12 events found.
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors / Tini zabutykh predkiv / Wild Horses of Fire : Free Event
School of Digital Arts (SODA) 14 Higher Chatham St,, ManchesterU-Kino is a festival of Ukrainian cinema, with an aim to raise visibility of Ukrainian film and culture more broadly.
U-Kino Film Festival: The Babushkas of Chernobyl – Free Event
School of Digital Arts (SODA) 14 Higher Chatham St,, ManchesterU-Kino is a festival of Ukrainian cinema, with an aim to raise visibility of Ukrainian film and culture more broadly.
MeCCSA 2024 Conference
Manchester Metropolitan University Business School Lyceum Place, Manchester, United KingdomJoin us at the MeCCSA Conference 2024, a key gathering for media, communication and cultural studies scholars and practitioners. MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education.
This event brings together experts from various fields to discuss and explore cutting-edge research, developments and insights in the realm of media and communication.
Book Launch: Design for Dementia, Mental Health and Wellbeing
Our online book launch will bring together the editors and contributors of this exciting volume. We will explore key issues of co-design, design interventions and design policy for enhancing mental health and wellbeing, including advancements, benefits and gaps for discussion by our speakers and panel.
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Karen Barbour, ‘Where the Fruits of the Trees Are Jewels’
Moon Grove Gallery 7 Moon Grove, ManchesterKaren Barbour’s first solo show in the UK. Comprising twenty-nine paintings on paper that include a new body of work as well as paintings and collages that have been re-visited over the years, it dwells on the California-based artist’s intense concern for the spiritual in painting and how it might serve to alter psychological perspectives on landscape, cityscape or our internal relationship with our environment in general.
ESRC Festival of Social Science : Inclusive Digital Access: Learning from Lived Experiences
HOME Manchester 2 Tony Wilson Place, ManchesterManchester is on a mission to establish itself as a global digital leader by 2026. As a globally recognised digital city, leading researchers in Digital Inequalities from Manchester Metropolitan University, in collaboration with experts with learning disabilities, have joined forces to demonstrate how digital strategies across the UK can be co-produced and include the perspectives of people with learning disabilities.
Our Digital Afterlives at ESRC Festival of Social Science
HOME Manchester 2 Tony Wilson Place, ManchesterHow can grief technology (‘grief tech’) help us to remember someone after they die? What are the real-world implications of this technology? And finally how can immersive theatre help us to ask these questions?.
19th Century Now!
Part of Manchester Metropolitan University’s 200th celebrations, this 2-day event highlights the continuing relevance of the 19th century today.
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AHEAD In Conversation: Arts and humanities responding to the polycrisis
Manchester Metropolitan University - Manchester School of Art - Lowry Building Boundary St West, manchesterAHEAD at Manchester Met invites you to join regional and national thinkers, as well as researchers and practitioners working in arts and humanities, to help us set out a new agenda for how these disciplines can contribute to the policy debate and be a vital force in discourse about national renewal.
16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence
MMU and the Manchester Poetry Library invites you to attend 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, a series of poetry readings, panels, and workshops led by academics in the field. Our events examine how poetry can create transformational social change in partnership with our public and policymakers.
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Ancestral Avant-Gardes
The Holden Gallery Cavendish Street, ManchesterThis one-day event, organised by art historian and critic Claire Bishop, will offer a range of artistic approaches to ancestrality in contemporary art and performance.
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Ahead of the AI’s misinformation curve: let’s talk visual AI literacy
This exciting and timely initiative addresses the recent advancements in visual generative AI which allow anyone to create highly realistic deepfakes, leading to misinformation and personal and social harms, and cementing stereotypes and representational biases. Led by Adi Kuntsman and Jessica Elias from DISC (Digital Society Research Group), in collaboration with the AI Artist and researcher, Dr Sam Martin, the project explores these issues in dialogue with national and international experts in digital literacy, misinformation and technological challenges, and shares AI literacy tools with local communities across Manchester and beyond.