Exhibitions, Lecture

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…

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…

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…

The Annual Gillian White Lecture

17:00 - 19:00 25 March 2019
The Annual Lectures concentrate on international economic law and aim to commemorate the legacy of the first woman to be appointed professor in law in mainland Britain, Professor…

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,…

EAC Research Seminar: Peter Sabor (McGill) ‘Frances Burney d'Arblay and Hester Maria ('Queeney') Thrale Elphinstone: The Arc of a Sixty-Year Friendship’

17:00 - 18:30 27 March 2019
Peter Sabor holds the Canada Research Chair in Eighteenth-Century Studies at McGill University, where he is Director of the Burney Centre. He is the author and editor of more than twenty…

MARG 2019 Lecture series "Do Daycare Centres Offer an Effective Solution to Challenges Faced by Older People Living in Dalian, China?" by Dr. Alan Lewis & Wenting Yu

12:30 - 14:30 27 March 2019
MARG 2019 Lecture series "Do Daycare Centres Offer an Effective Solution to Challenges Faced by Older People Living in Dalian, China?" by Dr. Alan Lewis & Wenting Yu

MCRC Director's Lecture: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman

16:15 - 17:15 27 March 2019
Join Professor Rob Bristow at the Oglesby Cancer Research Building for the next seminar in his MCRC Director's Lecture series. Title: "Intervention in cancer through the tumour suppressive…

Lovell Lecture: Dr. Tana Joseph

19:30 - 21:00 28 March 2019
Multi-messenger Astronomy Dr. Tana Joseph Light is not the only thing that carries information about the Universe and its contents. Particles, like neutrinos and cosmic rays, can also…

Science co-operation beyond Brexit

17:30 - 20:00 28 March 2019
The 2019 Jevons Lecture in Science Policy given by Robert-Jan Smits, Open Access Envoy of the European Commission. The event will take place on Thursday 28 March 2019, 5.30pm with…

Ancient Textiles from the Andes

29 March - 15 September 2019
This is a rare opportunity to see ancient Andean textiles of this quality and size exhibited in the UK. Through a major loan from the collector Paul Hughes, alongside pieces from the…

Joy for Ever: How to use art to change the world and its price in the market

29 March - 9 June 2019
In 1857 John Ruskin (1819-1900) delivered one of his most important public lectures in response to the Great Art Treasures exhibition in Manchester, the largest art exhibition ever…

Prof Megan Jobson Inaugural Lecture and Wine Reception

15:00 - 17:00 29 March 2019
The Inaugural lecture of Megan Jobson, followed by a wine reception in C1, Great Hall, Sackville building, will be taking place on Friday 29 March 15:00. Seeking synergies in separation…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Mark Payne (Chicago): 'Occupation and Mentation in Post-Apocalyptic Fiction'

17:00 - 19:00 2 April 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2019 programme, 'Work, Leisure, Culture'. Mark Payne (Professor of Classics, University of Chicago) will deliver a public lecture entitled 'Occupation…

Colloquium: Machine learning and big scientific data: What can AI do for the facilities?

15:00 - 17:00 2 April 2019
Professor Tony Hey, the Chief Data Scientist at the Science and Technology Facilities Council at Harwell, presented at the second University of Manchester at Harwell colloquium. There…

CIDRAL Key Ideas seminar: ‘Theorizing Catastrophe’ led by Mark Payne (Chicago)

13:00 - 15:00 3 April 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2019 programme, 'Work, Leisure, Culture'. Mark Payne (Professor of Classics, University of Chicago) will lead a Key Ideas seminar entitled ‘Theorizing…

Constitutional Law, Federalism and Human Rights in Argentina

17:00 - 18:00 3 April 2019
On Wednesday 3rd April, Prof Pablo Gutierrez, an expert in Public Law at the Universidad Nacional del Comahue (Argentina), will deliver a presentation entitled 'Constitutional Law,…

EAC Research Seminar: John Plotz (Brandeis) 'Laughter is from Mars: Science Fiction as Satire and Game'

17:00 - 18:30 3 April 2019
John Plotz is a professor of English at Brandeis University who specializes in Victorian literature and the novel. He is the author of The Crowd: British Literature and Public Politics…

Schuster Colloquium - Professor Lucie Green - Origins and Impact of Space Weather

15:00 - 16:30 3 April 2019
What is the Schuster Colloquium? The Schuster Colloquium is organised by the School of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Manchester. It takes place about half a dozen times…

Jallianwala Bagh 1919: Punjab Under Siege

11 April - 2 October 2019
Jallianwala Bagh 1919: Punjab Under Siege exhibition, developed in collaboration with The Partition Museum in India. This commemorative exhibit gives voice to the untold stories of…

Adaptive testing using Möbius (Maple TA) (Teaching Online Workshop Series)

13:00 - 14:00 15 April 2019
Adaptive testing using Möbius

MARG 2019 Lecture series "Corporate Sustainability: The Global Cement Industry and Its Approach to Architectural Culture" by Dr. Kim Föster

12:30 - 14:30 24 April 2019
MARG 2019 Lecture series "Corporate Sustainability: The Global Cement Industry and Its Approach to Architectural Culture" by Dr. Kim Föster

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