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…

Encoding Mechanical Information through multimolecular structures: Lessons from Directed Cell Migration

10:00 - 11:00 28 February 2018
Interactions between cells and their mechanical environment is a critical regulator of important physiological functions that gets hijacked in diseases such as cancer. One such function…

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…

Making Sense of Brexit – The Political and Policy Implications for the UK’s Devolved Administrations

14:00 - 15:00 28 February 2018
Making Sense of Brexit – The Political and Policy Implications for the UK’s Devolved Administrations

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 28 February 2018
Lukas Norbutas, Utrecht University Trust on the Dark Web. Investigating the emergence of trust in online drug marketplaces. What is the role of trust in illegal online marketplaces…

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…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof. Bernard Jackson (Liverpool Hope/Manchester), "Ruth and Ezra-Nehemiah in Dialogue"

14:00 - 16:00 1 March 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 "Virtuous banking: ‘economical reform’ at the late 18th-century Bank of England"

16:15 - 17:30 1 March 2018
History Research Seminar presented by Dr. Anne Murphy (Hertfordshire): “Virtuous banking: ‘economical reform’ at the late 18th-century Bank of England”

Homelessness in late life: Growing old on the streets, in shelter, and long-term care

12:30 - 14:00 1 March 2018
This talk focuses on findings from a four ethnographic year study of homelessness among older people in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The study was carried out in the context of rising…

Samuel Ferguson Lecture: Prof. John Milbank (Nottingham), "Theology and the Idea of a University"

16:00 - 17:30 1 March 2018
The Religions & Theology endowed annual lecture. Inaugurated in 1976, the annual Samuel Ferguson Lecture provides an opportunity for a senior theologian to present on a theological…

Rutherford's Manchester: the birthplace of nuclear physics

13:00 - 14:00 3 March 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…

Please note this seminar has been postponed until further notice - Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 5th March 2018

16:00 - 18:00 5 March 2018
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 5th March 2018 Please note this seminar has been postponed until further notice Many thanks Val

CIDRAL Theory Intensive: Alexia Yates on Karl Polanyi: ‘Polanyi: On Markets and their Limits’

15:00 - 16:30 6 March 2018
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. This event is part of CIDRAL's programme for the 2017/18 academic year, 'Constraints of Creativity'. Alexia Yates (University of Manchester) will lead…

Josep Pijoan-Mas (CEMFI)

16:15 - 17:45 6 March 2018
Title: Investment and Development

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 7 March 2018
Angela Mae Minas, Sarah Mander and Patricia Thornley, from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, School of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Civil Engineering and the University…

BBC Civilisations Event: What is Civilisation today? - Thursday Lates

18:00 - 18:45 8 March 2018
In 1969, standing in front of the Notre Dame Cathedral, Kenneth Clark posed the question: “What is civilisation?” His answer: “I don’t know. I can’t define it. But I think I can recognise…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Caroline Kaye (MMU), "William Holman Hunt’s The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple (1860): Biblical Interpretation and Protestant Aesthetics"

14:00 - 16:00 8 March 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…

HSRC/CHISTM/UKAHN Joint Seminar with Cynthia Connolly: The Child as Scientific Problem - and Business Opportunity

12:00 - 13:30 9 March 2018
The Child as Scientific Problem—and Business Opportunity: Paediatric Drug Policy in the United States, 1933-1979 The issues embedded in discussions of children and drug safety and…

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