Exhibitions, Seminar

Ageing process in astrocytes and the progression of Alzheimer's disease like pathology

15 - 21 November 2018
As part of a British Council UK-Israel Lectureship project, Stuart Allan will be hosting Professor Dan Frenkel from Tel Aviv on Wednesday 21st November. Dan will be giving a 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…

Biomass Energy with CCS: unlocking negative emissions

13:00 - 14:00 20 November 2018
There is growing and significant dependence on biomass energy and carbon capture and storage (BECCS) in future greenhouse gas emission scenarios in global integrated assessment models.…

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…

CMI Afternoon Seminar: How do voters perceive and interpret the national economy? - Dr Martin Bisgaard

15:00 - 16:15 20 November 2018
Speaker: Dr Martin Bisgaard, Aarhus University, Denmark Abstract: An abstract will be available closer to the date of the seminar. Tea/coffee and cakes from 2.45 in 2.07. Join us…

Curating Celts: views from an exhibition

17:00 20 November 2018
Manchester Centre for Archaeology and Egyptology Research Seminar

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

16:00 - 18:00 20 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…

Morgan Centre seminar on intergenerational support and housing in Poland

15:00 - 16:30 20 November 2018
Mateusz Halawa, Marta Olco?-Kubicka To help the daughter in her mortgage: Practices of intergenerational support among Warsaw’s young homebuyers In Radom, a city 60 miles from Warsaw…

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…

After the cut: Re-cutting the seventeenth-century Mughal miniature painting - Fatema Abdoolcarim

17:00 21 November 2018
Fatema Abdoolcarim, PhD Candidate with The Center for New Writing and Art History and Cultural Practices at The University of Manchester will be delivering her research paper entitled…

CGP Seminar with Maja Zehfuss: Did Merkel open the border? Migration and the Fantasy of Control

15:30 - 17:00 21 November 2018
Maja Zehfuss (University of Manchester) speaks on migration and the fantasy of control. Maja Zehfuss' work centres on the topics of war, ethics, the idea of humanity, vulnerability,…

CI Film Club

15:00 21 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…

Departmental Seminar: Dr Marie Guillot (Essex)

15:00 - 17:00 21 November 2018
Title *TBC Abstract *TBC

JMCE Seminar Series - Dr. Rachel Minto (University of Cardiff)

14:00 - 15:00 21 November 2018
Wednesday 21 November 2018, 14:00 @ University Place, 6.206 Speaker: Dr. Rachel Minto (University of Cardiff) Title: Re-wiring European Networks post-Brexit: Continuity and change from a multi-level perspective

Mitchell centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 21 November 2018
Isabel Raabe, Maths skills and confidence - What can explain the gendered mismatch? While girls and boys perform similarly well in maths, girls have on average lower confidence in…

Professor Craig Brandist, University of Sheffield: "Soviet Indology, Socialism and the 'Buddhist Revival': Two Radical Indian intellectuals in the USSR 1917-1940"

16:00 - 17:30 21 November 2018
The paper will focus on the work of two Indian socialist intellectuals: Dharmanand Kosambi (1876-1947, father of the founder of Indian Marxist historiography, D.D. Kosambi) and Rahul…

The biogeochemistry of glaciers and ice sheets on Earth: lessons for Mars

13:00 - 14:00 21 November 2018
Our speaker is Dr Jon Telling from the School of Natural and Environmental Sciences at Newcastle University. Coffee and tea will be available after the seminar in the first floor foyer of the Williamson Building.

Arnaud Chevalier (Royal Holloway)

13:00 - 14:15 22 November 2018
Applied Economics Seminar

CoDE Seminar: White Lines: Race, Place and Belonging in the Post-Industrial Periphery

12:00 - 13:00 22 November 2018
The talk focuses upon young people and everyday forms of belonging in ‘post-Brexit’ Britain. It is argued that some of the ideas surrounding superdiversity and everyday multiculturalism…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof Loveday Alexander (Sheffield), "Social Networks, Legal Aliens, and the Shape of the Church in Acts"

14:00 - 16:00 22 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…

Impact and benefits of treating hearing and vision problems for people living with dementia

13:00 - 16:00 22 November 2018
Hearing and vision impairments cause difficulties with daily living activities for people living with dementia and impact on communication. The SENSE-Cog Sensory Intervention is a…

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