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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…

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…

Manchester University Music Society: Symphony Orchestra Concert

18:30 - 20:30 18 October 2025
This concert features the premiere of PHD student, Tanguy Pocquet Du Haut-Jusse’s new composition for orchestra followed by Jacob Ter Veldhuis’ Tallahatchie Concerto for Saxophone performed…

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…

Rylands Discovery Tour

11:00 - 11:30 18 October 2025
During our Rylands Discovery Tours our staff will travel with you through the library spaces and share the fascinating history of the founding of the library, the breadth of the rare…

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

19:00 - 20:15 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…

Sci-Fi film season at Jodrell Bank!

4 October - 30 November 2025
TICKETS SELLING FAST! Get ready for an autumn under the stars with Jodrell’s popular Sci-Fi Film Season! From the intergalactic journeys of Interstellar and Dune to the dystopian futures…

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

16:30 - 17:45 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…

Contemporary Issues in FinTech by Prof. Markos Zachariadis, Dubai

18:00 - 20:00 20 October 2025
Join us in Dubai for an engaging masterclass on Contemporary Issues in FinTech by Professor Markos Zachariadis, Professor of Financial Technology (FinTech) and Chair at Alliance Manchester…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Paul Glendinning

14:00 - 15:00 20 October 2025
Speaker: Paul Glendinning (University of Manchester) Title: The boundary of chaos and the boundary of positive Hausdorff dimension of survivor sets for two-branch maps of the interval…

Listening, learning, collaborating: ECR reflections on research with ethnic minority older people

09:30 - 12:30 20 October 2025
Part of our series of UK events led by members of our early career researcher network. Please contact the event organiser to confirm details. A reflective and collaborative event…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Fraser Sanders

20:00 - 21:00 20 October 2025
Speaker: Fraser Sanders (Manchester) Title: Contact Geometry in Infinite Dimensions Abstract: Symplectic geometry has for centuries been used to model physical systems with conserved…

Mark Fricker -- Adaptive Biological Networks: from slime to society [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 20 October 2025
Join us for this seminar by Mark Fricker (Oxford) as part of the Maths in the Life Sciences seminar series (and the online North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data…

Sarah O'Brien (University of Manchester). Landscapes, timelessness and ambivalence in the nuclearised peninsula of La Hague

15:00 - 17:00 20 October 2025
Abstract to follow. Sarah O'Brien is a Research Associate (Mimesis in Action) in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester.

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

19:30 - 20:45 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…

Translation as Activism Workshop with Kasia Szymanska (Manchester Literature Festival)

20 October 2025
Led by Kasia Szymanska, this participatory conversation will ask: how can we use our languages to make the change we want? Should all activists want to translate? Should all translators…

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…

Community of Practice: The role of hope in transforming places of despair into resilient spaces

08:00 - 09:00 21 October 2025
Hope represents a vital resource in a development landscape affected by rising geopolitical tensions, funding problems, employee burnout, climate crisis, and other interconnected challenges.…

Computational social science drop-in

13:00 - 14:00 21 October 2025
Do you find yourself: - stuck on a project with no one to ask about it? - not sure what to learn next? - the only person in your team using computational methods? - wanting to…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Francesca Fedele

14:00 - 15:00 21 October 2025
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Hope in the Dark: How a daring team of sexologists built the world’s first trans clinic in the shadow of the Third Reich (CSSC and CHSTM Joint Seminar)

17:00 - 18:30 21 October 2025
Set in interwar Berlin, Brandy Schillace’s book The Intermediaries tells the story of the Institute for Sexual Science, the world’s first center for homosexual and transgender rights.…

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