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Accomodation Tours

10:30 - 12:00 1 February 2017
- This date is fully booked - Want to have a look at your potential future home? We run accommodation tours of some of our halls of residence on Wednesday mornings between November…

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…

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…

Critical Global Politics - CGP Cluster Seminar - Semester 2

15:30 - 17:00 1 February 2017
Dear colleagues The Critical Global Politics cluster research seminar series begins on Wednesday 1st February when we welcome Ben OLoughlin. Ben O'Loughlin is Professor of International…

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.…

Finance seminar by Christian Larsen, London Business School

14:00 - 16:00 1 February 2017
Asset Prices and Portfolio Choice with Learning from Experience

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…

Immigration detention in the UK: Removal, release, women and dignity

13:00 - 14:00 1 February 2017
Alice Gerlach, from Oxford University and Visiting Researcher in the Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice will report on her primary research inside the Uk's immigration detention and removal centres.

Introductory tour

15:00 - 15:30 1 February 2017
Your chance to learn about this fascinating building and some of its history. No need to book, just turn up.

Making the modern world: England's first civic university (Heritage Tour)

13:00 - 14:00 1 February 2017
This tour takes visitors on a journey from the beginnings of England’s first civic university to the sites of world changing discoveries. It begins within the fine neo-gothic architecture…

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…

Meetup of the Don Quijote reading group

17:00 - 18:30 1 February 2017
‘The Don Quixote Virtual Reading Group in the ‘Cervantes Reborn’ project: meetup and discussion of approaches to Cervantes in 2017’ Wednesday 1 February 2017, 5-7 pm, room A112, Samuel…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 1 February 2017
Speaker: Dominika Czerniawska Title: Structural holes and tie redundancy in scientific exchange networks On some fundamental level, we can think of scholars as actors possessing,…

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…

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,…

Sustainability Seminar Series – Cites, Our Urban Environment: Is city living a positive in sustainability terms? With Prof. James Evans and Jonny Sadler

12:00 - 14:00 1 February 2017
Launching in January 2017, the Sustainability Seminar Series seeks to present opportunities for staff and students to make these positive contributions to our local environment. The…

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