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…

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…

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…

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…

Lives of Letters Seminar Series. Pictures and Postcards: Images and Letters

17:00 - 18:30 8 November 2018
The Lives of Letters Network presents 'Pictures and Postcards: Images and Letters'. Schedule: Dr Luke Uglow (Art History, Manchester): 'Drawing Letters: Ruskin at the Rylands Despite…

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…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr. Rachel Muers, "The Un/Deserving Poor: Social Class and Theological Ethics"

16:00 - 17:30 8 November 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.

Toman Barsbai (St Andrews)

13:00 - 14:15 8 November 2018
Title and Abstract: TBC

Toman Barsbai (St Andrews)

13:00 - 14:15 8 November 2018
Applied Economics 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…

‘Genres of popular economics in 1970s America: economic democracy, labour activism and the tax revolt,’ History Research Seminar: Dr. Tiago Mata

16:15 - 17:30 8 November 2018
Tiago Mata (UCL) ‘Genres of popular economics in 1970s America: economic democracy, labour activism and the tax revolt’

Medical News: Explorations in Text Mining, Digital Humanities, and the History of Medicine

02:00 - 17:00 9 November 2018
This informal workshop in association with DH@Manchester, is aimed at scholars interested in using digital humanities methods for historical research, focusing especially on text mining.…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Hannah Brown - Anthropology, University of Durham

16:00 - 18:00 12 November 2018
To be advised shortly

Superbugs Exhibition

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

CMI Afternoon Seminar: Statistics and the Law - Prof Philip Dawid

15:00 - 16:15 13 November 2018
Speaker: Prof Philip Dawid, University of Cambridge Abstract: It might appear that the concerns of Statistics and those of Law have little common ground, but in fact both disciplines…

Commuting patterns and urban expansion of neighbourhoods in the Beijing metropolitan region: a spatial perspective - Professor Cecilia Wong, University of Manchester

12:00 - 14:00 13 November 2018
The Manchester China Institute Lunch Time Seminars Series 2018-2019 Professor Dr Cecilia Wong School of Environment, Education and Development - University of Manchester Tuesday…

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