Exhibitions, Seminar

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…

Fausto Martelli (IBM) - Number Theory Seminar Series

15:00 - 16:00 10 December 2019
Join us for this research seminar, part of the Number Theory Seminar Series.

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,…

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…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Dimer models with boundary and associated module categories

14:00 - 15:00 10 December 2019
Speaker: Karin Baur (Graz and Leeds) Title: Dimer models with boundary and associated module categories Abstract: Dimer models with boundary were introduced in joint work with King…

Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series

15:30 - 16:30 10 December 2019
Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series - Dr Karla Mill from the Neuroimaging in the UK Biobank will give a talk entitled From Discovery Science to Hypothesis Driven Research in the…

Ozan Öktem - Bayesian inversion for tomography through machine learning

12:00 - 13:00 10 December 2019
Join us for this research seminar, part of the SQUIDS (Statistics, quantification of uncertainty, inverse problems and data science) seminar series. Abstract: The talk will outline…

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…

CIDRAL Key Ideas seminar: Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed (Calem Institute, Marseille): Islam and the Diversity of Gender and Sexuality

14:00 - 16:00 11 December 2019
CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar: Islam and the Diversity of Gender and Sexuality As a queer French Muslim who is trained in cognitive sciences, social psychology, anthropology, and also…

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