Exhibitions, Lecture

GDI Lecture: Globalisation, Populism, and Trump - Jan Nederveen Pieterse

16:00 - 17:30 15 October 2025
Speaker: Jan Nederveen Pieterse, University of California Santa Barbara What is the problem, Trump or the United States? American media talk about Trump nonstop, but what about frailties…

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…

Seminar by Prof Stefanie Wöhl - Civil Society Challenges to Global Supply Chains: The EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive

15:00 - 16:30 15 October 2025
On October 15th, Stephanie Wöhl will be delivering a talk on "Civil Society Challenges to Global Supply Chains: The EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive". It is from…

What’s happening to women’s mental health - and what must we do?

13:00 - 14:00 20 October 2025
Emerita Professor, Linda Gask, joins us to discuss has been happening to women, how are we failing them and what must we do? Over the last decade, we've been rightly concerned about…

DKO 2025 Lecture: Seeing Shapes in Data: How Topology Helps Us Understand Biology and Medicine by Professor Heather Harrington

17:00 - 20:00 22 October 2025
Please see the link below to register for this year’s Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw lecture on Wednesday 22nd October 2025, 5-8pm - https://forms.office.com/e/9HAmVa619g The event will…

Start or end of life? Advancing the Sociology of Life, Death & Bereavement

16:00 - 18:00 28 October 2025
Join us for the inaugural lecture of Professor Kate Reed, hosted by the University of Manchester's School of Social Science and Department of Sociology. ‘Life’ and ‘death’ affects…

The Double Tax and Unsung Stories - Black Women’s Voices in Activism and Economics

15:00 - 17:00 30 October 2025
Join us for a compelling afternoon of insight and inspiration as we mark Black History Month with two powerful voices in Black women’s activism and economic justice. We’re thrilled…

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…

GDI Lecture: The Political Lives of Information - Janaki Srinivasan

16:30 - 18:00 5 November 2025
Speaker: Janaki Srinivasan, University of Oxford My talk will be based on my 2022 book, The Political Lives of Information: Information and the Production of Development in India,…

Hulme Nannas' exhibition of (in)visibility, community and urban change

18:00 - 20:00 5 November 2025
This event is the launch of an exhibition of artwork and poetry co-curated by older women living on the Aquarius Estate in Hulme. The event will include a talk by community members…

Architecture for the People Manchester City Architect’s Department, 1902-2003

7 November 2025 - 28 February 2026
Public Exhibition: Architecture for the People -------------------------------------------------- For 101 years, the City Architect’s Department in the Town Hall served the citizens…

Architecture for the People: Manchester City Architect’s Department, 1902-2003

7 November 2025 - 28 February 2026
Public Exhibition: Architecture for the People For 101 years, the City Architect’s Department in the Town Hall served the citizens and met diverse civic needs by designing hundreds…

Reimagining New Towns: Delivering Growth and Place-Making for 21st Century England

17:00 - 18:30 10 November 2025
Join us for an exploration of the New Towns Taskforce Report to Government, a major contribution to the national conversation on housing and place-making. The event will explore how…

New Heritage Lecture – Jodrell Bank: The Unexpected Observatory

19:30 13 November 2025
Join Tim O'Brien, Associate Director of Jodrell Bank Centre of Astrophysics, as he travels back in time to tell the story of how Jodrell Bank came to be – a world-leading observatory…

The Rylands Lecture with Alberto Manguel

18:00 - 19:45 13 November 2025
SOLD OUT Join us for the first annual The Rylands Lecture delivered by Alberto Manguel director of the Espaço Atlântida, in Lisbon, Portugal. Home to over 40,000 titles selected by…

2025 Melland Schill Roundtable: ‘Who Governs When the World Is Falling Apart?’

17:00 - 18:30 19 November 2025
Global governance looks very different today than it did a few decades ago. Traditional diplomacy and international legal frameworks that once structured multilateralism are weakening,…

GDI Lecture: Fettered Development and Political Turmoil: 15 Years Since the Arab Spring, Gilbert Achcar

16:30 - 18:00 19 November 2025
Speaker: Gilbert Achcar, SOAS The political landscape in the MENA region looks bleaker today than ever before. This is in sharp contrast with the euphoria aroused fifteen years ago…

REF: AI? A seminar with Richard Watermeyer (University of Bristol)

14:00 - 15:00 20 November 2025
In this talk I will present emerging findings from a study of how generative AI (GenAI) is impacting the UK's Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2029. By means of national consultation…

Inaugural Lecture: Drawing maps on equilateral triangles

12:00 - 13:00 21 November 2025
Register for Professor Lasse Rempe's Inaugural Lecture: Friday, 21 November 2025, 12.00 - 1.00pm, Alan Turing Building, Department of Mathematics, G.107 This is an opportunity to come…

Manchester Cancer Research Centre 20th Anniversary Director's Lecture - Professor David Jaffray, Anderson Cancer Center, USA

14:00 - 15:00 21 November 2025
This special Director's Lecture will be held as part of the Manchester Cancer Research Centre's 20th anniversary celebrations and International Advisory Board meeting. Guest speaker,…

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