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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Interdisciplinarity &: 2026 Series - Leadership & Team Building: Challenge-Led Hackathon
14:00 - 16:00 11 February 2026
In a vast university setting, bringing together interdisciplinary researchers to tackle complex challenges is essential. These teams combine expertise from various fields, focusing on problems that cannot be solved through a single research lens. But how do you find colleagues with similar interests? How do you identify those willing to collaborate? Join...
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Online archival workshop: The Black Radical Press in 1970s Britain
15:00 - 16:30 19 February 2026
Join us for an online workshop exploring the materials and histories of Black activist publishing in the UK from the 1970s. Organized in collaboration with the George Padmore Institute and co-sponsored by the Institute of Race Relations, this event will focus on the archival legacy and continued significance of the Black radical press — as made...
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Climate Urbanisation: Climate Strategies and Extended Urbanisation
15:00 - 17:00 26 February 2026
The accelerating impacts of global warming render planetary urbanisation lenses particularly compelling for analysing how municipal climate strategies produce effects extending into rural hinterlands and regional territories. Municipal climate strategies are increasingly deployed as critical policy instruments in response to climate crises. Yet...
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Digital Worlds Fireside Chat: Meet Our Theme Lead
14:30 - 16:00 27 February 2026
Find out more about our Digital Worlds theme and learn more about the support we can provide. Meet the Digital Worlds Theme Lead, Dave Topping, at Digital Worlds Fireside Chat: Meet Our Theme Lead! "When we frame digital tools as an ecology, we draw on natural-system concepts to reveal how software, hardware, data, people, and the wider environment...
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Second Cold War Cities: Geopolitics and Urbanization in the 21st Century
18:00 - 20:00 13 March 2026
From microchip factories in Germany to port expansions in East Africa, from tech hubs in Southeast Asia to infrastructure corridors linking Europe and the Middle East, global politics is reshaping cities. After the Cold War, many believed globalization would reduce the likelihood of major conflict. Today, intensifying rivalry between the United...
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