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'Home as a Site of Longing: Nazgol Ansarinia's Living Room (2005)' - Janelle Hixon

17:00 27 February 2019
As part of the Art History Research Seminar series, Janelle Hixon (PhD Candidate, Art History and Cultural Practices) will be delivering a paper entitled: 'Home as a Site of Longing:…

Bert Sundström: 'What's going on in Russia and the World: the RT reality or REAL reality?'

16:30 - 18:00 27 February 2019
Moscow Correspondent for SVT (Swedish Public Service Broadcaster) Bert Sundström discusses his own experiences as a journalist in Russia, the role of Russian State propaganda and media…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

GPE Research Cluster with Johnna Montgomerie: Narrating the search for a Methodology of the Household

15:00 - 16:30 27 February 2019
Please join the GPE Research Cluster for Johnna Montgomerie's "Narrating the search for a Methodology of the Household" Dr Johnna Montgomerie is a Reader in International Political…

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…

Making the modern world: England's first civic university (Heritage Tour)

13:00 - 14:00 27 February 2019
This tour takes visitors on a journey from the beginnings of England’s first civic university to the sites of world changing discoveries. It begins within the fine neo-gothic architecture…

MARG 2019 Lecture series "Drawing Parallels: Knowledge Production in Axonometric, Isonometric and Oblique Drawings" by Dr. Ray Lucas

12:30 - 16:30 27 February 2019
MARG 2019 Lecture series "Drawing Parallels: Knowledge Production in Axonometric, Isonometric and Oblique Drawings" by Dr. Ray Lucas

Maria del Pilar Blanco (Oxford): 'The Queer Art of Modernismo: Mexico’s Revista Moderna (1898-1911)'

17:00 - 18:30 27 February 2019
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Research Seminar. Venue: Uni Place_2.217

Mitchell centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 27 February 2019
Matteo Valleriani, The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science The Sphere. A multilayer network approach to knowledge evolution in history The lecture shows the ongoing development…

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…

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 27 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…

CoDE Seminar: Neighbours – more than just good friends? Understanding the neighbour as a contemporary socio-spatial relationship

12:00 - 13:00 28 February 2019
As Bulmer noted in his opening to his book of Abrahams’ 1970s work on neighbours, ‘everyone […] has neighbours. Social relations between neighbours are a significant form of social…

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