Exhibitions, Seminar

Applied Economics Seminar - Felix Ward (Erasmus)

13:00 - 14:15 10 October 2019
Title: TBA

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. Mary Mills (Newman University) “Memorialising Jeremiah’s Jerusalem: Walking the City with Walter Benjamin.”

14:00 - 16:00 10 October 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…

Hendrik Suess - Toric topology of G(2,5) and the del Pezzo surface of degree 5

14:30 - 15:30 10 October 2019
This talk is concerned with the topology of the orbit space of the action of a maximal compact torus on the complex Grassmannian G(2,5). More precisely, I will discuss how to calculate…

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…

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. Kerry Pimblott (Manchester) “Beyond De-Christianization: Rethinking the Religious Landscapes and Legacies of Black Power in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter”

16:00 - 17:30 10 October 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.

Scale up Partnership breakfast event: How to build your leadership capacity

08:00 - 10:00 10 October 2019
Hear from Ciara Keeling, CEO at Bruntwood Works and Robin Martin, Professor of Organisational Psychology, Alliance Manchester Business School as they discuss leadership capacity, workplace…

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,…

This Garden of Ours

10:00 4 October - 17:00 1 November 2019
This Garden of Ours Fri 4 Oct – Fri 1 Nov A collaborative art project researching global horticulture, This Garden of Ours explores stories and links between the migration of plants…

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…

Young, Rich & Famous

10:00 1 October 2019 - 17:00 1 January 2020
In this digital age of collecting selfies and more on social media, what does immortality mean? Manchester Museum’s latest installation at Manchester’s Central Library, Young, Rich…

Cesare Ardito - Classifying 2-blocks with an elementary abelian defect group

15:00 - 16:00 11 October 2019
This week's pure postgrad seminar will be given by Cesare Ardito at 3pm in Frank Adams 1. Abstract: Donovan's conjecture predicts that given a p-group D there are only finitely many…

Five Minute Talks - Informal Applied Mathematics Seminar

16:00 - 17:00 11 October 2019
We will be resuming the Informal Applied Mathematics seminars for the new academic year with the customary 5-minute talks. Students will be presenting their PhDs (so far) in no more…

Tapestries

12 October 2019 - 1 March 2020
A tapestry is a coming together of people or things, usually thread, to make an intricate whole. This exhibition shows the breadth of the textiles at the Whitworth that are made with…

CEAS Department Seminar - Dr Ronny Pini

10:30 - 12:00 14 October 2019
As part of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science Department Seminar Series, we'll be welcoming Dr Ronny Pini, from Imperial College London, UK, on Monday 14…

DMDS Divisional Seminar

13:00 - 14:00 14 October 2019
DMDS Divisional Seminar Date: Monday 14 October 2019 Time: 1.00pm Venue: Stopford Building, Room 2.823/5 Catherine O'Neill – “From molecule to medicine: translation through commercialisation…

Seminar: ML to Augment Scholarly Infrastructure

14:00 - 15:00 14 October 2019
Join us for the next Computer Science Seminar with speaker Paco Nathan ML to Augment Scholarly Infrastructure This talk is about Rich Context and the associated new features for data…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Monday, 14th October 2019 - Dr Catherine Allerton – London School of Economics

16:00 - 18:00 14 October 2019
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 14 October 2019 Dr Catherine Allerton – London School of Economics “Transnational Ambivalence: Belonging and Forgetting Among Children Of Migrants…

Thomas Jordan (Bristol) - Dimension of ergodic measures projected onto self-similar sets

15:00 - 16:00 14 October 2019
Thomas Jordan (Bristol) will be speaking at this research seminar, part of the Dynamical Systems and Analysis seminar series. Abstract: Joint work with Ariel Rapaport. Self-similar…

Chris Lutsko (Bristol) - Farey sequences for Thin Groups.

15:00 - 16:00 15 October 2019
Join us for this research seminar, part of the Number Theory Seminar Series. Abstract : The study of thin groups has become a hot topic at the centre of a great deal of modern research.…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Normalised volumes of singularities

14:00 - 15:00 15 October 2019
The speaker on October 15 is: Hendrik Suess (Manchester) Title: Normalised volumes of singularities Abstract: The notion of the normalised volume of a singularity has been introduced…

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