Exhibitions, Seminar

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…

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.…

Department of Politics - JMCE seminars

14:00 - 16:00 22 February 2017
Department of Politics - JMCE seminars Wednesday 22 February 2017, 14:00 @ TBC Speaker: Francie Molloy, MP Title: Sinn Fein, Northern Ireland and Brexit

Finance seminar by Joao Cocco, London Business School

14:00 - 16:00 22 February 2017
Expenditures and financial well-being

Geography Research Seminar: Dr. Alexandra Dales (University of Manchester) - Regulating the expansion of global retail capital

12:00 - 14:00 22 February 2017
Dr Alexandra Dales (Geography, SEED, University of Manchester) Regulating the expansion of global retail capital – contestation and compromise in the evolving national retail markets…

HCRI Seminar: Out of sight, out of mind, out of bounds - The Failure of Maritime Sanctions Enforcement against North Korea

15:00 - 17:00 22 February 2017
For this HCRI Seminar we will be joined by Bob Huish, Associate Professor in International Development Studies at Dalhousie University, and the Ron Lister Fellow in the Department of…

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…

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…

MIE Research Matters - 'Why should I teach it?' - Dr Ann Lendrum

12:00 - 13:00 22 February 2017
Examining the role of social validity for promoting the effective adoption and implementation of school-based interventions. Teachers are regularly expected to adopt and deliver new…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 22 February 2017
Speaker: Marc Sarazin Title: Characterising social structure in schools: the case of a low-SES primary school undergoing a collective music-making intervention Existing studies of…

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…

Politics - Democracy and Elections Seminar - Dr Jennifer VanHeerde-Hudson (UCL)

15:30 - 17:30 22 February 2017
Dear all, This Wednesday (22nd of February) we have a Democracy and Elections Seminar, when we will be welcoming Jennifer VanHeerde-Hudson of UCL who will be talking about the career…

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,…

Sinn Fein, Northern Ireland and Brexit

14:00 22 February 2017
Sinn Fein, Northern Ireland and Brexit

Strengths-based strategies for mentally ill offenders: First results from a multidisciplinary project

13:00 - 15:00 22 February 2017
Tom Vander Beken will present and discuss interim results of a study to develop multidisciplinary strenghts-based strategies for mentally ill offenders.

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. Andrew T. Lincoln (Gloucestershire), 'The Reception of Jesus in John'

14:00 - 16:00 23 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…

Heather Battey (Imperial College London)

16:15 - 17:45 23 February 2017
Title: Exploring and exploiting new structured classes of covariance and inverse covariance matrices Abstract: Estimation of covariance and inverse covariance (precision) matrices…

Plutarch and Roman exemplary ethics

16:55 - 18:30 23 February 2017
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Critical Discourses in the Academy: Foucault and Lacan - approaches to discourse analysis (Seminar 1)

16:30 - 18:30 27 February 2017
The first seminar is scheduled for February 27 with Professor Ian Parker speaking on "What is the difference between Lacan and Foucault?" and Dr Owen Demsey speaking on "The Necropolitics…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Monday, 27th February 2017 - Dr Andre Cicalo – Kings College, London

16:00 - 18:00 27 February 2017
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 27th February 2017 Dr Andre Cicalo – Kings College, London Goodbye Racial Democracy? Brazilian Identity, Official Discourse, and the Making…

Self defence is no offence: Resisting racialization and criminalization of Muslims in neoliberal Britain

13:00 - 14:00 28 February 2017
Join us for this event, which is part of the CoDE Seminar Series. The seminar will present findings from an on-going study exploring the context and aftermath of the 'grooming' scandals…

What can Administrative data and Record linkage tell us about mental health?

15:00 - 16:15 28 February 2017
Speaker: Dr Dermot O’Reilly, Queen’s University Belfast Poor mental health has been identified as a major and increasing public health issue with significant economic and social impact.…

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