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…

Cultural Relics: Reconstructing Buddhist Monasteries in the early PRC - Dr Gregory Scott, University of Manchester

12:00 - 14:00 30 October 2018
The Manchester China Institute Lunch Time Seminars Series 2018-2019 Dr Gregory Scott Lecturer in Chinese Culture and History- University of Manchester Tuesday 30th October 2018,…

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,…

Lessons from the smoldering ashes - three TSPO ligands, one post-mortem cohort, one result?

29 October - 8 November 2018
Next in the DNEP External Seminar Series - seminar by Dr. Cornelius Dornat, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Centre for Blast Injury Studies, Imperial College London. Wednesday…

Mind & Language Seminar with Hili Razinsky

14:00 - 16:00 30 October 2018
Hili Razinsky, 'Ambivalence'. Abstract: Ambivalence characterises a person as having two opposing attitudes: she maintains both and each is maintained by her as standing in conflict…

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…

Peter Bitterman Special Seminar "Fibrogenic progenitor cells in a fibrogenic matrix: Partners in progressive fibrosis"

11:00 - 12:00 30 October 2018
Special seminar hosted by Wellcome Cell-Matrix Centre

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…

CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar: 'Creative Economy'

10:00 - 12:00 31 October 2018
This event is part of CIDRAL's Autumn 2018 programme. Ismail Ertürk (Senior Lecturer, Alliance Manchester Business School) will lead a Key Ideas seminar on the Creative Economy. Creative…

Departmental Seminar: Dr Samuel Lebens (Haifa)

15:15 - 17:00 31 October 2018
Title *The Paradox of the Preface, Wittgenstein's Ladder, and Negative Theology Abstract *A number of theologians are committed to God's being, in some important sense, beyond description.…

Rivers, faults and landscape change in Western Turkey

13:00 - 14:00 31 October 2018
Our speaker is Dr Sarah Boulton from the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Plymouth. Understanding the landscape response to external drivers…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof Stefan Reif (Jerusalem/Cambridge): "Attitudes to Non-Jews Reflected in Old Jewish Prayer Books"

14:00 - 16:00 1 November 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…

Myths and Methods: Creative Approaches to Researching Arts and Cultural Policy

10:00 - 21:00 1 November 2018
Please join us on a one-day interdisciplinary workshop on creative methods for researching the cultural sector, on 1 November at the University of Manchester. This event brings together…

Place, Belonging, Manchester

11:00 - 16:00 3 November 2018
Place, Belonging, Manchester Significant stories from Manchester and Beyond A photo and story collection by Amy Barron and the people of Prestwich Amy Barron, an PhD researcher in…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Emiko Saldivar - UC California, Santa Barbara

16:00 - 18:00 5 November 2018
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 5th of November 2018 Dr Emiko Saldivar University of California, Santa Barbara Mestizaje Reloaded: Racial politics after the Multicultural turn…

Doing Visual Sociology: Case Studies from the Grave - Lunchtime Seminar

13:00 - 14:00 6 November 2018
Doing Visual Sociology: Case Studies from the Grave What is Visual Sociology and how do we practice it? In this seminar we will consider the use of photography as part of a visual…

HCRI Research Series: 10 Years of HCRI, Catherine Arthur & Anna Vainio

16:00 - 18:00 6 November 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…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Robert J.Gordon - "THe Gluckman Enigma"

17:00 - 20:00 6 November 2018
Social Anthropology Lecture THE ENIGMA OF MAX GLUCKMAN Tuesday, 6th of November 2018 By Professor Robert Gordon Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and African Studies, University…

Uphill Battles: Conceptualising communities in the Zagros-Mesoptamian interface

17:00 6 November 2018
Manchester Centre for Archaeology and Egyptology Research Seminar

CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar with Daniel Everett:'‘A Survey of the Semiotic Progression Towards Language in the Archaeological and Physiological Records'

13:00 - 15:00 7 November 2018
This event is part of CIDRAL's Autumn 2018 programme. Daniel Everett (Professor of Global Studies and Sociology, Bentley University) will lead a CIDRAL Key Ideas seminar entitled 'A…

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