Exhibitions, Seminar

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…

Commemorating the 400th Anniversary of the Death of Cervantes

17:00 - 18:30 26 October 2016
Speakers: . Dr José Pérez Díez (University of Leeds), ‘John Fletcher’s Love’s Pilgrimage (1616) and Cervantes’ Las dos doncellas’ . Dr Idoya Puig (Manchester Metropolitan University),…

Finance seminar by Joan Farre-Mensa, Harvard Business School

14:00 - 16:00 26 October 2016
TBC

Geography Research Seminar: Prof. Sarah Holloway (Loughborough University), New economy, neoliberal state and professionalised parenting

13:00 - 14:00 26 October 2016
Abstract: Contemporary economic, political and social shifts in the Global North are reconfiguring the resolution of productive and reproductive labour. This talk explores how labour…

Getting to know our new Faculty: Technical Services

13:00 - 14:00 26 October 2016
For the fifth of our bite-size PSS information seminars, Peter Crowe, Head of Technical Services, explains who’s who and gives an overview of the work undertaken by his team. The…

Idris Khan

14 October 2016 - 13 March 2017
British contemporary artist Idris Khan's new solo exhibition. Idris Khan draws inspiration from the history of art, music, philosophy and theology, laying and manipulating images and…

Imagining Medicine

14 October - 22 December 2016
Hammers, vacuum cleaners and duck beaks: see how 16th and 17th century surgical procedures have been reimagined through the photography of Dr Sian Bonnell. Bonnell's photographs take…

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…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 26 October 2016
Bernie Hogan, University of Oxford Personal Network Capture among At-Risk Youth: Exploring Online Dating and Safer Sex Practices Structurally Personal network capture is evolving…

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…

NEW SCULPTURE

22 October 2016 - 12 June 2017
This exhibition presents a dynamic selection of contemporary sculpture recently acquired by the Whitworth. Spanning the last 25 years, the exhibition offers an eclectic journey through…

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…

The life story of a marginalized person in Transylvania

14:00 - 15:00 26 October 2016
Speaker: Aron Bakos (Babe?-Bolyai University) Title: Autobiographical and Oral Ethnographical Narratives of War

Visit of Niko Besnier - Simon Visiting Professor

23 October - 13 November 2016
Social Anthropology Visit of Niko Besnier Simon Visiting Professor 23 Oct – 13 Nov. 2016 Niko Besnier is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He is…

"How can mathematical modelling help us understand gene expression dynamics"

13:30 - 14:30 27 October 2016
Gene Expression, Chromatin and Signalling Autumn Seminar Programme Andrew Sharrocks

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof. J. Keith Elliot (Leeds), ‘Novum Testamentum editum est’: The Five-Hundredth Anniversary of Erasmus’s New Testament'

14:00 - 16:00 27 October 2016
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. These seminars are free and open to the public, with no registration required. Seminars last 90 minutes including a 30 minute…

In a Land of Gods and Monsters: Images of Heaven and Hell in Silius Italicus

16:55 - 18:30 27 October 2016
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Leandro Carvalho (University of Southern California)

16:15 - 17:45 27 October 2016
Heterogeneous Effects of Education on Health Silvia Helena Barcellos, Leandro Carvalho and Patrick Turley Abstract Education and health have been shown to be strongly associated in…

Social Anthropology Visit of Niko Besnier - Simon Visiting Professor - Seminar

16:00 - 18:00 27 October 2016
Social Anthropology Visit of Niko Besnier Simon Visiting Professor 23 Oct – 13 Nov. 2016 Niko Besnier is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He is…

CMIST Afternoon Seminar - Adjustment to retirement and its consequences for intra-cohort social inequality in Germany

16:00 - 17:30 1 November 2016
Access to resources and well-being is socially stratified across populations in the life phase of work. The most obvious change that comes with transition to retirement is that the…

Seminar: Sekyu Choi (University of Bristol)

16:15 - 17:45 1 November 2016
Title: Sorting on-line and on-time

Geography Research Seminar: Dr. Ruth Massey (University of Free State, South Africa), Would the real Johannesburg please stand up: misguided urban renewal in post-apartheid South Africa

16:00 - 17:30 2 November 2016
Would the real Johannesburg please stand up: misguided urban renewal in post-apartheid South Africa Abstract: South Africa’s cities (particularly Johannesburg) are currently undergoing…

The Whitworth

Jodrell Bank

Martin Harris Centre

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

Search