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'Guns and Rosaries: Lepanto and Calvino-Turcismus in Antwerp’s Dominican Church' - Adam Sammut

17:00 - 18:30 20 February 2019
As part of the Art History Research Seminar series, Adam Sammut (PhD Candidate, Department of History of Art, University of York) will be presenting his paper: 'Guns and Rosaries: Lepanto…

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 Doctoral Research Presentations

15:30 - 17:00 20 February 2019
Please join the CGP Research Cluster for three presentations from University of Manchester Doctoral Candidates. Rahima Siddique: Homophobia, Sexual Perversity and Vulnerability: Framing…

CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar: ‘Waste, Precarity and the Artwork in China’ led by Margaret Hillenbrand

13:00 - 15:00 20 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,…

CPPI Research Cluster with Dr Lucy Barnes: Social Policy in the UK

15:30 - 17:00 20 February 2019
Please join the CPPI Research Cluster for Dr. Lucy Barnes' 'Social Policy in the UK'. Dr Barnes is an Associate Professor at University College London. Her research focuses on the…

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: Ms Leonie Smith (Manchester) and Ms Penelope Orr (Manchester)

15:00 - 17:00 20 February 2019
Leonie Smith's Title *Epistemic self-defence: flipping the narrative of addressing epistemic injustice Leonie Smith's Abstract *In this paper I ask: when it comes to resisting epistemic…

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'

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…

Families this February Half-Term

11:00 16 - 15:00 24 February 2019
Families this February Half Term Saturday 16 – Sunday 24 February A week of activities and playful interventions for the whole family. All events are free and drop in. Weaving Studio…

Feb Half Term Activities - The Human Bower

13:30 19 - 15:30 21 February 2019
The Human Bower Tuesday 19 – Thursday 21 February, 1.30-3.30pm Create your very own bower branch and share with us your one wish for what the future might look like. Free, families, drop in

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: 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…

Great Escape: Tai Chi for Wellbeing

08:30 - 09:30 20 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…

Grounding cognition in situated action and multimodal simulation

20 February 2019
Next DNEP External Seminar Professor Larry Barsalou, University of Glasgow Wednesday 20th February, 2019 13.00 - 14.00 Lecture Theatre C, Zochonis Building Hosted by Bo Yao

Guided Campus Visit

13:30 - 15:30 20 February 2019
Can’t come to one of our open days? Join us for one of our regular guided visits of our campus instead and get a feel for the facilities, amenities and atmosphere you’ll enjoy as a…

Half Term: Meet the Expert

18 - 22 February 2019
Meet the Expert Monday 18th – Friday 22nd February , 1pm Here’s your chance to meet one of our resident science and astronomy experts. You’ll learn all about their work, plus have…

Half Term: Science Show: Out of this World

16 - 22 February 2019
Science Show: Out of this World Saturday 16th – Friday 22nd February 11am, 12pm, 2.30pm and 3.30pm Free with general admission Do you think you’re smarter than a 10 year old?…

Half Term: Telescope Walking Tours

16 - 22 February 2019
Telescope Walking Tours Saturday 16th – Friday 22nd February 11:45am and 3:15pm Join one of Jodrell Bank’s popular Telescope Walking Tours as a friendly Explainer takes you for a…

Half Term: Under 7s Get Set, Blast Off!

16 - 22 February 2019
Under 7s – Get Set, Blast Off! Saturday 16th – Friday 22nd February 1pm (weekend) 11am and 1pm (weekdays) Join us on a fun-filled rocket trip into space, exploring the solar system…

Mitchell centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 20 February 2019
Naim Bro Khomasi, University of Cambridge The impact of Kinship Networks on Party Formation and Civil War Alignments in Nineteenth-Century Chile Using social network analysis I map…

Morgan Centre seminar: Bringing writing and drawing back together (Manuel Joao Ramos)

11:00 - 13:00 20 February 2019
Anthropologist Manuel João Ramos will be joining us from the University Institute of Lisbon to talk about his parallel life as an illustrator and sketcher and his newly reissued book…

MRC Come and See – Careers after a PhD with Chris Humphrey

15:30 - 17:00 20 February 2019
Dr Chris Humphreys completed his PhD in Medieval Studies at the University of York and after several years in academia as a postdoc made the move to the non-academic sector. Today…

Peacock Feathers and Pearls; Printing Press Demonstration

11:15 - 11:30 20 February 2019
Learn more about Annie Horniman and Manchester’s first repertory theatre. Watch our experts print you a copy of an original programme from the time. Free. No need to book, just turn up.

Preserving privacy through processing encrypted data

14:00 - 15:00 20 February 2019
Join us for this School research seminar, part of the Data science seminar series and hosted by Dr Dirk Koch. Secure Function Evaluation (SFE) allows an interested party to evaluate…

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…

The Adhesion of Love

19:00 - 21:00 20 February 2019
A new play by Stephen M Hornby Directed by Helen Parry In 1885, John W Wallace, a working-class man from Bolton, sets up the Eagle Street ‘College’, a book group that celebrates his…

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

13:00 - 14:00 20 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…

University Accommodation Tours

09:30 - 13:00 20 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…

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…

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…

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