Exhibitions, Seminar

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…

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…

Ehmt methylation of histone 3 lysine 9 represses the cardiac fetal gene programme to maintain the phenotype of adult cardiac myocytes

12:00 - 13:00 19 April 2016
CMD Seminar Series - Joy Wang and Donald Ward. Host: Jason Bruce

Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop: Dr Stefan Ambec

12:00 - 13:00 19 April 2016
Title: Decarbonizing electricity generation with intermittent sources of energy Abstract We examine the impact of public policies that aim to decarbonate electricity production by…

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…

Marcello Oreste Fiocco (UC Irvine): Metaphysics and Radical Ontology

15:00 - 17:00 19 April 2016
Abstract: I characterize *metaphysics* as a unified discipline, one that provides the basis for all inquiry. This discipline has a distinctive problem, arising from the needs of a…

Nature and local power: mayors and natural history museums in provincial France, 1800-1860 - Déborah Dubald (European University Institute)

13:00 - 14:00 19 April 2016
This seminar is part of the lunchtime seminar series for the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM). Lunchtime seminars are typically no more than 30 minutes…

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…

Picturing Music in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp: Marten de Vos’s Motet Prints

06:00 - 07:00 19 April 2016
In 1584 the painter Marten de Vos, the engraver Johan Sadeler and the composer Cornelis Verdonck worked together to produce a motet print. This was the first ever engraved representation…

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

TLR-mediated checkpoint control of CD4 T cell responses

14:00 - 15:00 19 April 2016
MIG Seminar Series

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…

Accounting seminar by Ole-Kristian Hope, University of Toronto

14:00 - 16:00 20 April 2016
Third-Party Consequences of Short-Selling Threats: The Case of Auditor Behavior

CIDRAL Theory Intensive: Levinas and the Disruption of Knowledge

15:00 - 17:00 20 April 2016
This seminar is part of CIDRAL's Theory Intensives series. Professor Alex Samely (Middle Eastern Studies, University of Manchester) will lead a seminar on the work of Emmanuel Levinas.…

Finance seminar by Juan Sotes-Paladino, University of Melbourne

14:00 - 16:00 20 April 2016
The Invisible Hand of Internal Markets in Mutual Fund Families

George Lipsitz (University of California, Santa Barbara), "Art-Based Community Making in Houston and New Orleans"

13:00 - 14:00 20 April 2016
George Lipsitz (University of California, Santa Barbara), "Art-Based Community Making in Houston and New Orleans"

Introduction to CLES: Local economics for positive outcomes

13:00 - 14:00 20 April 2016
The Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) is an independent think tank based in Manchester. CLES believe that all local economic policy and practice should have a commitment to…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 20 April 2016
Jerome Drevon, University of Manchester

oxygen/hypoxic physiology in tumour cells

16:00 20 April 2016
Part of the 'Leaders in Science Seminar Series 2016' Further details available soon

Pankhurst Politics Seminar: Implications of 2016 Welsh Assembly Elections

12:30 - 13:30 20 April 2016
In this talk Rob Ford and Nerys Evans discuss the recent history of the Welsh Assembly to date and the forthcoming Assembly elections in May. Both speakers will examine the significance…

Perspectivism and Totality in Computer Games and their Constitution of Subjectivities

14:00 - 15:00 20 April 2016
Computer games have variously been described as a ‘paradigmatic media of Empire’ (Dyer-Witheford & de Peuter, 2009, p.xv), as ‘allegories for our contemporary life under the protocological…

The Global Development Seminar Series 2016 - "Understanding youth poverty in Arusha, Tanzania: Capturing economic, social and psychological dimensions"

16:30 - 18:00 20 April 2016
The Global Development seminar series bringing together scholars involved in cutting edge research on international development. It aims to facilitate dialogue and discussion, providing…

The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage

14:00 - 15:00 20 April 2016
The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage 20th April 2016 at 14:00 in Kilburn L.T 1.4 Speaker: Ms Sydney Padua (sydneypadua.com) Host: Ross King Abstract One hundred years…

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