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…

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,…

CIDRAL Masterclass: Michelle M. Wright, 'Meet Me in Paris: Epiphenomenal Spacetimes and Postwar Blackness'

12:00 - 14:00 19 March 2018
This event, co-organised by English, American Studies and Creative Writing and CIDRAL, is part of CIDRAL's 2017/18 programme, The Constraints of Creativity Michelle M. Wright (Augustus…

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 - Decolonising Intervention: International Statebuilding in Mozambique

16:30 - 18:00 19 March 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. Meera…

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…

methods@manchester seminar: Ethno Science Fiction: Projective Improvisation of Future Scenarios in Ethnographic Film

13:00 - 14:00 19 March 2018
The talk will draw on the findings from ethnographic fieldwork research and film-making in Yorkshire, to suggest how ethno science fiction can be used as an ethnographic method by combining…

MIOIR Seminar: Tim Foxon, SPRU - Energy and Economic Growth: Why we need a new pathway to prosperity

12:30 - 14:00 19 March 2018
The Manchester Institute of Innovation Research runs a series of regular seminars given by visiting speakers to Manchester, discussing key issues in science, technology and innovation…

Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 19th March 2018 Professor Deborah James – The London School of Economics and Political Science

16:00 - 18:00 19 March 2018
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 19th March 2018 Professor Deborah James – LSE Department of Anthropology Unravelling And Reconfiguring Dependency In Austerity Britain The reliance…

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.…

CoDE Seminar- Sivamohan Valluvan

13:00 - 14:00 20 March 2018
Join us for this event, which is part of the CoDE Seminar Series. Valluvan joined Warwick Sociology as an Assistant Professor in 2018, having previously worked at the University of…

Howard Kung (London Business School)

16:15 - 17:45 20 March 2018
Title: TBA

Christopher Bannister (University of Manchester), (title tbc)

17:00 - 18:30 21 March 2018
Part of the Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies seminar series.

Critical Global Politics Cluster Seminars Semester 2, 2017-2018 - Wednesday 21st of March - Cristina Masters - University of Manchester

15:30 - 17:00 21 March 2018
Wednesday, March 21 3.30-5pm ALB G30/31 Cristina Masters (University of Manchester) Embodiments that trouble: American and British Muslim women and everyday experiences…

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