Past events
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Blackout the Jargon (Festival of Libraries 2025)
15:00 - 17:00 4 June 2025
Join Creative Manchester and the Linguistic Diversity Collective for a session of ‘blackout poetry,’ finding meaning in a scientific text by selecting certain words and redacting the rest to create a literary and visual work of art. Although scientists publish their work in academic journals or...
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Playing with Cruelty: Pop Culture, Performativity, and the Stanford Prison Experiment
15:00 - 17:00 4 June 2025
Professor Stephen Reicher (University of St. Andrews) in conversation with Professor Stephen Scott-Bottoms (University of Manchester) This special event marks the UK launch of a new 3-part documentary series, The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking the Truth, which premiers on the National Geographic...
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Reggae and Dub Poetry in the UK: A Northern perspective
17:00 - 19:30 4 June 2025
Karen Gabay x Creative Manchester x British Pop Archive This event is a rare opportunity to hear from three musicians from the North West of England, sharing their personal testimonies of developing their international careers from the foundation of reggae and dub culture. The impact and deep influence...
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Digital Trust and Security Seminar Series: Dr Colin Williams
13:00 - 15:00 28 May 2025
Digital Trust and Security Seminar Series: Dr Colin Williams Date: 28th May 2025 Time: 14:00-16:00 Location: The University of Manchester Join us for an engaging seminar on The Human Use of Non-Human Beings: Computational Synthetic Agency and Human Exceptionalism (A Partial History and Some Possible...
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Geography Seminar: Dr Miriam Williams, Macquarie University, Sydney - Care-full Cities: Insights into Theory and Practice
14:00 - 15:00 28 May 2025
The department of Geography welcomes Dr Miriam Williams (School of Social Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney) to deliver this in-person seminar 'Care-full Cities: Insights into Theory and Practice' Open to all staff and students.
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