Past events
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MANTIS Festival Fall Event (Concert 3)
14:00 - 15:30 1 November 2026
Join us this Fall for the MANTIS Festival, showcasing innovative audio-visual and electroacoustic works by postgraduate composers at the University of Manchester.
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MANTIS Festival Fall Event (Concert 1)
18:00 - 19:00 31 October 2026
Join us this Fall for the MANTIS Festival, featuring electroacoustic works and a programme by special guest composer and guitarist Marc Estibeiro, whose innovative work explores the intersection of acoustic instruments and electronics
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MANTIS Festival Fall Event (Concert 2)
19:30 - 21:00 31 October 2026
Join us this fall for the MANTIS Festival, showcasing innovative audio-visual and electroacoustic works by postgraduate composers at the University of Manchester
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Building China: landscapes of change
10:00 - 16:00 30 October 2026
What does it mean to build a country? Beyond its dams, roads, housing developments and rapidly changing cities, China's landscapes are shaped by the everyday lives of the people who inhabit them. Building China: Landscapes of Change brings together paintings, photographs, drawings, films and objects...
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Best practices for documenting social sciences research data
10:00 - 11:30 29 October 2026
Data documentation is essential to make sure that well-organised and well-documented research data can be produced from our research projects. This workshop provides an overview of different types of documentation depending on data type (e.g. primary or secondary, survey or transcripts), as an essential...
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Those Serendipitous Mavericks: The Ratio Club and early British Cybernetics
13:00 - 15:00 29 October 2026
A series of nine monthly seminars at the University of Manchester exploring the rich and vibrant history of the radical science of cybernetics, and the potentially profound implications of this hitherto occluded history for our shared socio-technical futures. All events will run from 13:00 to 15:00...
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Book launch: China +100
17:30 - 18:30 29 October 2026
What might China look like in the year 2119, a century after the first outbreak of Covid-19? This is the question posed by editor Xueting C. Ni to ten leading Chinese science fiction writers in Comma Press’s new anthology China +100. Join us to explore the book and its themes, including readings from...
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Everyday Money Mistakes, And How to Avoid Them
18:30 - 19:30 29 October 2026
Feel like you should “know more about money by now”? You’re not alone, and this event is designed exactly for you. Join Laura Whateley, award?winning journalist and author of Money: A User’s Guide, and Emiel Jerphanion, lecturer in finance at the University of Manchester, for an accessible,...
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Is Generosity Incompatible with a Rising Cost of Living?
10:00 - 15:30 28 October 2026
A free family event for primary-age children and their grown-ups Through games, creative activities and family-friendly discussions, you'll discover research showing that generosity isn't about giving more. It's about giving in ways that can make even small amounts go further. Designed especially for...
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UK census data drop-in
13:00 - 14:00 28 October 2026
This free online drop-in is for anyone working, or thinking of working, with UK census data from the UK Data Service. If you are looking for help and advice with your project or research, join us on 28 October. The session is targeted at academic and non-academic researchers, analysts, students, and...
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