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…

CGP Seminar with Roberta Holanda Maschietto: Grasping subjectivities of power in the analysis of peacebuilding

13:30 - 15:00 7 November 2018
Roberta Holanda Maschietto (University of Coimbra) speaks on grasping subjectivities of power in the analysis of peacebuilding. Roberta Holanda Maschietto is a post-doctoral researcher…

CI Film Club

15:00 7 November 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…

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…

D&E Cluster Roundtable: Applying for postdoctoral fellowships and grants

15:30 - 17:00 7 November 2018
Join Prof. Ed Fieldhouse, Dr. Rosie Shorrocks and Prof. Maria Sobolewska for a round-table event on applying for postdoctoral fellowships and grants. This event is aimed at early career…

Departmental Seminar: Professor Stephen Gardiner (University of Washington)

15:15 - 17:00 7 November 2018
Title *Ethics and Intergenerational Climate Extortion Abstract *This paper argues (i) that extortion is a clear threat in intergenerational relations, (ii) that the threat is manifest…

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…

JMCE Seminar Series 2018-19 SEMESTER I - Speaker: Dr Rosa Maria Fernandez (University of Chester)

14:00 - 15:00 7 November 2018
Wednesday 7 November 2018, 14:00 @ University Place, 6.206 Speaker: Dr Rosa Maria Fernandez (University of Chester) Title: National Interests as Barriers for Sustainable Energy Transitions in Europe

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…

MANCEPT Cluster Seminar with Fred Hjorthen: Humanitarian Intervention and Contextual Permissibility

16:00 - 17:30 7 November 2018

Mitchell centre seminar series

16:00 7 November 2018
Mario L. Small, Harvard University Understanding Personal Networks: On the Limits of Big Data and the Perils of Common Sense When people seek emotional support, how do they decide…

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…

Regimes of Exploitation and Inequalities

14:00 - 15:00 7 November 2018
The lecture will give an overview of the main issues addressed in the book Inequality and Democratic Egalitarianism (Manchester University Press, 2018) which I co-authored with Norman…

Serenity and strife: modernism and maternity in Barbara Hepworth’s ‘Three Forms’ - Kathryn Pallant

17:00 - 18:30 7 November 2018
As part of the Art History and Cultural Practices seminar series, Kathryn Pallant, PhD Candidate at the Centre for New Writing, The University of Manchester, will be discussing "Serenity…

Tracing fluid transfer across subduction zones using iron and zinc stable isotopes

13:00 - 14:00 7 November 2018
Our speaker is Dr Helen Williams from the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Subduction zones are the main site of volatile element transfer between the…

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: 'Werner Sombart's "Modern Capitalism"'

10:00 - 12:00 8 November 2018
This event is part of CIDRAL's Autumn 2018 programme. Dr Philipp Roesnner (Lecturer in Early Modern History, University of Manchester) will lead a Key Ideas seminar on Werner Sombart's…

CTIS Seminar: "I will try to speak in German": Filip Müller’s Testimony to the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial and the Problem of Translation

14:00 - 15:30 8 November 2018
Filip Müller (1922-2013) was one of the key witnesses at the trial of former Auschwitz guards, held in Frankfurt 1963-65. A Slovak Jew who was deported on one of the early transports…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Roberta Mazza (Manchester), "Merchants in the Temple: The Contemporary Market in Biblical Manuscripts"

14:00 - 16:00 8 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…

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