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'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:…

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…

British Science Week: Telescope Walking Tour

9 - 15 March 2019
Telescope Walking Tour Saturday 9th March – Friday 15th March 11:45AM (weekend only) & 3:15PM (everyday) Join one of Jodrell Bank’s popular Telescope Walking Tour as our friendly…

Confucius Institute Talk: China in Drag - Travels with a Cross-dresser

18:00 - 19:00 13 March 2019
Michael Bristow, BBC World Service’s Asia and Pacific editor will talk about his eight-year stay in Beijing and why he decided to write about the country’s modern history. To assist…

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…

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…

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.

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…

From Shore to Shore - a powerful new drama with great food and live music

18:00 - 20:00 13 March 2019
The Confucius Institute extends an invitation to an exclusive showing of the From Shore to Shore play on campus. Three stories, three lives, three journeys, to find a place called…

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…

Great Escape: Tai Chi for Wellbeing

08:30 - 09:30 13 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…

Guided Campus Visit

13:30 - 15:30 13 March 2019
Can’t come to one of our open days? Join us for one of our regular guided visits of our campus instead and get a feel for the facilities, amenities and atmosphere you’ll enjoy as a…

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

13:00 - 14:00 13 March 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…

Master’s Information Day – Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

14:00 - 16:00 13 March 2019
This event is for you to find out more about our courses, whether you have already applied to us or if you are just considering a master’s course. '''Timetable''' ''2.00 – 2.30''…

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,…

MRC Come & See Marc Abrahams - Improbable research & the Ig Nobel Prizes

15:30 - 17:00 13 March 2019
Improbable research & the Ig Nobel Prizes 4-5pm (coffee & cake from 3.30) The MRC Come & See has invited a renowned keynote speaker from the US: Ig Nobel founder Marc Abrahams. 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…

Professorial Inaugural Lecture: Prof. Daniela Caselli, 'The Modernist Child'

17:00 - 19:00 13 March 2019
The child is a familiar figure in Romantic and Victorian studies but is much less visible in early twentieth-century literature criticism. This lecture will argue that there is much…

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 2019 Dorothy Emmet Lecture

18:15 - 19:30 13 March 2019
The Philosophy Department at the University of Manchester is proud to present the 2019 Dorothy Emmet Lecture: Professor Clare Chambers (University of Cambridge) "Against Marriage:…

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 13 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…

“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.…

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