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…

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,…

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,…

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…

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…

Off Beat: Jeff Nuttall and the International Underground

8 September 2016 - 5 March 2017
Painter, poet, actor and sculptor, a man once described as "the only all-round genius most of us are likely to meet," Jeff Nuttall was one of the few people in the early 1960s to publish…

Treasures of the Black Cultural Archives

13:00 - 14:00 8 September 2016
Lunchtime talk by Victoria Northridge, Collections Manager at the Black Cultural Archives in Brixton, who will be giving a talk/presentation to share one of their collections: that…

Tale of 2 Cities Exhibition

10:00 10 - 17:00 16 September 2016
Tale of Two Cities is England's Grow Wild Flagship project based in Manchester and Liverpool. Community, innovation and inspiration are is at the heart of this project. Come and visit…

ESRC Strategic Network DACAS: Piyushimita Thakuriah on Seeing Cities through Big Data: Emerging Topics in Urban Informatics

09:00 - 10:30 12 September 2016
The ESRC Strategic Network Data and Cities as Complex Adaptive Systems (DACAS) is hosting its third event, the international summer school Understanding Urban Transformations through…

ESRC Strategic Network DACAS: Denise Pumain on Urban Dynamics and Geo-diversity: from Theory to Modeling

09:00 - 10:30 13 September 2016
The ESRC Strategic Network Data and Cities as Complex Adaptive Systems (DACAS) is hosting its third event, the international summer school Understanding Urban Transformations through…

ESRC Strategic Network DACAS: Katharine Willis on Whose Right to the Smart City: Data and Citizenship

10:45 - 11:45 13 September 2016
The ESRC Strategic Network Data and Cities as Complex Adaptive Systems (DACAS) is hosting its third event, the international summer school Understanding Urban Transformations through…

ESRC Strategic Network DACAS: Juval Portugali on Complexity, Cognition, Information and the City

09:00 - 10:30 14 September 2016
The ESRC Strategic Network Data and Cities as Complex Adaptive Systems (DACAS) is hosting its third event, the international summer school Understanding Urban Transformations through…

ESRC Strategic Network DACAS: Peter Allen on The Co-Evolving Complexity of Cities: Towards Sustainability?

10:45 - 11:45 14 September 2016
The ESRC Strategic Network Data and Cities as Complex Adaptive Systems (DACAS) is hosting its third event, the international summer school Understanding Urban Transformations through…

Animal Kingdoms – Stereoscopic images talk

18:00 - 19:30 22 September 2016
Artist Jim Naughten has brought a mesmersing collection of natural history images to life in three dimensions, using stereoscopic photography to Manchester Museum. Join Denis Pellerin,…

Capturing Science: Images Past and Present

22 September 2016 - 29 January 2017
A picture is worth a thousand words and captures a moment in time. Manchester is European City of Science throughout 2016 and to celebrate this, we are sharing a selection of our science…

Dora Marsden Lecture: Laura Marcus (Oxford), ‘Modernism and the "new language of rhythm": art, literature and philosophy in the early twentieth century’

17:00 - 18:30 28 September 2016
Laura Marcus (Oxford), ‘Modernism and the "new language of rhythm": art, literature and philosophy in the early twentieth century’

Sir Mark Elder CBE - Inaugural Lecture: Are Conductors Really Necessary?

15:00 - 16:30 29 September 2016
Join Sir Mark Elder as he gives his inaugural lecture at The University of Manchester since being appointed Honorary Professor. Sir Mark has been Music Director of the Hallé since…

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