Events
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Manchester Literature Festival presents Tayari Jones
19:00 - 2 June 2026
Manchester Literature Festival is delighted to welcome bestselling author Tayari Jones to discuss her highly anticipated new novel Kin. Born days apart in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, Vernice and Annie grow up inseparable, bound by a shared loss: neither will ever know her mother. Coming of age in segregated America in the 1950s and 60s, their lives...
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Conference 2026: Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education: Balancing Equity, Access, and Innovation
9 - 10 June 2026
Venue: Online and in-person at the Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Organiser: Manchester Institute of Education, The University of Manchester Generative AI (GenAI) is transforming higher education, from personalised learning and assessment design to new forms of collaboration and creativity. Yet, as adoption accelerates,...
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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 event...
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