Exhibitions, Seminar

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…

CGP Seminar with Debbie Lisle: Making Safe: the dirty history of a bomb disposal robot

15:30 - 17:00 20 November 2019
Please join the Critical Global Politics Researcher Cluster for a seminar with Debbie Lisle (Queen’s University Belfast) 'Making Safe: the dirty history of a bomb disposal robot'. …

Confucius Institute Film Club

15:00 - 17:00 20 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…

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…

From Figures to Figurations. For a Cultural Critique of Tagging - Nicola Bozzi, Salford University

16:00 - 17:30 20 November 2019
Digital Humanities Seminar

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…

MANCEPT Seminar with Cara Nine

16:00 - 17:30 20 November 2019
Please join the MANCEPT research cluster for a seminar with Cara Nine (University College Cork). Cara researches theories of resource rights and self-determination, including questions…

Marisol Verdugo (Manchester): 'Neoliberal feminisms? Hopes of social mobility and ordinary feminisms among Chilean youths'

17:00 - 18:30 20 November 2019
In 2017, when the so-called fourth wave of feminism in Chile was about to erupt in large feminist strikes across the country a year later, school-aged young women in the city of Concepción…

MES Seminar - Ian Crawford (Oxford)

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

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 20 November 2019
Paola Zappa, School of Business – Maynooth University Bridging cultural holes in organizations: The dynamic structure of social networks and organizational vocabularies within and…

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…

Pantelis Eleftheriou - Expansions of o-minimal structures which introduce no new smooth functions

15:00 - 16:00 20 November 2019
Pantelis Eleftheriou joins us for the logic seminar. We study expansions of o-minimal structures which preserve the tame geometric behavior on the class of all definable sets. Two…

Seminar: Applying Machine Learning to the Identification and Classification of Usability Requirements

14:00 - 15:00 20 November 2019
Join us for our forthcoming Computer Science Mercury talk with speaker Manal Binkhonain in Kilburn L.T 1.5 In the last few years, supervised machine learning algorithms have been…

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,…

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…

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…

Applied Economics Seminar - Joana Naritomi (LSE)

13:00 - 14:15 21 November 2019
Title: TBA

CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar: Countercultural Legacies: Led by David Wilkinson (Manchester Metropolitan)

14:00 - 16:00 21 November 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Work, Leisure, Culture strand. David Wilkinson (Manchester Metropolitan University) will lead a CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar entitled Countercultural Legacies.…

CTIS Seminar: Knowledge Transfer and Technical Translation in Mid-19th Century China: The Work of Scottish Missionary-Scholar Alexander Wylie (1815-1887)

14:00 - 15:30 21 November 2019
Alexander Wylie was one of the leading members of a unique concentration of Missionary-Scholars and who lived and worked in Shanghai in the second half of the 19th Century. He was one…

Jonathan Warburton to present at the Northern Growth Forum

21 November 2019
Jonathan Warburton, Chairman of Warburtons, will address business leaders at the Northern Growth Forum on Thursday 21 November, an event at Alliance Manchester Business School for senior…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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