Exhibitions, Seminar

A Rubbish Night at the Museum

10:00 19 April - 17:00 5 May 2018
If you care about the rubbish in the streets of Greater Manchester, come along and see an exhibition of nearly 100 displays by artists, photographers, researchers, companies, community…

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.…

CoDE Seminar- Brett St Louis

13:00 - 14:00 24 April 2018
Join us for this event, which is part of the CoDE Seminar Series. Brett St Louis is Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Title: Post-millennial local whiteness:…

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…

Exchanges

24 March 2018 - 2 February 2020
Exchanges sets art and artists together, sometimes in harmony, sometimes in opposition – always with insight and intention. In this evolving exhibition, art that has recently been…

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,…

Isaac Julien: Ten Thousand Waves

30 March - 28 August 2018
Ten Thousand Waves is the most recent in a series of major moving image acquisitions by the Whitworth and was supported through Art Fund’s Moving Image Fund. Rooted in the Morecambe…

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: Object Interviews and Elicitations: getting people to talk about things.

13:00 - 14:00 24 April 2018
This talk explores the possibilities of object interviews as a method for carrying out research into material culture, as well as a method adopted more widely as part of the repertoire…

MIOIR Seminar: Machine learning, social learning and responsible innovation for self-driving cars

12:00 - 13:30 24 April 2018
Self-driving cars, a quintessentially ‘smart’ technology, are not born smart. The algorithms that control their movements are learning as the technology emerges. Self-driving cars represent…

Nature Through Roman Eyes

10:00 6 April - 17:00 30 October 2018
Nature Through Roman Eyes is inspired by the work of Roman writer Pliny the Elder. His Natural History – a 37 book encyclopaedia of the ancient world - covers every subject from astronomy…

Rachel Ngai (LSE)

16:15 - 17:45 24 April 2018
Title: TBA

Why Charts Matter

15:00 - 16:30 24 April 2018
Alan Smith OBE, Data Visualisation Editor at the Financial Times Abstract: The worlds of academia and journalism arguably share one historical publishing trait: the primacy of text…

CIDRAL Theory Intensive: Sarah Roddy on Max Weber: ‘Money and Religion: Revisiting the Protestant Ethic’

10:00 - 12:00 25 April 2018
This event is part of CIDRAL's programme for the 2017/18 academic year, 'Constraints of Creativity'. Sarah Roddy (University of Manchester) will lead a theory intensive for postgraduate…

Dr Karoline Cook (Royal Holloway): 'Recreating “Reconquista” in Family Histories in Seventeenth-Century New Spain'

17:00 - 18:30 25 April 2018
Location: Arthur Lewis Boardroom (2nd Floor)

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 25 April 2018
Pietro Panzarasa, Queen Mary University, London Interdisciplinarity and specialisation: Network perspectives on scientific success As the increasing complexity of large-scale research…

Seminar: Where is British History Now?

17:00 - 19:30 25 April 2018
Where is British History Now? A Seminar Organized by the Modern British History Network with CIDRAL Over the past twenty years intellectual debate, politics and culture have questioned…

The Politics Department - GPE Seminar - Macroprudential Regimes and the Politics of Social Purpose

15:30 - 17:00 25 April 2018
Dear all The next GPE seminar will be on the 25th April. Here are the details. Andrew Baker University of Sheffield Macroprudential Regimes and the Politics of Social Purpose …

Camille Landais (LSE)

16:15 - 17:45 26 April 2018
Title and Abstract: TBC

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr. Katharina Keim (Manchester), "Gaster and the Samaritans"

14:00 - 16:00 26 April 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…

Tumours, translation, trials and tribulations: Developing serum based spectroscopic disease diagnostics

12:00 - 13:00 26 April 2018
Join us for this School of Chemistry research seminar, where Matthew Baker from the University of Strathclyde, will be presenting on developing serum based spectroscopic disease diagnostics.

CoDE Seminar- Matthew Hughey

13:00 1 May 2018
Join us for this event, which is part of the CoDE Seminar Series. Matthew Hughey is tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. Seminar…

Towards a paradigm shift in main group polar organometallic chemistry

14:00 - 15:00 1 May 2018
Join us for this seminar where guest Professor Eva Hevia from the University of Strathclyde will be presenting on her work on main group polar organometallic chemistry.

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