Exhibitions, Seminar

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,…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

Philosophy Research Seminar: Dr Nakul Krishna (Cambridge)

15:10 - 16:55 30 October 2019
*Title: Analytic Philosophy as a Stylistic Tradition? *Abstract: Historians of analytic philosophy have looked to many things to unite the disparate range of philosophers and texts…

Volcanic outgassing of sulphur and metals

13:00 - 14:00 30 October 2019
Prof Marie Edmonds, University of Cambridge, joins us for a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences seminar. Abstract below. It is well known that volcanic eruptions produce…

Applied Economics Seminar - Sabrina Eisenbarth (Exeter)

13:00 - 14:15 31 October 2019
Title: TBA

CoDE Seminar: Conviviality at/from the border

31 October 2019
This CoDE Seminar is presented by De Luke de Noronha, Simon Fellow at the University of Manchester, whose research focuses on immigration control, deportation and racism. Paul Gilroy’s…

Understanding our skin – what happens as we age?

13:00 - 16:00 31 October 2019
You are invited to a free seminar on Understanding our skin – what happens as we age? MICRA is pleased to announce the first seminar of the 2019/20 academic year - Understanding…

Macro Seminar - Gabriele La Spada

15:00 - 16:00 1 November 2019
Title: Investors’ Appetite for Money-Like Assets: The MMF Industry after the 2014 Regulatory Reform

MaRMN seminar with Professor Kostas Kostarelos - " How does the Brain respond to Implantation of Macro- and Nano-Devices?

13:00 - 14:00 1 November 2019
PLEASE NOTE - THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED IT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FOR 17 JANUARY 2020 Professor Kostas Kostarelos will be holding a seminar on Friday 1st November, Michael Smith…

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