Exhibitions, Seminar

'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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

CTIS Seminar: Translators as ‘Committed People Helping Others’: Responsibilization and the Role of For-Profit Institutions in Framing Discourses on Volunteer Translators

14:00 - 15:30 7 March 2019
Increasing global connectivity and transnational mobility of people and commodities have underlined the importance of translation taking place in institutional settings. Within Translation…

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