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Articles, blogs and stories highlighting research from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Manchester Met, including english, history, politics, philosophy, sociology, criminology, applied social science, and arts disciplines spanning across architecture, design, fashion, fine art, performance and digital arts.

Future Flares Festival 2026

Future Flares Festival returns in 2026 with more innovative and impactful performances, presentations, discussions and workshops. Bringing some of the most important new voices in contemporary European performance making together in Manchester, Future Flares encourages creative discourse about just how the art-form is responding to our changing world.

Games Workshop Research Day : Saturday 11th October 2025

The Manchester Game Centre is hosting its second annual Games Workshop Research Day on 11 October 2025!

Please join us for a day of talks and games.

For its second outing the event will run all day from 9:30am until 8:30pm and has 3 parts.

Join us at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester for a day of talks and gaming. This event is free and is open to everyone. 

Information Lives in DIY Culture call for Facilitators

Information Lives in DIY Culture is a day-long event about the relationship between DIY cultures (grassroots and political cultures and practices) and information, archives, libraries and heritage.

Unmasking Gender: Power, Identity, Privilege in Film Conference : Call for Papers

Unmasking Gender: Power, Identity, Privilege in Film Conference : Call for Papers
Professor Kirsty Fairclough will be delivering the keynote for the Unmasking Gender: Power, Identity, Privilege in Film Conference at MediaCity, University of Salford, Manchester, UK on 10th December 2025 convened by Dr Eleftheria Rania Kosmidou and Pete Deakin.

Gothic and Heritage Fair @ Gothic Crossroads Conference, June 2025

As part of the Gothic Crossroads conference, an international event exploring and celebrating the multi and interdisciplinary crossings of Gothic and Horror studies, the Gothic Heritage fair brings together objects, collections and curators in a shared accessible space

Bunker Talks at 150

Manchester Met's experimental art series Bunker Talks hits its 150th event. Sophie Atkinson looks back at how the talks achieved the milestone