Past events
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David Conn: The miscarriages of justice following the Hillsborough disaster (Mark George Memorial Lecture)
17:30 - 19:00 13 February 2025
About the event David Conn will deliver the inaugural Mark George Memorial Lecture, which will reflect on the Hillsborough disaster, the families’ longstanding fight for justice and what this tells us about failures in our legal system. Conn will aim to advance discussion and understanding...
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The British Academy Lecture Series: Peter Sellars - How to End a War: The Living and the Dead Working Together in Baroque Opera
18:00 - 19:30 4 February 2025
Join us for an extraordinary evening with one of the most influential theatre directors of our time, Peter Sellars. Hosted at The University of Manchester, this event promises to explore the power of art in fostering social change and moral expression. We welcome you to the Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall...
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The University of Manchester Research Institute (UMRI) Pump Prime Call Launch Event
14:30 - 16:00 14 January 2025
The University of Manchester Research Institute (UMRI) will be launching the latest round of pump-priming awards in January 2025. The call aims to encourage collaboration and provide support for activities that will lead to an increase in successful interdisciplinary research. Awards of up to £50K...
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‘Solstice and Equinox’ Series with Jeanette Winterson CBE
18:00 - 19:30 5 December 2024
Award-winning writer, acclaimed author and Professor of New Writing at The University of Manchester, Jeanette Winterson returns to the John Rylands Research Institute and Library this Christmas. For years, she has written a new story at Christmas time and twelve of these brilliantly imaginative, funny,...
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Teenage Kicks Zine Making Workshop
15:00 - 16:00 4 December 2024
Join us for a zine-making workshop reflecting on experiences of teenage life and young adulthood. This hands-on workshop will allow you to explore your experiences of the highs and lows of teenage life through your own zine. The workshop will respond to the Teenage Kicks - Andrea’s Story Exhibition...
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Research Cafe: Sketching and Illustration as Research Tools
16:00 - 18:00 4 December 2024
Can sketching, graphics and illustration help us to think about research in new ways? How might they transform the ways we think about research data and outputs? Join us for a discussion on sketching, illustration and graphics as tools in academic research. We will invite a panel of artists and researchers...
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A celebration of James Baldwin with David Olusoga and Douglas Field
18:30 - 20:00 27 November 2024
Join us for a very special event celebrating the launch of a new book, Walking in the dark: James Baldwin, my father, and me, and the James Baldwin centenary. Academic and author Douglas Field will be in conversation with British-Nigerian historian and writer David Olusoga. Since James Baldwin’s death...
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BEYOND Conference 2024: Creative Cities
25 - 27 November 2024
Creative Manchester will be a partner of this year's BEYOND 2024 conference, where we will showcase the innovative research taking place with partners from across the city and beyond, in digital and creative technologies. As part of this we will deliver a creative R&D Showcase on one of the conference's...
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Festival of Care
21 - 23 November 2024
Welcome to The Festival of Care, a celebration of different ways of practicing care. What happens when we consider care a craft or an artful practice? Over the three days of practical workshops and discussions, we will showcase different forms of care, each with different kinds of sensory and practical...
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Future Archive and the Biomolecular Humanities - DNA Storage systems and the future of information
12:30 - 14:00 15 November 2024
Join us for an informal networking lunch to discuss the future of data storage. Molecular storage solutions for our incipient data crisis are being developed in haphazard ways. Millions of bytes of information are currently being produced and storage is expensive, expanding, and highly...
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