Exhibitions, Seminar

CANCELLED: CTIS Seminar: Game Localisation: Translating Gaming Experience across Cultures

14:00 - 15:30 28 November 2019

CoDE Seminar: Black Muslim women at work: negotiating visibility from under the hatches

12:00 - 13:00 28 November 2019
Dr Azeezat Johnson, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary University of London presents a CoDE seminar on Black Muslim women at work: negotiating visibility from under the hatches…

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: Josh Bloor (Nazarene Theological College) “Jesus' Earthly and Heavenly Offerings in the Epistle to the Hebrews: An Engagement with Recent Scholarship.”

14:00 - 16:00 28 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…

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…

Deacon Linkhorn - Lindström's theorem

15:00 - 16:00 29 November 2019
This week's pure postgrad seminar will be given by Deacon Linkhorn at 3pm in Frank Adams 1. Abstract: Lindström's theorem says that no abstract logic satisfying both the Löwenheim-Skolem…

Jake Harris and Ellie Johnstone - Informal Applied Mathematics Seminar

15:00 - 16:00 29 November 2019
The Informal Applied Mathematics seminar will continue with a double bill from Jake Harris and Ellie Johnstone. Talks will take place in Frank Adams 2 (next to the Alan Turing Building's…

Jan Ackmann - Reduced Precision Computing for Weather and Climate Models

14:00 - 15:00 29 November 2019
Jan Ackmann from University of Oxford will be speaking at the seminar. Abstract : Weather and Climate (W&C) prediction models are required to satisfy strict time-to-solution and energy-to-solution…

(POSTPONED) Jon Pitchford - Mathematics in the Life Sciences Seminar

14:00 - 14:50 2 December 2019
(Room 3.44b Simon Building) Join us for this seminar by Jon Pitchford (York) as part of the Mathematics in the Life Sciences Series. Abstract to follow. To subscribe to the mailing…

DMDS Divisional Seminar - Monday 2 December 2019

13:00 - 14:00 2 December 2019
DMDS Divisional Seminar Date: Monday 2 December 2019 Time: 1.00pm Venue: Stopford Building, Room 2.823/5 Claire Deakin – “Integrated analyses of genomics and long-term outcomes in…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Nayanika Mathur - Monday 2nd of December 2019 - This seminar has now been cancelled

16:00 - 18:00 2 December 2019
Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Nayanika Mathur - Monday 2nd of December 2019 - This seminar has now been cancelled

The True Cost of Christmas

2 - 16 December 2019
Want to learn how to live more sustainably? This interactive installation highlights hidden environmental impacts and shows exactly how small changes can help us all live more sustainably.…

CANCELLED Richard Nickl - Statistical guarantees for the Bayesian approach to inverse problems

12:00 - 13:00 3 December 2019
**This seminar has been cancelled due to the industrial action** We are planning to reschedule for the spring semester. Abstract: Bayes methods for inverse problems have become very…

Kyle Pratt (Oxford) - Low-lying zeros of Dirichlet L-functions

15:00 - 16:00 3 December 2019
Join us for this research seminar, part of the Number Theory Seminar Series. Abstract: I will present work in progress with Sary Drappeau and Maksym Radziwill on low-lying zeros of…

Macro Seminar - Spyridon Lazarakis (Lancaster)

16:00 - 17:00 3 December 2019
Title: The Distributional Effects of Peer and Aspirational Pressure

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Quest for D-Affinity

14:00 - 15:00 3 December 2019
Speaker: Dmitriy Rumynin (Warwick) TITLE: Quest for D-Affinity. ABSTRACT: I am interested in the following problem: "classify all smooth connected D-affine projective varieties".…

Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series

15:30 - 16:30 3 December 2019
Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series - Holly Kings, CUBRIC, University of Cardiff, will give a talk entitled Investigating the impact of closed loop auditory stimulation upon sleep and memory

Seminar: A radical vision for the future of public service broadcasting? How to get involved...

12:00 - 13:00 3 December 2019
Join us for our next Computer Science Seminar with speaker Ian Forrester Ian, Senior Firestarter from BBC R&D will run through a number of the BBC R&D projects and how they merge…

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