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.…

Careers in Audiology

10:00 - 12:00 29 January 2018
Join our Audiology students, staff and employers to find out about the range of rewarding careers in Audiology. Audiology is the healthcare science of hearing and balance disorders.…

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,…

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…

In the Land

27 January - 4 November 2018
Rethinking the form, texture and space of the natural landscape. This exhibition looks back at a period of intense experimentation in British painting and sculpture where artists,…

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 Monday, 29th of January 2018 - Dr Angela Torresan – University of Manchester

16:00 - 18:00 29 January 2018
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 29th January 2018 Dr Angela Torresan – University of Manchester Guto and Graça: Ethnographic Films And Storytelling It may be tautological to…

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…

Bogdanow Masterclass in Holocaust Studies 2018

14:00 - 16:00 30 January 2018
We are delighted to announce that the forth series of Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies will be given by Prof. Jan Grabowski (University of Ottawa). As part of the annual lecture…

CMI Afternoon Seminar Series: Balancing the Local and the Universal in Maintaining Ethical Access to a Genomics Biobank

15:00 - 16:30 30 January 2018
Dr Catherine Heeney, University of Edinburgh Abstract: The presentation will draw upon work completed with my colleague, Dr Shona Kerr based upon our experience of working with the…

CoDE Seminar- Asma Khan

13:00 - 14:00 30 January 2018
Join us for this event, which is part of the CoDE Seminar Series. We will be joined by Asma Khan who is a PhD candidate based at the Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK, Cardiff…

"Digital Punishment” Through Online Criminal Record in the U.S

15:30 - 17:00 31 January 2018
CCCJ Seminar Programme 2017/18 (in collaboration with Methods@Manchester) The unregulated and widespread digital release of arrest and booking information, court records, and criminal…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 31 January 2018
Marco Bastos, University of London and Duke University’s Network Analysis Center Exogenous Factors Affecting the Topology of Online Social Networks: Geographic Propinquity, Specialized…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr. Holly Morse (Manchester), "Biblical Bathing Beauties: Ways of Seeing Bathsheba and Susanna in 16th and 17th Century Painting"

14:00 - 16:00 1 February 2018
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…

History Seminar "New Deal Liberalism and the Origins of the American Warfare State"

16:15 - 17:30 1 February 2018
History Research Seminar presented by Prof. Andrew Preston (Cambridge): “New Deal Liberalism and the Origins of the American Warfare State”

Investigating the collaborative role of endothelial sugars (glycosaminoglycans) and chemokines in leukocyte migration and inflammatory disease

11:00 - 12:00 1 February 2018
“Despite recent advances, inflammatory disease remains a significant global health problem causing extensive pain and comorbidity in patients. Recruitment of inflammatory leukocytes…

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