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Are the Rising Powers Really Rising?

17:00 - 18:30 21 June 2017
Are the Rising Powers Really Rising? with Lord Jim O'Neill Lord Jim O'Neill, former Goldman Sachs Chief Economist and former Treasury Minister, will discuss whether the "rising powers"…

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…

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.…

Cornelia Parker: Verso

16 June - 5 November 2017
Cornelia Parker: Verso 16 June - 5 November 2017 Cornelia Parker has always been attracted to the backs and undersides of things. While the front presents a conscious and recognisable…

Cozens and Cozens

16 June 2017 - 24 June 2018
Father and son, Alexander and John Robert Cozens, were influential watercolour painters of the 18th century. Alexander was a drawing master who dedicated his career to teaching young…

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…

Documenting, understanding, and addressing ethnic inequalities

20 - 21 June 2017
CoDE are holding a major two-day conference in Manchester to discuss the outcomes of its first four years of work. The ambitious intention of the conference is to bring a wide range…

Faculty Research Seminar: Cellular and Development Systems

13:00 - 14:00 21 June 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: Cellular and…

Great Escape: Move @ the Whitworth

13:30 - 15:30 21 June 2017
Great Escape: Move @ the Whitworth Wednesday 21 June, 1:30 – 3:30pm Free. Forget what you think you know about dance and imagine feeling free enough to respond to ideas and artworks…

Home Is…

12:00 19 - 12:00 23 June 2017
What does it mean to be “home”? An exhibition with an interactive and homely layout that discusses the ideas of what it means to be at home and to lose such security, as well as moving…

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…

Making the modern world: England's first civic university (Heritage Tour)

13:00 - 14:00 21 June 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…

Possibilities for population-based research in Denmark: environmental and genetic risk factors for schizophrenia

12:00 - 14:00 21 June 2017
Possibilities for nationwide population-based research in Denmark exemplified by investigations of environmental and genetic risk factors for schizophrenia Prof Carsten Bøcker Pedersen…

Refugee Week at Manchester Museum: 60 Million Trebles

12:00 - 14:00 21 June 2017
On 21 of June, Manchester Museum staff will be making blankets for the 60 Million Trebles and inviting the public to join them. http://janiceissittlifestyle.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/60-million-trebles.html…

Refugee Week at Manchester Museum: All for One

10:00 19 - 17:00 25 June 2017
During Refugee Week we will be displaying work created by young refugees working with GMIAU: http://gmiau.org/ in our study space. Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (GMIAU) is…

Refugee Week at Manchester Museum:Rethink Rebuild Society & Stephanie Gervais, Memories of Syria films

10:00 19 - 17:00 25 June 2017
Memories of Syria is a new project in the works by Rethink Rebuild Society in collaboration with the artist Stephanie Gervais. In this series of videos, Syrian refugees in Manchester…

Research and Teaching Matters - Teacher resources co-production

12:00 - 13:00 21 June 2017
Presented by Carl Emery, Ruth Lupton and Laura Black.

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…

The Replacement Child Figure: An Allegory for Scholars of Education, Psychology, and Childhood (note change of title)

10:00 - 11:30 22 June 2017
This paper represents a larger effort to theorize the complexities of inner life beyond the individualizing and pathologizing force of psychological categories. With Julia Kristeva…

Thursday Lates: Journeys Festival International Takeover

18:00 - 21:00 22 June 2017
Start the weekend early with our Thursday Lates – a series of sociable, after work and late night openings that are the perfect place to meet up with friends, explore the gallery and…

Refugee Cultural Festival

16:00 - 20:30 23 June 2017
Our Refugee Week programme culminates with the annual Manchester Refugee Week celebration event organised in conjunction with Manchester Refugee Support Network (MRSN), a celebration…

Taking Interdependency Seriously: Brexit and the Rising Powers

14:00 - 15:30 23 June 2017
Taking Interdependency Seriously: Brexit and the Rising Powers with Professor Alan Winters Post-Brexit Britain will be an outward looking champion of the global system, we are told.…

Undergraduate Open Day

23 June 2017
Open days give you the chance to find out more about the challenges, opportunities and rewards of academic and social life at The University of Manchester – and explore our bustling…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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