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…

IHPO seminar: Iain Snelling: Leadership development for trainee doctors

13:30 - 15:00 4 February 2020
Please join us at the IHPO seminar series on 04 February 2020 in AMBS Lecture theatre Pod A (1st floor). Networking and refreshments at 1.30pm, seminar starting at 2pm. Speaker: Iain…

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…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Finite simple quotients of mapping class groups - Emilio Pierro

14:00 - 15:00 4 February 2020
Speaker: Emilio Pierro - LSA Title: Finite simple quotients of mapping class groups Abstract: In this talk we discuss how the Classification of Finite Simple Group can be used to…

Manchester Neuromaging Seminar Series

15:30 - 16:30 4 February 2020
Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series Herve Boutin, The University of Manchester - 'PET imaging with new tracers leucine (protein synthesis) and SV2A (synaptic density)'

Sam Chow (Warwick) - Dyadic approximation in the Cantor set

15:00 4 February 2020
Abstract : We investigate the approximation rate of a typical element of the Cantor set by dyadic rational numbers. This is a manifestation of the times two times three phenomenon,…

Seminar: Fugitive Words: Deep Learning and the Deep Past in Australia

16:00 - 17:30 4 February 2020
Digital Humanities Seminar to be given by Dr Michael Falk, Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of Kent. Dr Falk is a digital humanist and scholar of eighteenth-century…

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…

Utopias

31 January - 4 October 2020
Utopia is, at its essence, about creating a perfect world, yet in this way, it is always in opposition with the present. In his seminal book Utopia (1516), Thomas More gave name and…

Andrew Titman - Testing the Markov assumption in general multi-state models

14:00 - 15:00 5 February 2020
Andrew Titman (Lancaster University) joins us for the Statistics seminar series. Recently there has been interest in the development of estimators of the transition probabilities for…

CIDRAL Key Ideas seminar: Christian Fuchs (Westminster): Internet Platforms, Social Media & Society

14:00 - 16:00 5 February 2020
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism programme. Christian Fuchs, professor of media and communication studies and Director of the Communication…

Matthieu Roche - Continuous Marangoni flows

14:00 - 15:00 5 February 2020
Matthieu Roche (University of Paris Diderot) joins us for this seminar in the Physical Applied Mathematics Series. Title: Continuous Marangoni flows Abstract: The presence of a surface-concentration…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 5 February 2020
Örjan Bodin, Stockholm Resilience Centre A network perspective in understanding environmental governance: how cooperation, conflict and the natural environment interact in shaping…

Novel isotopic window into old crust: tracing Earth’s tectonic regime through the evolution of its continental crust

13:00 - 14:00 5 February 2020
Dr Marc-Alban Millet, Cardiff University, joins us for a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences seminar. Abstract below. The extraction of the continental crust from the mantle,…

Philosophy Research Seminar - Dr Wesley Buckwalter (Manchester)

15:10 - 16:50 5 February 2020
*Title: The Replication Crisis and Philosophy *Abstract: The replication crisis is perceived by many as one of the most significant threats to the reliability of research in cognitive…

Sascha Post - Linear Lie Groups and o-minimality.

15:00 5 February 2020
Sascha Post joins us for the logic seminar It is well known since the 80's that any group definable in an o-minimal expansion of the reals can be equipped with a Lie group structure.…

Sociology seminar - Being Available: Relational Agency and Kinship Time in the Narratives of Egg and Sperm Donors (Leah Gilman)

14:00 - 15:00 5 February 2020
Please join us for the first Sociology Departmental Seminar of the semester. All are welcome. Abstract: Historically, the connections created through donor conception have often…

CMI Seminar: "Anti-media party cues and selective exposure to political information" by Dr Sebastian Stier, GESIS

15:00 - 16:15 6 February 2020
The Cathie Marsh Institute welcomes Sebastian Stier from GESIS who will be speaking on the topic: Anti-media party cues and selective exposure to political information Abstract Whereas…

CTIS Seminar: Fascism through the Lens of Translation: A Comparative Study of Four Regimes

14:00 - 15:30 6 February 2020

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof Bernard Jackson (University of Manchester Emeritus) ‘Ruth, Rachel and Domestic Religion’

14:00 - 16:00 6 February 2020
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…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr Sarah Thieme (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster) “Contested Communities? Churches in the De-industrialized Cities of Manchester and Essen, 1960–1990”

16:00 - 17:30 6 February 2020
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.

Ted Voronov: Supergeometry and the (Frobenius-Kolmogorov-Gelfand-) Buchstaber-Rees theory

14:30 - 15:30 6 February 2020
Title: Supergeometry and the (Frobenius-Kolmogorov-Gelfand-)Buchstaber-Rees theory Abstract: Victor Buchstaber and Elmer Rees, motivated by the study of n-valued groups, introduced…

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