Exhibitions, Lecture

ARTIST ROOMS: Andy Warhol

19 November 2016 - 16 April 2017
ARTIST ROOMS: Andy Warhol shows the sharp critical opinions of an artist known to many primarily as art salesman, purveyor of product and celebrant of capitalism. Supported by Arts…

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…

Deanna Petherbridge

2 December 2016 - 4 June 2017
A solo show of pen and ink drawings from across a 45-year career. Since the 1960s, Deanna Petherbridge has pioneered critical thinking on drawing and its place in art and architecture.…

Healing Histories: An Exhibition of Medical Marvels and Curative Curiosities

10:00 - 15:00 12 December 2016
Healing Histories is a pop-up exhibition by MA Art Gallery and Museum Studies students exploring the curious past of health and medicine, celebrating discoveries, exploring the unappreciated,…

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…

Jolly Okot Andreville: WEND Africa - A New Era

18:30 - 20:00 12 December 2016
Jolly Okot has dedicated her life to her community in Gulu, Northern Uganda. Formerly abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army, she went on to become the first woman in Uganda to be nominated…

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 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…

School of Materials Metals and Corrosion Group Christmas Lecture

14:00 - 15:00 12 December 2016
Title - Deformation of Ultra-Fine Grained Polycrystals The density of geometrically necessary dislocations (GND) obtained from the lattice curvature was studied in commercially pure…

Horizon 2020 Future Calls

09:30 - 16:30 13 December 2016
This information day is of interest to researchers who intend to participate in or lead a H2020 project and would like to know more about the forthcoming calls in 2017. The speakers…

Marina Warner - Sanctuary: Places of safety, zones of exclusion

17:30 - 19:00 14 December 2016
Prof. Marina Warner discusses "Sanctuary: Places of safety, zones of exclusion"

Revolutionary Textiles 1910-1939

2 January - 23 April 2017
In the early decades of the 20th century textile design took off in new directions throughout the Western world. Invigorated by experimental techniques, art styles such as Fauvism,…

Tuesday Talks: Chris Hammond

12:30 - 14:00 10 January 2017
10 January - Chris Hammond The curator and gallerist Chris Hammond is best known as the founder and director of MOT (2002-2016) which he developed from an artists' run project space…

Tuesday Talks: Chris Hammond

12:30 - 14:00 17 January 2017
17 January - Deanna Petherbridge Deanna Petherbridge, artist, curator, author and an influential teacher is a committed practitioner and passionate advocate of the art of drawing.…

Whitworth Young Contemporaries: And Now We Are Plastic

27 January - 2 April 2017
As technology helps us to constantly evolve, the boundaries between our physical and digital spaces are blending, yet our ability to adapt and change remains visible in our art, marking…

Centre for Jewish Studies Annual Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies: 'The Church and the Holocaust'

18:00 30 - 19:30 31 January 2017
This annual public lecture series has been made possible as a result of the generous bequest to the University by Fanni Bogdanow (1927-2013), a former Professor of French and Medieval…

Children's Lives in Wartime Japan

1 February - 31 March 2017
This exhibition displays 50 entries from picture diaries made by Japanese primary school children in 1944-1945. It gives a vivid insight into the school lives of Japanese children…

"Of Buying Many Books There is No End”: Towards a History of the John Rylands Library's Collection of Islamic Manuscripts.

18:00 - 19:30 2 February 2017
Rare are the manuscripts in Arabic script that do not bear a mark attesting to their past, be it a mention of the patron for whom the manuscript was produced, an act of pious donation,…

World Cancer Day

11:00 - 14:00 3 February 2017
World Cancer Day Friday 3rd February 2017 University Place, Ground Floor Drum area. Check out our fight against cancer Cancer is one of the University’s five research beacons and…

EAC Department Seminar Series: Bashir Abu-Manneh (KENT), "Palestinian Trajectories: Novel and Politics since 1948"

17:00 - 18:30 8 February 2017
Bashir Abu-Manneh (KENT), "Palestinian Trajectories: Novel and Politics since 1948"

GDI Lecture Series: Designing Interventions in Developing Water-Energy-Food Systems

17:00 - 18:30 8 February 2017
Designing Interventions in Developing Water-Energy-Food Systems Professor Julien Harou (The University of Manchester). The event will be from 5-6.30pm in Theatre B of the Roscoe Building…

CTIS Seminar: Klaus Kaindl, "Fiction as a Source of Knowledge for Translation Studies"

14:00 - 15:30 9 February 2017
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…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Professor Elizabeth Povinelli: Primitive Accumulation and Original Precarity: Vulnerability Outside Settler Geontopolitics

17:00 - 19:00 10 February 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2017 programme 'Precarity'. Elizabeth Povinelli (Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University) will deliver a public lecture entitled…

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