Events
Architecture for the People: Manchester City Architect’s Department, 1902-2003
Public Exhibition: Architecture for the People For 101 years, the City Architect’s Department in the Town Hall served the citizens and met diverse civic needs by designing hundreds of different municipal buildings. They ranged from grand airport terminals to the small public lavatories, from the high profile like the new Free Trade Hall to..
Digital Trust and Security seminar: Prof Marija Slavkovik
This event invites participants from all disciplines and backgrounds to come together, fostering interdisciplinary connections and discussions. Talk Title: Autonomous Machines as Moral Arbiters Artificial Intelligence has enabled the automation of cognitive tasks. The more able autonomous machines are, and the more they share the same envir..
GDI Lecture: The rise and fall of the UK aid budget: How has the NGO landscape changed over the last 20 years?
Speakers: Tom Baker (Save the Children UK) in conversation with Alex Molton and Fin Hanna (GDI Postgraduate Students) Cuts to the UK aid budget represent just the latest in a more protracted decline of overseas aid. To help us make sense of this shift and discuss potential ways forward, this session will take the form of a fireside chat betwe..
What can Digital Futures do for you
Register to this special event and find out more about the Digital Futures platform and how you can get involved. Join President Duncan Ivison, Digital Futures Director Richard Kingston, and the platform’s theme leads for this special event and find out more about the Digital Futures platform and how you can get involved. Full agenda to be c..
Community of Practice: How are different types of resilience connected? And how does this connectedness generate impact?
Over the past few months, we've explored many dimensions of resilience and the role it plays in supporting a strong development sector. From personal resilience to the power of social cohesion and community, it's clear that fostering resilience is a complex and multi-layered challenge. In the final session of our community of practice series..
The Politics of Feeling: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism
UoM Geography & the Humanitarian & Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) will host two leading scholars to discuss their new book - The Politics of Feeling: Populism, Progressive, Liberalism. --- In The Politics of Feeling, Ben Anderson and Anna Secor argue that politics has become a matter of political feelings in an age of uncertainty. The un..
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..
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