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Dubai Centre Annual Students and Alumni Gala Dinner 2025

19:30 - 23:00 25 September 2025
We are very excited to announce that our Annual Student and Alumni Gala Dinner will take place in Dubai on Thursday, September 25th 2025. This will be the social highlight of the year…

Foreign Traders: Brokers to Bridge China and the World

14:30 - 16:30 25 September 2025
GDI Migration, Refugees and Asylum Research Group Seminar Speaker: Prof. Dr. Jixia Lu, China Agricultural University Since the 1990s, China has become a significant migration destination…

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…

Gemini and Mercury Remastered Heritage Lecture

19:30 - 21:00 25 September 2025
To coincide with his latest exhibition, NASA digital restoration expert Andy Saunders delivers a special Heritage Lecture sharing the untold story of humanity’s first ventures into…

M Summer. School: Statistical Network Modelling for Social Sciences

22 - 26 September 2025
This event forms a part of the M Summer. School 2025 from the Mitchell Centre This course offers an in-depth overview of statistical models for social network analysis. The course…

Confucius Institute Autumn Open Day

14:00 - 16:15 27 September 2025
Always fancied learning a new language and curious to find out what learning Mandarin would be like? Want to improve your wellbeing and try your hand at Chinese calligraphy? Come along…

Medieval Quarter Festival

27 September 2025
CMEMS sponsors and co-organises the Medieval Quarter Festival with Manchester City Council. Activities include: Saturday Scriptorium – members of the public can write like a scribe…

Dangerous Writings -A Symposium on the Ethics, and Practicalities of Working with Risky Texts

09:30 - 18:00 30 September 2025
"Dangerous writings" have long served as both catalysts for transformation and sources of profound personal and collective risk. From incendiary manifestos to suppressed memoirs and…

Save the Date: 80 Years of Occupational Health at UoM – A Special Celebration including this year’s Lane Lecture

13:00 - 20:00 1 October 2025
Celebrating 80 Years of Occupational Health Research & Training at UoM, We are delighted to invite you to a very special event marking the 80th anniversary of Occupational Health research…

Open Minds XVIII The Eighteenth Annual Philosophy Conference for Postgraduate Students in Philosophy

2 - 3 October 2025
We are delighted to announce the eighteenth annual Open Minds Conference for graduate students in philosophy. Open Minds is a two-day conference which offers graduate students working…

AI in Healthcare: Transforming the Future with Large Language Models #2

13:00 - 16:00 6 October 2025
PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT IS FOR NHS-RELATED STAFF AND ACADEMICS ONLY. After the huge success of AI in Healthcare: Transforming the Future with Large Language Models in July, we have…

Guest lecture: Place-making and the role of culture in Manchester

17:30 - 20:00 8 October 2025
Creative Manchester and the Manchester Urban Institute are delighted to welcome Luthfur Rahman OBE, former Executive Leader for Culture and Leisure and Manchester City Council Deputy…

Visualising Multivariate Data with Topological Data Analysis Ball Mapper

12:00 - 13:00 9 October 2025
Session by Dr Simon Rudkin. Part of the Methods North West lunchtime seminars. Data visualisation is a core component of the empirical process, from data exploration to the evaluation…

WCLC: The Quatuor Danel

13:10 - 14:00 9 October 2025
Bach Cello Suite No. 1 Gubaidulina Reflections on the theme B-A-C-H Shostakovich String Quartet No. 7 The Danels pay tribute to Soviet avant-garde composer Sofia Gubaidulina.…

Quatuor Danel Evening Concert with Richard Whalley (piano)

19:30 - 21:30 10 October 2025
Brahms Hungarian Dance No. 5, Marc Danel, violin and Richard Whalley, piano Jim Aitchison Piano Quintet No. 1 with Richard Whalley, piano Shostakovich String Quartet Quartet No.…

Sarah Hall and Daisy Johnson (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester)

15:00 11 October 2025
Join us for a captivating afternoon with two of Britain’s most original literary talents, Sarah Hall and Daisy Johnson, as they discuss their haunting new books exploring nature, myth,…

Training course on in situ experiments and digital volume correlation

09:00 15 - 17:00 16 October 2025
Digital Volume Correlation (DVC) is a powerful experimental technique that computes 3D full-field displacement and strain maps from volumes images acquired during a deformation process…

The Faber Lecture 2025: Gary Younge (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Creative Manchester)

18:30 - 20:00 16 October 2025
Award-winning author, broadcaster and Professor of Sociology at The University of Manchester, Gary Younge, delivers the inaugural Faber Lecture. In Pigeonholed: Creative Freedom as…

Sayaka Murata (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester)

19:00 18 October 2025
Sayaka Murata, the internationally acclaimed author of Convenience Store Woman and Earthlings, joins us to discuss her provocative and visionary new novel, Vanishing World. In a society…

Marcus du Sautoy (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester)

16:30 19 October 2025
In this fascinating talk, celebrated mathematician and leading scientist Marcus du Sautoy invites us to explore his new book Blueprints: How Mathematics Shapes Creativity and rethink…

The Poems of Seamus Heaney (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester)

19:30 20 October 2025
Don’t miss this special evening celebrating the life and work of Seamus Heaney, as five acclaimed poets gather to mark the publication of The Poems of Seamus Heaney. The definitive…

AI & Sustainability PhD Workshop

13:00 - 15:30 22 October 2025
[University of Manchester Staff and Student Only | In-person] Location: to be confirmed Be part of an engaging workshop that delves into interdisciplinary research and partnerships…

Mimi Khalvati: Rylands Poetry Reading (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester)

19:00 23 October 2025
Join us for the annual Rylands Poetry Reading, this year delivered by one of our best-loved poets Mimi Khalvati. Her award-winning lyrical poetry has been inspired by everything from…

Impact and Blast Short Course

3 - 5 November 2025
The course is designed for professional engineers, consultants, researchers and graduate students, who are involved in the analysis, testing, modelling, design and assessment of structures…

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…

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