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…

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…

Pablo Shmerkin -A nonlinear version of Bourgain's projection theorem, with applications

15:00 - 16:00 4 November 2019
Pablo Shmerkin will be speaking at this research seminar, part of the Dynamical Systems and Analysis seminar series. Abstract: Bourgain's projection theorem is an important extension…

Paul Tar - Quantitative Machine Learning for Bio-images

14:00 - 14:50 4 November 2019
(Room 3.44b Simon Building) Join us for this seminar by Paul Tar (University of Manchester) as part of the Mathematics in the Life Sciences Series. The talk will cover the requirements…

Social Anthropology Seminar - 4th November 2019 - Dr Arran Calvert

16:00 - 18:00 4 November 2019
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 4th of November 2019 Dr Arran Calvert – University of Manchester Cathedral Within a Cathedral : Modelling, Knowing and Narrating with LEGO In…

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,…

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…

Henry Moss - MUMBO: MUlti-task Max-value Bayesian Optimization

12:00 - 13:00 5 November 2019
Join us for this research seminar, part of the SQUIDS (Statistics, quantification of uncertainty, inverse problems and data science) seminar series. Abstract: We propose MUMBO, the…

Macro Seminar - Søren Hove Ravn (Copenhagn)

16:00 - 17:00 5 November 2019
Title: The Inflation Response to Government Spending Shocks: A Fiscal Price Puzzle?

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Rationality problems, degenerations of the diagonal, and prelog Chow rings

14:00 - 15:00 5 November 2019
Speaker: Christian Boehning (University of Warwick) Title: Rationality problems, degenerations of the diagonal, and prelog Chow rings Abstract: The degeneration method due to Voisin-Merkurjev-Collio…

Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series

15:30 - 16:30 5 November 2019
Seminar on How To?

Victor Beresnevich (York) - Badly approximable points: state of the art and open problems

15:00 - 16:00 5 November 2019
Join us for this research seminar, part of the Number Theory Seminar Series. Abstract : In this talk I will describe the state of the art and yet open problems in the theory of badly…

Cameron Hall - Chains and rings of spherical magnets

14:00 - 14:50 6 November 2019
Cameron Hall (University of Bristol) joins us for the Physical Applied Mathematics Series. Note the unusual room - G.207 in the Alan Turing Building. Abstract: Neodymium-iron-boron…

Confucius Institute Film Club

15:00 - 17:00 6 November 2019
We are holding our Film Club, one of our intercultural activities for students, once again from October 2019! The club provides a platform for students to engage in inter-cultural…

CPPI Seminar with Ben Noble: Consolidation or Constraint? A Theory of Legislative Closures and Openings in Authoritarian Regimes."

15:30 - 17:00 6 November 2019
Please join the CPPI Research Cluster for Dr Ben Noble (University College London) presenting on "Consolidation or Constraint? A Theory of Legislative Closures and Openings in Authoritarian…

JMCE Seminar with Dr. Nieves Perez-Solorzano Borragan- Brexit: Path dependency, unintended consequences and the Article 50 Process

14:00 - 15:00 6 November 2019
Please join the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence for a seminar with Dr. Nieves Perez-Solorzano Borragan (University of Bristol) entitled 'Brexit: Path dependency, unintended consequences…

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