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…

Can we predict clay coat distribution in subsurface reservoirs? Is it important?

18:00 - 19:00 21 February 2019
Sanem obtained her BSc degree in Geological Engineering from Hacettepe University (Ankara, Turkey) in 2003. This was followed by MSc and PhD studies in Osmangazi University (Eskisehir,…

Centre for Biological Timing Seminar – Dr Nara Muraro

16:00 21 February 2019
The Centre for Biological Timing welcomes Dr Nara Muraro from the Instituto de Investigación en Biomedicina de Buenos Aires, who will be speaking on "The hyperpolarization-activated…

CTIS Seminar: Technical Translation in 19th-Century Japan: Historicising and Decentring Notions of Translation

14:00 - 15:30 21 February 2019
The social and material conditions under which translation was carried out in late nineteenth-century Japan differ radically from our contemporary norms. Consequently, the concept of…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Revd. Dr. Dwight Swanson (Nazarene Theological College), ‘Conflicting Eschatologies: Jesus and the Mahdi (Christian and Shi’a apocalyptic expectation)’

14:00 - 16:00 21 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…

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…

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…

Inequalities in hearing and visual health

13:00 - 16:00 21 February 2019
You are invited to a free seminar on Inequalities in hearing and visual health, starting at 1pm with a free networking lunch. Hearing and vision difficulties are very common among older…

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…

Quiver mutations, reflection groups and curves on punctured disc

15:00 21 February 2019
Mutations of quivers were introduced by Fomin and Zelevinsky in 2002 in the context of cluster algebras. For some classes of quivers, mutations can be realised using geometric or combinatorial…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Mr. Amin Ehteshami (University of California, Berkeley) ‘The Pivot to Canonization: Scripturalist Hermeneutics in Premodern Iran’

16:00 - 17:30 21 February 2019
The Religions & Theology research seminar takes place on alternate Thursdays. These seminars are free with no registration required. Seminars last 90 minutes including a 30 minute Q&A session.

Seminar: “Mechano-Immunology” Exploring physical drivers of macrophage specification and activation by microenvironment-niche engineering and epigenomics

11:00 - 12:00 21 February 2019
Macrophages are unique in the sense that they perform their function under a variety of different physical environments. Macrophage-like microglia cells in the brain sense low ECM stiffness,…

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…

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…

Seminar: Biochemical and biomechanical interplay in breast cancer progression

13:00 - 14:00 22 February 2019
The extra-cellular matrix (ECM) is a source of biochemical and biomechanical influences that direct cell proliferation and fate. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying the interplay…

CANCELLED Global Health research in childhood neurodevelopment and neuroscience

12:00 - 17:00 25 February 2019
Due to ill health this lecture has been cancelled. We apologise for any inconvenience. Professor Jonathan Green will be speaking about Global Health Research in childhood neurodevelopment…

CEAS 2019 School seminar - Prof Enrico Tronconi

11:00 - 12:00 25 February 2019
As part of the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science School Seminar Series, we'll be welcoming Prof Enrico Tronconi from Politecnico di Milano on Monday 25 Feb, with…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Tom Boylston – University of Edinburgh

16:00 - 18:00 25 February 2019
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 25th February 2019 Dr Tom Boylston – University of Edinburgh “ Religion as a Problem of Distraction : Ecologies of Attention in Addis Ababa”…

Manchester Neuroimaging news exchange

15:30 26 February 2019
This meeting will be an opportunity for news exchange/update on what is happening in the Manchester Neuroimaging community

Petr Sadlacek (Oxford)

16:15 - 17:45 26 February 2019
Macro seminar

CIDRAL Key Ideas seminar: ‘The Humanities and Professional Education: Fables and Fallacy’ led by Sander Gilman (Emory)

13:00 - 15:00 27 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 lead a…

Confucius Institute Film Club

15:00 - 17:00 27 February 2019
We are holding our Film Club, one of our intercultural activities for students once again from February! The club is providing a platform for students to engage in inter-cultural…

Exploring the atmosphere of Mars with the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter mission

13:00 - 14:00 27 February 2019
Searching for signs of life beyond the Earth is a one of the primary aims of space exploration. The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) is a mission to Mars, which seeks to help answer…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum