Events
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Research Cafe: Unlocking Historical Archives with AI - Opportunities and Challenges
12:30 - 15:30 20 January 2026
Join us for an informal research café exploring how AI can shape and affect historical archives. Recent advances in AI have made it feasible to automatically analyse unstructured content at scale, including large collections of cultural heritage data that come in the form of texts and/or images. At this event you will have the chance to hear...
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MossWorlds: Re-storying Urban Lives
17:30 - 19:15 12 February 2026
Join us for the launch of the 'MossWorlds: Re-storying Urban Lives' exhibition, followed by a panel discussion. This exhibition showcases the mosses of Manchester, from the 19th century to the present, tracing some of their interconnected artistic, political and botanical stories to imagine (mossy) urban futures. Mosses are small, beautiful,...
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Linguistic Landscapes in Manchester and Beyond
11:00 - 12:00 21 February 2026
Join the Linguistic Diversity Collective for a talk by Dr Serge Sagna, Prof. Tine Breban and Dr Simone de Cia to mark International Mother Language Day 2026. This talk centres around the multilingual public signs found across towns and cities, and what they tell us about language domination and language policy in Manchester and beyond. Alongside...
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Looking for Languages – Family-friendly trail at Manchester Museum
13:00 - 16:00 21 February 2026
Free, family-friendly language themed trail around Manchester Museum to celebrate International Mother Language Day 2026. The Linguistic Diversity Collective invites you to join us for some half-term fun to celebrate International Mother Language Day at Manchester Museum. Grab your activity sheet and follow the language-themed trail around the...
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