Events
Building China: People’s Infrastructure
"Building China: People’s Infrastructure" invites audiences to encounter China from the kitchen table and the street corner rather than the skyline. Bringing together photographs and prints from the 1950s to the 1980s with field images from the early 2000s and contemporary works, the exhibition traces urban change through the ordinary spaces..
THIRST Leads to Enslavement: 99+ Years of Reclaiming Dignity
Water is not scarce. It is withheld. A talk on caste, infrastructure, and the long arc from the Mahad Satyagraha to Mumbai's water politics today. With Sitaram Shelar, Founder & Convenor of Pani Haq Samiti (Right to Water Committee) and Founder-Director of the Centre for Promoting Democracy, Mumbai. Chaired by Purva Dewoolkar, Bicentenary Fel..
Hive of Pride: Colonisation, criminalisation & community building - Fight for LGBTQ+ rights globally
It’s 2026, but a third of the world’s countries still criminalise consensual same-sex relationships. Many of these laws are a direct legacy of colonialism and empire building, reinforced by modern global anti-rights movements. Yet against this backdrop of discrimination, persecution and violence, strong LGBTQI+ communities have been creat..
Hive of Pride: Out Laws Film Screening incl. Q&A with director, James Lewis
Three courageous activists. One colonial legacy. Out Laws uncovers the roots of queer criminalisation and follows the global movement reclaiming history through courage, community and resistance. Out Laws follows three queer activists as they fight to overturn the colonial-era laws that still criminalise their lives. The battle unfolds in a..
PPERC Launch: 'The Political Economies of Fossil Fuel Phase Out'
Launch of the People, Place and Energy Research Centre with a guest lecture by Professor Peter Newell Launch of PPERC position paper on place-based energy transformations with Nannette Youssef, Policy Manager at the Runnymede Trust How can the world wean itself off climate changing fossil fuels? This is among the greatest and most difficult..
Solstice and Equinox series: Cosmic Titans – in conversation with David Olusoga
Join Creative Manchester and Jodrell Bank for an evening that moves between science, art and philosophy to ponder what it means to imagine the universe when what we know is only ever partial. Reflecting on Cosmic Titans – an exhibition of sculpture, installation and photographic work created through collaborations between contemporary ar..
Digital Economy Ethics of AI Workshop
Join us for an engaging and timely workshop exploring the ethical challenges emerging from the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence across research, industry and policy. Dr. Arash Hajikhani (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland; LUT University) will deliver a thought-provoking talk on the ethics of artificial intelligence, focusing o..
Creativity and AI: Free and Open-source AI Tools and Platforms
This event forms part of a three-part CreaTech Network Series running between February and April 2026, designed to strengthen connections across the CreaTech ecosystem in Greater Manchester and the North West, and to support collaboration between the University and the wider creative and cultural industries community. The third and final eve..
Regulating the Digital Society: UK and EU Perspectives
Join us & explore how the UK and EU member states are approaching the regulation of the digital society in the the post-Brexit era! The increasing digitisation of daily life poses important questions for policy makers, service providers and academics about whether and how we can regulate these technologies to ensure they work for the benefit..
Centre for Digital Trust and Society Forum 2026
Now in its 4th year, the Centre for Digital Trust and Society Annual Forum brings together leading voices from academia, government and civil society to explore the evolving challenges and opportunities shaping digital trust and security. The Centre for Digital Trust and Society (CDTS) brings together interdisciplinary expertise from across th..
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