Exhibitions, Lecture

A Quest for Solidarity in a Fractured Europe

17:30 - 19:30 15 December 2015
This roundtable event will include commentaries from speakers, and an engaged discussion with the audience. Register for this event here: https://mediterranean-refugee-crisis.eventbrite.co.uk…

B.15:45 Architecture modelmaking exhibition: Celebrating 45 years of the B.15 modelmaking workshop

1 September 2014 - 31 December 2015
2015 marks 45 years of the Kantorowich B.15 modelmaking workshop at The University of Manchester. The B.15:45 exhibition is a retrospective look at the last 45 years of modelmaking…

Darkness and Light: Exploring Gothic

16 July 2015 - 10 January 2016
EXTENDED UNTIL 10 JANUARY This intriguing exhibition reveals how Gothic architecture and anatomy inspired and influenced a literary genre, and how the lasting legacy of Gothic can be…

Gifts for the Gods: Animal Mummies Revealed

8 October 2015 - 17 April 2016
A groundbreaking exhibition of over 60 animal mummies showing how modern science can help explain this ancient practice. Mummies of jackals, crocodiles, cats and birds are displayed…

Noisy Bodies

1 October - 20 December 2015
Manchester-based contemporary artist Daksha Patel fuses art with science in this exclusive exhibition. Her intriguing work explores how scientific systems visualise, map and measure…

The Phantoms of Congo River: Photographs by Nyaba Ouedraogo : Manchester Museum

11 September 2015 - 10 April 2016
Nyaba L. Ouedraogo is a self-taught photographer born in Burkina Faso, and now working and living between Paris and West Africa. The Phantoms of the Congo River is a photography exhibition…

Saving a Century

8 January - 24 March 2016
'Saving a Century', curated by leading architectural historian Gavin Stamp, uses archive photographs and material from over 50 years of the The Victorian Society's fight to save historic…

They Said, We Said

11 January - 29 April 2016
?'They Said, We Said' is a collection of artwork produced by members of Pure Studio, an arts facility based in Stockport that helps its members, all of whom have a learning disability,…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Mary Poovey: Some Lessons of History: Why Economists Failed to Anticipate the Great Recession

17:00 - 19:00 13 January 2016
Professor Mary Poovey will lecture as part of CIDRAL's Semester 1 programme for the 2015-16 academic year, themed around Finance and the Market. This lecture explores the relationship…

Magic, Witches and Devils in the Early Modern World

21 January - 21 August 2016
Ghosts, witches, sorcerers and demons: our fascination with the supernatural stretches back centuries. Experience how supernatural forces shaped the lives of everyone from kings and…

Massimiliano Fuksas: Emotion - Strategy

18:00 - 19:30 22 January 2016
A public lecture by Massimiliano Fuksas, one of the most renowned Italian architects. Studio Fuksas, led by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas, is an international architectural practice…

Tibor Reich

29 January - 29 August 2016
A celebration of post-war design alongside an exhibition of Wallpaper from the Whitworth's collection

Wallpaper

29 January - 4 September 2016
Continuing the celebration of post-war design this show features highlights from the Whitworth’s collection of 1950s and 60s wallpapers. At the heart of the exhibition are papers from…

English Literature and American Studies Research Seminar: John Connor (Colgate University) ‘Romantic Woolf’

17:00 - 18:30 3 February 2016
John Connor (Colgate University) ‘Romantic Woolf’

70th anniversary lecture series: Jodrell Bank, the Moon and the Space Race

19:30 - 21:00 4 February 2016
On 4th February 1966 Jodrell Bank intercepted signals from the Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft which had landed on the Moon the previous day. and printed them on a borrowed newspaper fax machine.…

Miyakobashi Yokocho drawings exhibition

8 - 19 February 2016
This exhibition explores Miyakobashi Yokocho in drawings, photographs and text. It reveals previously concealed glimpses into Japan’s changing urban culture. Miyakobashi Yokocho (Yokohama,…

DigiLab - Get hands-on with virtual reality

10:00 - 16:00 10 February 2016
Join us on Wednesday, 10 February from 10am and get hands-on with the amazing developments in the world of virtual reality. We’ll have Oculus Rift and the latest Google Cardboard…

English Literature and American Studies Research Seminar: Cecile Sandten (Chemnitz) ‘Postcolonial Invocations: The Poetics of Location and Dislocation in a Selection of Bombay Poems’

17:00 - 18:30 10 February 2016
Cecile Sandten (Chemnitz) ‘Postcolonial Invocations: The Poetics of Location and Dislocation in a Selection of Bombay Poems’

Oracular Narrative: Timing and Truth Telling. Exploring mythic forms of prefigurement and prophecy in contemporary fiction inspired by Greek tragedy and the Arabian Nights.

17:30 - 19:30 11 February 2016
The John Rylands Institute is honoured to welcome Marina Warner to deliver the Institute’s Annual Lecture on Thursday, 11 February 2016. A writer of fiction, criticism and history,…

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