Student events in Manchester

Rare Reads

Printing Press Demonstration

SALIENT Lunch & Learn Webinar with Rebecca Friel MBA

Break The Silence: Poetry Workshop

Departmental Seminar: “Proof of Human: Provenance, Identity, and Trust in the Age of Generative Systems” – Professor Andrew Melchior

Fire and Ice: The Conception, Birth and Infancy of Cybernetics.

Managing competing pressures in planning for disruptions

Rare Reads

Rylands Discovery Tour

Surplus Lives Under Racial Capitalism Book Launch (HYBRID)

Book Launch: Surplus Lives under Racial Capitalism: Roma in Post-Socialist Czechia by Barbora ?ernušáková

Reading Round at The John Rylands Library

Chameleon

Rare Reads

Maths education seminar: Lara Alcock on Reasoning about Mathematical ‘If-Then’ Statements

Printing Press Demonstration

The Forgotten Library: Collection Encounter

Rylands Discovery Tour

Welcome Week Show: Chameleon by Jess Telling

Manchester's Medieval Faire at the Rylands

Rylands Discovery Tour

Autumn Open Day at the Confucius Institute

A Jubilee Overture - 75 years of Philip Sparke

Training course on Visualisation, AI-Assisted Analysis and Quantification of Tomographic Datasets

Seminars in 'Health and Health Systems in the Global Context (HHSGC)'

Soumhya Venkatesan (Manchester) and Adam Reed (St Andrews) "Democratic Epistemology, Anyone? Approaches to and Images of Knowledge as Radically Open to All Comers"

Round Table "Devolution and spatial cohesion, what agenda for Greater Manchester, the UK and Europe"

BreakingBad: Breaking Cost Parity in Biomanufacturing and Defossilisation

SEERIH Primary Science ECT Mentor Programme 2026-27

The Moving Century: A History of Migration Seen from the Future

FBMH Social Responsibility Conference 2026

Rare Reads

Printing Press Demonstration

FBMH Academic Development Programme - Foundations of teaching and learning

Introduction to synthetic data

Rare Reads

Rylands Discovery Tour

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

Exhibition launch event: 'grasp, grasp' by Sian Fan

Women’s Health Technology Summit 2026

WCLC: Quatuor Danel lunchtime concert with Adam MacKenzie (bassoon)

FBMH GenAI in Teaching Seminar series

Reading Round at The John Rylands Library

What's next for China's economy?

Quatuor Danel Evening concert – Shostakovich 120 years

20 Years of Excellence - Stronger Together Gala in Riyadh

Dungeons and Flagons Pop up Boardgame Cafe

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Ashwin Bhat

Fiona Murphy (Dublin City University) "LATE WORK: Imagination, Form and the Creative Life of Anthropology"

MIOIR Seminar Series - Illuminating the Dark Sides of Innovation: Controversial Innovation and Peripheral Opportunity

Dubai Centre - Alumni Networking Dinner in Jeddah

Mental Health Social Care Incubator Autumn Webinars: Academic writing – how to do it

Exploring census microdata

FBMH Academic Development Programme - How do we support international students to tell their story: building a sense of belonging for online and on campus learners

SEERIH FA1 Primary Science Subject Leader Network 2026-27

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Sam Streeter (Bristol)

Bunker Talk #169 Campbell Edinborough

Communicate with Confidence, delivered by VOX Coaching

Re-imagining Innovation: The Value of Creative Practices

Thomas Ashton Institute Lunch and Learn: Rethinking Safety Leadership: From “Safety First” to “Safe Performance"

Untapped potential: Linking survey with satellite image data

Curator Tour: The Forgotten Library

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

GDI Lecture: The Rulers: Corporate Power in the age of AI and the cloud

Guillaume Candela (University of Cardiff) "Recovering Hidden Histories: Reconstructing Trajectories and Experiences of Racialised and Enslaved Individuals in Colonial Paraguay"

Guillaume Candela (Cardiff) Recovering Hidden Histories: Reconstructing trajectories and experiences of racialised and enslaved individuals in colonial Paraguay

From Clinic to Curriculum: Preparing Healthcare Students for AI-Enabled Practice

FBMH Academic Development Programme - IT17: Supporting and enhancing student ‘Professionalism’

WCLC: Duo Folclore (violins)

Inclusive Innovation for People and Planet

Writing the Elements

A History of Black Theatre in Manchester 1827-2020: Celebrating presence

SOLD OUT: Manchester Literature Festival presents Maggie O’Farrell

SOLD OUT: Manchester Literature Festival presents Sarah Hall: Burning Snowflake – The 2026 Faber Lecture

Cultural Welcome Week

Manchester Literature Festival presents Paul Mason: Reds

Manchester Literature Festival presents The Observer Book Club with Deborah Frances-White

FBMH Academic Development Programme - PD15: Academic promotion, recognition and reward

Andrew Irving (University of Manchester) Title TBC

Humanitarianism Under Pressure

MLF 26 - Manchester Literature Festival Presents Ian McMillan

SOLD OUT: Manchester Literature Festival presents Patrick Radden Keefe

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Giovanna De Lauri (Lancaster)

Black History Month alumni event

Challenge Accepted alumni reception: New Delhi

AI Fun with ELLIS Invited Speaker Series | Jin Zhu

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

British Academy Lecture 2026: Professor Stefano Bartolini

Manchester Literature Festival presents The Observer Book Club with Yann Martel

Partnering for Impact: Manchester and India

Manchester Meets the Proteome 2026

Solving industrial challenges through bioprocess optimisation

CoDE seminar: Transnational Black culture in Liverpool in the final decades of the 20th century: legacies of West Africa in the so-called ‘second city of empire’ Stephen Small

FBMH Academic Development Programme - Making a Difference through Social Responsibility and EDI

WCLC: Tom Hicks

MLF 26 - Manchester Multilingual City Poets: Jeremy Pak Nelson & Nóra Blascsók

FBMH Academic Development Programme - IT3.2: Enhancing the Student Experience

Welcome to Fusion - a webinar for students from every subject

Challenge Accepted alumni reception: Mumbai

MLF 26 - Carolyn Forché & Kwame Dawes

AMBSAA 22nd anniversary dinner: Manchesterism – legacy meets vision

SOLD OUT: Manchester Literature Festival presents Sufiyaan Salam and Monika Radojevic

Training course on in situ experiments and digital volume correlation

DCS and MBC Joint Seminar: TONI CELIÀ-TERRASSA "LCOR implications in breast cancer immunity and therapeutic opportunities"

Gabriel Marques Camargo (University of Manchester) Title TBC

MIOIR Seminar Series - Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Africa

Using QGIS to map 2021/22 census data from the UK Data Service

FBMH Academic Development Programme - Active Learning and Student Engagement (Foundation Level)

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

GDI Lecture: The Political Economy of Rwanda's Rise

Manchesterism, the Manchester Model and Inclusive Growth

Lane Lecture 2026: The Evolution of Evidence and the Changing Nature of Employment: What this means for the work of the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council

David Wood (UCL, London) "The Andes on the Small Screen: The Cultural Politics of Multilingual Translation"

SOLD OUT: Manchester Literature Festival presents Lady Hale and Lara Feigel

Manchester Literature Festival presents The Observer Book Club with Min Jin Lee

WCLC: Bringing Silent Cinema to Life

SOLD OUT: Manchester Literature Festival presents Karen Solie: Rylands Poetry Reading

Care-Led Co-Creation Symposium

Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out

Midwifery Today Panel Discussion

MUMS Symphony Orchestra

SOLD OUT: Manchester Literature Festival presents An Afternoon with Elif Shafak

FBMH Academic Development Programme - RE12: PGR Student Supervision: Foundations of good supervisory practice

October half term at Jodrell Bank!

Lorenzo Ferrarini (University of Manchester) "Filmic Relationality: Towards an Eethnographic Ecocinema"

FBMH Academic Development Programme - Essentials of Research@Manchester

FBMH Research Culture and Environment Reflection Sessions (PGR and ECR focused reflective session)

FBMH Academic Development Programme - ADP Peer Review of Teaching Preparation (Micro Teach)

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

STFC Central Laser Facility Workshop on Biological imaging and analysis

Break The Silence: Poetry Workshop

Those Serendipitous Mavericks: The Ratio Club and early British Cybernetics

WCLC: BAILE/home

MANTIS Festival Fall Event (Concert 1)

MANTIS Festival Fall Event (Concert 2)

MANTIS Festival Fall Event (Concert 3)

FBMH Academic Development Programme - IT2.2: Technology Enhanced Active Learning

SEERIH Oldham Primary Science Subject Leader Network 2026-27

SEERIH Rochdale REAL Trust Primary Science Subject Leader Network 2026-27

FBMH Research Culture and Environment Reflection Session (for Research Enabling PS colleagues)

SEERIH Manchester Primary Science Subject Leader Network 2026-27

SEERIH GM Open Primary Science Subject Leader Network 2026-27

Matchstalks Remastered

BA Acting programme 2026/27

FBMH Academic Development Programme - IT3.1: Inclusive Assessment and Feedback

SEERIH STOCCAT Primary Science Subject Leader Network 2026-27

Ghost of the AI Empire | The Sci-Fi Opera Where You Decide the Ending

'The Covenant’ World Premiere - part of?Ghost of the AI Empire, an immersive science-fiction opera trilogy

Animal Farm: BA Acting production

SEERIH Stockport Primary Science Subject Leader Network 2026-27

FBMH Academic Development Programme - RE13: PGR Student Supervision: Maintaining Momentum

Dimitrios Theodossopoulos (University of Kent) Title TBC

MIOIR Seminar Series - Critical and Strategic Raw Materials under Open Strategic Autonomy: Are Mining Capabilities in the EU Regions in Line with the Targets?

The Annual Teddy Chester Lecture - Why is the NHS so hard to Manage?

FBMH Academic Development Programme - Harnessing Generative AI in research

Beyond the Ceasefire: The Continuing Crisis in Tigray

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

Perla Polanco (Manchester) "Oil Nationalism and the Coloniality of Resource Extraction in Mexico" and Mauricio Renteria Gonzalez (Manchester) "Racialised Mobility Within Lima's Dominant Class"

SEERIH Teacher Conference: Primary Science for a Sustainable World

WCLC: A recital for Philip Grange’s seventieth birthday

SEERIH Trafford Primary Science Subject Leader Network 2026-27

FBMH Academic Development Programme - IT23:Teaching Methods (3) - Team based Learning

Yael Navarro (University of Cambridge) Title TBC

SEERIH Salford Primary Science Subject Leader Network 2026-27

'The gender pay gap amongst high educated workers' - Arthur Lewis Lecture

Training course on advanced scripting and batching of tomographic datasets

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

Sustainable Futures’ 2026 Innovation Lab: Thriving, Inclusive and Sustainable Places

FBMH Academic Development Programme - IT20: Creating ‘Transformational’ Learning Journeys

SEERIH Primary D&T Regional Network 2026–27 - Bolton

Care Responders Study Performance

Jodcast Live! Parsecs, Planets and Podcasts

SEERIH ACT Primary Science Subject Leader Network 2026-27

FBMH Academic Development Programme - RE22: Engaging Policymakers for Research Impact

WCLC: Quatuor Danel with Sir John Tomlinson (bass voice), Pete Furniss (clarinet) and Richard Whalley (piano)

WCLC: Leon Bosch & Rebeca Omordia - The South African Double Bass

The Chinese story of bamboo: Sustainability in material and culture

Quatuor Danel Evening Concert – Philip Grange 70 years

The Wife of Willesden: BA Acting production

BEYOND Conference 2026

Ana Carolina Balthazar (UCL, London) "Shame, Anger, and the Emotional Logics of British Politics

MIOIR Seminar Series - Market studies approaches to innovation: insights on concerned markets and Innovation Support Organisations

FBMH Academic Development Programme - RE17: Open and Responsible Research Publications

SEERIH Primary D&T Regional Network 2026–27 - Manchester

FBMH Academic Development Programme - Quality assurance, policy and practice enhancement

SEERIH Primary D&T Regional Network 2026–27 - Oldham

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

Nicholas Trajtenberg "Do Opportunity Effects Travel?" and Olga Sanchez de Ribera "Evaluating a community-based domestic violence programme in the Dominican Republic”

FBMH Research Culture and Environment Reflection Sessions (for PIs/Research Leaders)

Ghost in the Machine: The Battle for the Human Mind

University of Manchester Chorus and MUMS Symphony Orchestra Concert

University of Manchester Chorus and MUMS Symphony Orchestra Concert

Alex Ungprateeb Flynn (UCLA) "The Momentinho and the March: Temporalities of Struggle in Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement"

Bunker Talk #170 Nicola Dale

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

WCLC: Clare Wilkinson and Jacob Heringman

Manchester University Baroque Orchestra: Rejoice Greatly! A Handel Celebration

Laurie Denyer Willis (University of Edinburgh) "Wife-Work in an Evangelical Rio: Pleasure, Protection and the Minimally Safe Bedroom"

MIOIR Seminar Series - Are Female Inventors Geographically Constrained? Gender Differences in Team Collocation

TAI Lunch and Learn: Developing a web application for Process Safety Insights

FBMH Academic Development Programme - PD2.2: Preparing for Advance HE Accreditation

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

Laura Bunt-MacRury (Centro de Estudios Agropecuarios, Cusco, Peru) "The Political Ecology of Biodiversity in the Andes"

Festive Symphony Concert

Quatuor Danel Evening Concert with Simon Grange (bass voice) – Philip Grange 70 years

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: BA Acting production

Gamelan Music from West Java

Andrew Littlejohn (Leiden University) "Ecologizing Safety in Post-Tsunami Japan"

**SAVE THE DATE** FBMH Future of Teaching & Learning Symposium

Festive Ensembles Concert

WCLC: PG Prize Winners’ concert with Twee Dang and Xian Wu

Bunker Talk #171 Restoke

The Spectre of Automation: Robots in the New Jerusalem

FBMH Academic Development Programme - ID1: Induction for New Academics and Fellows

“It’s alive!”: Prometheus, Frankenstein, and the Cyborgs

Blue Stockings: BA Acting production

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Intergalactic Network: The real origins of the Internet

Earthquakes in London: BA Acting production

A Tale of Beer, Chile, and Syn: Cybernetics in the service of socialism

Algorithms against Neurons: The great schism between AI and cybernetics

Transcendence or Termination?: Cybernetics, transhumanism, and the future