Exhibitions, Seminar

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…

Border People - A documentary by Dr Elena Barabantseva

12:00 - 14:00 12 March 2019
How does the border enter and shape a family life? What does it mean to the people who cross the border for marriage? This film juxtaposes a personal story of Meihua, a Vietnamese Yao…

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…

Fabiola Creed - ‘The Body Programme for the Positive Woman’: Sunbed Consumers and Affluence (Liverpool, 1978-1980)'

13:00 - 14:00 12 March 2019
As individuals in the twenty-first century, we often assume that current stereotypes of the sunbed user (i.e., working class young women and homosexual men) match the same demographics…

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…

HCRI Research Series: 10 Years of HCRI, Sophie Roborgh and Nat O'Grady

16:00 - 18:00 12 March 2019
HCRI celebrates its 10 year anniversary with a rich programme of events. Join us for our research seminar series featuring current and alumni colleagues, and current and alumni postgraduate…

Leo Kaas (Goethe University Frankfurt)

16:15 - 17:45 12 March 2019
Macro seminar

Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series

15:30 - 16:30 12 March 2019
Dr Paul Mullins will give a talk entitled Towards a theory of fMRS: Theoretical and practical issues.

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…

Prof Andrew Jones (University of Southampton) Making a Mark: Image and Process in Neolithic Britain and Ireland

17:00 - 18:00 12 March 2019
Using digital imaging techniques the Making a Markproject examined Neolithic decorated portable artefacts from three key regions (Southern England/East Anglia; the Irish Sea region;…

'Pieter Bruegel's Political Paintings' - Jamie Edwards

17:00 - 18:30 13 March 2019
As part of the Art History Research Seminar series, Dr Jamie Edwards (Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies, University of Birmingham) will be presenting a paper entitled:…

D&E Cluster Seminar with Dr David Schoch: 'Political Astroturfing'

13 March 2019
Dr David Schoch is a Presidential Fellow in Sociology at the University of Manchester since September 2018. David Schoch is part of an international team of researchers, dedicated to…

Diana Cullell Teixidor (Liverpool) and Chris Perriam (Manchester): 'Spanish poetry and its audiences today'

17:00 - 18:30 13 March 2019
Part of the Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies Research Seminar Series.

GPE Research Cluster with Dan Bailey: Greening the State: Quantitative Easing and state financing

15:00 - 16:30 13 March 2019
Please join the GPE Research Cluster for Dan Bailey's "Greening the State: Quantitative Easing and state financing" Dr Dan Bailey is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of…

Mitchell Centre Seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 13 March 2019
Heather McGregor, Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University Yasaman Sarabi, Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University Dimitris Christopoulos, Edinburgh Business School,…

“I got the impression that people who went to the pub had horns and a tail”: Narrative inheritance and intergenerational learning about alcohol in families

14:00 13 March 2019
As sociologists of kinship have argued, families are 'mnemonic communities': they are brought into being through the creation, telling and re-telling of memories and family stories.…

“Is it harmful to breathe this ash?” - Public health hazard assessment and protection in communities impacted by eruptions

13:00 - 14:00 13 March 2019
During volcanic eruptions, and their aftermaths, communities may be very concerned about inhaling fine-grained ash, which can be rich in the deleterious mineral crystalline silica.…

CTIS Seminar: Evangelising 19th-Century Italy? Translation and the Transnational Migration of Cheap Religious Tracts

14:00 - 15:30 14 March 2019
Translation scholars have so far studied religious texts largely in relation to the transnationalisation of the Scriptures in the traditional book format. Religious publishing, however,…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Revd. Dr. Mika Pajunen - ‘Models of Textual Development and the Dead Sea Scrolls‘

14:00 - 16:00 14 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…

MANCEPT Research Cluster with Vittorio Gerosa: Deliberative Democracy and the Co-Orginality Thesis

04:00 - 17:30 14 March 2019
Please join the MANCEPT Research Cluster for Vittorio Gerosa's (Manchester) "Deliberative Democracy and the Co-Originality Thesis". Vittorio is a Doctoral Researcher at the University…

Sascha Becker (Warwick)

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

Unlocking the secrets of slow slip using next-generation seismic experiments and IODP drilling at the north Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand

17:00 14 March 2019
Subduction plate boundary faults are capable of generating some of the largest earthquakes and tsunami on Earth, such as the 2011 T?hoku, Japan and the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquakes,…

The Reno at the Whitworth

15 March 2019 - 1 March 2020
For a period of one year Linda Brogan and a group of local residents, who went to the Reno nightclub in the 1970s and 80s, will occupy the Whitworth. The Reno, located in Moss Side,…

Scientific Seminar of the Centre for Musculoskeletal Research - Monday 18 March 2019

13:00 - 14:00 18 March 2019
Scientific Seminar of the Centre for Musculoskeletal Research Date: Monday 18 March 2019 Time: 1.00pm Venue: Stopford Building, Room 2.823/5 Katie Druce and Belay Birlie Yimer– “Waking…

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