Exhibitions, Lecture

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…

French Studies Guest Lecture: "'Freedom of expression or freedom from Islam? The emergence of secularism in French political debate since the 1980s"

17:00 - 18:00 26 April 2016
Professor Olivier Esteves, Université de Lille (chaired by Dr Barbara Lebrun, French Studies) In 2016, secularism (laïcité) continues to be harnessed by French politicians and the…

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…

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…

Art History and Visual Studies Talks

17:30 - 19:30 27 April 2016
Jonathan Harris, Birmingham City University 'The Global Contemporary Art World; Anatomy and Prescription'

English Literature and American Studies Research Seminar: Frank Towers (Calgary), 'Two Civil Wars: Slavery, Nation, and the Time Scales of 19th Century U.S. History'

17:00 - 18:30 4 May 2016
Frank Towers (Calgary), 'Two Civil Wars: Slavery, Nation, and the Time Scales of 19th Century U.S. History'

Global Value Chains, Market-Making, and the Rise of Precarious Work with Jennifer Bair

17:00 - 18:15 4 May 2016
Jennifer Bair, University of Colorado at Boulder, will discuss Global Value Chains, Market-Making, and the Rise of Precarious Work In recent years, high-profile scandals involving…

Art History and Visual Studies Talks

16:00 - 19:00 5 May 2016
Co-sponsored by Art History & Visual Studies and the JRRI Medieval and Early Modern Research Seminar Series 4.00pm Rose Marie San Juan, University College London 'Cannibal Matter' 5.15pm…

Is China colonizing Africa?

17:30 5 May 2016
Africa International with the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre present two public lectures on the growing economic relationship between African and Caribbean countries…

Melland Schill Lecture

17:00 5 May 2016
The Manchester International Law Center is honoured to welcome Judge Xue of the International Court of Justice to deliver this year's Melland Schill Lecture

Sherman Community Lecture in Jewish Studies 2016: Dr. Yulia Egorova (Durham University) - "Jewish-Muslim Relations in the UK: History, Experience, Context"

19:30 - 21:00 8 May 2016
The annual Sherman Community Lecture

2016 MICRA annual public lecture - Ageing and frailty: Game changers for our health and care services

18:30 - 20:00 11 May 2016
Rapid population ageing is changing the nature of modern health and care systems for good. Many people remain in good health as they age and we need to continue the push on prevention…

Climate Control

11 May - 18 September 2016
We hear about climate change on the news and in the newspapers. Climate change is happening all around us, but this isn’t the time to ignore it, it’s the time to get really, really,…

Celebration of Religions and Theology at Manchester

14:15 - 15:45 12 May 2016
You are warmly invited to join us from 2.15 - 3.45 pm on 12 May 2016 in Lecture Room D, Simon Building for a special event celebrating Religions & Theology in Manchester. Members of…

Lovell Lecture: Einstein's Relativity: Tested to the Limit (with Pulsars)

19:30 - 21:30 12 May 2016
Einstein's Theory of General Relativity was published in 1915. In over a century it has not failed a single time despite hundreds of tests and experiments. One of the most extreme environments…

Critical MASS: Postgraduate Conference

12:00 - 17:30 13 May 2016
Keynote speaker: Professor Zoe Trodd “The Antislavery Usable Past: Protest Memory and the Movement Against Contemporary Slavery” Zoe Trodd is Professor of American Literature in…

Susan Stanford Friedman (Wisconsin-Madison), 'Modernist Studies: Why Planetary? How Planetary?'

16:00 - 18:00 16 May 2016
Northern Modernism Seminar: A Research Day with Susan Stanford Friedman OPEN LECTURE (everyone welcome) Modernist Studies: Why Planetary? How Planetary? The lecture will discuss…

Sexuality Summer School: Professor Patricia White (Swarthmore), Public Lecture: "Lesbian Reverie: Carol as History and Fantasy"

18:00 24 May 2016
Rather than a forward-looking lesbian representation, Todd Haynes’s Carol, an adaptation by Phyllis Nagy of Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 novel, The Price of Salt, looks to images and affective…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Freddie Rokem: Reading Kafka/Staging Kafka

17:00 - 19:00 25 May 2016
****THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED**** The lecture is part of CIDRAL's Semester 2 programme entitled Cultures and Temporalities. It is co-organised by CIDRAL, LIS, German Studies, Drama…

CIDRAL Public Event at the Manchester Art Gallery: Round Table discussion of 'The Imitation Game' exhibition

16:00 - 19:30 2 June 2016
This public event part of CIDRAL's Semester 2 programme for the 2015-16 academic year, themed around Cultures and Temporalities. Inspired by Manchester’s rich history of computer science,…

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