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.…

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…

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…

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…

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’

Barbara Brown

17 March 2017 - 15 March 2018
Barbara Brown was the golden girl of Heal Fabrics in the 1960s and early 1970s. Talent-spotted as a student, her designs for furnishing fabrics are some of the most striking and unusual…

A Victorian Woman Ventures Securely into Men’s Realms: Journalism, Politics, and Radical Advocacy Tracy C. Davis

18:00 - 19:30 22 March 2017
Of the 241 Victorian theatre critics known to have written for the popular press, only one is known to be a woman; she, Pearl Craigie (1867-1906), daughter of an American millionaire…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Professor Alan Bowman

17:00 - 19:00 22 March 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2017 programme 'Precarity'. Professor Alan Bowman (University of Oxford) will give a talk on 'Humanities and Humanitas, New Horizons?' Professor…

GDI Lecture Series: Resilience, Development and Global Change: Resistance, Rootedness and Resourcefulness

17:00 - 18:30 22 March 2017
Resilience, Development and Global Change: Resistance, Rootedness and Resourcefulness Professor Katrina Brown (University of Exeter). The event will be from 5-6.30pm in Theatre B of…

2017 MICRA Annual Public Lecture – Ready for Ageing Now?

17:30 - 19:00 23 March 2017
2017 MICRA Annual Public Lecture Ready for Ageing Now? Lord Geoffrey Filkin CBE, Chair of the Centre for Ageing Better From MICRA and the Greater Manchester Ageing Hub In 2013, the…

Art History Seminar - Nicholas Penny, Visiting Pilkington Professor

17:30 - 19:00 23 March 2017
Nicholas Penny, Visiting Pilkington Professor (Whitworth Teaching Suite, 5.30-7pm)

CTIS Seminar: Joss Moorkens, "The Impact of Machine Translation on Translators: Perception vs. Reality"

14:00 - 15:30 23 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…

Memory, Vision and Cognition: Deciphering Ancient Documents in the Digital Age

18:00 - 19:30 23 March 2017
Professor Alan Bowman Vice-President (Humanities) of the British Academy will deliver this public lecture. Professor Bowman's research interests include: Greek and Latin Papyri from…

Whitworth Studies: Sir Nicholas Penny - Raphael’s Rebirth

17:30 - 21:00 23 March 2017
Whitworth Studies aims to encourage and support a wide range of research projects between the Whitworth and Art History and Visual Studies (AHVS), artists, other parts of the University…

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