Exhibitions, Seminar

'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…

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…

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

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…

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…

Mitchell centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 27 March 2019
Andreas Herz, University of Hildesheim, Germany Gil Viry, University of Edinburgh Spatiality and reciprocity in family networks: A multilevel analysis The geographical dispersion…

Pankhurt Seminar with David Tobin: Forever Frontier? Identity and Insecurity in Chinese Central Asia

13:30 - 14:30 27 March 2019
David Tobin is Hallsworth Research Fellow in the Political Economy of China at the University of Manchester. He is currently researching how postcolonial relations between China and…

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 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,…

Understanding human behaviour with technology: context, challenges and impact

14:00 - 15:00 27 March 2019
Join us for this School research seminar, part of the Human centred computing seminar series and hosted by Professor Simon Harper. Mobile phones have an increasing spectrum of built-in…

Uranium as a contaminant and a paleoredox proxy

13:00 - 14:00 27 March 2019
Uranium (U), present in the tetravalent form (relatively insoluble as U(IV)) in igneous rocks, undergoes oxidation and mobilization as part of weathering. As a result, oxidized uranium…

'One world or two worlds? Defining Britain's place in the world economy from Bretton Woods to Brexit'.

16:00 28 March 2019
Thursday 28 March - 4.15 pm, Ellen Wilkinson, Graduate School C1.18 Martin Daunton (University of Cambridge) 'One world or two worlds? Defining Britain's place in the world economy from Bretton Woods to Brexit'.

CoDE Seminar: Encounters with the Neighbour in 1970s’ British Multicultural Comedy

12:00 - 13:00 28 March 2019
“If you don’t shut up, I’ll come and move in next door to you!” Such was the frequent response to audience heckles made by Britain’s first well-known black comedian, Charlie Williams.…

CoDE Seminar: Encounters with the Neighbour in 1970s’ British Multicultural Comedy

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr. Gergely Juhasz (Liverpool Hope University) - ‘From 1 Corinthians to Galatians: Unity and Discord as Hermeneutical Key for Protestant Self-Understanding in the Early Reformation’

14:00 - 16:00 28 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…

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