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…

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…

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…

No End to Enderby

30 June - 17 September 2017
No End to Enderby Graham Eatough and Stephen Sutcliffe To mark the 100th birthday of Manchester-born Anthony Burgess this year, artist Stephen Sutcliffe and theatre director Graham…

Raqib Shaw

24 June - 1 November 2017
Contemporary artist Raqib Shaw will have a solo exhibition at the Whitworth that will examine real and imagined spaces between the East and West. Co-curated by Diana Campbell Betancourt,…

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…

ToGather - Susan Hefuna

30 June - 16 July 2017
ToGather - Susan Hefuna: An exhibition and performance. A Manchester International Festival, world premiere. Featuring a major public performance and a wide-ranging exhibition, Susan…

Brexit After the Election: What Happens Next? (17:00-18:30)

17:00 - 18:30 1 July 2017
Richard Corbett is a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Labour Party for Yorkshire and the Humber. He is Deputy Leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party, Vice-Chair…

Cyber and you - a true story: come hear it

12:30 4 July 2017
Do you feel cyber safe? A number of recent news stories have highlighted cases of criminals using email hacking and ransomware to access accounts belonging to Hilary Clinton and David…

Faculty Research Seminar: Cardiovascular, Metabolic & Nutritional Sciences

13:00 - 14:00 5 July 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: Cardiovascular,…

Small but significant - Innovation, impact and evidence: practical housing interventions to improve older people’s health and wellbeing

10:00 - 15:30 13 July 2017
Join us for this special free event for researchers, policy makers, planners, commissioners, providers & activists with an interest in ageing, health, social care, housing and integrated…

Stroke/Ceramics: a research conversation and exhibition

18:00 - 20:00 24 July 2017
This event brings together University of Manchester researchers from the Faculty of Medicine, the Institute for Cultural Practices, and the Whitworth Art Gallery in conversation with…

Beyond Dementia

28 July 2017 - 7 January 2018
Beyond Dementia Supporting active citizenship in those living with dementia 28 July – 7 January 2018 Beyond Dementia is a Collection Centre exhibition that explores the lived experience…

Memories of Partition

15 August 2017 - 31 January 2018
Find out about the experiences and legacies of the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 through the memories of members of Manchester’s South Asian communities. The partition of…

Celebrating Ganesha

2 September 2017 - 8 January 2018
Manchester Museum is delighted to host the beautiful stone sculpture of Ganesha. Celebrating Ganesha is touring across several venues around the UK as part of the British Museum’s Partnership…

Legacies of Slavery and Abolition in Manchester

18:00 14 September - 18:00 14 October 2017
An exhibition sharing the story of the Atlantic Slave Trade and its legacies in Manchester and around the world, with original artefacts, contemporary artworks and new research from…

POSTPONED: Dalton Seminar Series: Small scale production of high-purity plutonium metal

12:15 - 13:15 14 September 2017
Unfortunately this seminar has been postponed. Abstract: Small-scale scientific experiments require high-purity, low activity plutonium metal that is formed into components with nanoscale…

Steve McQueen: Ashes

22 September 2017 - 12 March 2018
Steve McQueen: Ashes 22 September 2017 – March 2019 Ashes (2002-2015), a double video projection, tells the story of a young Caribbean man known by this name. On one screen we see…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Monday 25th of September 2017 - Dr Stef Jansen - University of Manchester

16:00 - 18:00 25 September 2017
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 25th September 2017 Dr Stef Jansen - The University Of Manchester (Non-)Events: anthropological (in)fidelities to Alain Badiou This presentation…

Water, ocean, coastal and environmental engineering (WOCEE) seminar - Particle Methods for Fluid-Structure Interactions, Recent Advancements and Future Perspectives

14:00 25 September 2017
Presented by Professor Abbas KHAYYER from Kyoto University, Japan, this talk mainly focuses on application of particle methods, more specifically, fully-Lagrangian coupled particle…

Bringing participatory development into conflict analysis – experience from Rakhine state, Myanmar

17:00 - 18:30 26 September 2017
Students and colleagues are invited to join us for HCRI's opening Speaker Series for the 2017/18 events programme. The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) Speaker Series…

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