All events

Applied Health Domain meeting Re: Evergreen

13:00 - 15:00 25 September 2019
We invite interested researchers to a brainstorming meeting to discuss opportunities for research with Evergreen (https://www.evergreen-life.co.uk/personal-health-record) on Wednesday…

Ballroom and Latin for Beginners

13:05 25 September - 13:55 20 November 2019
Back due to popular demand, this autumn the Martin Harris Centre is going back to basics again! Join us for ‘Ballroom and Latin for Beginners’ in a relaxed and friendly environment.…

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…

CPPI Research Cluster Seminar with Dr. Gaby Ramia: Welfare State Transformation as a Global, National and Comparative Phenomenon: A Regulatory and Case Study Analysis

15:30 - 17:00 25 September 2019
Please join the CPPI Research Cluster for Dr. Gaby Ramia (University of Sydney) on 'Welfare State Transformation as a Global, National and Comparative Phenomenon: A Regulatory and Case…

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,…

Daily: Art Hampers – resources for families at the Whitworth

10:00 31 August 2018 - 10:00 31 May 2020
Are you and your family hungry to get creative? Pick up a picnic hamper with a difference. Come to our Oxford Road or Parkside entrance and pick up one of our special hampers - free…

EAC Welcome Symposium

16:00 - 18:00 25 September 2019
Join us to start the year and celebrate new work by staff and students in EAC! Nicole Gipson, PhD student, American Studies 'A Call to Consciousness: Yetta Adams and the War on Homelessness…

Elizabeth Price

25 September 2019 - 1 March 2020
Bringing together many new and acclaimed works - including drawings, sculpture and video - this exhibition engages with Price’s pre-occupations of technology, history, politics and…

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…

GDI Lecture with Prof Stephanie Barrientos: Gender and Work: Capturing the Gains in Global Value Chains

17:00 - 18:30 25 September 2019
The Global Development Institute Lecture Series is pleased to present Prof Stephanie Barrientos: Gender and Work: Capturing the Gains in Global Value Chains The Global Development…

GPE Cluster Seminar with David Blaney- Late-Victorian Economists and Empire: Jevons, Marshall and the Cultural Political Economy of Trade

15:30 - 17:00 25 September 2019
Please join us for the joint seminar of Global Political Economy and Critical Global Politics Research clusters with David Blaney (Macalester College). David Blaney works on the social…

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…

Making the modern world: England's first civic university (Heritage Tour)

13:00 - 14:00 25 September 2019
This tour takes visitors on a journey from the beginnings of England’s first civic university to the sites of world changing discoveries. It begins within the fine neo-gothic architecture…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 18:00 25 September 2019
Alejandro Espinosa-Rada, The University of Manchester Dynamic Multilevel Approach for the study of Scientific Networks How can we understand scientific networks using a dynamic multilevel…

One Giant Leap: Talk, Tour and Picnic

22 May - 25 September 2019
One Giant Leap: Jodrell Bank and the Race to the Moon July 2019 will mark 50 years since humans first set foot on another celestial body. In this, the 50th anniversary year of the…

Philosophy Research Seminar: Dr David Liggins (Manchester)

15:10 - 16:55 25 September 2019
*Title: The Truth-teller *Abstract: The Liar is the proposition which says of itself that it is not true. It has been extensively discussed, chiefly because it raises a paradox. Relatively…

Rosario Mennuni - Double-membership graphs of models of Anti-Foundation

15:00 - 16:00 25 September 2019
Rosario Mennuni joins us for the Logic Seminar. It is an old result that the "membership graph" of any countable model of set theory, obtained by joining x and y if x is in y *or*…

Royal Statistical Society Course - Introduction to R & Statistical Modelling in R

25 - 26 September 2019
A two-day foundation course delivered by the Royal Statistical Society in partnership with methods@manchester Course Outline The purpose of this course is to introduce participants…

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,…

Tours at Two

14:00 20 April 2018 - 14:45 31 December 2019
Each day our public tours are led by our Visitor Team and are an insightful view into our history, collections, exhibition spaces, architecture and park. Daily tours are designed for…

Tracing planetary differentiation with experimental petrology

13:00 - 14:00 25 September 2019
Planetary accretion and core formation are thought to have been simultaneous processes, and both left distinctive imprints on the composition of the silicate portions of planets. To…

Travels with Maps: a Journey through Spatial History Methods and Questions

04:00 - 05:30 25 September 2019
Digital Humanities Seminar Speaker Dr Katherine (Katie) McDonough, Senior Research Associate, The Alan Turing Institute Katie is a historian of eighteenth-century France working at…

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…

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