Events
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Interdisciplinarity &: 2026 Series - Research Ethos: Speed-Networking
14:30 - 16:30 13 May 2026
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, let alone across the wider university. As interdisciplinary research becomes increasingly vital—driven by complex societal challenges...
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Proof of Human: AI, Copyright, and the Fight for Creative Authorship with Andrew Melchior
18:00 - 19:30 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 lecture Andrew Melchior, CTO of Massive Attack...
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Future of Opera: Human-AI Improvisation
16:00 - 19:00 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 live opera reimagined through human–AI...
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Manchester Literature Festival presents Douglas Stuart
19:00 - 26 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 bound Hebridean community shaped by faith,...
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Manchester Literature Festival presents Tayari Jones
19:00 - 2 June 2026
Manchester Literature Festival is delighted to welcome bestselling author Tayari Jones to discuss her highly anticipated new novel Kin. Born days apart in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, Vernice and Annie grow up inseparable, bound by a shared loss: neither will ever know her mother. Coming of age in segregated America in the 1950s and 60s, their lives...
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