Exhibitions, Seminar

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…

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…

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…

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…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Ivan Rajkovic – (Max Planck)

16:00 - 18:00 1 April 2019
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 1st April 2019 Dr Ivan Rajkovic – (Max Planck) “Balkanizing Sahlins: National Humiliation and Stranger Capitalism in a Semi-Periphery” Focusing…

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,…

Josep Pijoan-Mas (CEMFI)

16:15 - 17:45 2 April 2019
Macro seminar

Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series

15:30 - 17:00 2 April 2019
Danka Jandric, PhD candidate at the University of Manchester will give a talk entitled Functional Connectivity with Resting State fMRI

CEAS 2019 School seminar - Prof Andrea Cipollina

11:00 - 12:00 3 April 2019
As part of the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science School Seminar Series, we'll be welcoming Prof Andrea Cipollina from Iniversita di Palermo, Italy, on Wednesday…

Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Research Seminar - Olivia Casagrande (Marie Curie Fellow, Social Anthropology, Manchester) - Wednesday 3 April 2019

17:00 - 18:30 3 April 2019
Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Research Seminar Date : Wednesday 3 April 2019 Manchas Y Parches: (Un)Making The Indigenous City Through Performance And Critical Mapping…

CGP Research Cluster Seminar with Reiko Shindo: Solidarity with migrants? Rethinking citizenship from the perspective of inaudibility'

15:30 - 17:00 3 April 2019
Please join the CGP Research Cluster Seminar for Reiko Shindo's 'Solidarity with migrants? Rethinking citizenship from the perspective of inaudibility'. Dr Reiko Shindo is a Lecturer…

CPPI Research Cluster Seminar with Tao Wang: Legislators as Mommies and Daddies, How Confucian Culture Shapes Representation in Taiwan

15:30 - 17:00 3 April 2019
Please join the CPPI Research Cluster for Tao Wang's 'Legislators as Mommies and Daddies, How Confucian Culture Shapes Representation in Taiwan'. Tao Wang is a Doctoral Researcher…

Departmental Seminar: Dr Rachael Wiseman (Liverpool)

15:00 3 April 2019
Title *Linguistic Idealism, Rule-Following, and Human Essence Abstract *G. E. M. Anscombe, following Wittgenstein, endorses a ‘partial linguistic idealism’: some things that fall under…

Digital Trust and Security - Guest Lecture Series - Adam Joinson

12:00 - 13:00 3 April 2019
What do digital footprints reveal about people (and why we should care)? To what extent does our online activity reveal who we are? Recent research has demonstrated that the digital…

Flexible and transparent data reuse

14:00 - 15:00 3 April 2019
Join us for this School research seminar, part of the Data science seminar series and hosted by Professor Carole Goble. A central challenge in our modern information environment is…

Mitchell centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 3 April 2019
Alex Stivala, Swinburne University of Technology ERGM parameter estimation of very large directed networks: implementation, example, and application to the geography of knowledge spillovers…

Morgan Centre seminar: “Well, it’ll be quite a worksite” - Young women’s expectations of and solutions towards work-family reconciliation

02:30 - 15:15 3 April 2019
Speaker: Outi Alakärppä, visiting PhD student, Department of Education, University of Jyväskylä, Finland Work intensification, uncertainty about getting a job and non-standard working…

Olivia Casagrande (Manchester) 'Manchas y parches: (Un)making the indigenous city through performance and critical mapping in Santiago, Chile'

17:00 - 18:30 3 April 2019
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Research Seminar. Venue: Sam Alex A215

The impact of volcanism on Earth's atmosphere: from present-day volcanic 'pollution' to geological mass extinction events

13:00 - 14:00 3 April 2019
Volcanoes are spectacular natural phenomena. Earth has experienced volcanism since its beginnings and observing a volcanic eruption is a truly primeval experience. Volcanoes have shaped…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr. Dominika Kurek-Chomycz (Liverpool Hope University) - ‘The Wedded Wife of Romans 7:1-6’

14:00 - 16:00 4 April 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…

MANCEPT Research Cluster with Jessica Begon: Neutral Impairment, Disadvantageous Disability

16:00 - 17:30 4 April 2019
Please join the MANCEPT Research Cluster for Jessica Begon's "Neutral Impairment, Disadvantageous Disability". Dr Jessica Begon is an Assistant Professor in Political Theory in the…

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