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..
GDI Lecture: The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet, Brett Christophers
GDI Lecture co-organised with the Geography Department Recent technical advances mean it is typically cheaper to produce electricity from renewable sources than from fossil fuels. Yet, around the world, the transition to green energy is happening too slowly if it is happening at all. As Brett Christophers argues, the problem is rooted in the..
Digital Trust and Security Seminar: Dr Carolyn Swinney
Explore how Software Defined Radios expose & detect radio?frequency vulnerabilities across 5G, autonomous systems & critical infrastructure This event invites participants from all disciplines and backgrounds to come together, fostering interdisciplinary connections and discussions. Talk Title: Software Defined Radios: RF Enabled Cyber Vulner..
Michael Kahan Kapelye (the university klezmer ensemble)
A wedding without a klezmer is worse than a funeral without tears’. As co-directed by MIE's Richard Fay, the fifteenth generation of the university’s resident klezmer ensemble returns to perform a vibrant programme of modern and traditional arrangements of music originating in Eastern European Yiddish cultures.
The Digital Environment Conference 2026
Step into the frontier of human–planet intelligence. This is where the systems that will shape our planetary future are imagined, contested, built and live. Co?hosted by the University Digital Futures platform and the NERC Digital Solutions Hub, the event will begin with keynote from NVIDIA to mark the 75th anniversary of Alan Turing’s On..
The 9th International Conference on English Pronunciation: Issues & Practices (EPIP)
SAVE THE DATE The 9th International Conference on English Pronunciation: Issues & Practices (EPIP) will take place at the University of Manchester, UK, following the success of EPIP 8 at the University of Cantabria in Santander, Spain, in 2024. The conference aims to bring together researchers, students and teachers of English, phonetics, p..
Co-leading with Fairness, Respect, Inclusion and Compassion.
In this talk we discuss how we developed our co-leadership model, arising from feminist principles of leadership. We outline the key values that are central to our departmental leadership practice - fairness, respect, inclusion and compassion - and how we use these values to navigate decision-making. Our co-leadership model is the first of i..
Creativity and AI: Cultural Heritage
This event forms part of a three-part CreaTech Network Series running between February and June 2026, designed to strengthen connections across the CreaTech ecosystem in Greater Manchester and the Northwest, and to support collaboration between the University and the wider creative and cultural industries community. The second event of the 20..
Remote Patient Monitoring in the NHS: From Promise to Practice
Speakers and more details to be announced soon! Remote patient monitoring is a cornerstone of the government’s 10-year plan to get the NHS 'fit for the future'. It could support earlier detection of health problems, better assessment of treatment response, and more proactive self-management. While there have been promising examples of succ..
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..