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'Circulating Capital: Northern Ireland and the Politics of Heritage' - Sarah Feinstein

17:00 - 18:30 27 March 2019
As part of the Art History Research Seminar series, Sarah Feinstein (Art History and Cultural Practices) will be delivering a paper entitled: 'Circulating Capital: Northern Ireland and the Politics of Heritage'

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…

COMMONISM

19:00 - 20:30 27 March 2019
Written by Smith & Sveen “It has an emotional charge under its cool surface, is propelled by a sense of investigation into friendship, performance, identity. I found it quietly thrilling.”…

Creative Manchester presents Music on Campus

12:00 - 14:00 27 March 2019
Creative Manchester presents Music on Campus Listening to music reduces stress and can have a relaxing effect on our mind and bodies, therefore take some time to prioritise your wellbeing…

D&E Seminar with Rosalind Shorrocks: Party Policy Positions and the Varying Electoral Gender Gap

15:30 - 17:00 27 March 2019
Rosalind Shorrocks is a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Manchester. Rosie's research interests focus on gender and voting, British elections, and generational change in political…

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…

David Treece (King’s College London), ‘Samba and black activism in 1970s Brazil: Candeia and the Quilombo project’

17:00 - 18:30 27 March 2019
Part of the Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies Research Seminar Series. Room: Sam Alex A104

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…

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…

GPE Research Cluster with Simone Claar: South African class relations and international trade

15:00 - 16:30 27 March 2019
Please join the GPE Research Cluster for Simone Claar's "South African class relations and international trade" The South African government freely joined the negotiations of an Economic…

Great Escape: Tai Chi for Wellbeing

08:30 - 09:30 27 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…

Guided Campus Visit

13:30 - 15:30 27 March 2019
Can’t come to one of our open days? Join us for one of our regular guided visits of our campus instead and get a feel for the facilities, amenities and atmosphere you’ll enjoy as a…

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…

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…

Making the modern world: England's first civic university (Heritage Tour)

13:00 - 14:00 27 March 2019
This tour takes visitors on a journey from the beginnings of England’s first civic university to the sites of world changing discoveries. It begins within the fine neo-gothic architecture…

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

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