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Exhibition – Alison Wilding: Sculptor's Drawings

6 June 2024 - 12 January 2025
<Strong>Alison Wilding: Sculptor's Drawings A display of newly acquired works on paper by the British sculptor Alison Wilding. Please note the Whitworth is closed on Mondays </Strong>…

Exhibition – Barbara Walker

4 October 2024 - 26 January 2025
<strong>Barbara Walker 4 October 2024 – 26 January 2025 Please note the Whitworth is closed on Mondays</strong> Our autumn 2024 programme leads with the first-ever survey exhibition…

Exhibition – The ‘Death’ of the Life Room

6 June 2024 - 12 January 2025
The ‘Death’ of the Life Room 6 Jun 2024 – 12 January 2025 *Please note the Whitworth is closed on Mondays* Set against the backdrop of the 1950s this collection display highlights…

Hear me! Exhibition

1 - 31 October 2024
The Hear Me! science/art exhibition about impact of hearing loss, tinnitus and dizziness, which has just been installed at Students Hub in Jean McFarlane building. The exhibition…

Lunchtime concert: Manchester University Music Society’s Piano Showcase

13:10 - 13:55 4 October 2024
Manchester University Music Society’s Piano Showcase is the first weekly lunchtime concert of the academic year! Come along to see your friends and peers play piano music by Bach, Liszt, Faure, and more!

Mandarin Corner (EVERY WEDNESDAY)

16:30 2 October - 17:30 4 December 2024
THIS IS A RECURRING EVENT - EVERY WEDNESDAY at 4:30PM – 5:30PM Mandarin Corner is back for another term and we're delighted to bring you more language practice and some cultural activities.…

Manchester Literature Festival 2024: Caroline Lucas

14:30 - 15:45 5 October 2024
‘Engaging, illuminating and ultimately uplifting, Another England opens the path to a renewed country with real reasons to be proud of itself.’ Fintan O’Toole Caroline Lucas, former…

MLF 2024: Jackie Kay: A Life in Poetry and Protest

19:00 - 20:15 5 October 2024
Festival favourite Jackie Kay (Red Dust Road) returns to celebrate her new poetry collection May Day. From Reclaim the Streets to Pride to Greenham Common to Black Lives Matter, Jackie…

Manchester Literature Festival: David Peace at HOME

19:00 - 20:15 6 October 2024
Limbs and hearts may be broken, but the spirit remains. Their message is that the club is not dead. Manchester United lives on. In February 1958, BEA Flight 609 crashed on take-off…

Manchester Literature Festival: Lindsey Hilsum

16:30 - 17:45 6 October 2024
‘I was standing outside an apartment block that had been split apart by a missile. The words of a poem came to me when I could no longer find my own.’ In the four decades she’s spent…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Yotam Smilansky

14:00 - 15:00 7 October 2024
Speaker: Yotam Smilansky (University of Manchester) Title: Equivalence relations on aperiodic point sets Abstract: A Delone set in Euclidean space is an infinite well-spaced (uniformly…

MIOIR Seminar Series - Kickstarting Industrial Diversification?

15:30 - 16:30 7 October 2024
Kickstarting Industrial Diversification? Dr. Nicola Cortinovis, Assistant Professor of Economic Geography at Utrecht University, will be discussing the potential of crowdfunding (CF)…

Reimagining meanings: co-curatorship and decolonizing methods

10:00 - 12:00 7 October 2024
Members of African diaspora communities are invited to attend this (by invitation only) session which aims to develop new understandings of the Museum’s African collections and develop…

Sandhya Fuchs (Bristol): Hate Crime Law as Meliorist Hope: Seeking justice for caste atrocities in Rajasthan

15:00 - 17:00 7 October 2024
Hate crime laws, which criminalise violent expressions of prejudice, have faced growing criticism. Scholars have argued that hate crime legislation relies on the collaboration of legal…

Algebra seminar - TBD

14:00 - 15:00 8 October 2024
Title: TBD Abstract: TBD

Book launch: 'Global Marxism' by Simin Fadaee

18:00 - 20:00 8 October 2024
In Global Marxism, Simin Fadaee argues that Marxism remains a living tradition and the cornerstone of revolutionary theory and practice in the Global South. She explores the lives,…

CHSTM Research Seminar: Waking Up on a Different Planet - Contemporary Histories of Climate Psychology and Ecological Emotion

16:00 - 17:30 8 October 2024
Abstract: The historian Dipesh Chakrabarty has done much to establish the planet as a humanist category, challenging other historians and humanists to revisit the conceptual foundations…

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