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…

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.…

EAC Department Seminar Series: James Riley (CAMBRIDGE), "Of Unknown Origin: William Burroughs and Electronic Voice Phenomena"

17:00 - 18:30 8 March 2017
James Riley (CAMBRIDGE), "Of Unknown Origin: William Burroughs and Electronic Voice Phenomena"

FBMH International Women's Day Celebration

13:00 - 17:00 8 March 2017
FBMH International Women's Day Celebration. **Wednesday 8 March from 12:30pm** - Engendering Change International Women's Day is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural…

GDI Lecture Series: Gender, Urbanisation and Poverty: Principles, Practice, and the Space of Slums

17:00 - 18:30 8 March 2017
Gender, Urbanisation and Poverty: Principles, Practice, and the Space of Slums Professor Sylvia Chant (London School of Economics). The event will be from 5-6.30pm in Theatre B 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…

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…

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,…

Sooni Taraporevala: Home in the City, Bombay 1976-Mumbai 2016

4 March 2017 - 1 January 2018
The first UK solo exhibition of photographer Sooni Taraporevala. Photographer, screenwriter, filmmaker Sooni Taraporevala will present a series of black and white photographs depicting…

Toils of Labour Museum of Medicine and Health exhibition for International Women's Day

12:30 - 17:00 8 March 2017
The Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health will be marking International Women's Day with an afternoon of activities in Roscoe Building. See bit.ly/IWD_FBMH for more information. …

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…

A life of a woman in politics

17:00 - 19:00 9 March 2017
The School of Law is delighted to welcome the Right Honourable Dame Margaret Hodge to deliver the annual Pankhurst Lecture. Margaret Hodge was the first elected Chair of the Public…

CANCELLED: CTIS Seminar: Ruth Bush, "African Literature and the Post-capitalist Imaginary: Reading Tram 83"

14:00 - 15:30 9 March 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 Joseph Vogl: Financial Governance

17:00 - 19:00 9 March 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2017 programme 'Precarity'. Joseph Vogl (Professor of Modern German Literature, Cultural, and Media Studies, Humboldt-University Berlin) will…

Silvanos Mudzvova: Acting Up in Zimbabwe

18:00 - 19:30 9 March 2017
Silvanos Mudzvova is a Zimbabwean playwright, theatre director, filmmaker and activist. Through a range of different creative strategies, he has for several years been involved in…

Vital Topics: Cyber Security - Five dominating trends

17:45 - 20:00 9 March 2017
Can you trust your digital footprint anymore? In recent times, high profile email hacks have ruptured reputations and caused tremors which have, without exaggeration, altered the course…

Fighting for Europe

14:00 - 15:00 12 March 2017
A special event co-organised by the Manchester JMCE, Manchester for Europe and the UoM European Affairs Society Professor Grayling is the Master of the New College of the Humanities…

Stachniewski Memorial Lecture: Maxine Peake in conversation about Shakespeare and politics

17:15 - 19:00 14 March 2017
* PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT HAS NOW SOLD OUT! * PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE OF VENUE The 2017 Stachniewski Memorial Lecture will take place on the 14 March, 2017. Maxine Peake will be…

The IMF and the Eurozone Crisis: troublemaker or trouble-shooter?

16:00 - 17:30 14 March 2017
You are cordially welcome to this JMCE special event: The IMF and the Eurozone Crisis: troublemaker or trouble-shooter? A special JMCE event Dr. Jeffrey Franks Director of…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Professor Mike Savage: The Politics of Social Inequality in the 21st Century

17:00 - 19:00 15 March 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2017 programme 'Precarity'. Mike Savage (Martin White Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics) will deliver a lecture entitled 'The…

Art History Seminar: Prof Bette Talvacchia - Michelangelo's Ignudi

17:30 - 19:00 16 March 2017
Prof Bette Talvacchia (University of Oklahoma) Michelangelo's Ignudi: from Florentine Tradition to Roman Subversion

CTIS Seminar: Charlotte Bosseaux, "Translating Voices in GBV Documentaries"

14:00 - 15:30 16 March 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…

EAC Department PGR Keynote Event

17:00 - 19:00 16 March 2017
WILL DAVIS (University of Reading), ‘’An Anthropomorphic Insolence of Short Duration’: Samuel Beckett’s Watt and the Fiction of History’

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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