Exhibitions, Lecture

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…

GDI Lecture with Dr Jelmer Kamstra and Zoe Abrahamson: Civil society aid as balancing act - Navigating between managerial and social transformative principles

17:00 - 18:30 12 February 2020
The civil society policy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands saw big shifts in 2015/2016, with its budget halved and its focus shifted from service delivery to lobby…

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…

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…

SEED Professorial Inaugural Lecture Series: Profs Caroline Bond and Aminu Mamman

16:00 - 18:00 13 February 2020
The inaugural professorial lectures of Aminu Mamman (Global Development Institute) and Caroline Bond (Manchester Institute of Education) will take place from 4pm in the Cordingley Lecture…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Bryan Cheyette (Reading), 'Beyond Ghettos of the Imagination: From Venice to L.A.'

17:00 - 19:00 18 February 2020
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism programme. Bryan Cheyette, Professor of English Literature, University of Reading, will deliver a public…

Exhibition: The Soul of the Black Earth - 60 years of Contemporary Chinese Printmaking

19 February - 13 March 2020
The Confucius Institute is delighted to bring this fascinating exhibition to Manchester, telling the story of four generations of printmakers from Heilongjiang Province in the north-east…

Turing Talks 2020 - Digital Twins: The Next Phase of the AI Revolution?

18:30 - 20:00 19 February 2020
Speaker: Mark Girolami, Programme Director for the Alan Turing Institute-Lloyd’s Register Foundation Programme in Data-Centric Engineering, University of Cambridge The idea of an Intelligent…

The Annual Arthur Lewis Lecture 2020 POSTPONED

18:00 - 20:00 26 February 2020
POSTPONED POSTPONED POSTPONED Unfortunately, the Arthur Lewis lecture has been postponed and will no longer be held on the 26 February. We will be in touch with further details…

Sir Peter Bazalgette Inaugural Lecture

17:30 - 18:30 3 March 2020
Join us for Sir Peter Bazalgette's inaugural lecture at The University of Manchester. Sir Peter will deliver his inaugural lecture on campus following his appointment as Honorary…

How and why should I develop distance and online courses? (Humanities Teaching Academy Workshops 2019-20)

13:00 - 14:00 4 March 2020
In the workshops we will explore the different ways you might develop distance and online courses and materials, and why doing so might enhance your on-campus teaching and your career.…

POSTPONED: GDI Lecture with Prof Lyla Mehta: The politics of climate change, uncertainty and transformation in marginal environments

17:00 - 18:30 4 March 2020
UNFORTUNATELY THIS LECTURE IS POSTPONED AND WILL BE RE-ARRANGED. FULL DETAILS TO FOLLOW. The scale and impacts of climate change remain deeply uncertain. This is particularly true…

Inaugural Lecture of Arthur Garforth

15:00 - 17:00 6 March 2020
We invite you to join Professor Arthur Garforth as he delivers his Inaugural Lecture, titled "Catalysis and the Circular Economy " Catalysis is involved at some point in the processing…

POSTPONED: GDI Lecture with Prof Lauchlan Munro: What can we learn when we compare neoliberalism with other things that don’t exist?

17:00 - 18:30 11 March 2020
UNFORTUNATELY THIS LECTURE IS POSTPONED AND WILL BE RE-ARRANGED. FULL DETAILS TO FOLLOW. Frustrated by constantly hearing about an ideology, neoliberalism, that no one adheres to,…

(Cancelled) Social Anthropology Public Lecture and Wine Reception - Dr Shane Green - Please register on our Eventbrite page (Details included below)

16:00 - 18:00 18 March 2020
Title: Not Being Punk or Mexican-American while Predicating the Wildebeest of Our Future Abstract: This talk departs from a now abandoned historical question: When exactly did the…

CANCELLED: Bragg Lecture: What fate for the Antarctic ice sheet?

15:00 - 16:00 18 March 2020
Unfortunately this event is now cancelled. We hope to rearrange for later in 2020.

GDI Lecture with Prof Kathryn Hochstetler: Political Economies of Energy Transition: Wind and Solar Power in Brazil and South Africa

17:00 - 18:30 18 March 2020
Wind power has expanded quickly in Brazil, while solar power lags there and both wind and solar power have struggled to take off in South Africa. Prof Kathryn Hochstetler argues that…

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