Exhibitions, Seminar

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

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 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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

Mahah Javed - Is PSL(2,37) maximal in E_7(3)?

15:00 - 16:00 7 February 2020
This week's pure postgrad seminar will be given by Mahah Javed at 3pm in Frank Adams 1. Abstract: Interest in the maximal subgroups of finite simple groups is long-standing. I'm working…

Tomas Trewhela and Dom Duxbury - Informal Applied Mathematics Seminar

15:00 - 16:00 7 February 2020
The Informal Applied Mathematics seminar will resume with a double bill from Tomas Trewhela and Dom Duxbury. Talks will take place in Frank Adams 2 (next to the Alan Turing Building's…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Alice Wilson

16:00 - 18:00 10 February 2020
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 10th of February 2020 Dr Alice Wilson University of Sussex Unofficial Commemoration Of Silenced Revolution In Dhufar, Oman Studies of commemoration…

Uniform distribution of saddle connection lengths - Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar Series

15:00 - 16:00 10 February 2020
Donald Robertson will be speaking at this research seminar, part of the Dynamical Systems and Analysis seminar series. Abstract: Saddle connections on flat surfaces are those straight…

Advances in Biosciences Seminar: "Dynamic enhancer regulations in response to signalling - new paradigms for lineage priming and plasticity in differentiation" - Joshua Brickman

15:00 - 16:00 11 February 2020
Advances in Biosciences Seminar: "Dynamic enhancer regulations in response to signalling - new paradigms for lineage priming and plasticity in differentiation" - Joshua Brickman,…

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