Events
Upcoming events in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures (SALC).
- Exhibition: Irrepressible - celebrating 20 years of the Morgan Centre (1 July - 2 September 2026)
- Mental Health Photography Exhibition (10 September 2026 6pm-9pm)
- Chameleon (24 September 2026 7pm-8pm)
- Fire and Ice: The Conception, Birth and Infancy of Cybernetics. (24 September 2026 1pm-3pm)
- Chameleon (25 September 2026 7pm-8pm)
- A Jubilee Overture - 75 years of Philip Sparke (27 September 2026 3pm-5pm)
- What's next for China's economy? (1 October 2026 6pm-7.30pm)
- Women’s Health Technology Summit 2026 (1 October 2026 12pm-5pm)
- Manchester Literature Festival presents Maggie O’Farrell (9 October 2026 7pm)
- SOLD OUT: Manchester Literature Festival presents Sarah Hall: Burning Snowflake – The 2026 Faber Lecture (10 October 2026 6pm)
- Manchester Literature Festival presents Paul Mason: Reds (11 October 2026 2pm)
- Manchester Literature Festival presents The Observer Book Club with Deborah Frances-White (11 October 2026 4.30pm)
- Manchester Literature Festival presents Patrick Radden Keefe (12 October 2026 7.30pm)
- Manchester Literature Festival presents The Observer Book Club with Yann Martel (14 October 2026 5.30pm)
- Manchester Literature Festival presents Sufiyaan Salam and Monika Radojevic (18 October 2026 5pm)
- Manchester Literature Festival presents Lady Hale and Lara Feigel (21 October 2026 7pm)
- Manchester Literature Festival presents The Observer Book Club with Min Jin Lee (21 October 2026 7.30pm)
- Manchester Literature Festival presents Karen Solie: Rylands Poetry Reading (22 October 2026 7pm)
- Manchester Literature Festival presents An Afternoon with Elif Shafak (25 October 2026 7.30pm)
- Those Serendipitous Mavericks: The Ratio Club and early British Cybernetics (29 October 2026 1pm-3pm)
- Ghost in the Machine: The Battle for the Human Mind (26 November 2026 1pm-3pm)
- The Spectre of Automation: Robots in the New Jerusalem (28 January 2027 1pm-3pm)
- “It’s alive!”: Prometheus, Frankenstein, and the Cyborgs (25 February 2027 1pm-3pm)
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Intergalactic Network: The real origins of the Internet (18 March 2027 1pm-3pm)
- A Tale of Beer, Chile, and Syn: Cybernetics in the service of socialism (20 April 2027 1pm-3pm)
- Algorithms against Neurons: The great schism between AI and cybernetics (27 May 2027 1pm-3pm)
- Transcendence or Termination?: Cybernetics, transhumanism, and the future (24 June 2027 1pm-3pm)