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.…

CMI Afternoon Seminar: Negotiating Digital Rights - Public Attitudes on Online Privacy and Targeting, at Home and at Work

15:00 - 16:30 1 May 2018
Professor Ariadne Vromen, University of Sydney Ariadne Vromen is Professor of Political Sociology in the Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney…

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…

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…

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…

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.

American Studies Seminar with Ivy Wilson (Northwestern)

12:00 - 14:00 2 May 2018
An interactive lunchtime seminar with Ivy Wilson. Dr Wilson will lead a discussion, in preparation for which it would be helpful to read Kodwo Eshun's article “Further Considerations…

Centre for Social Ethics and Policy: Biomedical Jurisprudence PGR Work in Progress

10:00 - 13:00 2 May 2018
Programme: 10:00 Ed Horowicz (Year 2 BMJ) - Gender Identity of Children and Conditions Relating to Sexual Health within the ICD-11: Lessons to Learn from an Intersex Perspective 10:45…

Critical Global Politics Cluster Seminars Semester 2, 2017-2018 - Wednesday May the 2nd - Lauren Wilcox - University of Cambridge

15:30 - 17:00 2 May 2018
Wednesday, May 2 3.30-5 ALB G30/31 Lauren Wilcox University of Cambridge War Beyond the Human

From atoms to planets: Understanding planetary magnetic records using multiscale and multidimensional microscopy

13:00 - 14:00 2 May 2018
Join us for this School of Earth and Environmental Sciences research seminar with guest speaker Joshua F Einsle. Traditional paleomagnetism focuses on the measurement and characterisation…

Geography Department Research Seminar: Dr Murray Gray (School of Geography, Queen Mary University of London)

16:00 - 17:30 2 May 2018
Geography Department Research Seminar Geodiversity and its role in geosystem services, geoconservation and other ‘geos’ Dr Murray Gray (School of Geography, Queen Mary University…

Morgan Centre seminar: 'Temporal atmospheres: the micro-politics of power at Smithfield Market, London'

14:00 - 16:00 2 May 2018
Speaker: Monica Degen (Brunel) and Camilla Lewis (Manchester) Exploring the changing feel of place, this paper offers a detailed account of the micro-politics of power at Smithfield…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Joshua Bloor (Nazarene Theological College/MWRC), "he Picture of Dorian Gray: Cosmological Defilement in Hebrews 9:23"

14:00 - 16:00 3 May 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 ‘Senses at the Altar: Affect, Touch, and Memory in Late Medieval Liturgical Practice’

16:15 - 17:30 3 May 2018
History Research Seminar presented by Dr. Matthew Champion (Birkbeck): “Virtuous banking: ‘economical reform’ at the late 18th-century Bank of England”

History Seminar: Postgraduate Research Showcase

16:15 - 17:30 3 May 2018
Sihong Lin – The Empire Strikes Back: Byzantine Diplomacy in the Age of Constans II (641–668) Tom Wroblewski – Symptoms of demonic possession in early modern England Xuan Zhao – Cameralism,…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr. Frances Knight (Nottingham), "From City to Garden City: Religion and the City in the Victorian and Edwardian Age"

16:00 - 17:30 3 May 2018
The Religions & Theology research seminar takes place on alternate Thursdays. These seminars are free with no registration required. Seminars last 90 minutes including a 30 minute Q&A session.

Rodrigo Cacho (University of Cambridge): ‘Locating Early Modern Spanish American Poetry’

16:30 - 18:00 3 May 2018
Part of the Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies seminar series.

Bodies of Colour: Breaking With Stereotypes in the Wallpaper Collection

4 May 2018 - 28 April 2019
This latest exhibition uses the Whitworth’s extensive and significant wallpaper collection to focus on how Imperial attitudes to people are reflected in wallpaper. The wallpapers in…

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