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Air Quality Challenges; Governance and Good Health

13:00 - 18:30 7 March 2019
Society of Legal Scholars in association with the UK Environmental Law Association and Weightmans A Half Day Conference Confirmed Speakers: Veneta Cooney – Consultant Physician in…

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…

Cafe Scientifique talk: The Human Voice

18:30 - 20:30 7 March 2019
The Human Voice – Prof Trevor Cox (University of Salford) Talking and singing comes naturally to most of us so it is easy to overlook how truly remarkable the human voice is. Mixing…

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…

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…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Revd. Fleur Houston - ‘Asylum Crisis? An Examination of Isa 16.1-5’

14:00 - 16:00 7 March 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…

Emanuele Bracco (Lancaster)

13:00 - 14:15 7 March 2019
Applied Economics Seminar

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…

George Adamson 'The co-production of El Niño and society: a history of the El Niño Southern Oscillation’

7 March 2019
Thursday 7 March - 4:15pm, Sam Alex A113. George Adamson (King's College, London)‘The co-production of El Niño and society: a history of the El Niño Southern Oscillation’.

Great Escape: Yoga

08:30 - 09:30 7 March 2019
Great Escape: Yoga Thursdays, 8.30am – 9.30am. £5 No emails, texts, updates or alerts –yoga that takes full advantage of the Whitworth’s peaceful setting. No need to book. When the…

Healthcare Heroes – Inspiring Futures

09:30 - 13:00 7 March 2019
Target age group: Years 10-12 Hear from inspiring graduates and staff from our healthcare related courses who have taken an unusual career path or achieved something remarkable in…

Intercultural Public Health

10:00 - 13:00 7 March 2019
Participants will examine culture and its impact on health. Through group work, discussions and interactive activities, the workshop will look at cultural models and frameworks in relation…

Music is the Medicine - After Hours

18:00 - 21:00 7 March 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…

Music is the Medicine: Yoga

19:15 - 20:15 7 March 2019
Music is the medicine explores how listening to music, singing, making music and music therapy can aid recovery and positively benefit individual’s wellbeing. Our panel of speakers…

Northern Harmony Singing Workshop

14:30 - 16:00 7 March 2019
Join us for this lucky dip into Northern Harmony’s treasure trove of traditional songs from South Africa, Corsica, Georgia and elsewhere. An exploration and celebration of diverse singing…

OPEN: Talking Mental Health

18:00 - 20:00 7 March 2019
Drop-in Creative workshop OPEN is a project that invites people to talk about Mental Health & helps to raise awareness through art, making and doing. Working with artist Emma Blackburn…

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,…

Targeting the Hyaluronan-Based Extracellular Matrix to Reverse Neurodegenerative Disease

13:00 - 14:00 7 March 2019
The glycosaminoglycan hyaluronan (HA) is elevated in the central nervous system (CNS) following a number of insults including neurodegenerative diseases. We have found that this HA…

The Bureau

19:00 - 20:00 7 March 2019
The Bureau is Manchester Museum's new space for Citizens Action. As part of our Music is the Medicine After Hours event, pop in between 7-8pm for a chat with our Arts and Health Team…

The Samuel Ferguson Lecture: Professor Kathryn Tanner (Yale University) - ‘Grace and the Temporalities of Capitalism’

16:00 - 17:30 7 March 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.

Toddler Tales

11:00 - 11:45 7 March 2019
Find a cosy corner, pull up a cushion and listen to fun stories. Join in playtime, creating a story world of your own. Free, no need to book, just drop in. Family friendly, children 5 yrs and under.

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…

Tweet Yourself Well

12:00 - 14:00 7 March 2019
To celebrate University Mental Health Day, The School of Social Sciences are hosting an informal event in the Arthur Lewis Building based around wellbeing and what makes us happy. …

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series: Northern Harmony

13:10 - 14:00 7 March 2019
Northern Harmony’s 14 brilliant young singers present a thrilling mix of world harmony traditions including South African songs and dances, traditional polyphony from Georgia, Corsica…

Webinar: An update on ONS's plans to transform the population and migration statistics system

15:00 - 16:00 7 March 2019
Administrative data are a rich source of data and have the potential to transform the way in which we gather demographic data. In this free webinar, hosted by the UK Data Service, Becky…

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…

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