Exhibitions, Seminar

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…

D&E seminar series - Ailsa Henderson (University of Edinburgh)

15:30 - 17:00 19 April 2017
The D&E seminar series is back this Wednesday, when we welcome Ailsa Henderson (University of Edinburgh) to present her new research on "Referendums, realignment and the perception…

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.…

Family Ties – The Adamah Papers exhibition

7 April - 25 May 2017
A new exhibition from the Black Cultural Archives exploring a collection of papers belonging to the Adamah Family - a Ghanaian family of Kings - which reflect on the family's daily…

HCRI Seminar: Ending the Cycle of Famine in Ethiopia

15:00 - 16:00 19 April 2017
‘Citizen humanitarians’ and ‘Refugee Helpers’ in Europe – what does this tell us about the international humanitarian sector. During 2015 and 2016 1.3 million refugees and asylum…

John Akomfrah

24 March - 23 July 2017
John Akomfrah's acclaimed video installation Vertigo Sea. Vertigo Sea, a three-screen film, first seen at the 56th Venice Biennale as part of Okwui Enwezor's All the World's Futures…

Lucienne Day

14 April - 16 July 2017
We are delighted to be celebrating the centenary year of one of Britain’s most influential 20th century designers. Best-known for her textiles, Lucienne Day (1917 – 2010) is recognised…

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…

The Tabley House Collection

13:00 1 April - 13:00 29 October 2017
As a university of Manchester country house collection, The Tabley House Collection showcases a permanent exhibition of early British modern masters alongside interchanging displays…

Beyond the cutting edge: speculations on the future of social science

16:00 - 17:15 25 April 2017
Social science faces a challenge. Its subject matter, its methods and its materials are all changing at a breath-taking speed. What will it mean to be a social scientist in five, ten,…

Development Economics Seminar: Gharad Bryan (LSE)

13:00 - 14:00 25 April 2017
Title: Land Trade and Development: A Market Design Approach

NEW TIME: Of Arab Invasions, the Aryan Race, and other Iranian Nationalist Myths

17:15 - 18:30 25 April 2017
An Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Seminar: This talk discusses the work of Fath’ali Akhundzadeh and Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani, two Qajar-era intellectuals who founded modern Iranian…

POSTPONED: Dalton Seminar Series: Chasing Rainbows – MOD’s quest to dispose of EDTA-contaminated ion-exchange resin

12:15 - 13:15 25 April 2017
This event has been postponed due to last week’s announcement of the snap general election in June. All central and local government departments are now in the period of purdah and…

Racialisation relations

13:00 - 14:00 25 April 2017
Joint CoDE/Sociology Seminar Join us for this event, which is part of the CoDE Seminar Series. In order to discuss Islamophobia we should not isolate if from other forms of racial…

Seminar: Douglas Gollin (Oxford)

16:15 - 17:45 25 April 2017
Title: TBA

CGP Cluster Seminar Dates 2016-17: Semester 2 - Jared Ahmad (Manchester) Securing 'Al-Qaeda': the BBC, the state and the contemporary terrorism dispositif

15:30 - 17:00 26 April 2017
Jared Ahmad (Manchester) Securing 'Al-Qaeda': the BBC, the state and the contemporary terrorism dispositif Details to follow

Faculty Research Seminar: Platform Sciences & Technologies

13:00 - 14:00 26 April 2017
The monthly Faculty Research Seminar Series is open to all staff and students and offers an opportunity to celebrate FBMH’s research achievements. Research Domain host: Platform Sciences…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 26 April 2017
Speaker: Leila Alinaghian Title: SNA for supply chains: who should you partner with for innovation

Sociology Research Seminar: Ordinary Provisioning: the challenges and possibilities of everyday third sector provisioning organisations by Dr Helen Holmes

14:00 - 15:00 26 April 2017
You are warmly invited to the April Sociology seminar, given by Helen Holmes, Sociology/SCI. The seminar will take place on the 26th April, 2-3pm, in Room 5.211, University Place.…

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