Exhibitions, Lecture

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…

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,…

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…

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…

Marcantonio Raimondi and Raphael

30 September 2016 - 23 April 2017
This exhibition features the work of one of the radical originators and innovators of the European tradition of printmaking, Marcantonio Raimondi (c. 1480-c. 1534). Marcantonio was…

Lived Brutalism: Portraits at Robin Hood Gardens

3 - 21 October 2016
OPENING NIGHT: Tuesday 4 October, 7pm – 9pm. With a talk by Architects for Social Housing on estate demolition and strategies to resist it, and an introduction to the exhibition by…

Mediating the Refugee Crisis: HCRI Landmark Lecture - Professor Lilie Chouliaraki (LSE)

17:30 - 19:30 3 October 2016
This HCRI Landmark Lecture will be given by Lilie Chouliaraki: Professor of Media and Communication at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has written extensively…

Britain after Brexit: political and economic challenges

17:00 - 18:30 4 October 2016
A special Pankhurst Lecture by the Politics DA and the JMCE ***The event is free and open to all, but registration is essential*** https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lord-peter-mandelson-britain-after-br…

State Theory, State Order, State System - Jus Gentium and the Constitution of Public Power

18:00 - 20:00 5 October 2016
"The historicity of international law as a system and an order is, in many ways, the historicity of the state, its concept and its theory. In this talk, I argue that how we theorize…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Professor V. Spike Peterson (Arizona): ‘Intimate Politics and Global Inequalities: The pleasure and pain of border crossings’

16:00 - 18:00 11 October 2016
This event is co-organised by co-organised by the School of Social Sciences (SoSS) and CIDRAL. It is part of CIDRAL's 2016/17 programme 'Possible Worlds'. In the spirit of the rallying…

Department of Politics Public Lecture by V. Spike Petersen (Professor of International Relations, University of Arizona) Co-organised by the Critical Global Politics Cluster and CIDRAL

16:00 - 18:00 11 October 2016
V. Spike Peterson (Professor of International Relations, University of Arizona) 11 October 2016, 4-6 P. M. Samuel Alexander Building, A113 ‘Intimate Politics and Global Inequalities:…

English Literature Research Seminar: Kirstie Blair (Stirling) 'The Rise of the Bad Poet in Victorian Scotland'

17:00 - 18:30 12 October 2016
Kirstie Blair (Stirling) 'The Rise of the Bad Poet in Victorian Scotland'

GDI Lecture series: David Hulme – Should Rich Nations Help the Poor?

17:00 - 18:30 12 October 2016
The Global Development Lecture Series brings together scholars involved in cutting edge research on international development. It aims to facilitate dialogue and discussion, providing…

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