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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.…

Bethan Fisk (Leeds): 'Slavery and sacramental politics between Colombia’s two coasts'

17:00 - 18:30 16 October 2019
Conceptually the sacrament of baptism was a key tool in colonial governance of slavery in the Iberian world, yet the ways in which the ritual was practiced were contingent on the age,…

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…

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…

EmpoderaData: Data Skills for the Sustainable Development Goals in Latin America

11:30 - 16:30 16 October 2019
EmpoderaData, from the Spanish word empoderar for “to empower”, builds upon the success of the Q-Step program. Q-Step, for “Quantitative Step-change”, was developed as a strategic response…

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…

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…

Mercury Seminar: Multiple Degrees-Of-Freedom Input Devices for Interactive Command and Control within Virtual Reality in Industrial Visualisations in KB L.T 1.5

14:00 - 15:00 16 October 2019
Join us for the next computer Science Mercury talk on 16 October 2019 with speaker Mario Sandoval Host: Xiaojun Zeng Multiple Degrees-Of-Freedom Input Devices for Interactive Command…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 16 October 2019
David Schoch, The University of Manchester Projecting Signed Two-Mode Networks Research on signed networks is mainly driven by structural balance theory and the concept of clusterability…

Mo Dick Wong(Oxford) - Tail universality of Gaussian multiplicative chaos

15:00 16 October 2019
Abstract: Gaussian multiplicative chaos (GMC), formally known as the exponentiation of a log-correlated Gaussian field, has attracted much attention in recent years due to connections…

Modern Architecture Through the Lens of Antisemitism, and Vice Versa

17:00 - 18:30 16 October 2019
Leslie Topp, Birkbeck College, University of London Modern Architecture Through the Lens of Antisemitism, and Vice Versa Respondent: Matthew Jefferies, German Studies, The University…

One Giant Leap: Talk and Tour

12 October - 17 November 2019
One Giant Leap: Jodrell Bank and the Race to the Moon, 13:30-16:00 NEW DATES ANNOUNCED! 2019 marks 50 years since humans first set foot on another celestial body. And so, in this,…

Philosophy Research Seminar: Dr Sonia Roca Royes (Stirling)

15:10 - 16:55 16 October 2019
*Title: A Priori Knowledge and Peer (Dis-)agreement *Abstract: The phenomenon of persistent disagreement is large especially in areas, like Philosophy, where knowledge is typically…

Sam Sanders - Plato and the foundations of mathematics

15:00 16 October 2019
Sam Sanders joins us for the Logic Seminar. Plato is well-known in mathematics for the eponymous foundational philosophy ‘Platonism' based on ideal objects. Plato’s 'allegory of the…

Selection for antimicrobial resistance in the environment

12:30 - 13:30 16 October 2019
Dr Aimee Murray, University of Exeter Medical School, joins us for a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences seminar. Abstract below. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one…

Tameside Network - Autumn meeting

12:00 - 16:00 16 October 2019
Join us for our termly Primary Science Network Meeting for Tameside schools. To register for this meeting, please click on the 'register for this event' link under 'More information'

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…

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,…

The rise of a university: industry, engineering and science (Heritage Tour)

13:00 - 14:00 16 October 2019
This tour takes visitors on a journey from the height of the industrial revolution to the white heat of 1960s scientific and technological innovation. Our guides explain the history…

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…

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…

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…

US Content at A-Level – Free CPD Workshop for teachers

16:00 - 18:30 16 October 2019
For teachers of A-level History, English Literature and/or Film Studies The University of Manchester’s American Studies programme is delighted to announce a workshop for teachers…

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…

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