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'Spratt’s Flaps: Using Books and Learning Midwifery in the Early Nineteenth Century' - Rebecca Whiteley

17:00 - 18:30 6 March 2019
As part of the Art History Research Seminar series, Dr Rebecca Whiteley (The John Rylands Research Institute), will be presenting a paper entitled: 'Spratt’s Flaps: Using Books and…

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…

Bragg Lecture 2019: Prof Rashid Sunyaev

15:00 - 16:00 6 March 2019
What is the Bragg Lecture? Sir Lawrence Bragg was Langworthy Professor at the University of Manchester from 1919 to 1937. From 2016, the School of Physics and Astronomy has presente…

Campus visit for school and college groups

14:00 - 15:30 6 March 2019
Teachers of post-16 students may bring groups of their pupils to visit The University of Manchester campus, in order to get a taste of university life and experience first-hand the…

CGP Research Cluster with Nadine Voelkner: Riding the Shi: From Infection Barriers to the Microbial City

14:30 - 16:00 6 March 2019
Please join the CGP Research Cluster for Nadine Voelkner's 'Riding The Shi: From Infection Barriers To The Microbial City'. Nadine Voelkner is an Assistant Professor in International…

CIDRAL Key Ideas seminar: ‘On Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement’ led by Zoë Svendsen (Cambridge)

13:00 - 15:00 6 March 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2019 programme, 'Work, Leisure, Culture'. Zoë Svendsen (Lecturer in Drama and Performance, University of Cambridge) will lead a key ideas seminar…

Confucius Institute Film Club

15:00 - 17:00 6 March 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…

CPPI Research Cluster with Prof. Kevin Morgan: Leader Personality Cults

15:30 - 17:00 6 March 2019
Please join the CPPI Research Cluster with Prof. Kevin Morgan for the seminar 'Leader Personality Cults'. Kevin Morgan is a Professor of Politics and Contemporary History at the University…

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: Dr Jeroen Smid (Manchester)

15:00 - 17:00 6 March 2019
Title *The Logic Behind Quine's Criterion of Ontological Commitment Abstract *In this talk I first explains why Quine took first-order classical logic to be the only language in which…

DNEP External Seminar Series - next talk - Wednesday 6th March

6 March 2019
The next DNEP External Seminar will be hosted by Deborah Talmi. It will take place on Wednesday 6th March, 13.00 - 14.00, Lecture Theatre C, Zochonis Building Speaker: Dr. Pascale…

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…

GDI Lecture Series: Property, institutions, and social stratification in Africa with Franklin Obeng-Odoom

17:00 - 18:30 6 March 2019
The Global Development Institute is pleased to host Associate Professor Franklin Obeng-Odoom as part of the GDI Lecture Series, talking about: Property, institutions, and social stratification…

Great Escape: Tai Chi for Wellbeing

08:30 - 09:30 6 March 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…

Information meeting on Master’s in History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Science Communication, or Medical Humanities

14:00 - 16:00 6 March 2019
The Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM) at the University of Manchester in the UK will be holding an event for potential Master’s students on Wednesday…

International Women's Day: Balance For Better

13:00 - 15:00 6 March 2019
Join us as Dr Jess Wade, scientist and equality campaigner, visits The University of Manchester to give a public talk as part of our International Women’s Day celebrations. Jess tirelessly…

Introduction to Astrophotography

19:30 - 22:00 6 March 2019
Our popular Introduction to Astrophotography courses are returning this winter. Join us for an informal and fun session that includes an introductory workshop (co-presented by Jodrell…

Manchester-China Showcase

6 March 2019
China is already one of the world’s great scientific superpowers, projected to overtake the US for research output by 2022 and, sometime shortly thereafter, to overtake the US in quality…

Mitchell centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 6 March 2019
Mark McCann, University of Glasgow The STis and Sexual Health – STASH study: process evaluation of a peer supporter intervention to improve adolescent sexual health Young people in…

Morgan Centre book launch

17:30 - 20:00 6 March 2019
Join us to celebrate the official launch of three books by Morgan Centre members: Sociology of Personal Life (2nd edition) edited by Vanessa May and Petra Nordqvist Snobbery by David…

Morgan Centre seminar: ‘You need a map not a stopwatch’: Towards a relational interpretation of busyness (Clare Holdsworth)

15:30 - 17:00 6 March 2019
Busyness is a current popular obsession. Claims that everyone is busy with too much to do and not enough time have considerable popular and academic support. At both work and home people…

Nation Branding in Taiwan - A Grassroots Perspective by Dr Adina Zemanek

12:00 - 14:00 6 March 2019
My presentation will start from discussing nation branding projects coordinated by the R.O.C. Tourism Bureau against the larger background of changes in cultural policies since the…

Princes in the Tower Study Day for Year 10s

09:30 - 14:30 6 March 2019
This unique event will provide students with an interest in History, Politics, English or Archaeology, an opportunity to act as detectives and use academic sources and historical documents…

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…

Statistics Careers Event

13:30 6 March - 16:00 6 May 2019
This year's annual Statistics Careers Event (kindly sponsored by the RSS Manchester Local Group) will take place on Wednesday, 6th March 2019, 1.30-4.00 pm in the Alan Turing Building,…

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

13:00 - 14:00 6 March 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…

The State of the Humanitarian System 2018 Panel Discussion

16:00 - 18:00 6 March 2019
Irregular migration, epidemics and conflict have stretched the capacity of the humanitarian system and are reshaping relationships both within it, and also with development actors,…

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 6 March 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…

Verifiable autonomy and responsible robotics

14:00 - 15:00 6 March 2019
Join us for this School research seminar, part of the Intelligence and autonomy seminar series and hosted by Professor Angelo Cangelosi. Robots will increasingly make their own decisions…

World Healthcare Congress 2019

09:00 5 - 18:00 7 March 2019
The World of Healthcare is coming to Manchester, on the 5, 6 & 7 March. Are you interested in the future of health and social care? The World Healthcare Europe Congress will bring…

X-Ray and Microwave Cosmology: Synergy and Competition What can we expect from SRG/eRosita and new ground-based microwave telescopes?

15:00 - 17:30 6 March 2019
Our Universe is fled by cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) which is extremely isotropic and has an excellent blackbody spectrum at temperature 2.726 Kelvin, with no departures…

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