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,…

Interfacing nanomaterials with neural networks: what happens when brain meets the artificial

11:00 - 12:00 19 May 2016
The application of nanotechnology to neuroscience promotes innovative solutions that may be useful for brain repair strategies after damage. Carbon based nanomaterials, such as carbon…

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…

Modelling Breast Tissue in 3D

13:30 - 14:30 19 May 2016
This is part of the CCB Spring Seminar Series 2016. Prof. Val Speirs, Leeds Institute of Cancer and Pathology Modelling Breast Tissue in 3D Host: Paul Shore

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…

The metabolic regulation of innate immune cell activaton

12:00 - 13:00 19 May 2016
MIG Seminar Series

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…

Democracy and Elections seminar: Do You See What I See?: Ethnic Diversity, Pseudoenvironments, and Social Capital

15:30 - 17:00 23 May 2016
Professor Cara Wong, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign How does place affect politics? Using maps drawn by respondents of their local communities as an individual-level measure…

Master class - Character and Consciousness in the British Enlightenment: the Interpretation of Dreams

14:00 - 16:00 23 May 2016
Professor Phyllis Mack, Rutgers University, USA will be visiting The John Rylands Research Institute to deliver a programme of seminars in the week beginning Monday May 23 2016. Professor…

'My gratitude to the great and honourable Trauma. I take it in my heart’. Integral rehabilitation for injured workers in the state traumatological hospital, Chile 1938-1942 - C

13:00 - 14:00 24 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…

CANCELLED: CMIST Afternoon Seminar: Ethnic variations in intragenerational social mobility between 1971 and 2011

16:00 - 17:30 24 May 2016
This seminar has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. We hope to bring you this seminar in the 2016/17 academic year. Ethnic minority groups in England and Wales have repeatedly…

From Etelaati to Eslahtalabi: Said Hajjarian, Political Theology and the Politics of Reform in Post-Revolutionary Iran

17:00 - 18:30 24 May 2016
Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES) research seminar

Translating Poetry: Elaine Feinstein and Russian Women Poets

16:00 - 17:00 24 May 2016
Based on the Papers of Elaine Feinstein (b. 1930) University of Manchester Special Collections housed at The John Rylands Library, this talk will investigate her translations from the…

‘Blossoming Flowers and Beating Hearts: The Aesthetics of Wonder and Religious Science in Irwin Moon’s Film Series Sermons from Science’

16:00 - 17:00 24 May 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,…

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