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…

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…

Professor Stuart Holmes Inaugural Lecture & Wine Reception

15:30 - 17:30 1 February 2019
The Inaugural Lecture of Professor Stuart Holmes (followed by wine reception in C1, Great Hall, Sackville Buidling) From Zeolites to Fuel Cells (and beyond): a career path through…

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…

EAC Research Seminar: Sean Silver (Rutgers), ‘Is form a category mistake? Jane Austen's Mansfield Park’

17:00 - 18:30 6 February 2019
Sean Silver teaches the literature and culture of the British Enlightenment. Related interests include complex systems, the history of science, the origins of the museum, cognitive…

GDI Lecture Series: Developmental States with Professor Stephan Haggard

17:00 - 18:30 6 February 2019
The Global Development Institute is pleased to present Professor Stephan Haggard speaking on development states. The concept of the developmental state emerged to explain the rapid…

Historical and Contemporary: Plaster Monument Modernity - Lecture by Professor Mari Lending

02:30 - 16:00 6 February 2019
Mari Lending, Professor in architectural theory and history at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) will present "Historical and Contemporary: Plaster Monument Modernity",…

School of Law Annual Pankhurst Lecture

17:00 - 19:00 6 February 2019
This year's Pankhurst Lecture will be presented by Dame Anne Owers, former Chief Inspector of Prisons and now National Chair of the Independent Monitoring Boards Christabel Pankhurst…

Co-op Group CEO Steve Murrells to speak at the Annual Grigor McClelland lecture

17:15 - 19:30 7 February 2019
The lecture will be held at Alliance Manchester Business School on Thursday, 7 February. From leading the Co-op’s Food business to overseeing a number of retail acquisitions, as well…

EAC Research Seminar: Ben Moore (University of Amsterdam), ‘Of pride and joy no common rate’: Family, Finance and Jouissance in Margaret Oliphant’s Hester (1883)’

17:00 - 18:30 13 February 2019
Ben Moore (University of Amsterdam), ‘Of pride and joy no common rate’: Family, Finance and Jouissance in Margaret Oliphant’s Hester (1883)’

Flipping the classroom: using video for better prepared, more actively engaged students (Teaching Online Workshop Series)

11:00 - 12:00 13 February 2019
Flipping the classroom: using video for better prepared, more actively engaged students

Train to Teach Manchester

16:00 - 19:00 13 February 2019
Hosted by The University of Manchester. this Department for Education's free Train to Teach event will provide you with a wealth of information on how to get into teaching and how to…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Margaret Hillenbrand (Oxford): ‘Public Secrecy in Contemporary China: Ducking the Firewall’

17:00 - 19:00 19 February 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2019 programme, 'Work, Leisure, Culture'. Margaret Hillenbrand (Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Wadham College,…

EAC Research Seminar: Rosie Knight (Sheffield) 'Infant-feeding and Inequality: Motherhood, Race, and Breastfeeding in the Antebellum South'

17:00 - 18:30 20 February 2019
Rosie Knight (Sheffield) 'Infant-feeding and Inequality: Motherhood, Race, and Breastfeeding in the Antebellum South'

GDI Lecture Series: Blood Bricks: Untold Stories of Modern Slavery and Climate Change from Cambodia with Prof Katherine Brickell

17:00 - 18:30 20 February 2019
The Global Development Institute is pleased to host Prof Kate Brickell as part of the GDI Lecture Series, talking about: Blood Bricks: Untold Stories of Modern Slavery and Climate Change…

Yemen: Response and Representation of a War

16:00 - 18:00 20 February 2019
During the 4 years since the launch of the Saudi-led coalition offensive in Yemen in March 2015, humanitarians and observers from the media have repeatedly used phrases worded to garner…

Exhibition Opening - Facing Out: Life after treatment for facial cancer

18:00 - 21:00 21 February 2019
Thursday 21 February, 6-9pm. Join us for a special evening of music, art and making, at the launch of the exhibition Facing Out: Life after treatment for facial cancer. Facing…

Manchester Medieval Society Seminar: Anke Bernau, 'Late medieval knots: Pain, Delight, Mystery'

18:00 - 19:30 21 February 2019
Late medieval knots: Pain, Delight, mystery Dr Anke Bernau Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature and Culture The University of Manchester Thursday 21 February 2019, 6.00pm Samuel Alexander Building, A116

Facing Out: Life after treatment for facial cancer

22 February - 2 June 2019
An exhibition of portraits of people who have experienced facial cancers together with their choice of artworks from The Whitworth collections. The portraits have been created in…

The 2019 Dorothy Emmet Lecture: Clare Chambers, Against Marriage

23 February 2019
The Philosophy Department at the University of Manchester is proud to present the 2019 Dorothy Emmet Lecture: Professor Clare Chambers (University of Cambridge),"Against Marriage: An…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Sander Gilman (Emory): ‘The Humanities Make You a Better Person! A Foundational Myth About Higher Education’

17:00 - 19:00 26 February 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2019 programme, 'Work, Leisure, Culture'. Sander Gilman (University Professor in the Liberal Arts and Sciences, Emory University) will deliver…

Package Factories: Warehouses as New places For Contemporary Working-class (David Gaborieau)

17:30 26 February 2019
The backstage of contemporary capitalism is a vast logistical network through which goods and materials pass from one end of the planet to the other. In order to produce this circulation,…

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