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"Wandering.." Ian Buckle, piano

13:10 - 14:00 27 April 2017
Ian Buckle's programme explores the notion of Wandering: Debussy's Estampes and Scelsi's Un Adieu are presented alongside English Impressionism from Roger Quilter's In a Gondola and…

100 Days of Trump: American Studies Perspectives

15:30 - 17:00 27 April 2017
A roundtable and discussion about the first 100 days of Donald Trump's presidency. Dr Travis Gosa (Cornell University) will contextualise and make sense of Trump's victory, Dr Molly…

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…

Daily: Art Hampers – resources for families at the Whitworth

10:00 22 April - 17:00 31 December 2017
Are you hungry to get creative with your family? Pick up an Art Hamper, free and available any time during gallery opening hours. Our Art Hampers are filled with materials for you…

David Harvey (University of Nottingham)

16:15 - 17:45 27 April 2017
Title: Sign-Based Tests for Financial Bubbles in the Presence of Nonstationary Volatility Abstract: There is a large body of evidence illustrating that explosive bubbles (and collapses)…

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.…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof. Mary E. Mills (Newman University), 'City as Sustainable Enviroment'

14:00 - 16:00 27 April 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…

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…

History Research Seminar: 27 April – Judy Walkowitz ‘The Spatial Politics of Reading in the Archives: A Memoir’

16:15 - 17:45 27 April 2017
Judy Walkowitz (Johns Hopkins) ‘The Spatial Politics of Reading in the Archives: A Memoir’

Israel Studies Seminar - Brian Klug (Oxford), 'Words of Fire: Ahad Ha'am and the Jewish Future'

16:00 - 17:30 27 April 2017
The Centre for Jewish Studies seminar programme has an Israel Studies theme. Our seminar programme is open to all (for free) and there is no need to book. Ahad Ha'am (the pen name…

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…

Joint MANCASS/Medieval Society Lecture: A. Breeze 'The Nordic Arthur and the Volcanic Winter of 536/7'

18:00 - 19:30 27 April 2017
Joint MANCASS/Medieval Society Lecture: A. Breeze 'The Nordic Arthur and the Volcanic Winter of 536/7'

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…

Lysias and Socrates in Plato’s Phaedrus

17:00 - 18:30 27 April 2017
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar. Towards the beginning of Plato’s Phaedrus, Phaedrus reads to Socrates a speech attributed to Lysias (230e-234c). In the speech, as Phaedrus…

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…

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…

Webinar: Using open UK Data Service Census Support datasets in open source GIS software

15:00 - 16:00 27 April 2017
UK Data Service Census Support makes available to download a large number of geospatial datasets as open data. In recent years there has been a maturing of open source GIS software…

Ageing + social eating: developing age-friendly communities through eating with others

14:00 - 16:00 28 April 2017
Social eating or commensality has been associated with range of health and social benefits for older adults in the UK and globally. There is limited information on why older adults…

Introductory tour

15:00 - 15:30 28 April 2017
Your chance to learn about this fascinating building and some of its history. No need to book, just turn up.

Nature Discovery Story

10:30 - 11:30 28 April 2017
Magic Carpet is an interactive, creative, story making and activity session that forms connections to the Museum’s collections. Our stories are specially devised to enable our youngest…

Nature Discovery Story

11:30 - 12:30 28 April 2017
Magic Carpet is an interactive, creative, story making and activity session that forms connections to the Museum’s collections. Our stories are specially devised to enable our youngest…

PhilChat Conference: Race, Gender and Class in Philosophy

12:00 - 17:00 28 April 2017
PhilChat is a conference for undergrads, aimed at promoting the voices of underrepresented groups in philosophy. The conference ran last year for the first time, to great success. This…

Translation, Travel and Children's Literature

10:15 - 17:15 28 April 2017
For this Symposium and round table discussion, we are delighted to welcome three guest speakers: Speakers: Kiera Vaclavik, Queen Mary College, London (http://complit.sllf.qmul.ac.uk/complit/people/t…

Vonnegut Collective

13:10 - 14:00 28 April 2017
This year MUMS is privileged to have the Vonnegut Collective perform works from various postgraduate composition students from The University of Manchester. The Vonnegut Collective…

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