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A Month of Celebrations: International Women's Day Lunchtime Speakers - The Contribution of Women across the Lifespan in the Covid-19 Crisis

16 - 30 March 2022
A month of celebrations for international women's day: lunchtime talks to highlight women's contribution to the Covid- across the lifespan To celebrate International Women’s Day on…

From Sticky Floors to Glass Ceilings - Examining and challenging inequality in clinical academic careers

14:00 - 15:30 16 March 2022
Join the School of Medical Sciences in the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health to examine and challenge inequalities in clinical academic careers with a live panel discussion. Inequalities…

GDI Lecture: Global Covid-19 vaccine inequality: looking back, looking forward?

16:00 - 18:00 16 March 2022
While the COVID-19 pandemic has caused enormous devastation and disruption in health, social and economic terms, the remarkably quick development of COVID-19 vaccines is an enormous…

Keynote Film Seminar - Independent Filmmaker and Founder of the Slamdance Film Festival Dan Mirvish

17:00 17 March 2022
The departments of English, American Studies and Creative Writing and Drama are delighted to welcome filmmaker Dan Mirvish to Manchester. Dan is co-founder of the Slamdance Film Festival…

GDI Lecture: Shifting South: Regional Value Chains, South-South Trade and Decent Work in Sub Saharan Africa

16:30 - 18:00 23 March 2022
How is garment and horticultural trade changing in sub-Saharan Africa? How important are domestic and regional value chains supplying retailers within Africa? Are product and social…

The Annual Gillian White Lecture 2022

17:00 - 19:00 5 May 2022
The Human Right to Development as a New Foundation for International Economic Law Professor Dr. Diane Desierto is Professor of Law and Global Affairs, and Faculty Director of the…

Henry Box Brown Lecture 2022

17:30 - 19:00 10 May 2022
'Surviving the Ends of Empire, Or How Insurgent Aesthetics and Queer Collective Care are Transforming Our Worlds' - Ronak K Kapadia, University of Illinois at Chicago (Art Image Credit:…

Thomas Ashton Institute for Risk and Regulatory Research - Annual Lecture 2022

16:30 10 May 2022
In person lecture followed by reception. Online option also available. Lecture Summary: Before chairing the Health and Safety Executive from 2007-2016, Dame Judith spent more…

Work and Equalities Institute Fourth Annual Lecture: Can workers be organised if the state isn’t? Digitalisation, work and employment in emerging and developing economies

10:00 - 11:30 10 May 2022
The role of the state in work and employment has traditionally been examined primarily at the macro level, focusing on its role as a regulator and employer in the context of employment…

Manchester Centre for Correspondence Studies Annual Lecture- Prof Hugh Haughton

17:30 - 19:30 11 May 2022
Join us in the magnificent Historic Reading Room for the annual lecture of the Manchester Centre for Correspondence Studies (MCCS). Hosted by Dr Douglas Field (Senior Lecturer in Twentieth…

BASS Annual Lecture by Professor Helen Pankhurst CBE

11:00 - 12:00 26 May 2022
For the BA Social Sciences Annual Lecture, Helen Pankhurst will be giving a participatory lecture on women’s lives, past, present and future. The session will start with some reflections…

Is sustainability governance abetting inequality? Reflections on power in South African wine and seafood value chains

10:30 - 12:00 12 July 2022
Private and public governance instruments seeking to ensure sustainability in agro-food value chains have become ubiquitous in the past three decades. Virtually all major retailers,…

Keynote lecture: “Innovation, Growth and the Creative Industries"

17:00 - 18:15 3 October 2022
About this event: Creative Manchester is a university-wide research platform at The University of Manchester which co-ordinates and develops research on Creative Industries and Innovation,…

Black History Month lecture delivered by Professor David Olusoga OBE

10:00 - 11:30 10 October 2022
To celebrate Black History Month join us for a lecture with award-winning writer, historian and broadcaster, Professor David Olusoga OBE. The University of Manchester’s Professor of…

Disasters and gender: presence and absence (HCRI Landmark Lecture)

17:30 - 19:00 11 October 2022
The HCRI 2022 Landmark Lecture will be given by UCL's Prof. Maureen Fordham, an expert on community-based disaster risk reduction and vulnerability analysis, focusing on the inclusion…

GDI Lecture Series - FutureDAMS: Addressing the water-energy-food-environment challenge

15:00 - 16:30 19 October 2022
Following the completion of the interdisciplinary FutureDAMS project in early 2022, this lecture will be delivered by the project leads who will reflect on what they have learned through…

The Annual Harry Street Lecture

17:00 - 19:00 26 October 2022
Newly appointed Chancellor of the University of Manchester, Nazir Afzal, is one of the UK’s leading advocates for social justice. Nazir spent many years with the CPS, and later joined…

Ehrhardt Seminar: David Wilkinson (Durham University) ‘How Does God Act in the World? Science, Providence and Miracle’ Discussion of themes from the 2022 Didsbury Lectures

14:00 - 15:30 27 October 2022
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. Sessions will take place in a hybrid format - attendance is possible in person or online via Zoom. To register to attend online,…

LOVELL LECTURE SERIES: PROFESSOR TIM O’BRIEN: MULTI-MESSENGER ASTROPHYSICS

3 November 2022
PROFESSOR TIM O’BRIEN: MULTI-MESSENGER ASTROPHYSICS 3rd November, 7.30pm - 9pm A series of public lectures named in honour of Sir Bernard Lovell, the Founder and first Director of…

Interconnected Worlds of Electronics Global Production Networks After the Pandemic

16:00 - 17:30 7 November 2022
Based on his recent monograph Interconnected Worlds (Stanford University Press, June 2022), this presentation offers some key observations on the co-evolutionary trajectories of electronics…

GDI Lecture Series - Transformative change from below in a context of climate-related uncertainties: praxis, patches and politics - POSTPONED

15:00 - 16:30 9 November 2022
Climate-related uncertainties have tended to be defined by experts and bureaucrats (the ‘above’), mostly ignoring local perspectives and knowledges. Living in landscapes characterised…

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