Exhibitions, Seminar

Applied Economics Seminar - Emma Riley (Oxford)

13:00 - 14:15 7 November 2019
Title: TBA

CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar: Ideologies of Violence: Threatening Language Ideologies vs. Threatening Language Realities: Led by Tammy A. Gales (Hofstra)

14:00 - 16:00 7 November 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Work, Leisure, Culture strand. Tammy A. Gales (Hofstra University) will lead a CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar entitled 'Threatening Language Ideologies vs.…

CTIS Seminar: Against Translation as Creative Writing: Risks and Opportunities of the Commodification of Literature

14:00 - 15:30 7 November 2019
In this presentation I make two, related, arguments. First, that literary translation is a hybrid art from, combining elements of both literary and performing arts. This claim is made…

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 Meredith J. C. Warren (University of Sheffield) “Human and Divine Justice in the Testament of Abraham.”

14:00 - 16:00 7 November 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…

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 (& Jewish-Muslim Research Network): Prof. Aaron Hughes (University of Rochester) “The Sh??a are the Jews of Our Umma”: Rethinking Alterity in Medieval Islam

16:00 - 17:30 7 November 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,…

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…

James Gregory and Michael Connolly - Informal Applied Mathematics Seminar

15:00 - 16:00 8 November 2019
The Informal Applied Mathematics seminar will continue with a double bill from James Gregory and Michael Connolly. Talks will take place in Frank Adams 2 (next to the Alan Turing Building's…

Robert Nicolaides - Abstract Regular Polytopes

15:00 - 16:00 8 November 2019
This week's pure postgrad seminar will be given by Robert Nicolaides at 3pm in Frank Adams 1. Abstract: Abstract Regular Polytopes (ARPs) are abstract shapes inspired by the celebrated…

Zhaojun Bai - Rayleigh quotient optimizations and eigenvalue problems

14:00 - 15:00 8 November 2019
Zhaojun Bai from University of California will be speaking at this seminar. Abstract : Many computational science and data analysis techniques lead to optimizing Rayleigh quotient…

CEAS Department Seminar - Dr Antoni Forner-Cuenca

10:30 - 12:00 11 November 2019
As part of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science Department Seminar Series, we'll be welcoming Dr Antoni Forner-Cuenca from Eindhoven University Technology,…

DMDS Divisional Seminar Date: Monday 11 November 2019

13:00 - 14:00 11 November 2019
DMDS Divisional Seminar Date: Monday 11 November 2019 Time: 1.00pm Venue: Stopford Building, Room 2.823/5 Tracy Briggs – “Monogenic Type I interferon driven disorders.” Senior Clinical…

Han Yu (Cambridge) - Analysis and Dynamical Systems Seminar Series

15:00 - 16:00 11 November 2019
Han Yu (Cambridge) will be speaking at this research seminar, part of the Dynamical Systems and Analysis seminar series.

Immigration, diversity, and systems of advantage and disadvantage in U.S. universities

15:30 - 16:30 11 November 2019
Join us for MIOIR External Seminar Series 19/20, seminar hosted by Professor Monica Gaughan. Abstract: Immigration and diversity are two crucial dynamics affecting the scientific…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Olga Ulturgasheva - Monday 11th of November 2019

16:00 - 18:00 11 November 2019
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 11th of November 2019 Dr Olga Ulturgasheva – University of Manchester Adding Cosmo to Geo: Climate Change as a New Matrix of Animation The intensification…

Creative ways to improve movement and quality of life in age-related conditions

13:00 - 16:00 12 November 2019
You are invited to a free MICRA seminar. The event begins at 1pm with a free networking lunch. There is an urgent need for cost-effective, sustainable methods to improve and maintain…

Ian Petrow (UCL) - The Weyl subconvex exponent for Dirichlet L-functions.

15:00 - 16:00 12 November 2019
Join us for this research seminar, part of the Number Theory Seminar Series. Abstract: In the 1920s Weyl proved the first non-trivial estimate for the Riemann zeta function on the…

Manchester Algebra Seminar -The exterior algebra of the little adjoint module.

14:00 - 15:00 12 November 2019
Speaker: Ibukun Ademehin (University of Manchester) Title: The exterior algebra of the little adjoint module. Abstract: Let g be a simple complex Lie algebra with a non-simply laced…

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