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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…

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,…

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. 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…

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…

Facing Out: Loving Vincent

18:00 - 20:30 14 March 2019
Loving Vincent (12A, 2017) Thursday 14 March, 6-8.30pm Free, booking necessary A special screening of this animated homage to Van Gogh, created from 65,000 oil paintings. Followed…

Film Screening of About a War

15:30 - 17:30 14 March 2019
As a result of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990), approximately 170,000 people died, 1 million were displaced and 17,000 are still missing. The conflict, which saw hundreds of thousands…

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…

Great Escape: Yoga

08:30 - 09:30 14 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…

Henry Box Brown Lecture: Darnell Hunt (University of California Los Angeles)

17:00 - 18:30 14 March 2019
The 2019 Hollywood Diversity Report: Old Story, New Beginning Darnell Hunt, Dean of Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at the University of California,…

Implementation Sciences

10:00 - 13:00 14 March 2019
Implementation and improvement science methodology has been used for decades in manufacturing and other sectors, but it is a relatively recent innovation to health services in the UK.…

Introduction to Latent Class Analysis

14 - 15 March 2019
Latent Class Analysis (LCA) is a branch of the more General Latent Variable Modelling approach. It is typically used to classify subjects (such as individuals or countries) in groups…

JRRI Annual Lecture 2019. Jenny Uglow: 'Walter Crane: Fairytales, Manchester and Utopian Socialism'

17:30 - 19:30 14 March 2019
The 2019 JRRI Annual Lecture is presented by historian and writer, Jenny Uglow. Walter Crane: Fairytales, Manchester and Utopian Socialism Walter Crane, Director of the Manchester…

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…

PG day in Latin American and Caribbean Studies 2019

10:00 - 19:30 14 March 2019
Our annual PGR symposium for Latin Americanists working at Manchester and Liverpool. Supported by NWSSDTP and NWCDTP. Programme 10.00: 11.30: Panel 1 Gabriel Cambraia Neiva: Back…

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…

Sascha Becker (Warwick)

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

School of Chemistry students live on Twitter and Instagram

13:30 - 16:30 14 March 2019
We’re handing over control of our Social Media accounts to some of our students to give you an insight into what studying Chemistry at The University of Manchester is like. Get involved…

School Trip for Grown Ups - After Hours

18:00 - 21:00 14 March 2019
Relive your school days with an evening out at the Museum! Take part in activities inspired by our Learning Programme - but aimed this time at the ‘young at heart’. Just like the school…

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 Bureau

19:00 - 20:00 14 March 2019
The Bureau is Manchester Museum's new space for Citizens Action. As part of our School Trip for Grown-ups After Hours event, pop in between 7-8pm and help save an endangered language…

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…

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,…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series: Trio Atem

13:10 - 14:00 14 March 2019
Pia Palme HER VERY NOISE, HER GUISE (2017) Matthew Sergeant The Velvet Rage (2017) Nina Whiteman Everything near becomes distant (2019; premiere) Trio Atem embarks on an adventure…

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