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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Cultural infrastructure at a crossroads - Research Café
16:00 - 19:00 16 September 2025
Join Creative Manchester for a panel and discussion event on devolution, cultural policy and Greater Manchester. Nearly ten years on from the Greater Manchester devolution deal and following a pandemic, ongoing local authority austerity and cost of living crisis, this hybrid event explores cultural policy and planning in the city-region. Join...
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Film screening + discussion: "The Mancunian Way: Music, Memory and the City"
17:30 - 25 September 2025
Join us for a film screening and discussion exploring Manchester's alternative and contested music histories: https://mancunianway.eventbrite.co.uk Organized in collaboration with the Manchester Digital Music Archive and MMU's Music and Sonic Studies Manchester research group, this Manchester Urban Film Series screening and discussion will focus...
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Archiving the People's Papers: Learning from Leeds, Liverpool and Birmingham
15:00 - 16:30 30 September 2025
Join us online to learn about the history of 1970s alternative newspapers, their archival preservation & their continued relevance for today: https://peoplespapers.eventbrite.co.uk The alternative and community newspapers of the 1970s in the UK are amazing historical resources -- documenting the groups, places and events of the time usually in...
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Digital Trust and Security Seminar Series: Dr Chester & Dr Lane
16:00 - 17:00 3 October 2025
Talk Title: Automated Data Collection from Politically Restricted Social Media Platforms: Challenges and insights from China and Russia Join us for a webinar to learn about the automated web-scraping techniques developed by Dr. Patrick Chester (Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey) and Dr. Justin E. Lane (CulturePulse, Bratislava, Slovakia)...
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Aesthetics and the City Launch
15:00 - 16:30 8 October 2025
Join us for the launch of Aesthetics and the City, an edited collection that explores the vital role of aesthetics in shaping urban experience. Bringing together contributors from across disciplines and global contexts, this book launch examines how aesthetics relates to how cities and urban spaces are perceived, organised, and transformed. Through...
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