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…

Bivalve Poetics: Sympathetic Entrainment in the Late Nineteenth Century

17:00 - 18:30 22 November 2017
EAC Research Seminar. "Bivalve Poetics: Sympathetic Entrainment in the Late Nineteenth Century" Ewan Jones (Cambridge).

Cecily Brown: Shipwreck drawings

17 November 2017 - 15 April 2018
This is an exhibition of a extraordinary series of drawings by Cecily Brown, of wrecked ships and their passengers. Brown’s practice of painterly interrogation of an existing image,…

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…

CPPI Work in Progress Seminar

15:30 - 17:30 22 November 2017
CPPI Work in Progress Seminar NOVEMBER 22, 2017 Hanson Room, Humanities Bridgeford Street Building 3:30-5:30 pm Mr. Craig Proctor, PhD Student, CRES/REES (SALC) and Politics,…

CSEP Senior Seminar Series. Regulating human tissue: is there a role for ethics?

14:00 - 15:00 22 November 2017
Regulating human tissue: is there a role for ethics? Professor Anne-Maree Farrell La Trobe University, School of Law, Australia

GPE Cluster Research Seminar - 22 November 2017

15:30 - 17:00 22 November 2017
GPE cluster research seminar will be given by Alessandra Mezzadri (SOAS). Details below: The Sweatshop Regime: Garments, exploitation and labouring bodies made in India Drawing…

How to... analyse criminal networks

13:00 - 14:30 22 November 2017
How to... analyse criminal networks CCCJ Seminar Programme 2017/18 (in collaboration with Methods@Manchester) Further details to follow

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…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 22 November 2017
Dimitris Christopolous, Edinburgh Business School and MODUL University Vienna Robustness and Resilience in Governance Networks Systemic ability to weather political challenges can be…

Morgan Centre seminar: Place and belonging at Claremont Court

14:00 - 16:00 22 November 2017
Place and belonging at Claremont Court: Researching place and belonging using architectural and social science methods Sandra Costa Santos and Nadia Bertolini (Architecture and Built…

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…

School of Materials Seminar entitled "Towards Durable Hydrophobicity and Omniphobicity"

14:00 - 15:00 22 November 2017
Micro and nanoengineered functional surfaces have recently received significant attention due to their ability to enhance the efficiency and performance of a variety of applications.…

Social Network Analysis Using Stata

13:00 - 14:00 22 November 2017
Social network analysis is one of the most rapidly growing fields of the social sciences. Social network analysis focuses on the relationships that exist between individuals (or other…

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…

The distinction between 'being' and 'feeling' frail: exploring emotional experiences in health and social care

13:00 - 14:30 22 November 2017
The concept of frailty provides access to key health and social care services. While health care professionals charged with implementing standard assessments generally agree on what…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Stephen Barton (Manchester/Durham), "Jesus on Justice, Mercy, and Social Wellbeing in Constitutional Perspective"

14:00 - 16:00 23 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…

Tyndall Seminar- Supporting climate change adaptation in rural Tanzania: is promoting resilience in transitional communities sufficient?

13:00 - 14:00 23 November 2017
In this talk Susannah will draw on current research she is leading in collaboration with NGO partners in Tanzania, which focuses on the design and evaluation of integrated approaches…

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