Exhibitions, Seminar

Applied Economics Seminar - Antonio Castro Henriques (Porto)

13:00 - 14:00 24 October 2019
Title: TBA

CTIS Seminar: "Subtitles Must Go!" The Invention, Innovation and Diffusion of Dubbing

14:00 - 15:30 24 October 2019
My presentation draws on a three-year research project funded by the British Academy which investigates the transatlantic development and diffusion of interlingual dubbing in the years…

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: Dr Benedict Kent (University of Manchester) "Graeco-Roman Curse Tablets and Paul’s Cursing in Galatians.”

14:00 - 16:00 24 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…

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…

James Montaldi - The 2-body problem on surfaces of constant curvature

14:30 - 15:30 24 October 2019
James Montaldi joins us for the Geometry, Topology and Mathematicals Physics Seminar. Abstract: By reducing to the centre of mass frame, the 2-body problem in the plane reduces to…

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: Caleb Gordon (Manchester) "Theology, Aesthetics & Environmental Ethics: A Critical Proposal for the Inclusion of Aesthetic Experience[...]”

16:00 - 17:30 24 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.

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,…

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…

CEAS Department Seminar - Prof Josep Bonet

10:30 - 12:00 25 October 2019
As part of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science Department Seminar Series, we'll be welcoming Prof Josep Bonet, from University Rovira i Virgili , Spain, on…

Claudio Marchi - Primitive characters of odd order groups and conjugacy classes

15:00 - 16:00 25 October 2019
This week's pure postgrad seminar will be given by Claudio Marchi at 3pm in Frank Adams 1. Abstract: Character theory is a fundamental tool for studying the structure of finite groups…

Marcus Webb - Beyond Chebyshev Technology

14:00 - 15:00 25 October 2019
Marcus Webb will be speaking at this seminar. Abstract : Chebfun is a MATLAB software package for computing numerically with functions, whose inner workings boil down essentially to…

CEAS Department Seminar - Prof Fausto Gallucci

10:30 - 12:00 28 October 2019
As part of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science Department Seminar Series, we'll be welcoming Prof Fausto Gallucci, from Eindhoven University Technology, The…

DMDS Divisional Seminar - Monday 28 October 2019

13:00 - 14:00 28 October 2019
DMDS Divisional Seminar Date: Monday 28 October 2019 Time: 1.00pm Venue: Stopford Building, Room 2.823/5 Cloudy with a Chance of Pain? Results of our UK-wide smartphone study Presenters:…

Dying experiments. A case study

15:30 - 16:30 28 October 2019
Join us for MIOIR External Seminar Series 19/20, seminar hosted by Dr Lukas Mairhofer. Abstract: Working experiments are the exception rather than the rule. Experimental setups seem…

Seminar: Nano-carbons in the Environment: From single- to mixture toxicity assessment

12:00 - 13:00 28 October 2019
Dr Diego Stefani Teodoro Martinez, from Brazilian Nanotechnology National Laboratory (LNNano) at the National Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), Campinas, Brazil is…

Natalia Bochkina - Bayesian Inverse Problems with Heterogeneous Variance

12:00 - 13:00 29 October 2019
***Please note unusual location*** Join us for this research seminar, part of the SQUIDS (Statistics, quantification of uncertainty, inverse problems and data science) seminar series.…

Tyndall Manchester seminar- Professor Sarah Bell- Community co-design for resilient infrastructure

13:30 - 14:30 29 October 2019
Infrastructure resilience requires wide stakeholder engagement, including with local communities and households. This is a challenge for professions, organisations and policies that…

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