Events
Book launch: China +100
What might China look like in the year 2119, a century after the first outbreak of Covid-19? This is the question posed by editor Xueting C. Ni to ten leading Chinese science fiction writers in Comma Press’s new anthology China +100. Join us to explore the book and its themes, including readings from two of the anthology’s authors – Ann..
Everyday Money Mistakes, And How to Avoid Them
Feel like you should “know more about money by now”? You’re not alone, and this event is designed exactly for you. Join Laura Whateley, award?winning journalist and author of Money: A User’s Guide, and Emiel Jerphanion, lecturer in finance at the University of Manchester, for an accessible, myth?busting session on the everyday money m..
National Emergency Briefing film screening and discussion
Colleagues from Sustainability@SEED and SoSS, in collaboration with the Climate Justice Universities Union (CJUU), will be hosting a free screening of the National Emergency Briefing. The screening will take place on Thursday 29 October, from 16:00 to 18:00 in Theatre A, Simon Building. The screening will be following by a short roundtable d..
Those Serendipitous Mavericks: The Ratio Club and early British Cybernetics
A series of nine monthly seminars at the University of Manchester exploring the rich and vibrant history of the radical science of cybernetics, and the potentially profound implications of this hitherto occluded history for our shared socio-technical futures. All events will run from 13:00 to 15:00 and will be hosted at the University of Manc..
Building China: landscapes of change
What does it mean to build a country? Beyond its dams, roads, housing developments and rapidly changing cities, China's landscapes are shaped by the everyday lives of the people who inhabit them. Building China: Landscapes of Change brings together paintings, photographs, drawings, films and objects spanning more than seventy years of transfo..
Art as Testimony of Prison Experience
Join us for a unique exhibition showcasing artwork created during a prison sentence, offering rare, personal insight into the realities of imprisonment, rehabilitation, and life beyond crime. Visitors can explore a collection of artworks the featured artist produced while serving time in prison. Alongside the artwork, extracts from interviews..
Colours in the Field: Cotton, Empire and alternative futures in India
Join us for an exhibition launch and panel discussion on the colonial legacies of India’s extractive cotton monocultures. Exhibition Overview: Combining archival research with natural pigments screen printed on cotton, Colours in the Field unearths the colonial legacies of India’s extractive cotton monocultures and their connections to M..
The Cost of Connection
The event will feature a panel discussion bringing together researchers, community organisations and people with lived experience, followed by screenings of two short films: Amphetamine (1967) by Warren Sonbert, exploring gay male intimacy and drug use in 1960s New York. GHOSTS by Thomas Roughan, examining addiction, recovery and connection w..
Hydrocide: water is natural, scarcity is political
Dr Bayes Ahmed (Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, UCL). Chair: Mehebub Sahana; 3pm in Coupland 3 Building, Theatre B.
David Lea and the China connection - A talk by Adam Voelcker
How can a journey change the way an architect thinks, lives and designs? In 1975, British architect David Lea travelled to China. An early advocate of environmentally responsible architecture, Lea returned from the visit with experiences and ideas that would leave a lasting impression on his life and work. Drawing on Lea's remarkable photogra..