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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…

CIDRAL Postgraduate Seminar: Professor Freddie Rokem: The Dramaturgical Imagination

10:00 - 13:00 15 February 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2017 programme 'Precarity'. Freddie Rokem (Professor in the Department of Theatre, Tel Aviv University) will lead a seminar for postgraduate students…

Collections Encounter: Experimentations of the Counter-Culture

14:00 - 15:00 15 February 2017
An artistic and social revolution happened in the 1960s, a backlash against the authority of mainstream 'square' culture. Experimentation in art and poetry exploded as artists began…

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.…

EAC Department PGR Seminar Series

17:00 - 18:00 15 February 2017
Annie Dickinson ‘Gendering the Early Modern Malcontent’ Laura Swift ‘Our Scene is London: Analogy and Authority in James I’s Royal Entry (1604)’ Kat Lowe ‘Ye shall find them very…

Faculty Research Seminar: Wednesday, 15 February 2017

13:00 - 14:00 15 February 2017
The monthly Faculty Research Seminar Series is open to all staff and students and offers an opportunity to celebrate FBMH’s research achievements. Host: Infection, Immunity, Inflammation…

Finance seminar by Filippos Papakonstantinou, Imperial College London

14:00 - 16:00 15 February 2017
Estimating Mutual Fund Skill: A New Approach

GDI Lecture Series: “Too close for comfort, relatively speaking? Development NGOs’ dependence on home government funding in comparative perspective”

17:00 - 18:30 15 February 2017
“Too close for comfort, relatively speaking? Development NGOs’ dependence on home government funding in comparative perspective” with Professor Lauchlan T. Munro (Ottawa University)…

Geography Research Seminar: Dr. Tim Meadows (University of Manchester) - Modelling decadal-scale morphological evolution of the upper North Fork Toutle River, Mount St Helens, USA

16:00 - 17:30 15 February 2017
Dr Tim Meadows (Geography, SEED, University of Manchester) Modelling decadal-scale morphological evolution of the upper North Fork Toutle River, Mount St Helens, USA Abstract: Management…

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…

Introductory tour

15:00 - 15:30 15 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 15 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…

Manchester Cathedral and the Making of a Medieval Town

18:00 - 19:30 15 February 2017
Join Andy Hardman (Belle Vue Productions/MMS) for an Archaeological-Architectural Tour of Manchester Cathedral: the Making of a Medieval Town Manchester Medieval Society

Manchester In-Fringe Theatre Awards (MIFTAs)

19:00 - 21:00 15 February 2017
The MIFTA season is an exciting season of productions by members of The University of Manchester Drama Society. In venues across Manchester including the John Thaw Studio Theatre, students…

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…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 15 February 2017
Speaker: George Wood, University of Oxford Title:Using Social Network Analysis in Gun Violence Prevention Every year, thousands of people are killed and many more injured with a…

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,…

Undergraduate Guided Visit

13:30 - 15:30 15 February 2017
Can’t come to one of our open days? Join us for one of our regular guided visits of our campus instead, and get a feel for the facilities, amenities and atmosphere you’ll enjoy as a…

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…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof. Philip Esler (Gloucestershire), 'New Light on Babatha and Her Final Days'

14:00 - 16:00 16 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…

Quatuor Danel

13:10 - 14:00 16 February 2017
Weinberg’s only String Trio, a heartfelt yet elusive piece from the time when he was tailed by the Soviet secret police, followed by the second of Tchaikovsky’s three quartets, the…

Short Course: NVIVO for Qualitative Data and Corpus Analysis (introductory)

16 February 2017
This course introduces NVIVO and uses various menu option in NVIVO to analyse data. The structure of the training session will be a combination of formal presentation alongside practical…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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