Events at The University of Manchester

Registration for the FBMH Future of Teaching and Learning Symposium is now open

19 September - 15 December 2025
We are excited to announce that the second FBMH Faculty Symposium on the Future of Teaching and Learning will take place on 16 December 2025. This full-day event (09:00–16:15) will…

AI-Fun & ELLIS Invited Speaker Series | Chengchun Shi

11:00 - 12:00 12 November 2025
November’s AI-Fun and ELLIS Invited Speaker lecture will take place in Nancy Rothwell Building room 3A.012. This is in Core 1, on the third floor. If you go by stairs, once you get…

Astro Night: Uniformed Groups

4 November 2025 - 4 February 2026
Calling all Brownies, Cubs, Guides, and Scouts - embark on an exclusive Astro Night adventure at Jodrell Bank this winter filled with cosmic discovery. Journey through an immersive…

Brownbag - Itay Saporta Eksten

13:00 - 14:00 12 November 2025
Title TBD

Digital Health Equity seminar: Bridging the divide in pain management in Pakistan using digital tools

13:00 - 14:00 12 November 2025
Pain is a complex and personal experience that affects people and societies worldwide. Yet, how pain is expressed, understood, and managed can vary greatly across countries and cultures.…

Dome Show: Ted's Space Adventure

9 November - 30 December 2025
Join us in the Space Dome and blast off with Ted and Plant on an interactive adventure across the Solar System! Filled with music and rhyme, this show is the perfect introduction to…

Ed King (Bristol): Addressing Algorithmic Bias through Video Game Design in Brazil

17:00 - 18:30 12 November 2025
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Co-organised with the Centre for Digital Humanities, Media and Culture. Wed 12 November…

GDI Film Screening: A Place in the City, Gabriel Silvestre

16:30 - 18:00 12 November 2025
A Place in the City, by Dr Gabriel Silvestre, from Newcastle University's School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, features communities in Latin America facing displacement,…

Gemini and Mercury remastered

6 September 2025 - 4 January 2026
Embark on a breath-taking visual journey through the dawn of human space exploration in our new exhibition where we welcome back Andy Saunders for the release of the ‘prequel’ – Gemini…

Logic Seminar - Xiaoduo Wang

15:00 - 16:00 12 November 2025
Speaker: Xiaoduo Wang (University of Manchester) Tame Extensions of Generic Derivations on o-minimal Structures Let $T$ be a complete, model-complete o-minimal extension of the theory…

Making Queer Photography Visible Now

16:00 - 17:00 12 November 2025
V&A curator Zorian Clayton in conversation with Prof. Jackie Stacey (EACW)

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Andrey Lazarev

12:00 - 13:00 12 November 2025
Speaker: Andrey Lazarev (Lancaster) Title: Duality for graded Lie algebras (joint work in progress with R. Tang) Abstract: Given a finite-dimensional Lie algebra g, its Chevalley-Eilenberg…

Mandarin Corner - EVERY WEDNESDAY

16:30 8 October - 17:30 10 December 2025
THIS IS A RECURRING EVENT - EVERY WEDNESDAY between 4:30PM – 5:30PM Mandarin Corner is back for another term and we're delighted to bring you more language practice and some cultural…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series - Joe Labianca (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) - Affect’s Role in Organizationally-Sponsored Networking

16:00 - 17:30 12 November 2025
Most organizational research on networking focuses on negative emotions toward it; but some people are comfortable with networking or even find it energizing. This mixed methods study…

Modern Architecture in Models: from the B.15 Workshop Archive

11:00 31 October - 17:00 24 December 2025
An exhibition of student models from the modernist canon of the twentieth century were created by groups of students from the University of Manchester School of Architecture between…

No one left behind: Supporting disadvantaged groups to adopt electric vehicles

12:30 - 14:30 12 November 2025
Join Policy@Manchester on Wednesday, 12 November for the first GM Policy Hub seminar of 2025/26 to discuss electric vehicles use in Greater Manchester. Domestic transport is the UK’s…

Printing Press Demonstration

11:30 - 12:00 12 November 2025
We showcase the use of our antique and fully functional Colombian printing press. Based on the collections, the prints are free to take home after the demonstration. The John Rylands…

Probability Seminar: Goran Peskir - The Dubins constants for Walsh's spider process

15:00 - 16:00 12 November 2025
Goran Peskir (University of Manchester) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: The Dubins constants for Walsh's spider process Abstract: A long-standing open problem of L.…

Quatuor Danel Evening concert - Parisian Walkways

19:30 - 21:30 12 November 2025
Saint-Saëns String Quartet No. 1 Fauré String Quartet in E minor, Op. 121 Ravel String Quartet in F major The Quatuor pay homage to the French tradition of string quartet writing.…

Rare Reads

14:10 - 14:50 12 November 2025
During our Rare Reads facsimile encounters we share beautifully accurate copies of some of our most famous objects. The incredibly rare special collections housed within The John Rylands…

Research Seminar, “Unions, Coops, and the Contradictions of Freedom” with John Las Heras (University of the Basque Country)

12 November 2025
“Unions, Coops, and the Contradictions of Freedom”, John Las Heras, University of the Basque Country

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