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Academic Writing - for PhD Students

14:00 - 15:30 4 May 2017
This session is suitable for PhD students. A separate session for MA/MSC students is being held on 13 March 2017 This course aims to improve academic writing. It will provide students…

Art History Seminar: Prof David Lomas - Imaging Art and Medicine

17:30 - 19:00 4 May 2017
Prof David Lomas (University of Manchester): Imaging Art and Medicine: A Skeleton in My Cupboard

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…

Bike Registration Event

12:00 - 13:00 4 May 2017
Free Bike Marking session - To qualify for a discounted 'D' lock students and staff must register their bikes on the University scheme. LOCKS MUST BE BOUGHT THROUGH THE UNIVERSITY'S…

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…

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: Paul Middleton, 'Confronting Violence in the Apocalypse: Reading Revelation through the Brick Bible'

14:00 - 16:00 4 May 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: 4 May - Stefan Hanß ‘Hair, Social Order and Cultural Encounters in Early Modern Germany’

16:15 - 17:45 4 May 2017
Stefan Hanß (The University of Cambridge) ‘Hair, Social Order and Cultural Encounters in Early Modern Germany’

Inaugural Lecture of Prof. Constantinos Theodoropoulos

15:00 - 16:00 4 May 2017
The School of CEAS would like to invite you to attend the Inaugural Lecture of Prof. Constantinos Theodoropoulos, "Integrated systems approaches for the sustainable bioproduction of fuels and added-value chemicals"

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…

Manchester Environmental Economics Workshop, 2017 on 'Social preferences and environmental and resource economics'

4 - 5 May 2017
Manchester Environmental Economics Workshop, 2017 “Social references and environmental and natural resource policy formation” The workshop will bring together expertise and insights…

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…

Professor Saskia Sassen, Geographies of expulsion

16:30 - 18:30 4 May 2017
The Global Development Institute and the School of Social Sciences invite you to see Professor Saskia Sassen, Professor at Columbia University, for a lecture on Geographies of expulsion…

Robin Ireland (viola) and Krysia Osostowicz (violin)

13:10 - 14:00 4 May 2017
Robin Ireland and Krysia Osostowicz perform two of the best loved Duos for violin and viola, and a selection of Bartok's wonderful Duos for two violins. Robin Ireland is the former…

Roman interiors: how to reconstruct the furniture and furnishings of the Roman house

17:00 - 18:30 4 May 2017
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

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 G. L. Brook Memorial Lecture in Middle English

17:30 - 19:00 4 May 2017
Prof. Daniel Wakelin (Oxford), ‘Healing the scab: resisting materials in late medieval books’. Prof. Wakelin is a fellow of St Hilda’s College, Oxford and the author of Scribal Correction…

The Grad Fair

10:30 - 16:00 4 May 2017
Organised by The University of Manchester's Careers Service, this is one of the UK's largest recruitment fairs, bringing together over 140 employers and institutions with thousands…

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…

Toddler tales

11:00 - 11:45 4 May 2017
Find a cosy corner, pull up a cushion and listen to fun stories. Join in playtime, creating a storyworld of your own. Suitable for families with children 5 and under.

Webinar: Finding and accessing data in the UK Data Service

15:00 - 16:00 4 May 2017
This introductory webinar is intended for anyone who wants to hear about finding data from the UK Data Service. Participants will be given a practical overview of the tools that the…

Whitworth Studies: Professor David Lomas - A Language of Flowers: Modern Artists and the Botanical Imaginary

17:30 - 21:00 4 May 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…

William Blake: The Man from the Future

12:30 - 16:30 5 May 2017
William Blake, the most protean figure in British culture, is always in the process of being re-born, re-worked and re conceived. It is simply a fact of historical life that he is an…

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