Exhibitions, Lecture

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…

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…

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,…

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…

(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…

Prehistory to Primary Schools Project (Humanities Teaching Academy Workshops 2019-20)

14:00 - 15:00 18 March 2020
Prehistory to Primary Schools is a project established in 2018 by the department of archaeology which takes the cutting edge research at the University of Manchester and uses it to…

Stachniewski Memorial Lecture 2020

17:00 - 18:00 18 March 2020
Join us for the Stachniewski Memorial Lecture, which will be delivered by Dr Farah Karim-Cooper. Farah Karim-Cooper will talk about ‘Gesture and Empathy in the Shakespearean Theatre’…

CANCELLED - HCRI Public Lecture: Working with age-disputed young migrants

10:00 - 11:00 20 March 2020
Unfortunately, the public lecture has been cancelled. We aim to reschedule later in the year. Public lecture: working with age-disputed young migrants with Laura Gibbons, Public Law…

Improving employability skills with the use of video (Humanities Teaching Academy Workshops 2019-20)

13:00 - 14:00 8 April 2020
The workshop will take attendees through the experience and outcomes of exploring a non-traditional assessment format. Video was used for both group and individual assessment to enhance…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Christina Lupton (Copenhagen): 'Queer Times for the Straight Book: Michel Serres and Maggie Nelson'

17:00 - 19:00 21 April 2020
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism programme. Christina Lupton (University of Copenhagen) will deliver a public lecture entitled 'Queer Times…

Annual Ombudsman Lecture

18:30 - 20:30 5 May 2020
Improving patient safety: using evidence and insight to prevent suicide in mental health care In partnership with The Manchester Centre for Regulation, Governance and Public Law (ManReg)…

Digitally Skilled: Unlocking Staff Digital Literacy (Humanities Teaching Academy Workshops 2019-20)

13:00 - 14:00 7 May 2020
Description to follow...

Imran Perretta: the destructors

8 May - 4 October 2020
The Whitworth presents a new 2-screen film by London-based artist Imran Perretta. Drawing on the artist’s own experience as a young man of Bangladeshi heritage, the film explores personal…

The Dorothy Emmet Lecture - Prof Jane Heal, University of Cambridge

17:00 - 18:15 11 May 2020
The Dorothy Emmet Lectures commemorate Dorothy Emmet, an eminent mid-20th Century philosopher and head of the Philosophy Department at Manchester for over 20 years. The lectures are…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Priyamvada Gopal (Cambridge): 'Insurgent Empire: Shades of Resistance'

17:00 - 19:00 12 May 2020
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism programme. Priyamvada Gopal (University of Cambridge) will deliver a public lecture entitled 'Insurgent…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Brian Klug (Oxford), 'Unasking the Jewish Question'

17:00 - 19:00 21 May 2020
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism programme. Brian Klug (University of Oxford) will deliver a public lecture entitled 'Unasking the Jewish…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Sa’ed Atshan (Swarthmore College): 'Complicity, Dissent, and the Palestinian Intellectual'

17:00 - 19:00 8 June 2020
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism programme. Sa’ed Atshan (Swarthmore College) will deliver a public lecture entitled 'Complicity, Dissent,…

Attachment Theory and Psychosis: Current perspectives and future directions

09:00 - 16:00 3 July 2020
The Division of Psychology and Mental Health is pleased to launch the publication of Attachment Theory and Psychosis: Current Perspectives and Future Directions. The event will include…

Meet the Chemistry academics

11:00 22 - 13:00 23 July 2020
If you're interested in STEM, we have a number of lectures over two days for you to meet academics and understand a bit more about their area of interest.

Our Boldest Effort to Answer our Oldest Question: The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life Beyond Earth

16:00 - 17:00 7 October 2020
Some 500 years ago, a growing awareness of cracks in the Ptolemaic model led to the Copernican revolution - a paradigm shift in our understanding in which we came to realize that the…

Eithne Quinn (University of Manchester), ‘Manchester Murder Rap: Prosecution Gang Narratives and the Use of Black Youth Expressive Culture in Creating a Joint Enterprise Case’

17:00 - 19:00 20 October 2020
CIDRAL Lecture Series: Crises and Recoveries

HCRI Landmark Lecture: When Wounds Travel

15:00 - 17:00 22 October 2020
Join Dr Omar Dewachi (Rutgers University) and chair Dr Stephanie Sodero (HCRI) virtually, for a fascinating discussion on the movement of wounds: physical, social and political. Decades…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum