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,…

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.…

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…

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…

Professor Robert Stainton - An Anscombian Reference for 'I'

16:00 - 18:00 22 May 2018
Robert Stainton, Distinguished University Professor at the University of Western Ontario, will be giving a talk to the Mind & Language Research Group 4-6pm Tuesday 22 May in HBS 2.53.…

Still Spirits

18 May - 30 June 2018
Drawings by artist EJ Lance of the cephalopod (octopus and squid) spirit collection in the Study.

Sociology Seminar - Dr Jacopo Galimberti, 23rd May 2-3pm ALB

14:00 - 15:00 23 May 2018
You are warmly invited to the final Sociology seminar of this academic year which will be given by Dr Jacopo Galimberti, Sociology, SoSS. The seminar will take place on Wednesday,…

CoDE Seminar- Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life, Marcus Hunter and Zandria Robinson

13:00 - 15:00 24 May 2018
Join us for this event, which is part of the CoDE Seminar Series. We will be joined by Professor Marcus Hunter from the department of African American Studies at UCLA and Professor…

Good Grief: Historical Perspectives on the Regulation of Mourning

10:30 - 16:30 25 May 2018
10.30-11am Tea/Coffee (Foyer) 11-11.50am Grief-Stricken: Medical and Psychological Models of Mourning Naomi Baker (Manchester), Mourning Sickness: Is Grief a Disease? Lesel Dawson…

The Art of Volunteering

25 May - 23 September 2018
Our volunteers take over the Collections Centre with The Art of Volunteering, a project which explores the breadth of the Whitworth's collections, of over 60,000 works. The exhibition…

CMI Afternoon Seminar: Grouped functional time series forecasting method for multiple sub-populations

15:00 - 16:30 29 May 2018
Associate Professor Han Lin Shang, Associate Professor of Statistics, Australian National University Abstract: Age-specific mortality rates are often disaggregated by different attributes,…

Tom Whittaker (Warwick University), ‘'Deviant speed: Mapping la Ruta del Bakalao'

13:30 - 15:00 30 May 2018
Part of the Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies seminar series.

CMI Afternoon Seminar: Understanding human behaviour and wellbeing with online photographs

15:00 - 16:15 5 June 2018
Dr Suzy Moat, University of Warwick Abstract: Our global society is now uploading increasing volumes of photographs to the Internet, creating vast quantities of data on where we are…

Age, Health and Professional Drivers

13:00 - 16:00 7 June 2018
The transport and logistics sector in the UK is experiencing a rise in their workforce average age. The work that professional drivers do can be detrimental to health, and health and…

Power to the People: Manchester Stands Up!

14:00 - 16:00 7 June 2018
Join us to discover items from our collection of those who wanted change; from Peterloo to the Suffragettes. Free, no need to book, just drop in. Suitable for 14 yrs and above.Power to the People: Manchester Stands Up!

Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Domain Seminar with Professor Christos Pantelis

12:00 - 14:00 8 June 2018
World leading psychiatrist, Professor Christos Pantelis (University of Melbourne), will discuss 'Trajectories of Brain Change in Psychosis: Impact of Risk and Resilience Factors' The…

Centre for Biostatistics Seminar

14:00 11 June 2018
Title: Application/Applicability of Marginal Structural Models (MSMs) to irregular healthcare data The uptake of Marginal Structural Models (MSMs) as a methodological alternative for…

HSRC Seminar - Managers, Medics and Manchester: The History of the NHS Administrative Training Scheme

13:30 - 14:30 11 June 2018
In Britain Ministers are, at least in theory, democratically accountable for the successful running of the National Health Service (NHS). The NHS is centrally-funded and universal.…

HSRC Seminar - Resilience, Relationships, and Retention in Times of Transition

12:00 - 13:30 11 June 2018
Resilience, Relationships, and Retention in Times of Transition: NHS leaders and service reorganisation, and first-year management students adjusting to university life The concept…

CMI Afternoon Seminar: Synthetic data in Scotland and beyond: lessons learned and future directions

15:00 - 16:30 12 June 2018
Dr Beata Nowok, Longitudinal Studies Centre Scotland Abstract: Confidentiality constraints severely restrict access to unique and valuable microdata in many contexts. Synthetic data…

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