Exhibitions, Lecture

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…

The Industrious Revolution Reconsidered: Did it Initiate a Consumer Revolution?

16:00 - 17:30 23 October 2024
This public lecture is co-hosted by the Economics and History departments.

Lecture: Professor Kath Albury (Swinburne University of Technology) and Yigit Aydinalp (University of Sheffield) 'Safer Sextech: Intimacy, Pleasure and Wellbeing'

15:30 - 17:30 25 October 2024
The event is co-organised by the Centre for Digital Humanities, Cultures and Media and the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture. This event will be held only in person and…

Gardening with Dementia: The power of nature and the outdoors

10:00 - 16:00 29 October 2024
Join us for a compelling photographic exhibition at the Royal Horticultural Society Bridgewater Garden in Worsley, Salford, celebrating the powerful connection between home and garden…

Teenage Kicks - Andrea's Story

30 October 2024
Teenage Kicks is an exhibition based on the Girlhood and Later Life project, led by Professor Penny Tinkler, which carried out in-depth research interviews with women who were teenagers…

Gardening with Dementia: The power of nature and the outdoors

10:00 - 16:00 5 November 2024
Join us for a compelling photographic exhibition at the Royal Horticultural Society Bridgewater Garden in Worsley, Salford, celebrating the powerful connection between home and garden…

Uneven Development and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regional Tensions Around New Growth Models

16:30 - 18:00 6 November 2024
Speaker: Catherine Boone (LSE) This talk draws upon Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa (Cambridge, 2024) to trace the roots of strong regionalism within African countries,…

How can a circular economy protect the climate and help communities thrive? A conversation with Anshu Gupta, Founder of Goonj

14:00 - 15:15 11 November 2024
What role do restoration and repurposing play in supporting a more just, sustainable, and equitable world? Join Anshu Gupta, founder of the extraordinary social enterprise Goonj,…

Melland Schill Lecture 2024 - ''Deceiving the hopes of humanity'': Withdrawing from the United Nations

16:00 - 17:00 12 November 2024
The Manchester International Law Centre will host its 10-Year Anniversary Celebration in conjunction with its annual Melland Schill lecture. Professor Arnulf Becker Lorca (Chair in…

CSSC Lecture: Dr Danielle Bobker (Concordia Univ) with Dr Noelle Gallagher (EACW, UoM) 'Burlesque: Sexuality, Disability and Humour, 1734 v. 2024'

17:30 - 19:00 13 November 2024
Dr Danielle Bobker (Concordia Univ) with Dr Noelle Gallagher (EACW, UoM) 'Burlesque: Sexuality, Disability and Humour, 1734 v. 2024' C1.18 seminar room, Ellen Wilkinson Building…

DKO 2024 Lecture: Professor Reidun Twarock

17:00 - 20:00 13 November 2024
This year’s speaker is Professor Reidun Twarock form the University of York. Reidun Twarock is Professor of Mathematical & Computational Virology at the University of York. Her research…

Exhibition - Teenage Kicks: Girls growing up in Britain 1956-1974 – Andrea’s Story

13 November - 20 December 2024
This exhibition shares the stories of eight girls, who were teenagers and young women between 1956 and 1974, a time of huge social, economic and cultural change in Britain, based on…

Extreme Nationalism in Contemporary Norway: Ideologies, Mobilisation and Activism - Christopher Fardan

15:00 - 16:00 13 November 2024
Christopher Fardan, winner of the inaugural Manchester Jean Monnet Centre Doctoral Thesis Prize, shares his research on extreme nationalism in Norway. All welcome at this online lecture.…

A Political Epistemology of International Development

16:30 - 18:00 20 November 2024
Speaker: David Ludwig (Wageningen) The colonial myth of a “civilizing mission” is built on imagining the colonized as ignorant and in need of education by colonial knowledge holders.…

AMES Public Seminar: Dr cHana Morgenstern – Rupture and Reconstruction: The Palestinian Cultural Magazine after 1948

16:30 - 18:00 20 November 2024
The Department of Arabic & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), University of Manchester warmly invites you to this event: Part of the AMES Research Seminar Series 2024 – Living, Reconstructing…

Book Launch: Syndicates and Societies: Criminal Politics in Dhaka

15:30 - 17:00 21 November 2024
Join GDI’s State-Society Relations Group for a panel discussion celebrating the launch of David Jackman’s new book, Syndicates and Societies: Criminal Politics in Dhaka (Cambridge University…

Brook Lecture in Middle English: Prof. Marion Turner (Oxford): 'Imagining Medieval Lives'

17:00 - 19:30 27 November 2024
Everyone is warmly invited to the Annual Brook Lecture in Middle English, to take place in: Ellen Wilkinson C1.18 at 5pm on Wednesday 27 November This year's lecturer is Marion Turner,…

Racial Capitalism Across the Black/White Atlantic

16:00 - 17:30 27 November 2024
Racial capitalism has become a widely used term—pointing to the intimate connections between processes of racialization and of capitalist organization. This talk will focus on an eighteenth-century…

From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia

17:00 - 18:30 28 November 2024
Speakers: Dan Slater (Michigan) and Joe Wong (Toronto) Over the past century, Asia has been transformed by rapid economic growth, industrialization, and urbanization—a spectacular…

Inaugural Annual Healthier Futures Lecture Event

18:00 - 20:30 28 November 2024
The University of Manchester's Healthier Futures research platform is delighted to invite you to our inaugural annual lecture event, taking place at the Renold Innovation Hub, in Manchester's…

SCI Annual Lecture with Harriet Bulkeley: Governing with Nature

15:00 - 16:30 3 December 2024
We are delighted to announce that we are welcoming Professor Harriet Bulkeley for the Sustainable Consumption Institute Annual Lecture 2024 on Tuesday 3rd December from 3pm in the blended…

Dams, Power and the Politics of Ethiopia’s Renaissance

15:00 - 16:30 4 December 2024
Speaker: Tom Lavers (GDI) After more than a decade, Ethiopia is filling the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a controversial dam with the potential to transform the hydrology…

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