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…

Brain state transitions in epileptic networks: optogenetic and imaging investigations - Professor Andrew Trevelyan

8 - 14 November 2018
Next in the DNEP External Seminar Series. Professor Andrew Trevelyan, Newcastle University Wednesday 14th November, 2018 1-2 p.m. Lecture Theatre D, Zochonis Building Brain state transitions…

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…

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…

Democracy and Rights - Which Role for Youth. A Lecture given by the UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights

14:00 - 15:30 12 November 2018
The Business and Human Rights Catalyst at AMBS and Politics in the School of Social Sciences present: Democracy and Rights – Which Role for the Youth. A lecture delivered by Kate Gilmore,…

Superbugs Exhibition

10:00 - 16:00 12 November 2018
The superbugs exhibition will promote some of the main bacteria threatening our very existence.

Distance and online learning: challenges and rewards of developing online courses (Teaching Online Workshop Series)

11:00 - 12:00 14 November 2018
Distance and online learning: challenges and rewards of developing online courses

EAC Research Seminar: RACHEL E. HOLMES (UCL) 'WHAT'S IN A SOURCE? SHAKESPEARE'S LEGAL POETICS'

17:00 - 18:30 14 November 2018
EAC Research Seminar Series, Autumn 2018 14 NOVEMBER, RACHEL E. HOLMES (UCL) 'WHAT'S IN A SOURCE? SHAKESPEARE'S LEGAL POETICS' 5PM, SAM ALEX A7

European Action on Antibiotics Day

12:00 - 14:00 14 November 2018
One of the annual events across the University, and this year with even more going on when linked to Manchester Metropolitan University and University of Salford. At UoM, there will…

How Lives Change: Palanpur, India and Development Economics with Lord Stern & Professor Himanshu

17:00 - 18:30 14 November 2018
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, LSE and Professor Himanshu, Jawaharlal Nehru University Development economics is about understanding how and why lives change. Drawing on seven decades…

Promoting Physics Worldwide

15:00 - 17:00 14 November 2018
There is a significant untapped potential of physicists that come from developing countries. Strong young students may lack exposure to physics and physics research, they may not be…

Schuster Colloquium: Dr Kate Shaw

15:00 - 16:00 14 November 2018
// Promoting Physics Worldwide There is a significant untapped potential of physicists that come from developing countries. Strong young students may lack exposure to physics and physics…

American Residential Energy Inequities Across Race, Class and Place

16:00 - 17:00 15 November 2018
The inability of households to afford adequate energy services is a major energy justice concern. Temporary utility bill assistance, improving residential energy efficiency, and adoption…

Annual Harry Street Lecture

17:00 - 19:00 15 November 2018
This year's Harry Street lecture will be delivered by Lucy Powell, MP for Manchester Central. She is an extremely active member of Parliament and served as a Shadow Education Secretary…

GDI Annual Lecture with the Rt Hon Helen Clark: Women - Equality - Power

17:30 - 19:00 15 November 2018
The Global Development Institute is pleased to present the Rt. Hon Helen Clark, former Administrator of UNDP and former Prime Minister of New Zealand to present the Global Development…

Sepsis and Antimicrobial Resistance: Unrecognised health challenges, and the movement of antibiotics resistance from local to global back to local

17:30 - 19:15 15 November 2018
An Annual Symposium with two informative presentations by experts on antimicrobial resistance. Professor Paul Dark will highlight the critical importance of effective antimicrobials,…

Online induction (Teaching Online Workshop Series)

11:00 - 12:00 16 November 2018
Online induction

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Mouri Yoshitaka: 'Lukewarm Nationalism: The 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Social Media and Affective Communities'

16:00 - 18:00 20 November 2018
This event is part of CIDRAL's Autumn 2018 programme. Mouri Yoshitaka (Professor in Sociology and Cultural Studies, Tokyo University of Arts) will deliver a public lecture entitled…

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