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A conversation with death row exonerees

18:00 - 20:00 9 February 2017
Amicus presents Sunny and Peter: Surviving death row. Sunny Jacobs: Sunny and her first husband, Jesse Tafero, were both implicated in the shooting of two police officers in Florida…

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…

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…

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.…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof. Philip R. Davis (Sheffield), The Bible and the Spade: Some Thoughts on 'Biblical Archaeology'

14:00 - 16:00 9 February 2017
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…

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…

MANCEPT Research Seminar Semester 2 - Dr Phil Parvin (Loughborough) - ‘Democracy Without Participation: A New Politics for a Disengaged Era’.

16:00 - 17:30 9 February 2017
Dr Phil Parvin (Loughborough) will give a paper on, ‘Democracy Without Participation: A New Politics for a Disengaged Era’. Democracy Without Participation: A New Politics for a Disengaged…

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…

Pastoral Song in Ovid's Metamorphoses

16:55 - 18:30 9 February 2017
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

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,…

Thursday Lates: In Loving Memory of Work

18:00 - 21:00 9 February 2017
An evening of installations, discussions and music kicking off a new series of events exploring self published artist books. In Loving Memory of Work is a project curated and produced…

Webinar: Data management basics

15:00 - 16:00 9 February 2017
This introductory webinar is intended for anyone who wants to learn about data management. Data management is essential to make sure that well organised, well documented, high quality…

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…

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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