Exhibitions, Seminar

Applied Economics Seminar - Patrick Nolen (Essex)

13:00 - 14:15 5 December 2019
Title: TBA

Aviation and the Environment: New Regulatory Standard for Aircraft Engine non-volatile Particulate Matter Emissions

13:00 - 14:00 5 December 2019
The civil aviation sector has been forecast to grow at the rate of ~5% per year for the foreseeable future. There are increasing concerns about the impact of aircraft emissions on local…

CMI Seminar: A Counter Public of the Right

15:00 - 16:15 5 December 2019
The Cathie Marsh Institute welcomes Andreas Jungherr from the Center for Data and Methods, University of Konstanz who will be speaking on the topic: A counter public of the right:…

CTIS Seminar: Shifting Characterisations of the ‘Common People’ in English Retranslations of Thucydides: A Corpus-based Analysis

14:00 - 15:30 5 December 2019
Characterisation is the process through which readers may distinguish from each other the various actors depicted in a narrative and develop an understanding of their individual traits…

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,…

Display It Like You Stole It

17:00 - 18:30 5 December 2019
A Whitworth Studies Event Alice Procter, independent tour guide for ‘The Uncomfortable Art’ Tours and historian of material culture at UCL Display It Like You Stole It The Whitworth, Study Centre

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Adrian Curtis (University of Manchester) “Weeping at Bethel: An Old Idea Revisited.”

14:00 - 16:00 5 December 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…

Elena Luca - Physical Applied Mathematics Seminar

14:00 - 15:00 5 December 2019
Elena Luca (UC San Diego) joins us for the Physical Applied Mathematics Series. This seminar is unusually scheduled for Thursday 5th December. The seminar will be in Frank Adams 1 at…

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…

Fugitive Words: Deep Learning and the Deep Past in Australia - Michael Falk, University of Kent

16:00 - 17:30 5 December 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…

Philip Arathoon - Singular reduction of the 2-body problem on the 3-sphere and the 4-dimensional Lagrange top

15:00 - 16:00 5 December 2019
Title: Singular reduction of the 2-body problem on the 3-sphere and the 4-dimensional Lagrange top Abstract: For the motion of two attracting bodies in Euclidean space, the translational…

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 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.…

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…

MaRMN Seminar

13:00 - 14:00 6 December 2019
Professor Enrique Amaya, The University of Manchester " A conserved role for reactive oxygen species during early embryonic development and appendage regeneration"

Phil Richardson and Monisha Natchiar Subbiah Renganathan - Informal Applied Mathematics Seminar

15:00 - 16:00 6 December 2019
The Informal Applied Mathematics seminar will continue with a double bill from Phil Richardson and Monisha Natchiar Subbiah Renganathan. Talks will take place in Frank Adams 2 (next…

Thomas Honey - The Hodge star on smooth manifolds

15:00 - 16:00 6 December 2019
This week's pure postgrad seminar will be given by Thomas Honey at 3pm in Frank Adams 1. Abstract: In usual vector calculus we can do things like take the divergence of a vector field…

Professor Peter Noyce CBE Memorial Lecture 5pm in LT 3, Stopford Building

17:00 - 19:00 9 December 2019
The University of Manchester will be holding the third annual memorial lecture for Professor Peter Noyce CBE on Monday, 9 December at 5.00pm, in Lecture Theatre 3, Stopford Building,…

Value extraction, Intellectual Monopolies and Global Corporate Innovation and Production Systems Cecilia Rikap

15:30 - 16:30 9 December 2019
Join us for MIOIR External Seminar Series 19/20, seminar hosted by Bengt-Åke Lundvall & Cecilia Rikap. Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to propose new conceptualizations of…

Geological disposal: public engagement and societal impacts

12:00 - 14:00 10 December 2019
Room 5.206, University Place 12:00-13:15 Lunch and lecture 13:15-14:00 Activity session (optional) Delivered by the National Nuclear Laboratory’s Director of External Relations,…

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