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…

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,…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

Serhiy Stepanchuk (Southampton)

16:15 - 17:45 30 April 2019
Macro seminar

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,…

'Feminine Abstraction' - Jadranka Ryle

17:00 - 18:30 1 May 2019
As part of the Art History Research Seminar series, Jadranka Ryle (PhD Candidate, Art History and Cultural Practices), will be delivering a paper entitled: #Feminine abstraction: the…

Clouds in the laboratory: Wind tunnel experiments on collision-coalescence and riming

13:00 - 14:00 1 May 2019
Since 30 years the Mainz Vertical Wind Tunnel facility is operational for experiments on cloud microphysics and chemistry with emphasis on larger hydrometeors. After the extending…

Confucius Institute Film Club

15:00 - 17:00 1 May 2019
We are holding our Film Club, one of our intercultural activities for students once again from February! The club is providing a platform for students to engage in inter-cultural…

D&E Seminar with Chris Prosser: ‘What we talk about when we talk about Leave: Using open-ended survey questions to understand Brexit

15:30 - 17:00 1 May 2019
Dr Chris Prosser is a Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, working on the British Election Study. In the aftermath of the 2016 EU Referendum, there has been much discussion…

Departmental Seminar: Dr Jani Hakkarainen

15:10 - 16:55 1 May 2019
Title *Categorial Fundamentality and Non-Fundamentality Abstract *At the moment, there is a lively debate on fundamentality in metaphysics and metametaphysics, as is documented by…

GPE Seminar with Kathryn Hochstetler: Political Economies of Energy Transition: Wind and Solar Power in Brazil and South Africa

15:00 - 16:30 1 May 2019
Professor Kathryn Hochstetler is a Professor of International Development at the LSE. http://www.lse.ac.uk/international-development/people/kathy-hochstetler 'Wind power has expanded…

Inma Pedregosa (University of Roehampton): Mediation: Lessons from the CEFR Companion Volume and first ideas on how to teach and assess “the fifth skill”

17:00 - 18:30 1 May 2019
Part of the Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies Research Seminar Series.

Lives of Letters: Letters to the editor

15:00 - 16:30 1 May 2019
Join us for the fourth seminar of the semester. Speakers tbc.

Mitchell centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 1 May 2019
Siobhan McAndrew, University of Bristol Explaining values divides using network methods The ongoing rise of authoritarian populism has revealed new political cleavages rooted in…

Pankhurst Seminar Series with Dr Nicole Martin: Biases at the Ballot Box: How Prejudiced are British Voters against Ethnic Minority MPs?

12:00 - 13:00 1 May 2019
Dr Nicole Martin is a Lecturer at the University of Manchester. 'Candidates for political office are increasingly ethnically diverse, including in the UK. In this presentation, I look…

Shirley Ye (Birmingham) 'The Politics and Education of Water Control in Republican China'

16:00 1 May 2019
Wednesday 1 May - 4.15 pm, Samuel Alexander A113. Shirley Ye (Birmingham) 'The Politics and Education of Water Control in Republican China'.

Advanced Modular Reactors: the future of Nuclear Power in the UK?

11:30 - 12:30 2 May 2019
In 2018 the Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy initiated a competition to look at the feasibility of a range of new reactor technologies, as the next step from the…

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