Exhibitions, Seminar

Apna: Ours Yours Everybody’s

3 February - 13 May 2018
Apna is a word used in many languages across South Asia meaning ‘ours, yours or everybody’s’. This reflects how the Whitworth shares the collection that is housed here. In the Collections…

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.…

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…

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…

Rutherford's Manchester: the birthplace of nuclear physics

13:00 - 14:00 3 February 2018
In 1917, the Nobel Prize winner Ernest Rutherford became the first person to create an artificial nuclear reaction, here in laboratories at the University. To mark the centenary and…

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…

Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 5th of February 2018 - Dr James Suzman - University of Cambridge

16:00 - 18:00 5 February 2018
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 5th February 2018 Dr James Suzman – University of Cambridge Title : Welcoming Back Original Affluent Society Hunter-gatherer studies and along…

Spatters and Lies: Technologies of Truth in the Sam Sheppard Case, 1954-1965

16:00 - 17:30 6 February 2018
CCCJ Seminar Programme 2017/18 (in collaboration with Methods@Manchester) In this talk I focus on the contrasting forensic regimes involved in the celebrated 1955 trial and 1965…

Dr Gustavo Carvajal (Universidad Finis Terrae): ‘Indigenous People in Recent Chilean Cinema: Patricio Guzmán's El Botón de Nácar’

17:00 - 18:30 7 February 2018
Location: Arthur Lewis Boardroom (2nd Floor)

Letting off steam: New insights into volatile saturation and magma degassing

13:00 - 14:00 7 February 2018
Join Madeleine Humphreys from Durham University for her seminar on volatile saturation and magma degassing. Dissolved magmatic gases (volatiles) are one of the most important controls…

ManReg Seminar: Regulating housing tenures after Grenfell

13:15 - 14:15 7 February 2018
Regulating housing tenures after Grenfell Professor Dave Cowan (Bristol University) and Professor Helen Carr (Kent University). ManReg (Manchester Centre for Regulation, Governance…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 7 February 2018
Zsofia Toth, University of Nottingham and Jan Dul, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA) – Underlying logic, data analysis approach and potential synergies…

Sociology seminar 7th Feb 2-3pm Dr Rob Meckin

14:00 - 15:00 7 February 2018
You are warmly invited to the first Sociology Seminar of 2018, to be given by Dr Robert Meckin. Title: Embodied and situated engagement with possibilities: anticipating biotechnological…

“Nuclear Weapons: Mishaps, Mistakes and Madness” A Politics talk by Bryan Kelly, CND Peace Education

13:00 - 14:00 7 February 2018
There will be a talk on nuclear politics by a visiting speaker on 7 February. “Nuclear Weapons: Mishaps, Mistakes and Madness” A Politics talk by Bryan Kelly, CND Peace Education…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr. Peter Oakes and Dr. Todd Klutz (Manchester): CBS Project Committee Meeting: Discussion of Collaborative Projects for Funded Research Bids

14:00 - 16:00 8 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…

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