Manchester Museum

Reimagining meanings: co-curatorship and decolonizing methods

10:00 - 12:00 7 October 2024
Members of African diaspora communities are invited to attend this (by invitation only) session which aims to develop new understandings of the Museum’s African collections and develop…

Irene Manton Lecture 2024

17:30 - 19:00 16 October 2024
The Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health in collaboration with The Linnean Society of London and Manchester Museum, will host the 2024 Irene Manton lecture, celebrating the significant…

David Olusoga OBE in conversation with Olutayo Adesina

18:00 - 19:30 4 November 2024
Join us for a very special inaugural event to welcome Professor of History, Olutayo Adesina, to The University of Manchester. Olutayo was among the eight recipients of the 2023/2024…

Melland Schill Lecture 2024 - ''Deceiving the hopes of humanity'': Withdrawing from the United Nations

16:00 - 17:00 12 November 2024
The Manchester International Law Centre will host its 10-Year Anniversary Celebration in conjunction with its annual Melland Schill lecture. Professor Arnulf Becker Lorca (Chair in…

Healthier Futures: Survey workshop and networking lunch event

10:00 - 12:30 15 November 2024
We are excited to invite you to a workshop event focused on the use of surveys in health inequalities research. The workshop will showcase four major surveys currently led by the University…

Silent Skies

18:00 - 20:30 14 May 2025
Silent Skies is a co-created exhibition led by Dan Musaheb, Ardwick Climate Action and supported by Prof. Jennifer O’Brien, The University of Manchester, looking at both the historic…

Stained Metal - 'Solstice & Equinox' Series with Inua Ellams

17:30 - 19:45 28 May 2025
To celebrate his appointment as Honorary Research Fellow at The University of Manchester, acclaimed poet, playwright, and performer Inua Ellams launches his latest project, Stained…

Reggae and Dub Poetry in the UK: A Northern perspective

18:00 - 20:30 4 June 2025
Karen Gabay x Creative Manchester x British Pop Archive This event is a rare opportunity to hear from three musicians from the North West of England, sharing their personal testimonies…

Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction

18:00 - 20:30 6 June 2025
Anyone alive today is among a tiny fraction of the once living: over 90% of species that ever existed are now extinct. How did we come to think of ourselves as survivors in a world…

'Unburied' Book Launch: The True Story of The Manchester Mummy

18:30 - 20:00 11 June 2025
This event will take place in the Kanaris Lecture Theatre in the Manchester Museum. Doors: 6pm. Event start: 6.30. Unburied is the macabre tale of an eighteenth-century woman immortalised…

Alana Lentin’s The New Racial Regime

15:00 - 16:30 25 June 2025
In The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy Alana Lentin shows how the attacks on Black, Indigenous and anticolonial thought and praxis reveal the processes through…

Where Punjab and Aboriginal Australia Meet: Debbie Bargallie

18:00 - 19:30 25 June 2025
Punjabi Dreaming: Restoring Kinship, Defying Erasure, and Reclaiming Home Debbie Bargallie, Principal Research Fellow, Griffith University With Awais Hussain, Doctoral student, University…

Creative Health Research Symposium 2025

09:30 - 14:00 27 June 2025
Following on for our Creative Health Research Symposium 2024, we invite you to join us in 2025 to discuss the practice, policy and research around Creative Health. This event is part…

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