Exhibitions, Seminar

All the World’s a Stage: Henry Box Brown in Manchester

13:00 - 14:30 18 November 2019
Research Talk by Dr Hannah-Rose Murray about famed abolitionist Henry 'Box' Brown. Please join us for sandwiches from 12.30 in the lobby outside the room (Sam Alex SG.16) All Welcome.

Contextualizing societal challenge-oriented innovation policy

15:30 - 16:30 18 November 2019
Join us for MIOIR External Seminar Series 19/20, seminar hosted by Professor Iris Wanzenb?ck. Abstract: There is emerging consensus that innovation policy should focus on solving urgent…

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…

Giulio Caravagna - Integrating machine learning and population genetics to better elucidate cancer evolutionary dynamics

14:00 - 14:50 18 November 2019
(Room 3.44b Simon Building) Join us for this seminar by Giulio Caravagna (Institute for Cancer Research) as part of the Mathematics in the Life Sciences Series. Abstract: Cancers originate…

Igor Evstigneev (Manchester) - Von Neumann-Gale dynamical systems and their applications

15:00 - 16:00 18 November 2019
Igor Evstigneev (Economics Department, University of Manchester) will be speaking at this research seminar, part of the Dynamical Systems and Analysis seminar series. Abstract: Von…

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…

Music and Migration - Being Human Festival

16 - 23 November 2019
Visit this family-friendly exhibition of musical instruments and be part of a momentous celebration of Bengali folk music in the North West. The exhibition will recall how singing was…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Professors Pnina & Richard Werbner - Monday 18th of November 2019

16:00 - 18:00 18 November 2019
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 18th of November 2019 A Joint Seminar by Professors Pnina & Richard Werbner – Keele University A Case of Insult: Emotion, Law, and Witchcraft…

SPECIAL DMDS Divisional Seminar – Benjamin Fairfax – Venue: Michael Smith Lecture Theatre

13:00 - 14:00 18 November 2019
SPECIAL DMDS Divisional Seminar – Venue: Michael Smith Lecture Theatre Dear All, Benjamin Fairfax from Oxford will give a presentation at our DMDS Divisional Seminar on 18th November…

SPECIAL DMDS Divisional Seminar – Venue: Michael Smith Lecture Theatre

13:00 - 14:00 18 November 2019
SPECIAL DMDS Divisional Seminar – Venue: Michael Smith Lecture Theatre Date: Monday 18 November 2019 Time: 1.00pm Venue: Michael Smith Lecture Theatre SPECIAL DMDS Divisional Seminar:…

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…

CANCELLED Louise Wright - Maths, modelling and measurement: data science at the National Physical Laboratory

12:00 - 13:00 19 November 2019
**Unfortunately this seminar has been cancelled.** We apologise for the late notice, but the speaker has become ill and is unable to travel for the seminar. We are planning to reschedule…

Macro Seminar - Christiaan van der Kwaak (Groningen)

16:00 - 17:00 19 November 2019
Title: Financial Fragility and Unconventional Central Bank Lending Operations

Manchester Algebra Seminar -Compact Schur-Weyl Duality

14:00 - 15:00 19 November 2019
Speaker: Kieran Calvert (University of Manchester) Title: Compact Schur-Weyl Duality Abstract: Schur-Weyl duality is a fundamental idea that connects general linear groups and symmetric…

Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series

15:30 - 16:30 19 November 2019
Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series - Dr Herve Boutin will lead a project discussion meeting

Nirvana Coppola (Bristol) - Wild Galois Representations

15:00 - 16:00 19 November 2019
Join us for this research seminar, part of the Number Theory Seminar Series. Abstract: An important invariant associated to an elliptic curve is its l-adic Galois representation.…

Andy Archer - Liquid droplets on a surface

14:00 - 14:50 20 November 2019
Andy Archer (Loughborough University) joins us for the Physical Applied Mathematics Series, back in our usual room of Frank Adams 1, Alan Turing Building. The talk will begin with…

MES Seminar - Ian Crawford (Oxford)

13:30 - 15:00 20 November 2019
Title: Non-parametric Analysis of Labour Supply Using Random Fields

The ‘Energy Transition’ – Myth or Reality

13:00 - 14:00 20 November 2019
Professor Jonathan Craig, Senior Vice President, Exploration Strategies & Profession Areas, Eni Upstream, Milan, Italy, joins us for a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences…

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