Exhibitions, Seminar

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…

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…

CTIS Seminar: Claiming and Recognizing Expertise in Climate Science Internet Discourse: A Corpus-based Approach

14:00 2 May 2019

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…

MANCEPT Research Cluster with Catherine Lu: Three Faces of Ethics – How Our Conceptions of Individual Ethics Need to Expand in Light of Structural Injustice

16:00 - 17:30 2 May 2019
Please join the MANCEPT Research Cluster for Catherine Lu's: "Three Faces of Ethics – How Our Conceptions of Individual Ethics Need to Expand in Light of Structural Injustice" Catherine…

Noorah al Gailani - "Uzbek Suzani embroideries"

17:00 - 18:30 2 May 2019
As part of the Whitworth Studies Seminars series, Noorah al Gailani, Curator of Islamic Civilisations, Glasgow Museums, The Burrell Collection, will be delivering a paper entitled "Uzbek…

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: Dr. Carl Kilcourse (Manchester Metropolitan University) - ‘Conflict in the Heavenly Capital’

16:00 - 17:30 2 May 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,…

Who Cares? - 'A growing collection of stories about people caring for nature across Greater Manchester.'

2 May - 31 July 2019
A growing collection of stories about people caring for nature across Greater Manchester. A Heritage Futures Studio Residency at Manchester Museum 29th April - 31st July 2019 In…

JMCE Seminar with Soumhya Venkatesan, ‘The Promise and Melancholy of Brexit from the Perspective of Brexiteers’

6 May 2019
Please join the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence for the seminar 'The Promise and Melancholy of Brexit from the Perspective of Brexiteers' with Soumhya Venkatesan. Soumhya is a Lecturer…

David Nagy (CREI)

16:15 - 17:45 7 May 2019
Macro seminar

HCRI Research Series: 10 Years of HCRI, Jen Peterson

16:00 - 18:00 7 May 2019
HCRI celebrates its 10 year anniversary with a rich programme of events. Join us for our research seminar series featuring current and alumni colleagues, and current and alumni postgraduate…

Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series

15:30 - 16:30 7 May 2019
Project discussion meeting chaired by Dr Jason Taylor Caroline Lea-Carnall - new project - Functional MRS Ben Dickie - new porject - glucose enhanced MRS for detection of altered glucose transport in dementia

CGP Research Cluster with Olivia Rutazibwa: On the Ruins of Epistemicide. Decolonising International Solidarity through Blackness

14:30 - 16:00 8 May 2019
Please join the CGP Research Cluster for Olivia Rutazibwa's "On the Ruins of Epistemicide. Decolonising International Solidarity through Blackness". Dr Olivia Rutazibwa is a Senior…

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