Past events
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SALIENT LUNCH & LEARN Webinar - Professor Andrew James
11:00 - 11:30 28 May 2026
Join our next SALIENT Lunch & Learn Webinar featuring Professor Andrew James (Manchester Institute of innovation Research, UoM) Thursday 28th May 2026, 12.00–12.30pm Talk: BUILDING RESILIENCE IN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH COLLABORATION: RESEARCH SECURITY, ACADEMIC AWARENESS & BEHAVIOUR CHANGE We...
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Manchester Literature Festival presents Douglas Stuart
26 - 30 May 2026
We’re delighted to welcome back to Manchester Literature Festival Booker Prize-winning novelist Douglas Stuart, to discuss his profoundly moving new novel John of John, set on the Isle of Harris. Returning home after his art school years on the mainland, John-Calum Macleod is drawn back into a tightly...
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Future of Opera: Human-AI Improvisation
15:00 - 18:00 19 May 2026
An experimental workshop exploring digital inclusion and innovation through human–AI improvisation. This workshop, part of Tuning into Opera, a research and engagement initiative from English National Opera and The University of Manchester, and the OperAI: Future of Opera series, invites you to experience...
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CreaTech Connect: Accelerating University–Industry Partnerships
15:30 - 17:00 18 May 2026
On 18 May, Creative Manchester are delighted to present CreaTech Connect 2026: Accelerating University–Industry Partnerships in the Sister (Renold) Building, at the centre of the Innovation District. CreaTech as described by the Creative Industries Council (CIC), "is where creativity meets technology....
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Proof of Human: AI, Copyright, and the Fight for Creative Authorship with Andrew Melchior
17:00 - 18:45 18 May 2026
A special lecture and discussion with composer, musician, technologist and producer Andrew Melchior. Join us in welcoming composer, musician, technologist and producer Andrew Melchior to The University of Manchester and hear his compelling case for the fight for creative authorship. During this public...
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Filming the City
08:00 - 15:00 14 May 2026
How might moving images reshape the ways in which cities are studied, represented and understood? This question sits at the centre of an upcoming USL ThinkSpace event, which brings together scholars working across the arts, architecture, urban studies and film studies to reflect on the methodological...
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Interdisciplinarity &: 2026 Series - Research Ethos: Speed-Networking
13:30 - 15:30 13 May 2026
Postponed. Please register your interest to be the first to hear when a new date is confirmed. Each research discipline has its own ethos—distinct ways of asking questions, applying methods, and communicating ideas. This diversity can sometimes feel like a barrier to collaboration, even within schools,...
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Plants and Creative Practice 3: Textile Arts
16:00 - 17:15 11 May 2026
The finale of the Plants and Creative Practice online event series In this final event of the Plants and Creative Practice webinar series, cultural geographer Arianna Tozzi (UoM, Hallsworth Research Fellow Geography) and artist Rowland Ricketts (IU, Eskenazi) will consider different ways of engaging...
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Creativity and AI: Cultural Heritage
13:30 - 16:00 30 April 2026
This event forms part of a three-part CreaTech Network Series running between February and June 2026, designed to strengthen connections across the CreaTech ecosystem in Greater Manchester and the Northwest, and to support collaboration between the University and the wider creative and cultural industries...
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Communities of Environmental Knowledge
11:00 - 13:00 29 April 2026
Join us for an informal research café exploring the ways community support and involvement connect to environmental action. Community support and involvement are crucial to the success of environmental action; diversity of both knowledge and experience are central to achieving effective and equitable...
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