Exhibitions, Lecture

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…

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.…

EAC Department Seminar Series: Prof. Cornelia Pearsall (Smith College, USA), 'Burying Bertha: Race & the Ungravable Body in Jane Eyre'

17:00 - 18:30 10 May 2017
Prof. Cornelia Pearsall (Smith College, USA), 'Burying Bertha: Race & the Ungravable Body in Jane Eyre'

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 Speaker Series: Abuse of Human Rights in Conflict Situations – a Legal Perspective

14:00 - 16:00 10 May 2017
For this HCRI Speaker Series we are joined by Bethany Shiner, Associate Lecturer in Law at Middlesex University. Bethany Shiner is a qualified solicitor who spent almost four years…

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…

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…

Politics Annual Peace Lecture

18:00 - 19:00 10 May 2017
Martin Edelman Title: "Trump's America Reality Show or New Political Reality" Martin L. Edelman is “of counsel” to Paul Hastings LLP. Mr. Edelman has more than 40 years of experience…

Siobhan Davies Dance: material / rearranged / to / be

6 - 14 May 2017
Siobhan Davies Dance: material / rearranged / to / be. Performance times: Saturday 6 May: 10am-4pm (including Saturday Supplement, 11am-4pm - see event details below) Sunday 7 to Wednesday…

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…

Art History Seminar: Matthew Walker - Antiquarian Writing on Roman Architecture in C17 Britain

17:30 - 19:00 11 May 2017
Matthew Walker (Oxford) Antiquarian Writing on Roman Architecture in C17 Britain

CIDRAL Public Roundtable: Erik S. Reinert: "Does Mercantilism have a future? History and Policy in the Age of Trump”

17:00 - 19:00 11 May 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2017 programme 'Precarity'. Organised in collaboration with History at the University of Manchester. Professor Erik S. Reinert (Tallinn University…

The 2017 Dorothy Emmet Lecture

18:00 - 20:00 15 May 2017
The Philosophy Department is proud to present the 2017 Dorothy Emmet Lecture: Sherri Irvin, “Resisting Body Oppression: An Aesthetic Approach”. The lecture is aimed at the general…

EAC Department PGR Keynote Event

17:00 - 19:00 17 May 2017
Lucy Rowland (University of Leeds), ‘“Tortured Ecologies”: Environmental Disaster and Climate Discourse in Contemporary Women’s Fiction’

SEED Annual Lecture: Midi Rouge or Midi Vert?

16:30 - 18:00 18 May 2017
The SEED annual lecture: Midi Rouge or Midi Vert? Organic Wine, Metabolism, and Social Reproduction in Languedoc-Roussillon Presented by Professor Scott Prudham, Department of Geography…

'What good is playing at being a state?' - key note lecture by Professor Davina Cooper

16:00 - 17:00 19 May 2017
* This key note lecture open to the public is part of Everyday Revolutions in Southern and Eastern Europe event which will take place on 19 & 20 May 2017 in Samuel Alexander Building…

Beyond Borders

20 May 2017 - 3 June 2018
Beyond Borders, explores South Asian textiles bringing together four artists working on issues around post-colonial identity, ruptured spaces, authenticity, displacement and belonging.…

Sexuality Summer School Public Lecture: Robyn Wiegman (Duke) in discussion with Clare Hemmings (LSE): “The Problem with Heteronormativity”

12:00 - 14:00 22 May 2017
Sexuality Summer School (22nd – 26th May 2017): Why Be Normal? Our Public Events Programme is now confirmed! All Welcome. Student Prices available. Monday 22nd May 12-2pm Public…

2017 MICRA Annual Public Lecture – Ready for Ageing Now?

17:30 - 19:00 23 May 2017
2017 MICRA Annual Public Lecture Ready for Ageing Now? Lord Geoffrey Filkin CBE, Chair of the Centre for Ageing Better From MICRA and the Greater Manchester Ageing Hub In 2013,…

Sexuality Summer School Public Lecture: Laura Doan (Manchester): “Inventing Normal Sex: An Un/natural History”

12:30 - 14:00 23 May 2017
Sexuality Summer School (22nd – 26th May 2017): Why Be Normal? Our Public Events Programme is now confirmed! All Welcome. Student Prices available. Monday 22nd May 12.30-2pm…

EAC Department Seminar Series: Jessica Valdez (Hong Kong University), 'Anthony Trollope’s “Newspaper Scribblers”: Forms of Public Opinion'

17:00 - 18:30 24 May 2017
Jessica R. Valdez holds a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Prior to joining HKU, she was a lecturer at New York University Shanghai. Her research interests…

Lovell Lecture: Professor Isobel Hook

19:30 - 22:00 25 May 2017
In 1998 two teams of astronomers discovered that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating, work that was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 2011. The discovery was based on…

Public Lecture: Ian Alan Paul: The Conditions of Possibility: Democracy, Security, and Futurity in Post-Coup Cairo

14:00 - 16:00 9 June 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's 2016/17 Semester 2 programme on Precarity. Ian Alan Paul is a transdisciplinary artist, theorist, and curator. His practice encompasses experimental…

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