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…

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…

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…

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…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Tom Grisaffi – University College London

16:00 - 18:00 18 March 2019
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 18th March 2019 Dr Tom Grisaffi – University College London To Lead by Obeying: How Bolivia’s Coca Growers Reinvented Democracy At the turn…

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,…

Instruments of Change

19 March 2019 - 31 December 2020
Instruments of Change is an exhibition that showcases objects from the Beswick Collection at the Museum of Medicine and Health, telling the stories of the people of Manchester whose…

Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series 2019

15:30 - 17:00 19 March 2019
Dr Karin Shmueli, Associate Professor at University College London will give a talk entitled MRI Susceptibility Mapping: What, Why and How? Applications mainly in the Brain

Vania Stavrakeva (LBS)

16:15 - 17:45 19 March 2019
Macro seminar

'Extra-Illustrating the Macklin Bible' - Naomi Billingsley

17:00 - 18:30 20 March 2019
As part of the Art History Research Seminar series, Dr Naomi Billingsley (John Rylands Research Institute and Art History and Cultural Practices) will be delivering a paper entitled:…

Alessandro Pavan (Northwestern University) "Price Customization and Targeting in Matching Markets"

13:30 - 15:00 20 March 2019
Abstract: Recent technologies enable matching intermediaries to engage in unprecedented levels of targeting, whereby matches finely depend on the agents' characteristics, but also favour…

CGP Research Cluster with Jess Gifkins: The practice of legitimacy in the UN Security Council: Debating Darfur

13:30 - 15:00 20 March 2019
Please join the CGP Research Cluster for a seminar with Dr Jess Gifkins (University of Manchester). Dr Jess Gifkins' researches global governance in relation to questions of peace…

Confucius Institute Film Club

15:00 - 17:00 20 March 2019
We are holding our Film Club, one of our intercultural activities for students once again! The club is providing a platform for students to engage in inter-cultural discussions on…

CPPI Research Cluster with Anna Sanders: The Impact of Gendered Policies on Women's Voting Behaviour: A Focus Group Analysis of the 2015 UK General Election'

15:30 - 17:00 20 March 2019
Please join the CPPI Research Cluster for Anna Sanders' seminar on 'The Impact of Gendered Policies on Women's Voting Behaviour: A Focus Group Analysis of the 2015 UK General Election'.…

Departmental Seminar: Dr Thomas Uebel (Manchester)

15:00 - 17:00 20 March 2019
Title *A Puzzle about Other Minds in Early Ayer Abstract *Language, Truth and Logic (LTL) had its share of critics over the years but one particular oddity pertaining to it appears…

Mitchell centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 20 March 2019
Xi Yang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Identifying Patent Risks in Technological Competition Based on Social Network Analysis Identifying patent risk is a crucial…

Multi-state models for observed and latent cognitive function in the older population

14:00 - 15:00 20 March 2019
Join us for this research seminar, part of the Probability and Statistics seminar series. Due to the ageing population there is a growing interest in the statistical modelling of cognitive…

‘Modes of Memory: c. 1000-c.1600’

14:00 20 March 2019
Tom Quigley, 'Remembering the Cult of St. Petronius at Bologna, 1141-1402' (PGR History, University of Manchester) Alex Hurlow, 'Remembering the Frankish Past: Identity in Thirteenth-Century…

All Our Futures 2: Further thoughts on creating a healthy built environment for older people

13:00 - 16:00 21 March 2019
You are invited to a free seminar on creating a healthy built environment for older people starting at 1pm with a free networking lunch. Healthy ageing is a headline policy ambition,…

CIDRAL Key Ideas seminary: 'Capital Letters', led by Thomas Docherty (Warwick)

14:00 - 16:00 21 March 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2019 programme, 'Work, Leisure, Culture'. Thomas Docherty (Research Professor of English and of Comparative Literature) will lead a Key Ideas…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Revd. Dr. Svetlana Khobnya (Nazarene Theological College) - ‘The Reality of Faithfulness in 1 Peter: To What Extent Does Peter Create a Model of Faithful Living?’

14:00 - 16:00 21 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…

Marco Manacorda (Queen Mary)

13:00 - 14:15 21 March 2019
Applied Economics Seminar

“The ‘China Model’: From the Global Financial Crisis to the ‘One Belt, One Road’ Initiative”

12:00 - 13:30 21 March 2019
Co-Chairman of the Global Sustainability Forum based in Rome and a former Director of the UNDP Human Development Report Office, Mr Khalid Malik served as UN Resident Coordinator in…

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