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SEED GenAI Community of Practice

12:00 - 13:00 5 November 2025
While chatbots like ChatGPT have dominated the conversation about generative AI, we've also seen remarkable advances in machine translation. These tools are now widely used by international…

Academic Leadership in SEED: Departmental Leadership

11:30 - 13:00 6 November 2025
In this session we are joined by Lisa Murtagh (current Head of MIE) and two of the three current Deputy Heads of MIE: Sylvie Lomer and Edda Sant, to reflect on their Experience of Departmental…

Academic Leadership in SEED: Dialogues on enhancing inclusive practice - Lisa Murtagh, Sylvie Lomer and Edda Sant

11:30 - 13:00 6 November 2025
Please join us for the first of our series on enhancing inclusive practice, which focus on our academic leadership practices in SEED: how understand what leadership looks like and how…

You Ought To Know – Reclaiming Black British Music His and Herstories

18:00 - 19:30 6 November 2025
Join us as we share the findings from a recent research project, “You Ought To Know – Reclaiming Black British music His and Herstories”. You will learn more about the stories of artists…

Jeanette Winterson (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester)

19:00 - 20:15 11 November 2025
Forty years after her era-defining debut Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson returns with One Aladdin Two Lamps - a bold, brilliant celebration of the transformative…

Making Queer Photography Visible Now

16:00 - 17:00 12 November 2025
V&A curator Zorian Clayton in conversation with Prof. Jackie Stacey (EACW)

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…

CTIS Research Seminar - Experiencing the Uninhabited Traumascape of a Divided Capital: An Ethnographic Investigation of Nicosia’s UN-controlled Buffer Zone

14:00 - 15:30 20 November 2025
Cyprus and Nicosia, its capital, have been divided since the 1974 war. A buffer zone divides the two communities and is controlled by the UN Peace Keeping Force. It has abandoned buildings…

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