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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Digital Trust and Security Seminar Series: Dr Chester & Dr Lane
15:00 - 16:00 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...
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Archiving the People's Papers: Learning from Leeds, Liverpool and Birmingham
14:00 - 15:30 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,...
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Film screening + discussion: "The Mancunian Way: Music, Memory and the City"
25 September 2025 - 26 July 2026
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...
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Cultural infrastructure at a crossroads - Research Café
15:00 - 18:00 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...
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