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'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…

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…

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'.…

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…

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…

EMPOW(HER) - Women Breaking Barriers Manchester

13:00 - 18:00 20 March 2019
The Women Breaking Barriers Network is proud to host its 2019 event Empowering Women in the Workplace. We are delighted to host a series of discussions about women, diversity and inclusion…

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…

Garden Workshop

15:00 - 17:00 20 March 2019
In 2017, the Confucius Institute started to work with Hulme Community Garden Centre on the project of creating a Chinese garden that can be enjoyed by their visitors. The garden was…

GDI Lecture Series: Agrarian crises, institutional innovation and gender: Can group farming provide an answer? with Prof Bina Agarwal

17:00 - 18:30 20 March 2019
The Global Development Institute and the Post Crash Economics Society is pleased to host Prof Bina Agarwal part of the GDI Lecture Series, talking about: Agrarian crisis and institutional…

Great Escape: Tai Chi for Wellbeing

08:30 - 09:30 20 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…

Greater Manchester SMEs : Engage with Graphene

08:00 - 10:30 20 March 2019
Are you a Greater Manchester based SME who: • Wants to find out more about the 2D material graphene? • Wishes to explore the possibilities of a new innovative venture? • Is interested…

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…

LITERATURE LIVE: Valeria Luiselli

19:00 - 20:30 20 March 2019
Manchester Literature Festival is delighted to present a rare UK event with Mexican writer Valeria Luiselli. Described as ‘a writer of formidable talent, destined to be an important…

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…

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…

Ruskin Matters

13:00 - 16:30 20 March 2019
A free workshop of talks on the art critic and social reformer John Ruskin (1819-1900) demonstrating why Ruskin matters today. In partnership with Art History and English Studies at…

SHORT COURSES: Structural Equation Modelling Using Mplus

20 - 22 March 2019
Structural Equation Models (SEM) amalgamate regression analysis, path/mediation analysis and factor analysis, allowing for more richly detailed statistical models to be specified and…

Stachniewski Memorial Lecture: Marie-Louise Coolahan (National University of Ireland: Galway), ‘The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women's Writing’

17:00 - 18:30 20 March 2019
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