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…

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…

CMI Afternoon Seminar: Dynamic Bayesian Adjustment of Anticipatory (Current-time) Covariates: Disentangling Causation and Misclassification - Prof Gebrenegus Ghilagaber

15:00 - 16:15 23 October 2018
Speaker: Professor Gebrenegus Ghilagaber, Head of the Department of Statistics, Stockholm University, Sweden Abstract: Anticipatory covariates, such as educational level and social…

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…

HCRI Research Series: 10 Years of HCRI, Eric Lepp & Jenny Chapman

16:00 - 18:00 23 October 2018
HCRI celebrates its 10 year anniversary with a rich programme of events. Join us for our research seminar series featuring current and alumni colleagues, and current and alumni postgraduate…

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…

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…

CI Film Club

15:00 24 October 2018
We are holding our Film Club, one of our intercultural activities for students once again from October! The club is providing a platform for students to engage in inter-cultural discussions…

Dr. James Scorer (U. of Manchester): 'Mediocre Painter and Naïve Leftist?: Ciro Bustos and the Sketches of Che Guevara's Guerrillas'

17:00 - 18:30 24 October 2018
Joint event by the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at Manchester.

External Seminar: 'From cells to vessels: a versatile phase-field approach' -- Maurício Moreira-Soares

13:00 - 14:00 24 October 2018
Visiting speaker in the School of Biological Sciences, title and abstract below. From cells to vessels: a versatile phase-field approach. Maurício Moreira-Soares (University of Coimbra,…

High Resolution Modelling of Volcanic and Industrial Atmospheric Plumes

13:00 - 14:00 24 October 2018
Our speaker is Professor Stephen Mobbs from the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS). The National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS), is a NERC research centre distributed…

Mitchell centre seminar series

16:00 24 October 2018
Ana Oliveira, ISCTE-IUL DINÂMIA'CET - IUL and IS-UP Do it together again: networks, flows and spaces in the creation of music careers in the Portuguese independent scene This project…

CTIS Seminar: Translation in Museums: A Geosemiotic Analysis

14:00 25 October 2018
Multimodality has received considerable critical attention in translation studies over the last decades. However, how translations interact with or within three-dimensional material…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Five Minute Papers by Prospective Contributors to the Centre for Biblical Studies’ Project entitled Love, Boundaries and Sacred Texts"

14:00 - 16:00 25 October 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…

Giovanni Mastrobuoni (Essex, Collegio Carlo Alberto)

13:00 - 14:15 25 October 2018
Applied Economics Seminar

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr. Carl Kilcourse (MMU), “Instruments of God or Blasphemous Impostors? Protestant Missionaries and Their Changing Perceptions of the Taiping Rebels, 1852-62”

16:00 - 17:30 25 October 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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