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Age Friendly: Handmade

14:00 12 January - 16:00 13 July 2018
Sociable craft workshops, produced by and for older people in partnership with Age Friendly Manchester Fridays (Except during school holidays), 2pm - 4pm. Booking essential. Free …

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.…

Bike Registration Event

12:30 - 13:30 19 March 2018
Free Bike Marking session - To qualify for a discounted 'D' lock students and staff must register their bikes on the University scheme. LOCKS MUST BE BOUGHT THROUGH THE UNIVERSITY'S…

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…

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…

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…

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…

English Corner

10:30 6 October 2017 - 12:00 31 May 2019
Fourth Friday of each month 10.30am–12pm Monthly conversation classes for people who are learning to speak English. Free, no need to book

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…

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