Exhibitions, Seminar

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

Illicit drug user support, stigma and urban effects: debating injecting and consumption rooms in South Western Sydney

13:00 - 14:30 11 September 2018
The wide consumption of illicit drugs such as heroin and crystal methamphetamine results in ongoing division about whether these practices are criminal law or public health matters.…

Seminar - Lymphocytes: function and migration in complex environment

12:00 - 13:00 11 September 2018
Leukocytes are immune cells that move through the whole organism for protection against pathogens. Although all mammalian cells require integrins to migrate on 2D, observations in 3D…

Centre for Biological Timing Seminar – Professor Seth Blackshaw

14:30 - 15:30 14 September 2018
The Centre for Biological welcomes Professor Seth Blackshaw from Johns Hopkins University, who will be speaking on 'Building the hypothalamus: from cells to circuits' All are welcome.

Ray Boot-Handford retirement seminar

16:00 - 18:00 14 September 2018
Ray Boot-Handford recently retired from the University of Manchester and will give a talk on his career and it's many highlights. His seminar will be followed by celebratory drinks in the Smith lounge.

Politics CPPI and Democracy & Elections Seminar - Prof Francesca Gains

16:00 - 17:30 19 September 2018
Wednesday, September 19, 2018 ‘Tackling Violence Against Women: Gender, Actors and Institutions at The Local Level’ Prof. Francesca Gains 4:00 - 5:30pm, Hanson Room (HumBridge…

William Kentridge: Thick Time

21 September 2018 - 3 March 2019
South African artist William Kentridge weaves together global histories of revolution, exile and utopian aspirations, exploring how they are shaped by the creative forces of memory…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Juan del Nido - Uber and What The People Want: The Populist Persuasion of Algorithmic Reason

16:00 - 18:00 24 September 2018
When Uber arrived in Buenos Aires in 2016, middle class urbanites understood the labor of its algorithms through a realpolitik of empowerment and popular expertise. A rhetoric of “What…

Departmental Seminar: Dr Stephen Ingram

15:00 - 17:00 26 September 2018
Title *Moral Intuitionism and the Cooperative A Priori Abstract *The non-naturalist moral realist must explain how moral beliefs can be epistemically justified, for they take the truths…

Mitchell centre seminar series

16:00 26 September 2018
Nick Crossley, University of Manchester Exploring and Explaining a Two-Mode Core/Periphery Structure in a Musicking Network In this presentation I will discuss two studies, both substantively…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof Paul Middleton (Chester), "The ‘Noble Death’ of Judas Iscariot: Reconsidering Suicide in the Bible and Early Christianity "

14:00 - 16:00 27 September 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…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr. Andrew Crome (MMU), “Cosplay in the Pulpit and Ponies at Prayer: Christian Faith and Lived Religion in Fan Culture”

16:00 - 17:30 27 September 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.

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