Exhibitions, Lecture

Art History and Visual Studies Talks

17:30 16 March 2016
Douglas Brine, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas 'Jan van Eyck and the shield of St George'

Ben Rivers

25 February - 22 May 2016
Ben Rivers presents his most ambitious work to date. The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers is Ben Rivers’ most ambitious work to date. Migrating between documentary, fantasy and fable, and…

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…

New Arrivals

12 March - 20 November 2016
This exhibition brings together a selection of works that have recently been brought into the Whitworth’s collection. Highlighting a contemporary and diverse approach to drawing, they…

Nico Vascellari

25 February - 18 September 2016
Nico Vascellari’s major work, Bus de la Lum draws on the ancient powers of the forest. Light, video and sound explore the legend of a natural cavity located within the woodland of the…

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 EU referendum: An academic perspective

18:00 16 March 2016
The Mancunion Live and the University of Manchester Politics Society present "the European Union referendum: An academic persective" in collaboration with Manchester Students for Europe…

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…

Brook Lecture: Prof. Patricia Ingham (Indiana University Bloomington), 'Curious Novelties'

17:30 - 19:00 17 March 2016
The Brook Lecture honours the memory of G.L. Brook, Professor of English Language and Medieval English Literature at Manchester University, 1945–77. We are pleased to welcome as this…

Globalization, migration and the future of the middle classes

16:30 - 18:00 22 March 2016
Branko Milanovic will discuss recent changes in global income distribution, the creation of a “global middle class”, stagnation of median incomes in the West and propose Kuznets cycles…

'Living the Weather: a study in the socio-atmospherics of everyday life' - BSA conference stream plenary

09:30 - 10:30 7 April 2016
Professor Jennifer Mason is giving the plenary session of the Families and Relationships stream at the British Sociological Association Annual Conference, held at Aston University, 6-8 April 2016.

English Literature and American Studies Research Seminar: Martyn Bone (University of Copenhagen), 'Southern Studies/American Studies with/without "the South"'

17:00 - 18:30 13 April 2016
English Literature and American Studies Research Seminar: Martyn Bone (University of Copenhagen), 'Southern Studies/American Studies with/without 'the South': Morrison, Eggers, Lalami and Literary Geographies of Scale'

A Stone's Throw

18 April - 17 July 2016
In this photographic exhibition, Manchester photographer John Shinnick has captured the words and voices of people who interact with the centre of Manchester, a metaphorical stone’s…

Art History and Visual Studies Talks

18:00 - 20:00 19 April 2016
Sponsored by the JRRI Medieval and Early Modern Research Seminar Series Margit Thofner, University of East Anglia 'Picturing Music in sixteenth-century Antwerp: Marten de Vos's motet prints'

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Jing Wang: The Makers Are Coming! China’s Long Tail Revolution

17:00 - 19:00 19 April 2016
Professor Jing Wang will lecture as part of CIDRAL's Semester 2 programme for the 2015-16 academic year, themed around Cultures and Temporalities. This event is presented in collaboration…

Friends of Tabley AGM and a Talk by Dr Charles Foster of Arley Hall

17:00 19 April 2016
Following the AGM there will be an illustrated talk by Charles Foster about the shopping habits of the Warburtons of Arley Hall in the eighteenth century. The archive at Arley Hall…

John Edward Taylor Lecture: George Lipsitz and Barbara Tomlinson (University of California, Santa Barbara), 'American Studies as Accompaniment'

17:00 - 19:00 19 April 2016
John Edward Taylor Lecture: George Lipsitz and Barbara Tomlinson (University of California, Santa Barbara), 'American Studies as Accompaniment'

English Literature and American Studies Research Seminar: Kath Burlinson (Authentic Artist) ‘"Iterated jingles": Christina Rossetti from page to stage’

17:00 - 18:30 20 April 2016
Kath Burlinson (Authentic Artist) ‘"Iterated jingles": Christina Rossetti from page to stage’

Herford Memorial Lecture: Charles Burdett: Italy, Islam and the Islamic World from 9/11 to the Arab Uprisings

17:00 - 19:00 21 April 2016
The recent emergence and increasing visibility of Islam as Italy’s second religion is an issue of undeniable importance. It has generated an intense and often polarized debate that…

John Edward Taylor Lecture: George Lipsitz (University of California, Santa Barbara), "From Plessy to Ferguson: The Racialization of Time and Place"

17:00 - 19:00 21 April 2016
Professor George Lipsitz "From Plessy to Ferguson: The Racialization of Time and Place" Public lecture (all welcome) Book through Eventbrite: http://plessytoferguson.eventbrite.co.uk…

Teaching and Learning Seminar - Increasing student engagement in surveys

12:30 - 13:30 21 April 2016
Professor Mark Elliot, Chair of Data Sciences, School of Social Sciences, will be talking about how challenging it is to encourage PGT students to complete experience surveys. The students…

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