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…

Centre for Jewish Studies Seminar - Yohai Hakkak (Brunel) - "Forbidden Love and Moral Panic: Jewish-Arab Couples in Contemporary Israel"

16:00 - 17:30 21 April 2016
Centre for Jewish Studies Seminar

Complex multi-enhancer contacts captured by Genome Architecture Mapping, a novel ligation-free approach

13:30 - 15:30 21 April 2016
This seminar is part of the CCB Spring Seminar series. Prof. Ana Pombo, Humboldt University, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology Complex multi-enhancer contacts captured…

De morbis venereis – the scars of Venus

16:55 - 18:30 21 April 2016
Classics & Ancient History Work-in-Progress Seminar

Econometrics and Applied Economics Workshop: Prof Frank Kleibergen

16:15 - 17:45 21 April 2016
Econometrics and Applied Economics Workshop

Ehrhardt Seminar: Benedict Kent - "Clients, Agents and Brokers: Examining Paul's Christology from a Graeco-Roman Perspective"

14:00 - 16:00 21 April 2016
Ehrhardt Seminar in Biblical Studies, 90 minutes followed by tea.

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…

MANCEPT research seminar - Thursday 21 April - Steve Hood - University of Manchester

16:00 - 18:00 21 April 2016
The next MANCEPT research seminar will be on Thursday 21 April, when our very own Stephen Hood will speak about “Four Reasons for Competition.” The seminar starts at 4pm in the Arthur…

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…

Quatuor Danel Seminar: ' Doctors and Philosophers of Composition'

14:30 - 15:30 21 April 2016
Workshop performances and discussion of new works by the University's PhD students. **PLEASE NOTE: THIS DATE HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FROM 5TH MAY 2016**

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

Tyndall Manchester Seminar- Wild Interdisciplinarity: Reflections on Doing Social Science within a Technology Project

16:00 - 17:30 21 April 2016
Drawing on the experiences of a novel collaborative project between sociologists and computer scientists, this paper identifies a set of challenges for fieldwork that are generated…

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…

Fabrizio Zilibotti (University of Zurich). Networks in Conflict: Theory and Evidence from the Great War of Africa.

14:00 - 15:00 22 April 2016
Fabrizio Zilibotti holds the Chair of Macroeconomics and Political Economy of the Department of Economics at the University of Zurich. He is the President of the European Economic Association.…

Evaluating the quality of survey and administrative data with generalized multitrait-multimethod models

13:00 - 14:00 25 April 2016
Administrative register data are increasingly important in statistics, but, like other types of data, may contain measurement errors. To prevent such errors from invalidating analyses…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Prof Veronica Strang (University of Durham)

16:00 - 18:00 25 April 2016
Title: Comparative Values: water serpent beings and human-non-human relations Abstract Beliefs in water serpent beings were, at one time, ubiquitous in human societies, and they…

Terraforming Tech City: place branding and spatial imaginaries in East London

13:00 - 14:00 25 April 2016
This paper performs a mixed-methods analysis of place-branding strategies developed in the ‘Tech City’ cluster initiative in Inner East London, drawing on ethnographic material, semi-structured…

The Intimate Contract of Photography

17:00 - 19:00 25 April 2016
A reading of images from the archive of Haleema Hashim. Mallika Leuzinger (UCL) School of Arts, Languages and Cultures Graduate Seminar Series Part 2: Vernacular Cultures

Arthur D. Darbishire’s Bergsonian Biology - Emily Herring (University of Leeds)

13:00 - 14:00 26 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…

Cyclic nucleotide coupled phosphodiesterase signalling in cardiac sympathetic neurons in heart disease: novel therapeutic targets

12:00 - 13:00 26 April 2016
CMD Seminar Series - Joy Wang and Donald Ward. Host: Joy Wang

Nathaniel Bland’s Turkish Notebooks

16:00 - 17:00 26 April 2016
This seminar will explore the two Turkish notebooks kept by Nathaniel Bland (1803-1865), Orientalist scholar. Bland's valuable collection of Persian, Turkish and Arabic manuscripts…

‘"Begin With The Girls": Narratives of Science and Education in Juvenile Periodicals, c.1860-1910’

16:00 - 17:00 26 April 2016
This seminar is part of the CHSTM Seminar Series Feb-May 2016. CHSTM seminars will be held fortnightly on Tuesdays at 4pm in Room 2.57 Simon Building, Brunswick Street, Manchester,…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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