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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

Manchester Soldier, Manchester Historian: Exploring the Life and Legacy of Mark Hovell

15:00 - 17:00 9 June 2016
2016 marks the centenary of the death of the historian, Mark Hovell. Hovell was born in Manchester in 1888, and had been a student and later a lecturer at the University of Manchester…

Exploring Representations of Neanderthals in Popular Culture

14:00 - 15:00 12 June 2016
Early popular culture representations played a significant role in shaping the stereotypical perception of Neanderthals as dim witted and brutish cavemen. This talk will explore how…

New Light from Manchester on Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts - A Public Lecture

18:00 - 19:00 28 June 2016
Dr Sarit Shalev-Eyni joins us from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to show what we can discover from the illuminations of the Hebrew manuscripts within The University of Manchester's…

Exploring the Universe from Jodrell Bank; Heritage Lecture Series

19:30 - 21:00 30 June 2016
Our understanding of the Universe has changed dramatically since Sir Bernard Lovell first arrived at Jodrell Bank in December 1945. The radio telescopes built here have allowed us to…

Dr Qi Zhou, Associate Professor of Law, University of Leeds

13:00 - 15:00 4 July 2016
Office of Fair Trading v Abbey National plc and other: An illustration of the implementation of EC Directives. Followed by Q&A session. This event is free. However, places are limited,…

PGCE School Partners Collaboration Event

15:00 - 17:00 8 July 2016
The primary PGCE team has been working with a number of schools from the Inner Manchester region to develop an innovative approach to teacher enquiry and trainee teacher placements.…

2016 Fred Jevons Science Policy Lecture: Science, technology and industrial strategy - What government can and cannot do

14:15 - 15:30 25 July 2016
The 2016 Fred Jevons Science Policy Lecture will be delivered by the Rt. Hon the Lord Willetts, the Executive Director of the Resolution Foundation, and Former Minister for Universities…

Unfolding Stories: Sketching the Everyday

10:00 26 July - 14:00 1 August 2016
See the everyday world a little differently, with this free exhibition from urban sketcher and award-winning illustrator, Lynne Chapman. The exhibition features over fifty metres of…

Test event

09:00 - 14:30 4 September 2016
Test event

Cheshire and the Viking World - Guest Lecture

06:30 - 20:30 8 September 2016
Professor Richard Morris, OBE presents an illustrated lecture, ‘Cheshire and the Viking World’, hosted by The Tabley House Collection Trust. As an archaeologist with strong links to…

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