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,…

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…

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…

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…

Still Spirits

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

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…

Environmental management, CSR, and governance in clusters of small firms in developing countries: toward an integrated analytical framework".

16:00 - 17:00 13 June 2018
The Global Production Network, trade and labour research group will be hosting a seminar by Jose Puppim de Oliveira next Wednesday 13th June at 4 p.m. in G0.35/0.36 Arthur Lewis Building…

Examining the link between different tie properties in ego networks (Omar Lizardo)

16:00 - 17:30 13 June 2018
Recent work in social network analysis has examined the theoretical implications of different ways of conceptualizing and measuring the notion of a “social tie.” Scholars have noted…

Four Corners of One Cloth: Textiles from the Islamic World

23 June 2018 - 3 November 2019
A section of a Kiswa will form the heart of the exhibition. The Kiswa cloth covers the Ka’bah and is replaced each year during Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca). Positioned in the direction…

CEAS School Seminar: Dr Parasuraman Selvam

11:00 - 12:00 25 June 2018
"Ordered Nanoporous Materials and Morphologically-controlled Nanomaterials for Sustainable Catalysis" by Dr Parasuraman Selvam from Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai (India).…

MICRA Annual Lecture 2018: Loneliness in later life: social problem, public health problem, or moral panic?

17:30 - 19:00 2 July 2018
Loneliness in later life: social problem, public health problem, or moral panic? MICRA are pleased to announce our 2018 Annual Public Lecture. This will be presented by Professor Christina…

CMB&RM Seminar: Mechanical changes of the cell nucleus in disease and ageing

13:00 - 14:00 6 July 2018
The sequencing of the human genome has provided a wealth of scientific information, but this information is limited by the poor understanding of the mechanisms that control gene expression.…

Prints of Darkness: Goya and Hogarth in a Time of European Turmoil

7 July 2018 - 4 August 2019
Francesco José de Goya Lucientes (1746-1828) and William Hogarth (1647-1764) were the most remarkable artists of their times. Both were famous painters, but their most compelling works…

Centre for Biostatistics Seminar

14:00 - 15:00 9 July 2018
Our next seminar talk is at 2pm on Monday 11 June, in Room G306A. Qian Liu will be speaking. Genetic causal pathways: Mendelian randomization, fine-mapping and colocalization A…

Special seminar: The cardiac microenvironment and the challenges to mend a broken heart

10:00 - 11:00 12 July 2018
“Replacing damaged tissue following a myocardial infarction remains a challenge. Several strategies using gene/cell approaches have been explored in recent years with limited success.…

Disclosing versus concealing a mental health problem at work: what do we know and where do we go from here?

10:00 - 12:00 18 July 2018
Mental health is a growing global concern. Mental health problems represent a significant cost to companies stemming from reduced productivity, absences, and turnover. Despite a notable…

Special seminar: The extracellular matrix in cancer progression and metastasis

13:00 - 14:00 18 July 2018
The extracellular matrix (ECM) is a master regulator of cellular phenotype and behaviour. It plays a critical role in both normal tissue homeostasis and pathological disease progression.…

Non manual intervening and without power outage

09:00 - 10:00 18 August 2018
As part of the EEE research seminar programme Xingliang JIANG will be presenting research on non manual intervening and without power outage. Non Manual Intervening and Without Power…

Seminar - Matrix mechanosensing: From scaling concepts in ’omics data to mechanisms in the nucleus, regeneration, and cancer

13:00 - 14:00 31 August 2018
Many of the most important molecules of life are polymers. In animals, the most abundant of the proteinaceous polymers are the collagens, which constitute the fibrous matrix outside…

Alice Kettle: Thread Bearing Witness

1 September 2018 - 24 February 2019
From the Barberini Tapestries to the Bayeux Tapestry, monumental textiles in the form of large-scale narrative embroideries, weaving and tapestries have been used to illustrate contemporary…

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