Past events
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Sustainable Futures October Seminar Series
13:00 - 14:00 26 October 2023
Our October 2023 edition of the Sustainable Futures Seminar Series will feature the following presentations from some of the leading academics working on the new national energy research centres. This seminar will feature the following presentations... - Professor Aoife Foley, Chair in Net Zero at...
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Re-Thinking the Intellectual-State Relationship: Academic Freedom in China
16:00 - 17:30 26 October 2023
Join the MCI for a timely discussion on the past, present, and future of academic freedom in China, featuring Benjamin Mulvey and Boya Li. In this seminar, we aim to provide a reappraisal of the way that academic freedom in the Chinese context is understood, challenging claims made in existing academic...
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Vale? Is it worth it? UK premiere and panel discussion
11:00 - 13:30 25 October 2023
Please join us for the UK premiere of the documentary Vale? Is It Worth It? Five artists in the front line against Brazil’s worst environmental crime. The screening will be preceded by lunch and networking and followed by a panel discussion and Q&A session. Through music, poetry and circus performances,...
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Engaging Stakeholders in Building Climate Resilience
14:30 - 16:00 25 October 2023
The Sustainable Futures Challenge Area, Resilient Futures, and Creative Manchester present this special event exploring how the arts and sciences can collaborate in addressing the challenge of climate resilience. A short theatre performance will be followed by a Q&A discussion with an inter-disciplinary...
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Jeanette Winterson (Manchester Literature Festival 2023)
22 October 2023 - 10 May 2024
Who’s afraid of ghosts, ghouls and the occult? While our lives have become digital, exposed and always on, ghosts have been finding new ways to connect to us, to reach us, to haunt us. One of our most prolific and inspiring storytellers, Jeanette Winterson returns to MLF to launch her new book, Night...
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