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.…

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…

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…

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…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Todd Klutz (Manchester), Title TBD

14:00 - 16:00 9 November 2017
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. These seminars are free with no registration required. Seminars last 90 minutes including a 30 minute Q&A session. Tea and biscuits…

Good care-giving in care homes for older people

13:00 - 16:00 9 November 2017
Many people currently experience care-giving in later years in the form of care home residence, either permanently or for temporary respite. Yet many media reports tend to focus upon…

Maeve Brennan: The Drift

30 September 2017 - 1 February 2018
Maeve Brennan: The Drift 30 September 2017 – February 2018 The Drift, is a major new film commission by contemporary artist Maeve Brennan in her first institutional solo exhibition.…

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…

Raqs Media Collective: Twilight Language

30 September 2017 - 25 February 2018
Raqs Media Collective: Twilight Language 30 September 2017 – 25 February 2018 The first major UK exhibition by Raqs Media Collective at the Whitworth and throughout Whitworth Park…

Reena Saini Kallat

10:00 30 September 2017 - 17:00 25 February 2018
Acclaimed artist Reena Saini Kallat has delved into Manchester Museum’s natural science and human culture collections for her solo exhibition. Her newly-commissioned sculpture Chorus…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Henk Alting, "The Design Argument and What’s Wrong with it"

16:00 - 18:00 9 November 2017
The Religions & Theology research seminar takes place on alternate Thursdays. These seminars are free with no registration required. Seminars last 90 minutes including a 30 minute Q&A session.

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…

South Asian Modernists 1953-63

30 September 2017 - 15 April 2018
South Asian Modernists 1953-63 30 September – 15 April 2018 South Asian Modernists will explore the works of Pakistani and Indian artists who worked with Victor Musgrave between 1953-63.…

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…

Time and Space in China: The Urban World of Beijing in Photographs

16 October - 10 November 2017
This photographic exhibition present the on-going changes of Beijing; changes that not only refer to the surface of urban space, but also many aspects of people’s daily life and their…

What Inspires Humanitarian Action?

18:00 - 21:00 10 November 2017
Project Trust and The University of Manchester’s Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI), invite you to participate in debating what inspires Humanitarian Action. The event…

CHEVI complex in collagen homeostasis

13:00 - 14:00 13 November 2017
Athrogryposis, Renal Dysfunction and Cholestasis syndrome (ARC) is an autosomal recessive multisystem disorder caused by deficiencies of VPS33B and VIPAR (Gissen et al, 2004, Cullinane…

Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 13th November 2017 Dr Jonas Tinius – Humboldt University of Berlin

16:00 - 18:00 13 November 2017
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 13th November 2017 Dr Jonas Tinius – Humboldt University of Berlin Back to the Future Heritage: On Palatial Space and Anthropological Collaboration…

The role of board-level clinical leaders in QI

12:00 - 13:30 13 November 2017
Alliance Manchester Business School's Health Services Research Centre present a research seminar: Dr Lorelei Jones: "Health systems world-wide are increasingly holding boards of health…

Be careful where you touch: antibiotic drug resistance and surfaces

12:30 - 13:30 14 November 2017
Antibiotic Drug Resistance’ will explore ‘Antibiotic Drug Resistance: a focus on the environment’ to mark World Antibiotics Awareness Week. On Tuesday 14 November Professor Joanna…

Timo Boppart (IIES)

16:15 - 17:45 14 November 2017
Title: TBA

Research Seminar: Prof Sophie Grace-Chappell (Open University)

15:15 - 17:00 15 November 2017
Title: No More Heroes Any More Abstract: In this paper I discuss the connected notions of heroism and admiration. I suggest that the paradigm case of admiration is the case where we…

Research Seminar: The Politics of Gothic

12:00 - 13:30 15 November 2017
Xavier Aldana Reyes, 'Spirits in the Labyrinth, or Why the Civil War Continues to be Spain's Favourite Gothic Tale' Emily Rohrbach, 'Voice and Dispossession: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein…

The EU's future after the French and German Elections

14:00 - 15:00 15 November 2017
The EU's future after the French and German Elections

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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