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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 Public Lecture: Patrick O'Brien: 'Britain's Wars with Revolutionary and Napoleonic France and their Contribution to the Consolidation of the First Industrial Revolution'

16:00 - 18:00 28 November 2018
This event is part of CIDRAL's Autumn 2018 programme in association with History and Economics and with financial assistance from The Manchester School (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14679957).…

Daily: Art Hampers – resources for families at the Whitworth

10:00 31 August 2018 - 10:00 31 May 2020
Are you and your family hungry to get creative? Pick up a picnic hamper with a difference. Come to our Oxford Road or Parkside entrance and pick up one of our special hampers - free…

Digital Trust and Security Guest Lecture Series - Lucas Cordeiro

13:00 - 14:30 28 November 2018
In the last two decades, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been used in various military and civil applications, such as armed attacks, training targets, aerial surveillance, journalism,…

Dr Ilya Yablokov (Leeds University) will present his new book "Fortress Russia: Conspiracy Theories in the Post-Soviet World".

16:15 - 17:30 28 November 2018
Allegations of Russian conspiracies meddling in the affairs of Western countries have been a persistent feature of Western politics since the Cold War, but Russian politics are rife…

Dr Patricia Novillo-Corvalán (Kent): 'Contradictory Solidarity: Tagore, Victoria Ocampo, and South-South Cultural Relations'

17:00 - 18:30 28 November 2018
Part of the Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies seminar series. Venue: Uni Place 3.209. Contradictory Solidarity: Tagore, Victoria Ocampo, and South-South Cultural Relations…

EAC Research Seminar: DOUGLAS CLARK (ENGLISH, MANCHESTER) AND EDWARD CLOUGH (AMERICAN STUDIES, MANCHESTER)

17:00 - 18:30 28 November 2018
EAC Research Seminar Series, Autumn 2018 28 NOVEMBER, JO TAYLOR (MANCHESTER) 'DEEP MAPPING THE LAKE DISTRICT WITH LITERARY GIS' 5PM, SAM ALEX A7

English Corner

10:30 6 October 2017 - 12:00 31 May 2019
Fourth Friday of each month 10.30am–12pm Monthly conversation classes for people who are learning to speak English. Free, no need to book

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…

GAME-A-THON: Can YOU care for a hospital?

16:00 28 - 17:00 29 November 2018
Fancy becoming a heart surgeon for the day? Develop and test your leadership and management skills in our newly developed ‘Megagame’. This one day immersive learning simulation will…

GDI Lecture with Phil Woodhouse: How can irrigation contribute to agricultural growth in Africa?

16:30 - 18:00 28 November 2018
The Global Development Institute Lecture Series is pleased to present Prof Phil Woodhouse, Global Development Institute to discuss "How can irrigation contribute to agricultural growth…

GPE Seminar with Genevieve LeBaron: Explaining Patterns of Labour Protection and Exploitation in the Global Tea Supply Chain with Evidence from India

15:00 - 16:30 28 November 2018
Genevieve LeBaron (University of Sheffield) speaks on explaining patterns of labour protection and exploitation in the global tea supply chain with evidence from India. Genevieve…

Inaugural Lecture - Professor Peter Oakes: "New Testament, Empire and Economics - From archaeology via audience lives to interpretation of texts."

17:00 - 18:00 28 November 2018
Economics offers a route into understanding the New Testament as a set of texts written for non-elite audiences in the first century Roman empire. “Let every person be subject to the…

Inke Näthke seminar: From molecule to tissue dynamics and beyond: the Adenomatous Polyposis Coli protein in epithelial biology

11:00 - 12:00 28 November 2018
Professor Inke Näthke established key functions of the Adenomatous Polyposis Coli (APC) protein beyond its role in Wnt signalling. APC is the major tumour suppressor for cancers in…

Lecture Patrick K. O'Brien: Britain's Wars with Revolutionary and Napoleonic France and their Contribution to the Consolidation of the First Industrial Revolution

16:00 - 18:00 28 November 2018
Lecture by a leading economic historian

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