Exhibitions, Seminar

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…

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: Prof. George J. Brooke (University of Chester) “Patterns of Priesthood and Patterns of Prayer in the Dead Sea Scrolls.”

14:00 - 16:00 21 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…

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…

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…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr Thomas Harvey (Oxford Centre for Mission Studies) “Back to the Future: Xi Jinping, Civil Society and Religious Policy”

16:00 - 17:30 21 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…

Robert M. Corless - Compact Finite Differences and Cubic Splines

14:00 - 15:00 22 November 2019
Robert Corless from University of Western Ontario will be speaking at the seminar. Abstract : In this talk I uncover and explain—using contour integrals and residues—a connection between…

Robin Green - Minimal Parabolic subgroups of finite groups

15:00 - 16:00 22 November 2019
This week's pure postgrad seminar will be given by Robin Green at 3pm in Frank Adams 1. Abstract: Minimal Parabolic subgroups are an important tool in the study of groups of Lie type.…

SIAM 3 Minute Thesis

15:00 - 16:30 22 November 2019
An 80,000-word thesis would take 9 hours to present; can you do it in just 3 minutes and a single slide? The Manchester SIAM-IMA Student Chapter is proud to organize the first 3-Minute…

DMDS Divisional Seminar: Divisional Award presentations - Monday 25 November 2019

13:00 - 14:00 25 November 2019
DMDS Divisional Seminar: Divisional Award presentations Date: Monday 25 November 2019 Time: 1.00pm Venue: Stopford Building, Room 2.823/5 Stephen Eyre – “Investigating long range…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Hildegard Diemberger - Monday 25th of November 2019 - This Seminar has now been cancelled.

16:00 - 18:00 25 November 2019
Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Hildegard Diemberger - Monday 25th of November 2019 - This Seminar has now been cancelled.

The Whitworth

Jodrell Bank

Martin Harris Centre

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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