Events
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A Lifetime of Resilience: Flood Engagement Through Every Life Stage
13:00 - 14:30 25 March 2026
Resilience grows when communities are engaged throughout their lives. Flood resilience is strongest when learning, preparedness, and action happen from childhood, all the way up to old age. Flood resilience develops over time, shaped by how people learn, experience risk, and support one another across their life-course. Yet too often, engagement...
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Exhibition - Encountering Biblical Bodies: Sarah Lightman’s Biblical Women
3 - 26 March 2026
As part of the Centre for Biblical Studies’ CIDRAL-funded programme of events entitled Encountering Biblical Bodies, Creative Manchester are pleased to host works from artist Sarah Lightman’s Biblical Domestic and Menstrual Hystery series in the Samuel Alexander Glass Corridor. In these paintings, biblical heroines trade halos for housework...
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The Fear of a Shrinking Nation: Chronologies of the Future and the Collapse of Everyday Life in Japan
16:00 - 25 March 2026
Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford) The fear that the nation is shrinking, potentially into oblivion, prevails in contemporary Japan. Every year, stories about record-low fertility rates and population decline circulate widely in Japanese society. Such narratives sometimes go so far as to predict the disappearance of the Japanese ethnic group...
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The Past, Present & Future of the Computer in Electronic Music
12:15 - 16:00 25 March 2026
Music and Manchester: Join us for a research cafe exploring the past, present and future of computers in electronic music. While Manchester is prominently featured in music history, the role that it played in the creation of electronic music is less known. This event will: take the audience back to the beginnings of electronic music, celebrating...
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Book Talk: 'Capitalism – A Global History' with Professor Sven Beckert
17:00 - 18:30 26 March 2026
The Department of History Guest Research Seminar will host Professor Sven Beckert (Harvard University) for a book talk on his new publication, Capitalism: A Global History. A wine reception will follow in the Samuel Alexander North Foyer. All welcome. About the book: No other phenomenon has shaped human history as decisively as capitalism. In...
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