beauty of our Historic Reading Room, before the Library opens to the general…

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…

Easter Holidays: Science Show: Seeing Jupiter Differently

4 - 19 April 2020
Show Times: Weekdays and bank holidays: 11am, 12pm, 2:30pm, 3:30pm Weekends: 12pm, 3:30pm People have been viewing Jupiter for many centuries and over time, as we have developed different…

Easter Holidays: Seeing your little world differently

4 - 19 April 2020
11am – 4pm (drop-in any time) A drop in session for children under 5 to explore the world of how we see things including mirrors, lenses and colours. There will also be a story time…

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…

LITERATURE LIVE: An Evening with Hilary Mantel hosted by Kamila Shamsie

19:00 - 20:20 19 April 2020
IMPORTANT INFORMATION This event has now been cancelled. Please see further information here: https://tinyurl.com/s4yyrfz

Science Learning at Home

20 March - 30 June 2020
Jodrell Bank Observatory is the UK’s latest UNESCO World Heritage Site and an icon for British science and engineering. For the last 75 years, the pioneering scientists and researchers…

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…

(POSTPONED) Christina Cobbold - Mathematics in the Life Sciences Seminar

14:00 20 April 2020
(Zochonis Lecture Theatre D) Join us for this seminar by Christina Cobbold (Glasgow) as part of the Mathematics in the Life Sciences Series. Abstract to follow. To subscribe to the…

Cancelled: Jodrell Bank: 75 Years of science

20 April - 13 November 2020
-Please note that these events have been cancelled due to the Coronavirus outbreak- 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of Jodrell Bank Observatory. Since 1945, this globally significant…

Carl Whitfield - Characterisation of ventilation heterogeneity in lung airway networks with Spectral Graph Theory.

14:00 - 15:00 20 April 2020
(via Zoom) This webinar is a trial run to kick off the online seminar series that has been arranged in place of the original series. Abstract to follow. Details of the zoom meeting…

Literature Live: Jessica Moor and Juliet Bates

18:30 - 19:45 20 April 2020
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This event has now been cancelled. Please see further information here: https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/coronavirus-update--1-april-2020/

CANCELLED Marco Iglesias - Title TBA

12:00 - 13:00 21 April 2020
This seminar has been cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Advances in Biosciences Seminar: Microtubule motor cooperation in cell division - Julie Welburn, University of Edinburgh

15:00 - 16:00 21 April 2020
Advances in Biosciences Seminar: Microtubule motor cooperation in cell division Julie Welburn, University of Edinburgh Host: Chiara Francavilla

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Christina Lupton (Copenhagen): 'Queer Times for the Straight Book: Michel Serres and Maggie Nelson'

17:00 - 19:00 21 April 2020
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism programme. Christina Lupton (University of Copenhagen) will deliver a public lecture entitled 'Queer Times…

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