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…

CTIS Seminar: Stealth Translation: A Blueprint for More Accessible Translation

14:00 - 15:30 7 February 2019
With the increasing understanding of the need for accessibility, it should become apparent to translators that translating, in the narrow sense of the term, is not effective. Widening…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Ben Pugh (Cliff College), ‘Pictures of Atonement: Atonement Metaphors from the Standpoint of Pentecost’

14:00 - 16:00 7 February 2019
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…

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…

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…

CEAS 2019 School Seminar - Dr Andy York

11:00 - 12:00 11 February 2019
As part of the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science School Seminar Series, we'll be welcoming Dr Andy York from Johnson Matthey on Monday 11 Feb, delivering a seminar…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Ben Campbell - University of Durham

16:00 - 18:00 11 February 2019
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 11th February 2019 Dr Ben Campbell – University of Durham 'Energy On The Move: Social Worlds Of Informal Settlers’ Energy Practices In The Global…

Statistical inference in soft-tissue mechanics and fluid dynamics with an application to prognostication of myocardial infarction and pulmonary hypertension

14:00 - 15:00 11 February 2019
Join us for this seminar, which is part of the Mathematics in Life Science seminar series. A central problem in biomechanical studies of personalized human left ventricular (LV) modelling…

Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series 2019

15:30 - 17:00 12 February 2019
Dr Herve Boutin, Lecturer at University of Manchester, will give a talk entitled Imaging neuroinflammation in neurodegenerative diseases: A review of the EU FP7 INMiND consortium findings

CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar: 'Karl Polanyi' led by Pat Devine

13:00 - 15:00 13 February 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2019 programme, 'Work, Leisure, Culture'. Pat Devine (University of Manchester) will lead a key ideas seminar on the work of Karl Polanyi. The…

GPE Research Cluster with Annina Kaltenbrunner: Liability-driven investment and pension fund exposure to emerging markets: A Minskyan analysis

15:00 - 16:30 13 February 2019
Please join the GPE Research Cluster for Annina Kaltenbrunner's 'Liability-driven investment and pension fund exposure to emerging markets: A Minskyan analysis' Annina is Lecturer…

Laura Lewis (Southampton): Afro-Mexicans/Afro-Mexican Americans

17:00 - 18:30 13 February 2019
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Research Seminar. Venue: Sam Alex A215

Mitchell centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 13 February 2019
Termeh Shafie, University of Manchester Statistical Entropy Analysis of Network Data Statistical entropy analysis is a systematic and general exploratory method that can be used to…

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…

CTIS Seminar: Retranslating Zola in Stereo: Working with/against Vizetelly

14:00 - 15:30 14 February 2019
French ‘naturalist’ writer Émile Zola (1840-1902) published his novel La Joie de vivre, the 12th in the 20-volume cycle about the fictional Rougon-Macquart family during the Second…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Todd Still (Baylor University), ‘Paul and ‘the Good’’

14:00 - 16:00 14 February 2019
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…

MANCEPT Research Cluster with Jennifer Saul: What is happening to our norms against racist speech?

16:00 - 17:30 14 February 2019
Please join the MANCEPT Research Cluster for Jennifer Saul's (University of Sheffield) "What Is Happening To Our Norms Against Racist Speech?" Jennifer's primary interests are in Philosophy…

Uncertainty & Risk in Petroleum Exploration & Production

17:00 - 18:00 14 February 2019
Bernie Vining is a senior petroleum geoscientist with 40 years international experience in both executive and scientific roles in the petroleum industry with Exxon (latterly ExxonMobil)…

Scientific Seminar of the Centre for Musculoskeletal Research - Monday 18 February 2019

13:00 - 14:00 18 February 2019
Scientific Seminar of the Centre for Musculoskeletal Research Date: Monday 18 February 2019 Time: 1.00pm Venue: Stopford Building, Room 2.823/5 Vasanthi Priyadarshini Gaddi – “Chromatin…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Leslie Fesenmyer – University of Birmingham

16:00 - 18:00 18 February 2019
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 18th February 2019 Dr Leslie Fesenmyer – University of Birmingham “ Ambivalent belonging: Born-again Christians between Africa and Europe” Questions…

Alex Longworth-Dunbar (CHSTM) ‘Increasing a Hundred-Fold the Distresses of Humanity’: A History of Negative Representations of the Telegraph, 1837-1914'

13:00 - 14:00 19 February 2019
‘Increasing a Hundred-Fold the Distresses of Humanity’: A History of Negative Representations of the Telegraph, 1837-1914 In light of a widely identified turn towards a negative discourse…

Social Mobility in China - Prof Yaojun Li

12:00 - 14:00 19 February 2019
China has experienced unprecedented development in the last forty years, lifting itself from being one of the poorest countries in the world to being the second largest powerhouse at…

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