Exhibitions, Lecture

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,…

Alvar Aalto’s Elective Affinities

14:00 - 15:00 8 March 2018
The lecture "Alvar Aalto’s Elective Affinities" mines how Alvar Aalto’s architecture and its international reception were impacted by the circulation of photographs, publications, and…

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…

CTIS Seminar: David Katan, "Stealth Translation: A Blueprint for More Accessible Translation"

14:00 - 15:30 8 March 2018
The Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies seminar series brings researchers from across the UK and Europe to the University of Manchester to present on their work. These…

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…

MARG Lecture Series: Elective Affinities, Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen

14:00 - 15:30 8 March 2018
Find out more about this lecture at: http://hummedia.manchester.ac.uk/institutes/mui/marg/events/architecture_of_the_land.pdf

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…

Future Dams Lecture with Michael Hanemann: Why the economics of water are so hard

12:00 - 13:30 9 March 2018
The Future Dams project is pleased to present Professor Michael Hanemann, Arizona State University to discuss why the economics of water are so hard. Economists typically analyse water…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Pierpaolo Antonello, 'Bruno Munari’s Peritextual Playground'

17:00 - 19:00 12 March 2018
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED This event is part of CIDRAL's 2017/18 programme, The Constraints of Creativity Dr Pierpaolo Antonello (Reader in Italian Literature and Culture, St…

EAC Research Seminar: Andrew Leong (Northwestern), 'Race / Money / Literature: Japanese Poetic Forms and the Anglo-American Gold Standard'

17:00 - 18:30 12 March 2018
EAC Research Seminar: Andrew Leong (Northwestern), 'Race / Money / Literature: Japanese Poetic Forms and the Anglo-American Gold Standard.' The lecture will take place on 12 March at 5pm in Sam Alex A7. All welcome!

EAC Research Seminar: Andrew Leong (Northwestern), 'Race / Money / Literature: Japanese Poetic Forms and the Anglo-American Gold Standard'

CIDRAL Roundtable: Pierpaolo Antonello, 'From Futurism to Arte di Stato: The Aesthetics of Politics and The Politics of Aesthetics'

13:30 - 15:30 13 March 2018
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. This event is part of CIDRAL's 2017/18 programme, The Constraints of Creativity Dr Pierpaolo Antonello (Reader in Italian Literature and Culture, St…

Professorial Inaugural Lecture: Daniela Caselli

17:00 - 18:30 14 March 2018
(EAC) Professorial Inaugural Lecture: Daniela Caselli, 'The Modernist Child' 5pm, Sam Alex Lecture Theatre

CTIS Seminar: Rosario Martín Ruano, "Legal Translation and the Challenges of Recognition"

14:00 - 15:30 15 March 2018
The Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies seminar series brings researchers from across the UK and Europe to the University of Manchester to present on their work. These…

Lovell Lecture: Professor Matthew Cobb

19:30 - 21:00 15 March 2018
Is there Life on Mars? (or anywhere else apart from Earth) by Professor Matthew Cobb Join the University of Manchester’s Professor Matthew Cobb at our Spring lecture and discover if…

Confucius Institute Talk: The Great Industrial Revolution of China

15:00 - 16:30 16 March 2018
The rise of China is no doubt one of the most important events in world economic history since the Industrial Revolution. Mainstream economics, especially the institutional theory of…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Michelle M. Wright, 'Temporal Tyrannies: Linear Time and the Black Subject'

17:00 - 19:00 19 March 2018
This event is part of CIDRAL's 2017/18 programme, The Constraints of Creativity Michelle M. Wright (Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Professor of English, Emory University), will deliver…

EAC Research Seminar and CIDRAL Lecture: Michelle M. Wright (Emory) 'Temporal Tyrannies: Linear Time and the Black Subject'

17:00 - 18:30 19 March 2018
Michelle M. Wright (Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Professor of English, Emory University) will present a lecture entitled 'Temporal Tyrannies: Linear Time and the Black Subject.' The…

EAC Research Seminar: 'Temporal Tyrannies: Linear Time and the Black Subject', Michelle M. Wright (Emory)

17:00 - 18:30 19 March 2018
EAC Research Seminar: 'Temporal Tyrannies: Linear Time and the Black Subject', Michelle M. Wright, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Professor of English (Emory) 5pm, Sam Alex A113, All…

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