Term 1 Programme of Events

Running from September to December 2020

 

 

 

Curious Things: A Glimpse into the International Mail Art Archive of Michael Leigh and Hazel Jones

Date: 16th September 2019 – 3rd April 2020

FREE

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Doing Public History in Lockdown and Beyond

Date: Monday 7th September 2020

FREE, online

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Synchronotron Science Through Games

Date: Wednesday 16th September 2020

FREE, online

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The Power of a Podcast

Date: Thursday 24th September 2020

FREE, online

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Supermodels of the World: A Drag Race Symposium

Date: Friday 25th September 2020

FREE, online

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Bunker Talks #21: Louise K Wilson

Date: Friday 25th September 2020

FREE, online

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Arena: T.S. Eliot

Part of Small Wonder Festival at Home, with Minoli Salgado from the Manchester Writing School

Date: Friday 25th September - Sunday 27th September 2020

FREE, online

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Bunker Talks #22: Faiza Butt

Date: Monday 28th September 2020

FREE, online

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Digital Fashion Innovation (DFI) e-Symposium

Date: 28th - 30th September 2020

£45/£60, online

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'Mandy Coe 'Belonging Street' book launch: celebrating children's poetry

Date: Friday 2nd October 2020

FREE, online

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Bunker Talks #23: Rana Begum

Date: Friday 2nd October 2020

FREE, online

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Bunker Talks #24: Sutapa Biswas

Date: Monday 5th October 2020

FREE, online

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An Evening with Sarah Butler

Date: Tuesday 6th October 2020

FREE, online

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Bunker Talks #25: Alistair McDowall

Date: Friday 9th October 2020

FREE, online

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Bunker Talks #26: Simon Wainwright 

Date: Monday 12th October 2020

FREE, online

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Melmoth’s Afterlives, Book Group 1: Charles Maturin’s Melmoth the Wanderer

Date: Wednesday 14th October 2020

FREE, online

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Opening of PAC@75

Part of a series of events to mark the 75th anniversary of the Pan African Congress Conference in Manchester

Image credit: By Aislinn Finnegan, Priestess

Date: Thursday 15th October 2020, 5.30pm - 9pm

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Poetics of Freedom by Tania Camara

Part of a series of events to mark the 75th anniversary of the Pan African Congress Conference in Manchester

Date: Thursday 15th October - Friday 16th October 2020

FREE, online

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Voices for Freedom

Part of a series of events to mark the 75th anniversary of the Pan African Congress Conference in Manchester

Date: Thursday 15th October 2020

FREE, online

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PAC: Online Sixth Form Conference

Part of a series of events to mark the 75th anniversary of the Pan African Congress Conference in Manchester

Date: Thursday 15th October 2020

FREE, online

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Black Lives in Manchester and the North West at the Time of the Pan African Congress 1945

Part of a series of events to mark the 75th anniversary of the Pan African Congress Conference in Manchester

Date: Thursday 15th October 2020

FREE, online

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Afua Hirsch in Conversation

Part of a series of events to mark the 75th anniversary of the Pan African Congress Conference in Manchester

Image credit: Together We Stand United by Saima Rasheed 2020 (MA Fine Art 2021) http://www.saimarasheed.co

Date: Friday 16th October 2020

FREE, online

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The PAC@75:Viewing the Past and Looking to the Future Debate…

Part of a series of events to mark the 75th anniversary of the Pan African Congress Conference in Manchester

Image credit: Aislinn Finnegan, We Stan'

Date: Friday 16th October 2020

FREE, online

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Pan African Youth Panel: WHO WE BE?

Part of a series of events to mark the 75th anniversary of the Pan African Congress Conference in Manchester

Date: Friday 16th October 2020

FREE, online

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Kwame Anthony Appiah: Keynote address

Part of a series of events to mark the 75th anniversary of the Pan African Congress Conference in Manchester

Image credit: By Zineb Berrais (Animation 2018)

Date: Friday 16th October 2020

FREE, online

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Bunker Talks #27: Hetain Patel

Date: Friday 16th October 2020

FREE, online

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75 Years later: Decolonising the development agenda

Part of a series of events to mark the 75th anniversary of the Pan African Congress Conference in Manchester

Date: Saturday 17th October 2020

FREE, online

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David Olusoga in conversation

Part of a series of events to mark the 75th anniversary of the Pan African Congress Conference in Manchester

Date: Saturday 17th October 2020

FREE, online

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Virtual African Urban History Walk: BLACK HISTORY DIGITAL MAP OF MANCHESTER ONLINE LAUNCH

Part of a series of events to mark the 75th anniversary of the Pan African Congress Conference in Manchester

Image credit: Together We Stand United by Saima Rasheed 2020 (MA Fine Art 2021) http://www.saimarasheed.co

Date: Saturday 17th October 2020

FREE, online

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Manchester Writes: Manchester Creative Writers Discussion and Readings

Part of a series of events to mark the 75th anniversary of the Pan African Congress Conference in Manchester

Date: Saturday 17th October 2020

FREE, online

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Farida Vis in Conversation

Part of a series of events to mark the 75th anniversary of the Pan African Congress Conference in Manchester

Date: Saturday 17th October 2020

FREE, online

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Pan-African Switch On

Part of a series of events to mark the 75th anniversary of the Pan African Congress Conference in Manchester

Date: Saturday 17th October 2020

FREE, online

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A Sense of the Future

Part of a series of events to mark the 75th anniversary of the Pan African Congress Conference in Manchester

Date: Saturday 17th October 2020

FREE, online

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The University of Salford and Students Union Virtual Event

Part of a series of events to mark the 75th anniversary of the Pan African Congress Conference in Manchester

Date: Sunday 18th October 2020

FREE, online

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Lemn Sissay in Conversation

Part of a series of events to mark the 75th anniversary of the Pan African Congress Conference in Manchester

Date: Sunday 18th October 2020

FREE, online

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PAC@75 Closing Event

Part of a series of events to mark the 75th anniversary of the Pan African Congress Conference in Manchester

Image credit: Aislinn Finnegan, We Stan'

Date: Sunday 18th October 2020

FREE, online

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Bunker Talks #28: Chris Paul Daniels

Date: Monday 19th October 2020

FREE, online

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Melmoth’s Afterlives, Book Group 2: Honoré de Balzac and Oscar Wilde

Date: Wednesday 21st October 2020

FREE, online

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Remembering Srebrinica - 25 Years On

Date: Wednesday 21st October 2020

FREE, online

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Bunker Talks #29: Keisha Thompson 

Date: Friday 23rd October 2020

FREE, online

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Bunker Talks #30: Ellie Harrison 

Date: Monday 26th October 2020

FREE, online

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Bunker Talks #31: Gregory Sholette 

Date: Monday 26th October 2020

FREE, online

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Irenosen Okojie - Keynote Speech

Date: Monday 26th October 2020

FREE, online

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How the Publisher Works with You

Date: Tuesday 27th October 2020

FREE, online

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Author Marketing and Online Presence

Date: Wednesday 28th October 2020

FREE, online

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Meet the Literary Agents

Date: Thursday 29th October 2020

FREE, online

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Writers' Inspirations and How They Use Them

Date: Friday 30th October 2020

FREE, online

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Grief School: Substance Misuse

With SUAB Research Associate, Sam Wright

Date: Friday 30th October 2020

FREE, online

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Bunker Talks #32: Dominic Allan

Date: Friday 30th October 2020

FREE, online

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Bunker Talks #33: Javaad Alipoor

Date: Monday 2nd November 2020

FREE, online

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Melmoth’s Afterlives, Book Group 3: Sarah Perry’s Melmoth (2018)

Date: Wednesday 4th November 2020

FREE, online

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Bunker Talks #34: Nima Poovaya-Smith 

Date: Friday 6th November 2020

FREE, online

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Professor Jim McVeigh Inaugural Lecture

 “But they don’t look like drug users…” - The use of anabolic androgenic steroids and associated drugs 

Date: Monday 9th November 2020

FREE, online

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The public health implications of anabolic androgenic steroid use - SUAB Conference

Date: Tuesday 10th November 2020

FREE, online

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How to Write Fiction in a Documentary Style

Date: Wednesday 11th November 2020

FREE, online

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Imagination, Margins and Tacit Knowing

Part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science

Date: Wednesday 11th November 2020

FREE, online

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Hate Crime and COVID-19

Part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science

Date: Wednesday 11th November 2020

FREE, online

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As Seen on Screen: Period dramas, historical 'accuracy' and the role of the historical adviser

Date: Wednesday 11th November 2020

FREE, online

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Bunker Talks #35: Gillian Lees 

Date: Friday 13th November 2020

FREE, online

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Archaeology and Gaming: The Bryn Celli Ddu Minecraft Experience

Date: Wednesday 18th November 2020

FREE, online

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Bunker Talks #36: Frances Babbage 

Date: Friday 20th November 2020

FREE, online

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Bunker Talks #37: Aidan McGarry 

Date: Friday 27th November 2020

FREE, online

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Bunker Talks #38: Mike Pratt 

Date: Monday 30th November 2020

FREE, online

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Sam Johnson Memorial Lecture

Mischling : the contrasted destiny of ‘half-Jews’ in the Third Reich, between persecution and survival

Date: Thursday 3rd December 2020

FREE, online

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The Short Story

Manchester Writing School’s Nicholas Royle and Lara Williams iscuss their latest work in the short story genre.

Date: Thursday 3rd December 2020

FREE, online

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Bunker Talks #39: Elena Cologni 

Date: Friday 4th December 2020

FREE, online

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Bunker Talks #40: Tyrone Huggins 

Date: Monday 7th December 2020

FREE, online

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Bunker Talks #41: Simon Faulkner 

Date: Friday 11th December 2020

FREE, online

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Bunker Talks #42: Matthew Spangler 

Date: Monday 14th December 2020

FREE, online

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‘Small Axe’: Alex Wheatle in conversation with Simon Stephens

Award winning writers from the Manchester Writing School discuss the ‘Small Axe’ series of films.

Date: Monday 14th December 2020

FREE, online

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Bunker Talks #43: Kirsty Fairclough 

Date: Friday 18th December 2020

FREE, online

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Bunker Talks #44: Jack McNamara 

Date: Monday 21st December 2020

FREE, online

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Online Exhibitions

 

Art of Ayresome - Online Exhibition with Middlesbrough Football Club

FREE, online

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Cartoonist Graeme Bandeira’s personal illustrations of Ayresome Park feature in the exhibition

Manchester Gothic Arts Group - Something Old, Something Borrowed, Something New

FREE, online

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Thomas Barritt of Manchester

FREE, online

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Online Exhibition: Russa's Second Patriotic War in posters, photographs and postcards

FREE, online

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Manchester Metropolitan University is committed to disability equality. If you have any access requirements, please let us know by emailing lucy.simpson@mmu.ac.uk before you attend to help us to make sure that your visit to the event is as enjoyable as possible.

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