Exhibitions, Lecture

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,…

Lovell Lecture: Professor Ben Stappers

19:30 - 21:00 20 September 2018
Fast Radio Bursts: Extragalactic Radio Emission of Unknown Origin Professor Ben Stappers In 2007 Astronomers discovered a very bright burst of radio emission which lasted just a few…

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…

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…

Schuster Colloquium: From the Cosmic Dawn to the Epoch of Reionization: a Radio Quest for Neutral Hydrogen in the Infant Universe

14:30 26 September 2018
Abstract: Detection of the redshifted 21-cm signal of neutral hydrogen from the Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionization (EoR) promises a new avenue to study physical processes of early…

Who owns online teaching materials? (Teaching Online Workshop Series)

13:00 - 14:00 1 October 2018
Why bother? You create course materials, examination questions, videos... You may be using Intellectual Property (IP) belonging to others. You want to know what the University owns,…

Digital Trust & Security Guest Lecture Series - Debi Ashenden

13:00 - 14:30 3 October 2018
Social Loafing: Why Good People Breach Security And What To Do About It There is a category of insider threat that has so far been under explored. This is the ‘everyday insider threat’,…

GDI Lecture with Indrajit Roy: Dignifying development: Democratic deepening in an Indian State

16:30 - 18:00 3 October 2018
The Global Development Institute Lecture Series is pleased to present Dr Indrajit Roy, Department of Politics, the University of York to discuss "Dignifying development: Democratic…

Prof Tony Kiss Inaugural Lecture and Wine Reception

15:00 - 17:30 5 October 2018
The Inaugural Lecture of Professor Tony Kiss (followed by wine reception in B Floor, Renold Building) Driving sustainable innovation in chemical engineering Abstract The modern society…

The Future of Europe: an EU that empowers and protects

17:30 - 19:00 5 October 2018
The Manachester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Annual Lecture 2018/19 One of the European Commission’s most senior officials, Mr. Margaritis Schinas, is visiting the University of…

We are 11: Stanley Grove Primary Academy

6 October 2018 - 5 January 2019
This exhibition has been boldly curated by the children of Stanley Grove Primary Academy. Over the past year, 11 lead curators have selected works from the Whitworth’s collection that…

How to rig an election (and get away with it) - Prof Nic Cheeseman

16:30 - 18:00 8 October 2018
Nic Cheeseman, Professor of Democracy at the University of Birmingham and the author of How to Rig an Election Contrary to what is commonly believed, authoritarian leaders who agree…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Paul Warde: 'The Invention of Sustainability, 1500-1870: The Early Modern History of a Modern Idea'

16:00 - 18:00 10 October 2018
This event is part of CIDRAL's 2018 Autumn Programme. Dr Paul Warde (Reader in Environmental History, University of Cambridge) will deliver a public lecture entitled 'The Invention…

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