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…

China's new global economic footprint: the political economy of intellectual property rights and innovation protection

12:00 - 13:30 22 May 2019
Intellectual property rights (IPRs) have become a bone of contention, not just between China and the US but also about China’s role and commitment to the global political economy.…

Don Share in conversation with John McAuliffe

17:00 - 19:00 22 May 2019
The John Rylands Research Institute and Centre for New Writing are pleased to present: Don Share in conversation with John McAuliffe. Don Share is the editor of Poetry magazine. His…

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…

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…

Li Yuan Chia: Unique Photographs

18 May - 15 December 2019
In his lifetime, Li Yuan Chia (1929-1994) travelled from China, to Taiwan, Bologna and London but found his home in a house that he bought in 1972 from Winifred Nicholson in Banks at…

Manchester Neuroimaging with Dr Brice Fernandez, General Electric Healthcare

13:00 - 14:00 22 May 2019
Dr Brice Fernandez of General Electric Healthcare will give a talk entitled Multi-echo EPI (and Multiband Multi-echo EPI) on task and resting state

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 Mineralogy of Nuclear Meltdowns

13:00 - 14:00 22 May 2019
In April 1986, Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant underwent a catastrophic failure. This nuclear incident resulted in 31 direct deaths and caused a radioactive plume to…

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…

CoDE Seminar: The Pains and Reach of Racism and Economic Adversity In Young Londoners’ Lives: Sketching The Contours

12:00 23 May 2019
This paper sketches an analytical framework to conceptualise the way racial power and socio-economic precarity impacts the everyday lives of young minority ethnic Londoners. Using life…

Tyndall Manchester Seminar by Professor John Barrett

13:00 - 14:00 23 May 2019
Achieving rapid energy demand reduction in the UK John Barrett, Sustainable Research Institute, University of Leeds While reducing energy demand has been described as the fastest and…

Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series

15:30 - 16:30 28 May 2019
Dr Julian Matthews, Dr Martyn McFarquhar and Dr Jason Taylor will lead the discussion on How to share neuroimaging data - a discussion of the XNAT platform Chaired by Dr Laura Parkes

Singing for Wellbeing

17:00 - 17:30 28 May 2019
How would you like to sing songs from around the world?! Join us for an interactive talk to explore the beneficial impact singing can have on our sense of belonging, wellbeing and…

Social Anthropology Simon Professorship Research Seminar - Professor Bruce Grant

16:00 - 18:00 28 May 2019
“A Particular Pluralism: The Caucasus, Satirically” Molla Nasreddin was a satirical, Azerbaijani-language broadsheet that ran from 1905 to 1931, lampooning the powerful across some…

CMB&RM seminar: High-throughput skeletal phenotyping of KO mice from the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium; new biology and opportunities for data integration

14:00 - 15:00 30 May 2019
The International Knockout Mouse Consortium (IMPC) aims to generate knockout mice for all 20,000 protein coding genes in C57BL6/N mice and decipher their function. To date around 8,000…

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