Exhibitions, Seminar

Alison Wilding

16 February - 12 August 2018
Turner Prize nominee and Royal Academician Alison Wilding presents works spanning the past 20 years of her career. This new show at the Whitworth will comprise of three major sculptures,…

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…

HCRI Research Seminar Series - “Charitable Donations to Disaster Victims: Case Studies from Nineteenth-Century Scandinavia”

16:30 - 18:00 19 February 2018
The HCRI Research Seminar Series is open to HCRI staff and students, and other University of Manchester colleagues and students for whom the topic of the seminar is relevant. Andrew…

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…

Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 19th of February 2018 Professor Erdmute Alber – University of Bayreuth

16:00 - 18:00 19 February 2018
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 19th February 2018 Professor Erdmute Alber – University of Bayreuth The Invention Of Kinship In Colonial West Africa Critical debates on the…

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…

Assessing the Harms of Crime: Rationale, Methodology, Findings & Policy Uses

16:30 - 17:30 20 February 2018
CCCJ Seminar Programme 2017/18 (in collaboration with Methods@Manchester) No concept, other than that of crime itself, arguably plays such a central role in so many realms of penal…

CoDE Seminar- Emma Jackson

13:00 - 14:00 20 February 2018
Join us for this event, which is part of the CoDE Seminar Series. Emma Jackson is an urban sociologist and ethnographer at Goldsmiths University of London. Emma will be speaking on…

Zsofia Barany (Sciences Po)

16:15 - 17:45 20 February 2018
Title: Biased Technological Change and Employment Reallocation

A Psychosocial Intervention to Improve Outcomes in Parkinsonian Dementias

13:00 - 16:00 21 February 2018
Seminar 2pm - 4 pm, free networking lunch from 1pm St Peters House Auditorium People with Parkinson’s disease are 20 – 40% more likely to develop dementia compared to…

Critical Global Politics Cluster Seminars Semester 2, 2017-2018 - Wed 21 Feb - Roger Mac Ginty (University of Manchester)

15:30 - 17:00 21 February 2018
Wednesday, Feb 21, 3.30-5 ALB G30/31 Roger Mac Ginty (University of Manchester) Connecting the home and the international: Circuitry as an analytical tool Description : To be advised

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