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.…

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,…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Monday, 13th March 2017 - Dr Alanna Cant – University of Kent

16:00 - 18:00 13 March 2017
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 13th March 2017 Dr Alanna Cant – University of Kent On The Object Itself: Oaxacan Woodcarvers And The Allure Of Their Art Current scholarship…

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…

CMIST Afternoon Seminar- Frozen or Malleable: Political Ideology in the Face of Economic Hardship

16:00 - 17:30 14 March 2017
Abstract: To what degree do people adjust their political ideology in response to deteriorations in their material circumstances, such as job loss or negative income shocks? To answer…

Department of Politics - The JMCE Annual Lecture

16:00 14 March 2017
Department of Politics - The JMCE Annual Lecture (THE JMCE ANNUAL LECTURE) Tuesday 14 March 2017, 16:00 @ TBC Speaker: Jeffrey Franks (Director of the IMF Europe Office and Senior…

Environmental Economics Seminar: Souvik Datta (University of Glasgow)

13:00 - 14:00 14 March 2017
Title: The impact of indoor solid fuel use on the stunting of Indian children Abstract: About half of Indian children under the age of three years are stunted. We use data from the…

Philosophy Research Seminar - Jules Holroyd (Sheffield)

15:00 - 17:00 14 March 2017
Title *Implicit Bias, Self-Defence, and the Reasonable Person Abstract *The reasonable person standard is used in adjudicating claims of self-defence. In US law, an individual may…

Seminar: Ludo Visschers (Edinburgh)

16:15 - 17:45 14 March 2017
Title: TBA

Critical Global Politics - CGP Cluster Seminar - Semester 2

15:30 - 17:00 15 March 2017
Critical Global Politics - CGP Cluster Seminar - Semester 2 Berit Bliesemann de Guevara (Aberystwyth) Raising Silent Voices Details to be advised

Finance seminar by Jaideep Oberoi, Kent Business School

14:00 - 16:00 15 March 2017
Robustly modelling the scale and shape dynamics of stock return distributions

Geography Research Seminar: Dr. Julie Durcan (University of Oxford) - Landscape dynamics and change on the Ghaggar-Hakra floodplain, India: implications for the Indus Civilisation

16:00 - 17:30 15 March 2017
Title: Landscape dynamics and change on the Ghaggar-Hakra floodplain, India: implications for the Indus Civilisation Abstract: The area around the ephemeral Ghaggar-Hakra River system…

History Wednesday Lunchtime Seminar: Katia Chornik, 'Collecting and archiving music histories from political detention centres in Pinochet’s Chile (1973-1990)'

13:00 - 13:50 15 March 2017
History Wednesday Lunchtime Seminar: Katia Chornik, 'Collecting and archiving music histories from political detention centres in Pinochet’s Chile (1973-1990).'

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 15 March 2017
Speaker: Paolo Campana is a University Lecturer at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. His work specialises in organised crime and forms of extra-legal governance.…

Molly Geidel (Manchester), ‘From salvage ethnography to development melodrama: Bolivian cinema in the Revolutionary period’.

17:00 - 18:30 15 March 2017
Part of the Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies Research Seminars, 2016-2017. Room A215, Samuel Alexander Building

Sociology Seminar 15 Mar 2-3pm- 'Eating out in three English cities: casualization and social division' by Alan Warde, Jessica Paddock and Jennifer Whillans

14:00 - 15:00 15 March 2017
You are warmly invited to the March Sociology seminar. To be held on Weds 15th March 2-3pm in the Hanson Room, HBS. The seminar will be given by Prof Alan Warde, Dr Jessica Paddock…

Sustainability Seminar Series – Health and Wellbeing: How do our buildings and greenspace contribute to our wellbeing and infrastructure resilience? With Dr Jeremy Carter and Kelly Watson

12:00 - 14:00 15 March 2017
Sustainability Seminar Series – Energy, Well-Being, Biodiversity, Food, Travel & More Launching in January 2017, the Sustainability Seminar Series seeks to present opportunities for…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Sarah Whittle (St. Andrews), Romans 1:4 and the Iconography of Imperial Apotheosis

14:00 - 16:00 16 March 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…

Konrad Burchardi (Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm)

16:15 - 17:45 16 March 2017
Title: Migrants, Ancestors, and Foreign Investment Abstract We use 130 years of data on historical migrations to the United States to show a causal effect of the ancestry composition…

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