Exhibitions, Seminar

Applied Economics Seminar - Alessandro Tarozzi (UPF)

13:00 - 14:15 26 September 2019
Title: TBA

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…

CoDE Seminar: White Guilt: Black History as a pedagogical tool for repenting for group-based ‘sins’

12:00 - 13:00 26 September 2019
This session is based on data from a research school in the north of England. A white Scottish history teacher, "Joanne", made an admission of guilt during an interview in relation…

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,…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof. Peter Oakes (University of Manchester) “Comparing Galatians and Romans.”

14:00 - 16:00 26 September 2019
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. These seminars are free with no registration required. Seminars last 90 minutes including a 30 minute Q&A session. Tea and biscuits…

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…

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…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr. Katie Edwards (Director of SIIBS, University of Sheffield) “Rape Myths and Gospel Truths: The Bible and Sexual Violence”.

16:00 - 17:30 26 September 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,…

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…

Understanding the impact of high-risk practitioners on patient safety - Dr Matthew Spittal

12:00 - 13:00 27 September 2019
Lapses in professionalism and clinical performance are not uncommon and pose substantial threats to patient safety. Yet, the regulation of health professionals remains a fundamentally…

CEAS Department Seminar - Dr Javier Rubio Garcia

10:30 - 12:00 30 September 2019
As part of the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science School Seminar Series, we'll be welcoming Dr Javier Rubio Garcia, from Imperial College London, UK, on Monday 30th…

Douglas Howroyd (St Andrews) - On the Hausdorff dimension of microsets

15:00 - 16:00 30 September 2019
Douglas Howroyd (St Andrews) will be speaking at this research seminar, part of the Dynamical Systems and Analysis seminar series. Abstract: Microsets heuristically represent all…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Professor Kath Weston - 30th of September 2019

16:00 - 18:00 30 September 2019
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 30 September 2019 Professor Kath Weston – University of Edinburgh “Planetary Dispossession: Ecological Inheritance and the Last Generation.”…

Advances in Data Science Seminar : ‘A global-local approach for detecting eQTL hotspots in ultra-high multiple response regressions’

14:00 - 15:00 1 October 2019
Institute for Data Science & Artificial Intelligence Leonardo Bottolo (University of Cambridge / Alan Turing Institute) - A global-local approach for detecting eQTL hotspots in ultra-high…

John Blackman (Durham) - A geometric algorithm for multiplying continued fractions with applications to the p-adic Littlewood conjecture

15:00 - 16:00 1 October 2019
Join us for this research seminar, part of the Number Theory Seminar Series. Abstract : In recent years, the problem of deducing the continued fraction expansion of px from the continued…

John Brigham - Evaluation of Variations in the In Vivo Mechanics of the Human Right Ventricle through Shape Analysis Based Strategies

12:00 - 13:00 1 October 2019
Join us for this research seminar, part of the SQUIDS (Statistics, quantification of uncertainty, inverse problems and data science) seminar series. Abstract: Right ventricular (RV)…

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