Exhibitions, Lecture

Arthur Lewis Annual Lecture: The Enemy between Us - The Psychological and Social Costs Of Inequality

18:00 - 19:00 27 October 2016
We are delighted to announce that Professor Kate Pickett of Epidemiology in the Department of Health Sciences at the University of York will be delivering our annual public lecture.…

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…

CTIS Seminar: Dr Ting Guo, Exeter University, "New Knowledge, Better Knowledge?: Translating Homosexuality into Chinese in Republican China (1911-1945)"

14:00 - 15:30 27 October 2016
The Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies seminar series brings researchers from across the UK and Europe to the University of Manchester to present on their work. These…

History Research Seminar: Philippa Hetherington (UCL) on ‘Imperial Humanitarianism and Transnational Affect in Russian Campaigns Against the International “Traffic in Women,” 1880-1914’

16:15 - 17:30 27 October 2016
History Research Seminar: Philippa Hetherington (UCL, School of Slavonic and East European Studies), ‘Imperial Humanitarianism and Transnational Affect in Russian Campaigns Against…

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…

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…

Giacometti’s Sculpture: The Figure in Space and Time

17:30 - 19:00 28 October 2016
Professor Alex Potts, Visiting Pilkington Professor of Art History, will be speaking on the sculptures of Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966). Alex Potts is the Max Loehr Collegiate Professor…

Inaugural Lord Morris of Manchester Memorial Lecture

18:30 - 21:00 3 November 2016
Alf Morris (1928-2012) dedicated his parliamentary career – as the Labour Co-op MP for Wythenshawe 1964-1997 and then as a Life Peer – to challenging the barriers imposed by society…

Anne Kirkham - Hark the Herald: Angels in the John Rylands Library’s Book of Hours

7 November 2016
Dr Anne Kirkham discusses Angels in the John Rylands Library’s Book of Hours

Candid conversations about radicalisation

10:00 - 18:00 8 November 2016
“Candid Conversations about Radicalisation” is an arts-based research project run jointly by The Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice (CCCJ) and Theatre in Prison and Probation…

English Literature Research Seminar: Edna Longley, (Queen’s Belfast) 'Edward Thomas and Great War Poetry'

17:00 - 18:30 9 November 2016
Edna Longley, (Queen’s Belfast) 'Edward Thomas and Great War Poetry'

GDI Lecture series: Elizabeth Lunstrum – Capitalism and Conservation in the Age of Security

17:00 - 18:30 9 November 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…

Annual Harry Street Lecture

17:00 - 19:00 10 November 2016
This year's Harry Street Lecture will be delivered by Bishop James Jones, Chairman of the Hillsborough Independent Panel. Bishop Jones was a member of the House of Lords from 2003…

CTIS Seminar: Dr Fruela Fernandez, Newcastle University, "‘Politics is a task of translation’: Translation and the evolution of the Spanish Left after the 15M/Indignados"

14:00 - 15:30 10 November 2016
The Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies seminar series brings researchers from across the UK and Europe to the University of Manchester to present on their work. These…

Edmund de Waal : The Annual Pilkington Lecture

18:00 - 20:00 10 November 2016
Edmund de Waal: The Annual Pilkington Lecture Thursday 10 November, 6.30pm (Wine reception, 6pm) ‘Give it shadow enough: Art and memory’ Edmund de Waal is an artist and writer.…

History Research Seminar: Stephen Legg (Nottingham), ‘Conferencing the International: Making India in London during the Round Table Conferences, 1930-32’

16:15 - 17:30 10 November 2016
History Research Seminar: Stephen Legg (Nottingham), ‘Conferencing the International: Making India in London during the Round Table Conferences, 1930-32’

Ellen Sampson - Worn: Touch, Attachment and the Effects of Wear

13:00 - 15:00 15 November 2016
Ellen Sampson, the London-based artist, researcher, curator and maker of shoes, will be giving a lecture on her work entitled 'Worn; touch attachment and the affects of wear'. Using…

The Adrian Leftwich Memorial Lecture: 'Can democracy and growth coexist in sub-Saharan Africa?' - Prof Nicolas van de Walle

16:30 - 18:00 16 November 2016
Barrington Moore’s landmark book 'The Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy' is 50 years old this year. Leading expert on democratic development, Cornell University's Nic van…

Baseball Arbitration to Resolve International Law Disputes: Nudging States to ‘Step Up To the Plate’.

17:00 - 19:00 17 November 2016
MILC is proud to welcome Professor Joost Pauwelyn (Graduate Institute, Geneva & Georgetown Law), who will deliver a lecture on the following topic: States and international tribunals…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Professor Harold James: 'The Euro as a Battle of Ideas'

16:00 - 17:30 17 November 2016
This event is co-organised by History and CIDRAL. This event is part of CIDRAL's programme for Winter 2016, 'Possible Worlds'. Why is Europe’s great monetary endeavour, the Euro,…

CTIS Seminar: Prof. Henrietta Harrison, University of Oxford, "Becoming a Faithful Interpreter: The story of Jacobus Ly and the 1793 Macartney embassy to China"

14:00 - 15:30 17 November 2016
The Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies seminar series brings researchers from across the UK and Europe to the University of Manchester to present on their work. These…

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