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…

Claire Bishop - "Information Overload: Research Based Art and the Politics of Attention"

17:00 4 April 2019
As part of the Whitworth Studies Seminars series, Claire Bishop, Pilkington Visiting Professor in Art History and Cultural Practices, The University of Manchester (and Professor of…

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…

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…

History and scale: early modern global microhistories

16:00 4 April 2019
Thursday 4 April - 4.15pm, Samuel Alexander A113. Anne Gerritsen (University of Warwick) and Adrianna Catena (University of Warwick) 'History and scale: early modern global microhistories'.

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…

Lives of Letters: International Agents

17:00 - 18:30 4 April 2019
Please join us for our third seminar of the semester, featuring two twenty-minute presentations and discussion. All welcome! The Reception of Milton’s First Defence in Dutch Correspondence…

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…

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: Reverend Canon Professor John Rodwell (Honorary Research Fellow, Lincoln Theological Institute) - ‘From Curiosity to Commodity: Making Claims on Nature’

16:00 - 17:30 4 April 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,…

CEAS 2019 School seminar - Prof Søren Kegnæs

10:30 - 11:30 8 April 2019
As part of the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science School Seminar Series, we'll be welcoming Prof Søren Kegnæs from Technical University of Denmark, on Monday 8 April,…

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…

Peterloo - 1819

16:30 - 19:00 11 April 2019
To mark 200 years since the Peterloo Massacre, join us as we launch the special anniversary edition of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library: Peterloo – 1819. The evening will be…

CEAS 2019 School seminar - Dr Ljiljana Fruk

11:00 - 12:00 15 April 2019
As part of the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science School Seminar Series, we'll be welcoming Dr Ljiljana Fruk, from the University of Cambridge, on Wednesday 3 April,…

UK history of nuclear communications: The good, bad and lessons learned

12:00 - 14:00 16 April 2019
12:00-13:00 Lunch and lecture 13:00-14:00 Activity session (optional) Delivered by the National Nuclear Laboratory’s Director of External Relations, Adrian Bull, and Plant Chemist…

Digital Health Seminar: Dr Pratap Kumar

11:00 - 12:00 18 April 2019
Join the Health eResearch Centre for the latest in their series of Digital Health Seminars. Title: Frugal innovation in health systems technology in LMIC settings Speaker: Dr Pratap…

Heritage Futures Studio – ‘The Oxford Road Murders: the real value of urban trees’

06:00 25 April - 17:00 6 May 2019
Do we want a future without trees? Trees in cities are key for health and well-being, carbon storage, pollution amerilation, slowing rainwater runoff, urban cooling, wildlife and landscape.…

CEAS 2019 School seminar - Prof Mathais Ulbricht

11:00 - 12:00 29 April 2019
As part of the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science School Seminar Series, we'll be welcoming Prof. Mathias Ulbricht, from Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany, on Monday…

CMI Afternoon Seminar: Combining Self-reports with Passive Data Collection on Smartphones - Prof Florian Keusch

15:00 - 16:15 30 April 2019
Speaker: Prof. Florian Keusch, University of Mannheim Abstract: An abstract will be available closer to the date of the seminar Tea/coffee and cakes from 2.45. Join us for this event,…

Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series

15:30 - 16:30 30 April 2019
Dr Andrej Stancak, University of Liverpool, will give a talk entitled Electrophysiological investigations into value and risk-based decision making

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