Exhibitions, Lecture

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’

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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,…

Pilkington Lecture in Art History

17:30 - 19:30 11 February 2016
Professor David Freedberg, Warburg Institute, London 'Art History and Neuroscience: the Challenge for the Humanities'

Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies 2016: Professor Michael Marrus (Toronto) - "Lessons of the Holocaust"

17:15 - 19:00 15 February 2016
The first Bogdanow Lecture in Holocaust Studies 2016. Michael Marrus is Professor Emeritus of Holocaust Studies at the University of Toronto. He is the author of numerous books including…

Where Next for the UK and the EU? An Irish perspective

16:30 - 17:30 15 February 2016
A special joint event by the JMCE/EDIC and the European Movement ***The event is free and open to all***

Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies 2016: Professor Michael Marrus (Toronto) - "Lessons of the Holocaust"

17:15 - 19:00 16 February 2016
The second Bogdanow Lecture in Holocaust Studies 2016. Michael Marrus is Professor Emeritus of Holocaust Studies at the University of Toronto. He is the author of numerous books including…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: François Hartog: Towards a New Historical Condition

17:00 - 19:00 17 February 2016
Professor François Hartog will lecture as part of CIDRAL's Semester 2 programme for the 2015-16 academic year, themed around Cultures and Temporalities. Might recent and unfolding…

Global Development Institute Launch - Winnie Byanyima

17:00 - 18:30 17 February 2016
Please join us to celebrate the launch of the Global Development Institute on 17 February 5.00-6.30, at The University of Manchester. The launch will feature a keynote lecture on addressing…

Stachniewski Memorial Lecture: Prof. Jackie Pearson (Manchester), ‘Speaking with the Supernatural in Early Modern England’

17:00 - 19:00 17 February 2016
Annual Stachniewski Memorial lecture hosted by the Division of English, American Studies, and Creative Writing in association with UMUCU. Prof. Jackie Pearson (Manchester), ‘Speaking…

Public Lecture Professor Susana Narotzky ‘’Autonomy, dependence and solidarity : grassroots responses to structural adjustment in Spain’’

16:00 - 18:00 2 March 2016
PUBLIC LECTURE Faculty of Humanities Visiting Hallsworth Professor Wednesday 2nd March 2016 Susana Narotzky, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Barcelona…

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