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…

CMI Afternoon Seminar: Assume nothing. Benchmarking the numeracy levels of UK social science undergraduates

15:00 - 16:15 16 October 2018
Speaker: Paul Foss, National Numeracy Abstract: Social science undergraduate students typically do not see themselves as requiring data skills. Many new entrants to higher education…

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…

Rumours of a great stone: Archaeological Exploration and Settlement Development at Tell Nabasha

17:00 16 October 2018
Manchester Centre for Archaeology and Egyptology Research Seminar

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…

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…

Departmental Seminar: Dr Catharine Abell

15:00 - 17:00 17 October 2018
Title *Fictional Entities Abstract *Do fictional entities exist? I argue that they do. They are social objects. I draw on theories of social objects to identify their existence and…

DNEP External Seminar Series (Lecture 2) with speaker Professor Mark van Rossum

13:00 - 14:00 17 October 2018
Seminar No. 2 in the DNEP External Seminar Series Your host is Rasmus Petersen and your speaker is Mark van Rossum who will be giving a talk entitled 'Memory consolidation in man and…

How Brits Feel and Think about China, and why: Preliminary Survey Findings - Professor Peter Gries, University of Manchester

16:30 - 18:00 17 October 2018
The Manchester China Institute Evening Seminars Series 2018-2019 Professor Peter Gries Manchester China Institute - University of Manchester Wednesday, 17th October 2018, 4:30-6:00pm…

JMCE Seminar Series 2018-19 SEMESTER I - peaker: Dr. Kathryn Simpson (Manchester Metropolitan University)

14:00 - 17:00 17 October 2018
? Wednesday 17 October 2018, 14:00 @ University Place, 6.206 Speaker: Dr. Kathryn Simpson (Manchester Metropolitan University) Title: Making Sense of Brexit – The Political and Policy…

Making Sense of Brexit: The Political & Policy Implications for the UK’s Devolved Administrations (Dr. Kathryn Simpson - MMU)

14:00 - 15:00 17 October 2018
Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence (JMCE) Seminar

Manchester Centre for Health Psychology Mini-symposium - Reaching previously unreachable populations for cancer prevention: creative strategies from two CRUK-funded studies

10:30 - 13:30 17 October 2018
Colleagues in the School of Health Sciences are invited to a half-day seminar on 17th October. The aim of the event is to disseminate and discuss our recently completed CRUK-funded…

Mitchell centre seminar series

16:00 17 October 2018
Carl Nordlund, Institute for Analytical Sociology, Linköping University The anatomy of integration: mapping the networks of inter-ethnic family formations in Sweden, 1968-2012 Looking…

CoDE Seminar: #YourAverageMuslim: Ruptural Geopolitics of Muslim Women and Labour Activity in the British Cultural Industries

12:00 - 13:00 18 October 2018
Muslima lifestyle media and fashion are reshaping global media, leisure and recreation, and creating new spaces of identification and belonging in predominantly Western-liberal societies.…

Manson Memorial Lecture: Prof Francis Watson (Durham), "What to Do with Judas: Some Early Proposals"

14:00 - 16:00 18 October 2018
The Centre for Biblical Studies endowed annual lectureship. T.W. Manson was Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis at Manchester from 1936 until his death in 1958. Each…

Prof Kilian Muniz Seminar, title to be confirmed

14:00 - 17:00 18 October 2018
Seminar by Prof Kilian Muniz from Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia

Thilo Huning (York)

13:00 - 14:15 18 October 2018
How Britain Unified Germany: Endogenous Trade Costs, and the Formation of a Customs Union Abstract: We analyze the foundation of the German Zollverein as an example how geography…

‘The Judeo-Masonic-Bolshevik Conspiracy in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939,’ History Research Seminar: Dr. Christopher Bannister

16:15 - 17:30 18 October 2018
Christopher Bannister (Manchester) ‘The Judeo-Masonic-Bolshevik Conspiracy in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939’ followed by a comment by Mercedes Peñalba-Sotorrío (Manchester Metropolitan University).

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Ammara Maqsood - Anthropology, UCL

16:00 - 18:00 22 October 2018
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 22nd of October 2018 Dr Ammara Maqsood University College London The social life of rumors: uncertainty in everyday encounters between the military,…

Centre for Primary Care Seminar Series: Dr Ben Brown 'Using Theory to Optimise Clinical Performance Feedback'

13:00 - 14:00 23 October 2018
Centre for Primary Care, Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care Seminar Series Dr Benjamin Brown - Centre for Health Informatics / Centre for Primary…

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