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…

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,…

Decrees of the fourth-century Athenian assembly (403/2-323/2 BC): perspectives from literature

16:55 - 18:30 12 May 2016
Classics & Ancient History Work-in-Progress Seminar

Development and function of dendritic cell subsets in immunity

12:00 - 13:00 12 May 2016
MIG Seminar Series

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 12 May - Simon Hope - University of Stirling

16:00 - 18:00 12 May 2016
ABSTRACT: This paper advances three claims. 1: The on-going debates in moral and political philosophy over idealisation and "ideal theory" vs "non-ideal theory" are ill-served…

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

Transcriptional regulation through nuclear lipids

14:00 - 15:00 12 May 2016
This is part of the CCB Spring Seminar Series 2016. Prof. Stefan Roberts, University of Bristol, School of Cellular & Molecular Medicine Transcriptional regulation through nuclear lipids Host: Paul Shore

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…

CMIST Afternoon Seminar: “Income inequality thesis” revisited

16:00 - 17:30 16 May 2016
The focus of the presentation is the so called “income inequality thesis”, i.e., the idea that living in countries with high income inequality is detrimental for health and well-being.…

Lifting the veil on patents and inventions: Implications for strategy research

13:30 - 14:30 16 May 2016
Patent data is a valued source of information in many areas of strategy research. However, as patents result from within-firm selection processes, patent-based studies may suffer…

Masterclass: Susan Stanford Friedman (Wisconsin-Madison), ‘A Manifesto for Planetarity and Its Discontents’

11:00 - 13:00 16 May 2016
Northern Modernism Seminar: A Research Day with Susan Stanford Friedman Masterclass (open to all MA and PhD students, NWCDTP) ‘A Manifesto for Planetarity and Its Discontents’ Suggested…

Immune Cell-to-Cell communication: Mechanisms of microRNA and proteins sorting into exosomes

13:00 - 14:00 17 May 2016
Exosomes are released by most cells to the extracellular environment and are involved in cell-to-cell communication, mediating transfer of proteins and RNAs through structures as the…

Managing the 'Pissing Evil' in Welfare Dictatorship: Diabetes prevention, care and research in the German Democratic Republic, 1950-1990 - Kathrin Hiepko (University of Manchester, CHSTM)

13:00 - 14:00 17 May 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…

Importing the liberal arts to England: differentiation and elitism in a marketised HE system

14:00 - 15:00 18 May 2016
The current higher education policy landscape is characterised by an increasing focus on employability, and in such a context it is particularly difficult for HEIs to make a case for…

Precision and Reproducibility in Development

16:00 - 17:00 18 May 2016
Part of the 'Leaders in Science Seminar Series 2016' Further details available soon

SCI Seminar Series - Dr Jennifer Smith Maguire - Making tastes, making markets: Cultural intermediaries in the Chinese fine wine market

16:00 - 17:30 18 May 2016
Dr Jennifer Smith Maguire, Senior Lecturer of Cultural Production and Consumption, University of Leicester, will be giving the SCI Seminar on the 18 May 2016, entitled 'Making tastes,…

The Class Pay Gap in Higher Professional and Managerial Occupations

13:00 - 14:00 18 May 2016
The hidden barriers, or ‘gender pay gap’, preventing women from earning equivalent incomes to men is well documented. Yet in this talk we demonstrate that, in Britain, there is also…

Unpacking links between learning gains, learning styles and achievement: a study of 1st year pharmacy students on an integrated curriculum?

13:00 - 14:00 18 May 2016
The seminar is part of the Teaching and Learning Seminar Series. The seminar will take place in Room 1.006 AV Hill Building on Wednesday 18 May 2016 from 1-2pm. Sign in via doodle…

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