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…

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…

Controlling Business Cartels

16:00 - 17:30 4 December 2017
CCCJ Seminar Programme 2017/18 (in collaboration with Methods@Manchester) Business cartels cause severe financial damage and harm consumer trust; cartel enforcement authorities use…

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 Stezaker

1 December 2017 - 24 June 2018
Using vintage photographs, old film stills, postcards and book illustrations, John Stezaker makes collages that subvert their original imagery, creating unique and compelling works…

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…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Paolo Heywood - University of Cambridge

16:00 - 18:00 4 December 2017
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 4th December 2017 Dr Paolo Heywood – University of Cambridge ‘“All the difference in the world”: the nature of difference and different natures’.…

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…

CLACS/PILAS Fieldwork in Latin America and the Caribbean Research Workshop

09:00 - 17:00 5 December 2017
A one-day, interdisciplinary postgraduate workshop for those who either have experience or plan to carry out research in or related to Latin America and the Caribbean. The workshop…

CMI Afternoon Seminar Series

15:00 - 16:30 5 December 2017
Prof. John Copas, University of Warwick Title: Meta analysis and the curse of publication bias Abstract: Publication bias is a major threat to the validity of the meta analysis of…

Ethnography of Senior Leadership

12:00 - 13:30 5 December 2017
Alliance Manchester Business School's Health Services Research Centre are hosting a series of research seminars. This seminar will draw on Dr Michael D. Fischer's ethnographic study…

Art History Seminar - Alice Butler: ‘Cookie Mueller’s Adolescent Fragments’

16:00 6 December 2017
Coming out of archival research Alice pursued last year at New York University, this research seminar discusses the adolescent forms and temporalities of Cookie Mueller's short stories,…

Duncan Wheeler (University of Leeds), ‘Madrid City Nights: Nostalgia, La Movida and the 21st century musical?’

17:00 - 18:30 6 December 2017
Duncan Wheeler (University of Leeds), ‘Madrid City Nights: Nostalgia, La Movida and the 21st century musical?’

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 6 December 2017
Mathias Mejeh, UZH Zurich The Detection of Plot Structures within the Field of Inclusive Education In recent years Inclusive Education has become a highly discussed issue all over…

Politics What are We Doing Seminar - Reflective Equilibrium and the Objectivity of Reason and Performance, Space and Spectatorship: The Practice of Fieldwork in International Relations

14:00 - 15:00 6 December 2017
Please find below details of the next ‘What are we doing?’ seminar, building on the successful events in 2016-17. These seminars seek to have an informal, open discussion about…

Research Seminar: Dr Richard Christian (Manchester)

15:15 6 December 2017
Title: TBC Abstract: TBC

Stories of Change: 70 Years of the NHS

10:00 - 16:00 6 December 2017
Stories of Change: 70 Years of the National Health Service is a one day pop up exhibition at Chetham's Library by students in the Centre of Museology, School of Arts, Languages and…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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