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Art Beyond Content

09:30 - 21:00 7 February 2020
This graduate conference challenges the paradigm of approaching art primarily in terms of representational content on two levels. First, we ask why the big questions in philosophy…

Creepy-Crawly Chronicles Children’s Story Competition

7 December 2019 - 9 March 2020
From ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ and ‘Charlotte’s Web’ to 'Spiderman’, insects have inspired countless much-loved stories and comics. Enter your ideas into our story competition to…

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,…

Daily: Art Hampers – resources for families at the Whitworth

10:00 31 August 2018 - 10:00 31 May 2020
Are you and your family hungry to get creative? Pick up a picnic hamper with a difference. Come to our Oxford Road or Parkside entrance and pick up one of our special hampers - free…

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…

Family Stargazing Night

19 October 2019 - 8 February 2020
6pm – 9pm Calling all budding young stargazers. You are invited to join us for an unmissable opportunity to get started in astronomy. During our fun-packed evening you will enjoy…

HCRI Careers in Humanitarianism Day

09:30 - 18:00 7 February 2020
Are you considering a career in the humanitarian sector? If so, join us for a fantastic day of presentations, discussion and advice from current leaders in the field of humanitarianism.…

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…

Introduction to Astrophotography

23 October 2019 - 26 February 2020
Introduction to Astrophotography Wednesdays 23rd October, 20th November, 15th January and 26th February, 7.30pm – 10pm Jodrell Bank's popular Introduction to Astrophotography workshops…

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…

New Russias 2020 - the first UK festival dedicated to contemporary Russian culture

7 - 9 February 2020
New Russias is a brand-new initiative aimed at introducing contemporary Russian culture to the British public in all its diversity and richness. The festival takes place over three…

Russian Culture after 2010 Symposium

10:30 - 18:00 7 February 2020
The School of Arts, Languages and Cultures (SALC) at The University of Manchester will host this symposium, in which leading scholars from across the world will discuss the state of…

Stargazing Night

15 November 2019 - 20 March 2020
7pm – 10pm Join us at Jodrell Bank for an unmissable opportunity to get started in astronomy. You’ll learn how to navigate the skies and locate the stars in our inflatable Planetarium,…

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,…

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…

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…

See, Make and Do at the Museum - Autism-Friendly Mornings

09:15 - 11:15 8 February 2020
Sat 8 Feb: 9.15-11.15am See, Make and Do at the Museum - Autism-Friendly Mornings Join us for early openings at the Museum aimed at children who have autism and other needs, along…

The rise of a university: industry, engineering and science (Heritage Tour)

13:00 - 14:00 8 February 2020
This tour takes visitors on a journey from the height of the industrial revolution to the white heat of 1960s scientific and technological innovation. Our guides explain the history…

Felix Wemheuer - "Great achievements, big failures: How to evaluate the social changes of the Mao era"

12:30 - 13:30 10 February 2020
In the Mao Era (1949–1976), millions of Chinese people experienced social upward mobility, while others were marginalised or lost their lives. Efforts to build a communist society created…

Literature Live: Luke Brown and Emma Jane Unsworth

18:30 - 19:45 10 February 2020
Luke Brown grew up in Fleetwood, Lancashire, and now lives in London, although he is frequently in Manchester to teach at the Centre for New Writing at The University of Manchester.…

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…

Print a Palimpsest: Printing demo

11:15 - 11:30 11 February 2020
Drop in and peek into the world of palimpsests with our unique printing press demonstration. Using our Columbian printing press we’ll explore how old manuscripts were reused, giving…

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