Events
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WCLC: Spartimu - Music from Corsica (concert plus workshop)
13:10 - 16:00 23 October 2025
Concert 1.10pm–1.50pm, followed by workshop 2.30pm–4pm Spartimu are a renowned Corsican group, dedicated to teaching and performing ‘cantu in paghjella’ – the UNESCO listed distinctive, highly ornamented and improvisational traditional polyphony of Corsica. Spartimu has performed internationally, been recorded and documented by the US...
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MIOIR Seminar Series - Multimarket Competition and Patent Litigation in Platform Markets: Evidence from the Global Smartphone Industry
15:30 - 16:30 27 October 2025
Multimarket Competition and Patent Litigation in Platform Markets: Evidence from the Global Smartphone Industry Dmitry Sharapov examines how competition across multiple markets shapes firms’ strategic behaviour in platform-based industries, revealing new insights from global smartphone patent litigation. Abstract: Prior literature suggests...
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WCLC: Giannis Koutis & Reza Mirjalali: Ottoman classical music. Presented by the departments of Music & Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies
13:10 - 14:00 30 October 2025
We welcome two virtuoso performers from Cyprus and Iran to the Martin Harris Centre. An oud player and teacher, giving workshops and concerts around the world, while also researching Modal Music of the Eastern Mediterranean, Giannis Koutis has participated in music events, seminars and music festivals worldwide. Reza Mirjalali started music at...
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Zadie Smith (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester)
19:30 - 20:45 4 November 2025
Zadie Smith, one of the most beloved writers of her generation, joins us to discuss her illuminating and keenly-awaited new essay collection Dead and Alive. Written with her usual wit and insight, Zadie takes us from an exploration of artists – including Kara Walker and Celia Paul – to Glastonbury with Stormzy and to the cinema for Tár. She...
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Digital Trust and Security Seminar Series: Robert Gorwa
14:00 - 15:00 5 November 2025
Talk Title: Full Stack AI Governance Every time someone trains, deploys, or queries an ‘artificial intelligence’ system, whether they know it or not, they are implicating the practices and services of an enormous number of interlinked businesses in the AI ‘stack’. In this talk, Robert Gorwa will present early findings from his ongoing...
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