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"Picturing the Chinese Dream" - Ros Holmes

17:00 - 18:30 6 February 2019
As part of the Whitworth Studies Seminars series, Dr Ros Holmes (Art History, Univeristy of Manchester) will be delivering a paper entitled "Picturing the 'Chinese Dream': Urban Imaginings…

Advanced Astrophotography

19:30 - 21:30 6 February 2019
This advanced workshop offers Astrophotographers the chance to extend their knowledge and help them achieve breath-taking night sky photography. The session follows on from our Introduction…

Age takes hold of us by surprise: Conceptualising Vulnerabilities in Ageing as the Timing of Adverse Events

14:00 - 15:00 6 February 2019
Ageing in the public eye can be distilled to a limited number of adverse events, such as loss of health, partnership and wealth. While these events are a part of “normal ageing”, they…

Age takes hold of us by surprise: Conceptualising Vulnerabilities in Ageing as the Timing of Adverse Events

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…

CGP Research Cluster with Prof Peter Gries: 'Are the US and China fated to fight?'

13:30 - 15:00 6 February 2019
Please join the CGP Research Cluster for Prof Peter Gries' 'Are the US and China fated to fight?'. Prof Gries' work focuses on the political psychology of international affairs, with…

Chinese New Year 2019

5 - 10 February 2019
Celebrate the Year of the Pig with the Confucius Institute! Chinese New Year is undoubtedly Manchester’s most bright and colourful annual celebration as the streets of Manchester will…

Chinese New Year film screening: Men on the Dragon

20:30 - 22:30 6 February 2019
A heartfelt, feel-good Hong Kong comedy about a group of middle- aged men who join a dragon boat team to avoid layoffs and rediscover their lust for life. Screenwriter Sunny Chan’s…

CPPI Research Cluster with Dr Paul Tobin: Europe, crisis and the environment: A leader in decline?

15:30 - 17:00 6 February 2019
Please join the CPPI Research Cluster for Dr. Paul Tobin's 'Europe, crisis and the environment: a leader in decline?'. Dr Tobin is a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Manchester.…

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…

Departmental Seminar: Dr Graham Stevens (Manchester

15:00 - 17:00 6 February 2019
Title *Politically Correct Semantics Abstract *This paper is not, as its title could be mistakenly understood to suggest, an attempt to do semantic theory in a way that is “politically…

Digital Trust and Security - Guest Lecture Series - Benjamin Lee

12:00 - 13:00 6 February 2019
Trust and the Extreme Right Digital Milieu This lecture traces some strands of organisational thought emanating from the extreme right and considers the impact of an emerging extreme…

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…

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…

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…

Great Escape: Tai Chi for Wellbeing

08:30 - 09:30 6 February 2019
Great Escape: Tai-Chi for Wellbeing Wednesdays, 8.30am – 9.30am. £5 A traditional Chinese internal art for mind and body. Located in the peaceful setting of our Art Garden, Jian…

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",…

Mitchell centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 6 February 2019
Tanja Sliškovic, University of Zagreb When Network Behaviors get Men and Women Penalized – Identifying Gender Congruence Through Social Network Analysis We argue that gender roles…

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 Andrew Morrison’s Inaugural lecture

17:00 - 19:00 6 February 2019
Dead Letter Office? Making Sense of Greek Letter Collections Professor Andrew Morrison’s inaugural lecture will explore some of the most important Greek letter collections, such as…

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…

The rise of a university: industry, engineering and science (Heritage Tour)

13:00 - 14:00 6 February 2019
This tour takes visitors on a journey from the height of the industrial revolution to the white heat of 1960s scientific and technological innovation. Our guides explain the history…

Tours at Two

14:00 20 April 2018 - 14:45 31 December 2019
Each day our public tours are led by our Visitor Team and are an insightful view into our history, collections, exhibition spaces, architecture and park. Daily tours are designed for…

Twenty eight years of semantic tagging

14:00 - 15:00 6 February 2019
Join us for this School research seminar, part of the Data science seminar series and hosted by Professor Sophia Ananiadou. In this talk, guest speaker Dr Paul Rayson will explain…

University Accommodation Tours

09:30 - 13:00 6 February 2019
Want to have a look at your potential future home? We run accommodation tours* of some of our halls of residence on most Wednesday mornings from November until the end of March, between…

Using ant/plant symbioses to understand the evolution of cooperation among species

13:00 - 14:00 6 February 2019
Widespread in nature, mutualistic associations –cooperative interactions between unrelated species– are linked to major evolutionary transitions in life history, and are pivotal for…

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…

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