Exhibitions, Seminar

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,…

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…

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…

CTIS Seminar: Genealogies of Knowledge: New Directions in Corpus-based Translation Studies

14:00 - 15:30 21 March 2019
Genealogies of Knowledge is a large, interdisciplinary research project led by the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies in Manchester and funded by the Arts and Humanities…

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…

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…

HCRI Research Series: 10 Years of HCRI, Alison Howell

16:00 - 18:00 21 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…

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…

Marco Manacorda (Queen Mary)

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

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…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Mr. Kevin Storer (University of Manchester) - ‘Kierkegaard on the Dialectic of Authority and Imagination: Reading the Bible as a Christian’

16:00 - 17:30 21 March 2019
The Religions & Theology research seminar takes place on alternate Thursdays. These seminars are free with no registration required. Seminars last 90 minutes including a 30 minute Q&A session.

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,…

“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…

An introduction to n-of-1 methods in health-related research

13:00 - 14:00 25 March 2019
Seminar outline: Randomised controlled trials are often regarded as the ‘gold standard’ for evaluating the effectiveness of health-related interventions. Findings from these studies…

CEAS 2019 School seminar - Dr Karl Travis

11:00 - 12:00 25 March 2019
As part of the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science School Seminar Series, we'll be welcoming Dr Karl Travis from the University of Sheffield, on Monday 25 March, titled…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Martin Holbraad (UCL)

16:00 - 18:00 25 March 2019
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 25th March 2019 Dr Martin Holbraad – University College London Permanence premised: the granted power of revolution in Cuba. Martin Holbraad…

Emircan Yurdagul (Carlos III Madrid)

16:15 - 17:45 26 March 2019
Macro seminar

Manchester Neuroimaging seminar series

15:30 - 16:30 26 March 2019
This meeting will be a news exchange/update on what the Manchester Neuroimaging community is doing.

Maternal and Fetal Health Grand Rounds - 'The Artificial Womb' - Speaker John Aplin

13:00 - 14:00 26 March 2019
MFH Grand Rounds, normally on TUESDAYS at 1.00 pm (unless indicated otherwise) held in the Multifunction Meeting Room AB, 5th Floor, St Mary's Hospital : Speaker: John…

JMCE Seminar with Martin Steven: Euro-realism in Party Politics, The Rise of European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) at the European Parliament

14:00 - 15:00 27 March 2019
Dr Martin Steven is a Lecturer at Lancaster University as well as a Research Associate with the Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence. At present Martin's focus is on the European…

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