Past events
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What can Digital Futures do for you
12:00 - 17:00 11 December 2025
Register to this special event and find out more about the Digital Futures platform and how you can get involved. Join President Duncan Ivison, Digital Futures Director Richard Kingston, and the platform’s theme leads for this special event and find out more about the Digital Futures platform and how...
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Student Voices in the Archives (The Rylands Lunchtime Seminar Series)
13:00 - 14:00 11 December 2025
The University of Manchester’s archives offer a rich resource for researching student life and the history of the institution more generally. In this seminar, Grant Collier (Curator for University Heritage) will introduce the range of materials available to researchers, highlighting the value of...
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Disability Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction
13:00 - 14:30 11 December 2025
Building resilience means including everyone. "Nothing about us, without us” should shape effective, ethical disaster risk reduction. Disasters affect communities unevenly. For people with disabilities, those risks are amplified when planning, communication, and response systems assume a “one-size-fits-all”...
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WCLC: Ensemble Augelletti – Jewels that Brightly Burn
13:10 - 13:50 11 December 2025
Describing Bach’s students as ‘jewels that brightly burn’, Telemann championed Bach’s skill in arranging music to inspire a new generation of musicians as they performed ‘under the orange tree’ in Leipzig. This programme tells the story of Bach’s students as they became ‘jewels’ and...
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Blooming in the West – Flowers from China
18:00 - 19:00 11 December 2025
Many flora species in English gardens that are often assumed to be native, including roses, peonies, chrysanthemums, camellias, magnolias, rhododendrons, to name but a few, are originally from China. In this talk, Dr Fang ZONG will introduce some traditional garden plants of China and their journeys...
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