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Books Talk: Environmental Histories of Architecture + It's About Time: The Architecture of Climate Change

17:00 - 19:00 12 March 2025
Presentation of two books by Dr. Kim Förster and Dr. Lea-Catherine Szacka (moderated by Prof. Stephen Walker)

History Research Seminar: Narratives and Identities of Syrian Fighters

13:00 - 14:30 12 March 2025
Join us for the latest in the history external speaker seminar series. This talk explores the journey of Syrian fighters from combatants driven by revolutionary fervour to key actors…

PitchIt! 2025 Finals

16:00 - 18:00 12 March 2025
Event Overview: Join us for the PitchIt! Finals, where the top 10 finalist societies from our student societies entrepreneurship competition will go head-to-head in our very own version…

Going Slow to Accelerate: Making Space for Everyone in Science

12:00 - 13:00 13 March 2025
Join the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health (FBMH) for our flagship International Women's Day event on 13th March 2025 from 12-1pm in the Simon Building. The event 'Going Slow…

History Research Seminar - 'Bolton's Grunwick': Bulmer and Lumb and Asian Working Class Resistance

16:00 - 17:30 18 March 2025
Join us for the latest in the history external speaker seminar series. Strike leader Pravin Parmar, known to his friends as the ‘Che Guevara of Bolton’, stands with his arm raised,…

Seeds of Hope and Action Panel

16:00 - 17:00 20 March 2025
The Seeds of Hope and Action project fosters intercultural and international cohesion around the Sustainable Development Goals by engaging students worldwide in meaningful conversations…

Startup Spotlight with Ahana Banerjee

17:30 - 19:30 20 March 2025
Date: Thursday 20th March 2025 Time: 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Location: Lecture Theatre 2.008, 2nd Floor, Alliance Manchester Business School Event Overview: Join us for an exciting edition…

Inspiring Careers in Economics: Exploring Opportunities Across Sectors

16:00 - 18:30 26 March 2025
Are you passionate about economics and curious to discover the wide-ranging career opportunities the field has to offer? Join us at this exciting event, where professional economists…

FFN - The Journey of a Founder

17:30 - 20:00 2 April 2025
Date: Wednesday 2nd April 2025 Time: 5:15 PM - 7:30 PM Location: Room 3.006a/b, 3rd Floor, Alliance Manchester Business School Event Overview: Join us for the Female Founders Network…

CTIS Research Seminar -Who Counts as an Author? What Is a Text? Reshaping Literary Displacement through Collaboration

14:00 - 15:30 3 April 2025
This presentation explores how collaborative ways of making literature redefine literary texts as social processes, open up individual and canonical ideas of authorship and create more…

GDI Alumni Talk - Development in Action: What They Don't Teach You in School

12:00 - 13:30 4 April 2025
Speaker: Taio Gardey, Farming Out Of Poverty (FOOP) Join us for an open conversation with Taio Gardey, an alumnus of the University of Manchester and Executive Director of Farming…

Against Definitions - Alana Lentin

13:30 - 15:00 22 April 2025
This is a hybrid event: you can register to join online or in person. If you are attending in person, please join us from 1.15 for tea, coffee and pastries. SUMMARY In my new book,…

Cultural dislocation and the politics of recognition - Gary Younge in conversation with Michèle Lamont

15:00 - 17:30 29 April 2025
Creative Manchester and the American Studies Department of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures are delighted to welcome Michèle Lamont, Leverhulme Visiting Professor, for an…

Jailed for 8 Years for a Group Chat: Challenging Institutional Racism in the Courts (with speaker Keir Monteith KC)

17:00 - 19:00 1 May 2025
Learn how ‘law student-to-be’, Ade Adedeji, had his GBH conspiracy conviction quashed; find out why the court of appeal refused to hear evidence on whether institutional racism played…

The Transformational Prevention Unit - Webinar

13:00 - 14:00 14 May 2025
Nadeem Sarwar and Scott Small will be presenting at Health Research from Home’s next webinar about their work in the Transformational Prevention Unit (TPU), a scientific and innovative…

Biodiplomatic and Biocolonial Fictions: Speculations on Immunity, Debility, and Humanity

16:00 - 18:00 15 May 2025
The fictions, theories, and practices of diplomacy exceed statecraft and the geopolitical imagination. They are often predicated on culture-specific forms of ‘mancraft’, handicraft,…

In Conversation: Jon Savage and Richard Dyer on The Secret Public

12:30 - 14:00 28 May 2025
SOLD OUT Join us at the John Rylands Library for a discussion of Jon Savage’s 2024 book The Secret Public: How LGBTQ Resistance Shaped Popular Culture (1955–1979) and of The Secret…

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…

Contemporary Gothic Reading Group: Susan Barker on her new novel, Old Soul

15:00 - 16:30 4 June 2025
As part of Manchester City of Literature’s Festival of Libraries 2025, Manchester Metropolitan University presents a special edition of its Contemporary Gothic Reading Group. This…

Creative Café: Crafting Connections – A Heritage for Wellbeing Toolkit (Festival of Libraries 2025)

13:00 - 14:45 4 June 2025
Join Creative Manchester and Manchester Histories as they unveil their new Heritage for Wellbeing Toolkit, designed to spark creativity and foster meaningful connections. This toolkit…

Playing with Cruelty: Pop Culture, Performativity, and the Stanford Prison Experiment

16:00 - 18:00 4 June 2025
Professor Stephen Reicher (University of St. Andrews) in conversation with Professor Stephen Scott-Bottoms (University of Manchester) This special event marks the UK launch of a new…

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…

Collecting, Studying, Controlling Animals in East Asia

10:00 - 12:30 12 June 2025
Join in person or online for an exciting international workshop that explores recent and deep animal histories in East Asia, at their intersections with state power, imperialism, museum…

Murder in Cairo: Solving a Cold War Spy Mystery

17:15 - 19:30 12 June 2025
In collaboration with Creative Manchester, join us for an event celebrating the legacy of Manchester-born Sir Harold Evans (1928-2020), legendary editor, journalist and author. Hear…

A Queer History of Pop: Jon Savage in conversation with Emma Warren

18:30 - 20:30 19 June 2025
Celebrating the release of the new paperback edition of this seminal book, Jon reflects on the various topic's, themes, influences and the creative process of researching and writing…

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