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

19:00 - 20:15 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…

Emmanuelle Ricaud Oneto (CSGA, Dijon). "Our children? Sold to the State. They will come back in cans of tuna”: Analysis of a rumor on social policies in the Peruvian Amazon

15:00 - 17:00 27 October 2025
This presentation suggests taking seriously a rumor circulating among the Maijuna, a Western Tukanoan indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon, regarding social policies such as cash…

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…

Digital Trust and Security Seminar Series: Robert Gorwa

14:00 - 15:00 5 November 2025
Talk Title: Full Stack AI Governance Every time someone trains, deploys, or queries an ‘artificial intelligence’ system, whether they know it or not, they are implicating the practices…

The Heart of the Eye and the Heart of the Sun: The Struggle to Translate Science in Tokugawa Japan (East Asian Studies and CHSTM Joint Seminar)

16:00 - 17:30 11 November 2025
In 1802, the Nagasaki-based translator Shizuki Tadao completed the final volume of a work that presented Japanese readers for the first time with explanations of universal gravitation,…

CTIS Research Seminar - A Triple Book Showcase: Recent Trends in Literary Translation Research

14:00 - 16:00 13 November 2025
This collective seminar will feature three short talks showcasing recent key publications in the field of literary translation: Translation as Creative-Critical Practice (2023) by Delphine…

Reflecting on Manchester Criminal Prosecutions: A panel event

17:00 - 19:00 17 November 2025
<strong>Participants</strong> Jade Akoum, sister of Yousef Makki, campaigner David Conn, The Guardian Professor Eithne Quinn, The University of Manchester Pete Weatherby KC, Garden…

Topological Data Analysis Ball Mapper for the Social Sciences Workshop

10:00 - 16:00 18 November 2025
This workshop introduces the Topological Data Analysis Ball Mapper algorithm as a model free tool for visualising data and is led by Dr Simon Rudkin. Dr Rudkin is a member of the University…

HCRI Landmark Lecture 2025 - Intersectional Beginnings and Abolitionist Endings: On the Urgency of Critical Theories in Humanitarian Studies and Practice'

16:00 - 17:30 19 November 2025
The Lecture, drawing on critical concepts from Black feminist thought and postcolonial and critical race theories, provides an intersectional analysis of humanitarian intervention based…

UK Data Service essentials: Introduction, finding and accessing data

10:00 - 11:30 26 November 2025
A practical overview of the UK Data Service including guidance on searching and accessing data. This interactive session is ideal for anyone interested in social research and keen to…

The 3rd Brian Robson Lecture 2025: High Hopes, Hard Realities - Civic Universities at the crossroads

17:00 - 19:00 27 November 2025
Guest speaker: Prof John Goddard OBE Manchester alongside Newcastle, Sheffield, Leeds and Birmingham is one of the initial group of civic universities that evolved in the great Northern…

Homeworking for Special Licence and Secure Access data

10:00 - 11:30 3 December 2025
With more researchers working remotely, many are asking: “Is it possible to access safeguarded Special Licence or Secure Access data from home?". Whether you are already accessing such…

Blooming in the West – Flowers from China

18:00 - 19:00 11 December 2025
Many flora species in English gardens that are often assumed to be native, including roses, peonies, chrysanthemums, camellias, magnolias, rhododendrons, to name but a few, are originally…

WCLC: Ensemble Augelletti – Jewels that Brightly Burn

13:10 - 13:50 11 December 2025
Describing Bach’s students as ‘jewels that brightly burn’, Telemann championed Bach’s skill in arranging music to inspire a new generation of musicians as they performed ‘under the…

Diego Maria Malara (University of Glasgow) ‘On the Urbanity of Sacred Substance: Purity, Sin, and the Flow of Blessing in Addis Ababa’

15:00 - 17:00 15 December 2025
In Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, the Eucharist is regarded as an exceptionally pure substance, and governed by such stringent ritual proscriptions that only a very small number of…

In Conversation: African Climate Futures

17:00 - 19:00 22 January 2026
In Conversation: African Climate Futures with Dr Carl Death and Prof Jade Munslow Ong Join us for a thought-provoking evening as we delve into the urgent and imaginative terrain of…

In Conversation: African Climate Futures event 22 January 2026

17:00 - 19:00 22 January 2026
Join us for a thought-provoking evening as we delve into the urgent and imaginative terrain of African Climate Futures. This special event celebrates the launch of African Climate…

ONLINE: Imagining a Gender-Equal World: International Symposium

09:30 - 13:15 11 February 2026
Join us for a free, international online symposium celebrating the?International Day of Women and Girls in Science?and advancing?Sustainable Development Goal 5: Gender Equality.? …

Exhibition: MossWorlds - Re-Storying Urban Lives

12 February - 2 March 2026
Now exhibiting in the Samuel Alexander Glass Corridor: MossWorlds – Re-Storying Urban Lives Until 2 March 2026 Samuel Alexander Glass Corridor The exhibition showcases the mosses…

MossWorlds: Re-storying Urban Lives

17:30 - 19:15 12 February 2026
Join us for the launch of the 'MossWorlds: Re-storying Urban Lives' exhibition, followed by a panel discussion. This exhibition showcases the mosses of Manchester, from the 19th century…

Teaching Matters Workshop 4 Scaffolding Higher Education Assessments: Creating Student Checklists

13:00 - 14:30 18 February 2026
Teaching Matters began in MIE (TEPL) and now welcomes everyone to share HE teaching practice across SEED and Humanities. Each workshop blends theoretical insight with practical tools…

Teaching Matters Workshop 4 Scaffolding Higher Education Assessments: Creating Student Checklists

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series. Bruce Cronin University of Greenwich, .THE STRUCTURE OF LOCAL FDI EMBEDDING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

16:00 - 17:30 25 February 2026
This study examines how structural characteristics of countries’ local inward and outward FDI networks influence economic development across different stages of development. Drawing…

GDI Lecture: The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet, Brett Christophers

16:30 - 18:00 3 March 2026
GDI Lecture co-organised with the Geography Department Recent technical advances mean it is typically cheaper to produce electricity from renewable sources than from fossil fuels.…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series. Pietro Casari Scuola Normale Superiore Italy. Events, Networks, and Collective Action Processes

16:00 - 17:30 18 March 2026
The recent interest in events as an object of study has been accompanied by numerous attempts to develop a conceptual framework for their interpretation. I argue that adopting a processual-relational…

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