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Accomodation Tours

10:30 - 12:00 15 March 2017
Want to have a look at your potential future home? We run accommodation tours of some of our halls of residence on Wednesday mornings between November and March, from 10.30am until…

Andrew Ellis (LSE)

17:00 - 18:00 15 March 2017
Title: TBA Host: Dimitri Migrow

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 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…

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

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.…

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).'

Introductory tour

15:00 - 15:30 15 March 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 March 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…

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 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

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,…

SICK! Festival

8 - 25 March 2017
SICK! Festival The award-winning SICK! Festival returns to Manchester and Salford from 8 to 25 March 2017 with a three-week programme taking place across the city and with venue partners…

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…

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…

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…

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