Past events
Manchester Urban Institute (MUI) runs a wide variety of different events and activities and collaborates with a range of local, national, and global partners.
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Book Launch: Surplus Lives under Racial Capitalism: Roma in Post-Socialist Czechia by Barbora ?ernušáková
15:00 - 17:00 24 September 2026
The Political Economy Centre (PEC) at the University of Manchester is delighted to host the launch of Barbora ?ernušáková’s new book, Surplus Lives under Racial Capitalism: Roma in Post-Socialist Czechia, published by Manchester University Press. The launch will take place from 4-6pm on Thursday...
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NVIDIA Quantum Day: Accelerated Quantum Supercomputing with CUDA-Q
17 - 27 September 2026
Discover how to harness CUDA-Q and GPU acceleration for quantum computing, hybrid algorithms, and next-generation quantum hardware. *Please Note: This event is for The University of Manchester internal staff only As the era of hybrid quantum-classical computing matures, programming these heterogeneous...
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Interdisciplinarity & Lost in Translation? Bridging Research Cultures Through Dialogue & Speed Networking
14:00 - 15:30 8 July 2026
Each research discipline has its own ethos - distinct ways of asking questions, applying methods, and communicating ideas. This diversity can sometimes feel like a barrier to collaboration, even within schools, let alone across the wider university. As interdisciplinary research becomes increasingly...
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Regulating the Digital Society: UK and EU Perspectives
1 July - 27 September 2026
Join us & explore how the UK and EU member states are approaching the regulation of the digital society in the the post-Brexit era! The increasing digitisation of daily life poses important questions for policy makers, service providers and academics about whether and how we can regulate these technologies...
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Creativity and AI: Free and Open-source AI Tools and Platforms
13:30 - 16:00 25 June 2026
This event forms part of a three-part CreaTech Network Series running between February and April 2026, designed to strengthen connections across the CreaTech ecosystem in Greater Manchester and the North West, and to support collaboration between the University and the wider creative and cultural industries...
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