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…

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…

Negotiating Brexit: The Challenges, Options and Constraints facing the UK Government

15:00 - 16:00 14 November 2016
Speaker: Prof. David Phinnemore (Queens University Belfast) Title: Negotiating Brexit: The Challenges, Options and Constraints facing the UK Government

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…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Roger Canals - Universitat Barcelona

16:00 - 18:00 14 November 2016
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 14th November 2016 Roger Canals – Universitat Barcelona ‘’ Visual Creativity in the Cult of María Lionza (Venezuela)” Abstract: the cult of María…

Development Economics Seminar: Selim Gulesci (Bocconi University)

13:00 - 14:00 15 November 2016
Title: Moral hazard: Experimental Evidence from Sharecropping Contracts. Abstract: One of the most commonly cited explanations for low agricultural productivity in developing countries…

Rays of Sunshine Charity and 100 patients tested on the metabolic panel: interesting learning points

12:30 - 13:30 15 November 2016
This is part of Genetic Medicine Seminar Series Sally Levy - Rays of Sunshine Charity Dr. Sid Banka - 100 patients tested on the metabolic panel: interesting learning points

Seminar: Tatsuro Senga (Queen Mary University of London)

16:15 - 17:45 15 November 2016
Title: A New Look at Uncertainty Shocks: Imperfect Information and Misallocation

The Archaeology of literacy: Accounting and writing in rural Babylonia, c. 1500 BC

18:00 15 November 2016
Archaeology Research Seminar

Accounting seminar by Anastasia Kopita, University of Essex

14:00 - 16:00 16 November 2016
Discontinuing analyst coverage due to resource reallocation: More than meets the eye?

Geography Research Seminar: Dr. Gail Millin-Chalabi (University of Manchester); Radar multi-temporal and multi-sensor approach to characterise peat moorland burn scars

16:00 - 17:30 16 November 2016
* Radar multi-temporal and multi-sensor approach to characterise peat moorland burn scars and assess their persistence in the Peak District National Park * Abstract: Peat moorlands…

Gustavo Hernández Sánchez (U. of Liverpool / U. de Salamanca), ‘Power, Culture and Daily Life in Ibero-American Universities during the Baroque Period: New Historiographical Approaches’

17:00 - 18:30 16 November 2016
Venue: Sam Alex A114

History Wednesday Lunchtime Seminar: Hannah Barker, ‘ Grocers in love’

13:00 - 13:50 16 November 2016
Wednesday Lunchtime Seminar: Hannah Barker, ‘ Grocers in love’

Initial teacher education in the last 15 years: how did we get here and where are we going

17:00 16 November 2016
The Sarah Fielden Seminar Series in the Manchester Institute of Education

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 16 November 2016
Rhiannon Edge, Lancaster University Assessing the effects of social networks on vaccination behaviour. The Chief Medical Officer for England recommends that healthcare workers have…

Politics DA - Pankhurst Seminar

13:00 - 14:00 16 November 2016
2016: Understanding the New Politics A Politics ‘Pankhurst Seminar’ Wed 16 November 2016 – 1- 2pm HBS Room G0.32 A panel discussion with: Professor Angelia Wilson - Gender Class…

Seminar: Digital radio

14:00 - 16:00 16 November 2016
Speaker: Chris Bissell (Open University) More details to follow This is a Critical Investigations of Digital Culture Seminar, organised by the Digital Work and Living Research Group.…

Technicians Seminar Series: Health and Safety in the new Faculty FBMH

13:00 - 14:00 16 November 2016
The technician’s seminars are popular and generally well attended, covering a wide range of research topics with FBMH. This event is to promote general interest across faculty. The…

"Transcriptional repression mechanisms in embryonic stem cells" and "Sal4 controls differentiation of pluripotent cells independently of nucleosome remodeling and deacetylation (NuRD) complex"

13:30 17 November 2016
Gene Expression, Chromatin and Signalling Autumn Seminar Programme Andrew Sharrocks

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr. Adrian H.W. Curtis - ‘Novum Testamentum editum est’: The Five-Hundredth Anniversary of Erasmus’s New Testament'

14:00 - 16:00 17 November 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…

Jungyoon Lee (Royal Holloway)

16:15 - 17:45 17 November 2016
Title: Misspecification Testing in Spatial Autoregressive Models Abstract: Spatial autoregressive (SAR) and related models offer flexible yet parsimonious ways to model spatial or…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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