Exhibitions, Seminar

Beyond Faith: Muslim Women Artists Today

14 June - 6 October 2019
This exhibition of five contemporary artists presents their work in conversation with pieces selected from the Whitworth’s art collection. It brings together the artworks and stories…

Cézanne at the Whitworth

24 August 2019 - 1 March 2020
This exhibition celebrates an extraordinary collection of drawings and prints by Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) that has been gifted and placed on long-term loan to the Whitworth by gallerist,…

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…

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…

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…

Monday Scientific Seminar - Monday 16 September 2019

13:00 - 14:00 16 September 2019
Monday Scientific Seminar Date: Monday 16 September 2019 Time: 1.00pm Venue: Stopford Building, Room 2.823/5 Special Divisional Teaching event for ALL staff and postgrads in Division…

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,…

Unreformed: Wallpaper and Design Diversity

17 August 2019 - 5 July 2020
Unreformed: Wallpaper and Design Diversity In the middle of the nineteenth century wallpaper design suddenly became diverse. English manufacturers began to excel at the quick production…

Mark Girolami - The statistical finite element method

12:00 - 13:00 17 September 2019
Join us for this research seminar, part of the SQUIDS (Statistics, quantification of uncertainty, inverse problems and data science) seminar series. Abstract: The finite element method…

“Welcome to the City of Expired Tear Gas”: Tourism and Politics in Hong Kong

16:00 - 17:30 19 September 2019
During the worst political crisis in Hong Kong’s history, anti-government protesters have staged massive sit-ins at the city’s airport. This talk examines the tactics and promotional…

Seminar: Parsl: Pervasive Parallel Programming in Python

14:00 - 15:00 20 September 2019
Join us for the next Computer Science Atlas talk with Daniel S Katz from the University of Illinois, USA. High-level programming languages such as Python are increasingly used to…

University of Manchester - Enhancing Employability Conference

09:30 - 15:30 20 September 2019
We're signed up to attend the Enhancing Employability Conference. This annual event is organised and delivered jointly by the University of Manchester School of Nursing, University…

Adriana Dawes - Modeling cell fate specification in organogenesis

14:00 - 14:50 23 September 2019
(Room 3.44b Simon Building) Join us for this seminar by Adriana Dawes (Ohio State) as part of the Mathematics in the Life Sciences Series. Abstract: Nematode worms of the genus Caenorhabditis…

From Royal Cosmographers to Digital Humanists: a computational approach to Early Colonial Mexico - Raquel Liceras-Garrido, Lancaster University

16:00 - 17:30 23 September 2019
Digital Humanities Seminar

Leticia Pardo-Simon (Liverpool) - Splitting hairs with transcendental entire functions

15:00 - 16:00 23 September 2019
Leticia Pardo-Simon (Liverpool) will be speaking at this research seminar, part of the Dynamical Systems and Analysis seminar series. Abstract: In the study of the behaviour under…

Scientific Seminar of the Centre for Musculoskeletal Research - Monday 23 September 2019

13:00 - 14:00 23 September 2019
Scientific Seminar of the Centre for Musculoskeletal Research Date: Monday 23 September 2019 Time: 1.00pm Venue: Stopford Building, Room 2.823/5 Kim Lauper – “Real-world evidence…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Marco Di Nunzio - 23 September 2019

16:00 - 18:00 23 September 2019
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 23 September 2019 Dr Marco Di Nunzio – University of Birmingham “The Act of Living. Street Life, Marginality and Development in Urban Ethiopa…

University Sustainability Seminar Series: Finance

13:00 - 14:00 23 September 2019
Join us to talk finance for our first sustainability seminar of the 2019/20 academic year. The seminar will be chaired by Professor Amanda Bamford (FBMH) and the speakers will be…

Ajay Jasra - Unbiased estimation of the gradient of the log-likelihood for partially observed diffusions

12:00 - 13:00 24 September 2019
Join us for this research seminar, part of the SQUIDS (Statistics, quantification of uncertainty, inverse problems and data science) seminar series. Abstract: In this work we present…

Bogdanow Masterclass in Holocaust Studies 2019

14:00 - 16:00 24 September 2019
We are delighted to announce that the fifth series of Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies will be given by Prof. Tony Kushner (University of Southampton). As part of the annual lecture…

Efthymios Sofos (Glasgow) - Multivariate Gaussian distribution for integral points

15:00 - 16:00 24 September 2019
Join us for this research seminar, part of the Number Theory Seminar Series. Abstract : Given a Diophantine equation with "many" integer solutions, one may ask what is known about…

Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series

15:30 - 16:30 24 September 2019
Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series - Darya Frank, University of Manchester, will look at How to use representational similarity analysis for fMRI

Peter Loxley - Dynamic programming with sparse codes: investigating a new computational role for sparse representations of natural image sequences

14:00 - 15:00 24 September 2019
Join us for this research seminar, part of the SQUIDS (Statistics, quantification of uncertainty, inverse problems and data science) seminar series. ***Please note unusual time and…

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