Exhibitions, Lecture

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…

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…

Launch Event: The Artefacts of Prediction – Imagining Tomorrow

14:00 - 15:30 2 December 2025
Join us for the opening of a new exhibition that explores how people from 1900-present have tried to glimpse, design, or control the future. Throughout the twentieth century and into…

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…

Sustainable Consumption Institute Annual Lecture with Prof. Henrietta L. Moore

16:00 - 17:30 2 December 2025
Join us for an inspiring talk by Prof. Henrietta L. Moore at the Sustainable Consumption Institute Annual Lecture! Sustainable Consumption Institute Annual Lecture with Professor Henrietta…

Follow the White Rabbit: In defence of conspiracy theories

18:00 - 19:30 3 December 2025
A reporter’s perspective on conspiracy theories with Gabriel Gatehouse, journalist and creator of 'The Coming Storm' podcast. Gabriel Gatehouse has spent many years investigating conspiracy…

GDI Lecture: The Myth of Deindustrialisation and the Possibilities for Development within Industrial Civilisation

16:30 - 18:00 3 December 2025
Speaker: Andrew Fischer, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) This lecture draws from Celso Furtado's classic, Accumulation and Development: the logic of industrial civilisation…

The Sarah Fielden Lecture Series: Teaching Education at the Crossroads: Scholarship, Practice and Policy

16:00 - 17:30 3 December 2025
For the next in the Sarah Fielden Lecture Series, join Professor Jean Murray, Emeritus Professor at the University of East London, to examine the shifting history of teaching education…

GDI Lecture: The rise and fall of the UK aid budget: How has the NGO landscape changed over the last 20 years?

16:30 - 18:00 10 December 2025
Speakers: Tom Baker (Save the Children UK) in conversation with Alex Molton and Fin Hanna (GDI Postgraduate Students) Cuts to the UK aid budget represent just the latest in a more…

WEI and MiRS Lecture 2025 with Professor Virginia Doellgast

15:00 - 17:00 11 December 2025
Building worker voice and power in AI decisions: Three cases in the German ICT industry Virginia Doellgast (Cornell University, USA), Tobias Kämpf (University of Labour, Germany), Barbara…

The Role of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) in Multilateral Negotiations

11:00 - 12:00 12 December 2025
Multilateral negotiations are increasingly under strain, making it more important than ever to understand how global agreements are shaped behind the scenes. Dr Andraž Kastelic, a leading…

How to make your research more usable to policy-makers in UK parliament

16:00 - 17:00 18 December 2025
Presentation from Alpesh Maisuria (UWE Bristol) The Higher Education Research Group is delighted to announce that Professor Alpesh Maisuria (UWE Bristol) will be the invited speaker…

Cosmic Threads Community Quilt

24 January - 27 March 2026
In honour of Jodrell Bank’s 80th anniversary, we have partnered with UK textile artist Anne Kelly to create an extraordinary community quilt. Featuring over 200 contributions from members…

New Lovell Lecture: Be the astronomer

19:30 - 21:00 29 January 2026
René Breton, Professor of Astrophysics at JBCA, invites you to join a unique “choose-your-own-adventure” lecture, where audiences can step into an astronomer's shoes, investigate an…

Beyond Borders: Rethinking Migration and Citizenship - Bridget Anderson

15:30 - 17:00 12 February 2026
Please join us for the University of Manchester Sociology Annual Lecture 2026, followed by a drinks reception. About the lecture The University of Manchester Sociology Annual Lecture…

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…

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