Past events
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Teenage Kicks: Girls growing up in Britain 1956-1974
8 March - 18 May 2024
Meg can’t wait to leave home. Cynthia misses her family back in the Caribbean. Pamela is pregnant and her mum wants the baby adopted. Andrea fancies girls. Life in 1960s Britain was changing fast but it wasn’t all miniskirts and pop music. This beautiful installation at Glasgow Women's Library, with illustrations by Candice Purwin in digital...
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The City After Dark: Air Space Night Walk + Workshop
19:30 - 21:30 16 May 2024
“The city after dark is always in a process of becoming, arguably even more so than the city during the daytime, since boundaries of identity and place may appear more ambiguous and be less easy to perceive” (Dunn, 2022: 4) Creative Manchester and the Air Space research team invite you to join us for an evening with Nick Dunn, where we will...
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Moving out and moving on in the post-war decades: data and methods for researching young people's lives
10:00 - 16:00 17 May 2024
This free one-day workshop will bring together researchers interested in young people’s experiences of leaving home and striving for independence in the post-war decades. It will foreground methods and sources for researching seemingly mundane aspects of everyday life, such as living arrangements, relationships, leisure and travel. Call for...
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Thinking with Affinities: a Morgan Centre Conversation Event
11:00 - 16:00 22 May 2024
This event is inspired by ideas put forward in Jennifer Mason’s book Affinities: Potent Connections in Personal Life (2018). We want to create an occasion where people for whom some of the ideas in Affinities have resonance or have been stimulating can come together in conversation. The day will not be a conventional conference with formal papers...
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Let's Talk About Race with Gary Younge
12:00 - 23 May 2024
The Equality Diversity and Inclusion Directorate at The University of Manchester will be hosting a new instalment of the ‘Let’s Talk’ series entitled ‘Let’s Talk About Race’. Our guest speaker will be Gary Younge, an award-winning author, broadcaster and a Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester. Formerly a columnist...
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Teenage Kicks: Andrea's story
7 June - 31 August 2024
Teenage Kicks is an exhibition about what life was like for teenage girls in Britain in the 1960s. It is based on research from the Girlhood and Later Life project led by Professor Penny Tinkler. We are showing one of the eight stories in the gallery at the National Graphene Institute at the University of Manchester this summer. Come along and...
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Adventures in Multi-Species Ethnography 2024
10 - 12 June 2024
Join Maisie Tomlinson for this 3-day immersive, reflective workshop in multi-species methods in Manchester. How can we be more sensitive, imaginative, critical and ethical researchers of the more-than-human? Back after a successful pilot in 2022, this is a FREE three-day workshop, whose aim is to further develop methodologies in this exciting...
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'Tagaloa x Tangaroa: Pasifika popular music and climate justice' Kirsten Zemke and Luka Leleiga Lim-Cowley
15:00 - 16:30 12 June 2024
Speakers: Dr Kirsten Zemke (University of Aukland) and Luka Leleiga Lim-Cowley (Oxford University) The Pacific region is one of the most severely impacted areas in the world by climate change, but many of the countries comprising the Pacific are amongst the lowest contributors to ecological crisis. This talk will discuss the interconnections between...
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Ethical Issues in Age-Friendly Community-Building and Co-Creation
12:00 - 13:30 11 September 2024
This edition of the MUARG Conversation Series, chaired by Patty Doran (University of Manchester), features two researchers sharing examples of ethical issues from everyday practice in age-friendly community-building and co-creation. Barbara Groot-Sluijsmans (VU Amsterdam) will provide practical understanding of everyday ethical challenges faced...
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Are Race and Religion on the 2024 US Election Ballot?
13:00 - 14:30 3 October 2024
Join us for a lunchtime discussion of race and religion in the 2024 US election campaign. Keith Magee, renowned intellectual, theologian and scholar will be in discussion with writer and academic Gary Younge. Feel free to bring your lunch and hot drinks will be available. On the campaign trail, race and religion are once more being weaponised...
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