Events

Building China: People’s Infrastructure

01 March - 31 May 2026

"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..

Carelessness: On the Geographies of Care and Violence - Carl Bonner-Thompson (Utrecht)

14:00 - 16:00 21 May 2026

This paper explores the relationship between care and violence through the lens of carelessness, arguing for a more sustained theorisation of how they are entangled and mutually constitutive. While feminist, political, and social geographies have developed rich accounts of care as an ethical relation and political project, and geographical sch..

The 2026 Dorothy Emmet Public Lecture

16:00 - 18:00 21 May 2026

The 2026 Dorothy Emmet public lecture at the University of Manchester will be given by Professor Elisa Paganini (Università degli Studi di Milano) on Thursday 21st May from 4-6pm. The lecture is open to all - we hope to see you there! The Dorothy Emmet Lecture: Do We Need Truth in Fiction? Abstract: Fiction is thought to work by telling us..

Digital Economy Ethics of AI Workshop

14:30 - 16:30 24 June 2026

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

14:30 - 17:00 25 June 2026

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

01 July 2026

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

02 July 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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