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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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”…

Surrey UCAS Convention

09:30 - 15:00 25 February 2019
The University of Manchester will be attending the Surrey UCAS convention where a member of staff or current student ambassador will be available to speak to. This event will run over…

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…

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…

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…

Facing Out: Printmaking

14:00 - 16:00 26 February 2019
Part of a programme of events to coincide with Facing Out: Life after treatment for facial cancer, an exhibition of portraits of people who have experienced facial cancers together…

Investigating a communicable disease outbreak using case-control methodology

12:30 - 15:30 26 February 2019
This CPD session will introduce you to the principles of outbreaks and the key steps used in outbreak investigations. It will cover the methodology used in case-controls studies to…

LITERATURE LIVE: MLF Tracey Thorn in conversation with Jeanette Winterson - SOLD OUT

19:30 - 20:30 26 February 2019
Please note, this event is now fully booked. Manchester Literature Festival is excited to welcome back author and singer-songwriter Tracey Thorn. Described as ‘the Alan Bennett of…

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

Midwifery in Victorian Manchester: Collection Encounter

15:00 - 16:00 26 February 2019
Join one of our researchers as we explore revealing and remarkable paintings, books and archives telling the history of Victorian midwifery training at Manchester’s St Mary’s Hospital.…

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,…

Petr Sadlacek (Oxford)

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

Surrey UCAS Convention

09:30 - 15:00 26 February 2019
The University of Manchester will be attending the Surrey UCAS convention where a member of staff or current student ambassador will be available to speak to. This event will run over…

Tuesday Talks: Kurt Johannessen

11:00 - 12:30 26 February 2019
Tuesday Talks invites leading artists, thinkers and curators to explore the driving forces, influences and sources of inspiration within contemporary art. The series is a collaboration…

Wellbeing Event: Music is the Medicine

26 February 2019
Explore how listening to music, singing, making music and music therapy can aid recovery and positively benefit individual’s wellbeing. Our panel of speakers will explore how listening…

Great Escape: Tai Chi for Wellbeing

08:30 - 09:30 27 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…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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