Exhibitions, Lecture

Exchanges: Recent Additions to the Collection

2 July 2021 - 1 May 2022
Exchanges sets art and artists together, sometimes in harmony, sometimes in opposition – always with insight and intention. In this evolving exhibition, art that has recently been…

Standardisation and Deviation: The Whitworth Story

2 July 2021 - 1 February 2022
Founded in 1889 through Sir Joseph Whitworth’s legacy, the Whitworth was established to honour one of Britain’s greatest mechanical engineers. A proponent of standardisation, Sir Joseph…

Still Parents: Life after Baby Loss

24 September 2021 - 4 September 2022
Still Parents is the first exhibition of its kind, creating a platform to share personal stories open conversations and break the wall of silence that continues to surround baby loss.…

Suzanne Lacy: What kind of city? A manual for social change

26 November 2021 - 10 April 2022
The Whitworth presents the first major UK presentation of multiple works of US artist Suzanne Lacy, a pioneer of social practice and community organising for almost five decades. In…

Annual Lane Lecture 2021: Long-COVID: should this be in the occupational disease fast lane? With guest speaker Dr Lesley Rushton

16:00 - 18:00 30 November 2021
Long-COVID: should this be in the occupational disease fast lane? Since January 2020 the UK has experienced waves of infection due to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus…

Irene Manton Lecture 2021 (online)

17:00 - 18:30 7 December 2021
Join us to celebrate and commemorate the significant contribution made by women to the Natural Sciences at the 2021 Irene Manton lecture. The lecture is free to attend and is open…

Voices from the Frontline; Saving Lives in War, Disaster and Disease

17:45 - 19:30 7 December 2021
Join the UK-Med team for a special evening of stories told from frontline medical team members, hosted by UK-Med Founder Professor Tony Redmond. The evening will involve a selection…

Material potencies and dormant things - inaugural lecture by Professor Sophie Woodward

16:00 - 17:00 9 December 2021
Join us for Professor Sophie Woodward's inaugural lecture: "Material potencies and dormant things: expanding a vital sociology of the everyday" There is perhaps no more striking example…

The Door Opened: 1980s China - Photographs by Adrian Bradshaw

26 January - 6 July 2022
One can argue that nostalgia is the strongest emotion, a pure mixture of wistfulness and melancholy. Adrian Bradshaw, an English photographer, brings that sense of yearning into full…

Manufacturing Dissent: Moments of Solidarity (Stuart Hall Foundation 5th Annual Lecture)

16:00 - 16:45 3 February 2022
Chaired by Gary Younge, the event this year will focus on the relationship between political organising and alliance-building between different groups of people. Together we will explore…

Bogdanow Online Holocaust Lecture 2022

18:00 - 19:30 8 February 2022
The University of Manchester Centre for Jewish Studies is pleased to announce that the eighth series of Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies will be given by Prof Marion Kaplan, Skirball…

Bogdanow Online Holocaust Lecture 2022

18:00 - 19:30 9 February 2022
The University of Manchester Centre for Jewish Studies is pleased to announce that the eighth series of Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies will be given by Prof Marion Kaplan, Skirball…

GDI Lecture Series: Understanding the contemporary food crisis: structural causes, structural solutions

17:00 - 18:30 16 February 2022
Around the world hunger continues to be a pervasive issue. This talk summarizes current evidence regarding global hunger and demonstrates that its principal cause is not to be found…

Stachniewski Memorial Lecture (online): Jyotsna Singh, 16 February - all welcome

17:30 - 18:30 16 February 2022
English, American Studies and Creative Writing at the University of Manchester are very pleased to invite you to the Stachniewski Memorial Lecture for 2022 (online). This event commemorates…

"I danced here on other peoples' dreams" - Gary Younge

18:30 24 February 2022
This is a young people's talk organised by Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society. This lecture will explore the topic of building a more diverse, respectful and inclusive society,…

British Academy lecture: ‘For an anthropology and archaeology of freedom’

18:00 - 20:30 7 March 2022
The University of Manchester are delighted to welcome David Wengrow, Professor of Comparative Archaeology at University College London, for a British Academy lecture. It is sometimes…

International Women's Day with Gina Rippon, author of The Gendered Brain

13:00 - 15:30 10 March 2022
Celebrate International Women's Day with a guest talk from Professor Gina Rippon, hosted by the Faculty of Biology, Medicine & Health. About this event Join the Faculty of Biology,…

A Month of Celebrations: International Women's Day Lunchtime Speakers - The Contribution of Women across the Lifespan in the Covid-19 Crisis

16 - 30 March 2022
A month of celebrations for international women's day: lunchtime talks to highlight women's contribution to the Covid- across the lifespan To celebrate International Women’s Day on…

From Sticky Floors to Glass Ceilings - Examining and challenging inequality in clinical academic careers

14:00 - 15:30 16 March 2022
Join the School of Medical Sciences in the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health to examine and challenge inequalities in clinical academic careers with a live panel discussion. Inequalities…

GDI Lecture: Global Covid-19 vaccine inequality: looking back, looking forward?

16:00 - 18:00 16 March 2022
While the COVID-19 pandemic has caused enormous devastation and disruption in health, social and economic terms, the remarkably quick development of COVID-19 vaccines is an enormous…

GDI Lecture: Shifting South: Regional Value Chains, South-South Trade and Decent Work in Sub Saharan Africa

16:30 - 18:00 23 March 2022
How is garment and horticultural trade changing in sub-Saharan Africa? How important are domestic and regional value chains supplying retailers within Africa? Are product and social…

The Annual Gillian White Lecture 2022

17:00 - 19:00 5 May 2022
The Human Right to Development as a New Foundation for International Economic Law Professor Dr. Diane Desierto is Professor of Law and Global Affairs, and Faculty Director of the…

Henry Box Brown Lecture 2022

17:30 - 19:00 10 May 2022
'Surviving the Ends of Empire, Or How Insurgent Aesthetics and Queer Collective Care are Transforming Our Worlds' - Ronak K Kapadia, University of Illinois at Chicago (Art Image Credit:…

Thomas Ashton Institute for Risk and Regulatory Research - Annual Lecture 2022

16:30 10 May 2022
In person lecture followed by reception. Online option also available. Lecture Summary: Before chairing the Health and Safety Executive from 2007-2016, Dame Judith spent more…

Work and Equalities Institute Fourth Annual Lecture: Can workers be organised if the state isn’t? Digitalisation, work and employment in emerging and developing economies

10:00 - 11:30 10 May 2022
The role of the state in work and employment has traditionally been examined primarily at the macro level, focusing on its role as a regulator and employer in the context of employment…

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