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Annual Arthur Lewis Lecture - Trust in Government and Economic Performance

17:00 - 19:00 6 February 2024
Join us for Professor Sir Tim Besley's public lecture addressing how trust in the government is linked to economic performance. In this lecture, Professor Sir Tim Besley will explore…

Digital Transformation in Healthcare: An Ecosystem Approach

17:30 - 18:30 7 February 2024
At this event Panos Constantinides, Professor of Digital Innovation and Digital Learning Lead for Executive Education at Alliance Manchester Business School, will launch his new book…

Research Café: Creative Health and Health Inequalities

12:00 - 14:00 7 February 2024
Research Café: Creative Health and Health Inequalities Join us for a panel discussion on Creative Health and Health Inequalities in Greater Manchester. The relationship between the…

The infrastructural South:Techno-environments of the third wave of urbanization

15:00 - 17:00 7 February 2024
GDI Lecture organised in conjunction with the Department of Geography and Manchester Urban Institute. In this lecture, Jon Silver will discuss insights from his recent book, The Infrastructural…

Chips war? Global production networks and geopolitics in the post-pandemic US and East Asia

15:00 - 16:30 12 February 2024
Lecture organised by the Global production networks, trade and labour group Based on his lead-authored chapter on semiconductors in Global Value Chain Development Report 2023 and his…

Beyond the Uniform: Black and Asian Experiences in the Criminal Justice System

16:00 - 18:00 14 February 2024
This third seminar in the Department of Criminology’s Racial and Social Justice Seminar Series examines Black and Asian professionals in the criminal justice system (CJS) and how institutional…

Social Protection in Latin America: Causality, stratification, and outcomes

16:30 - 18:00 14 February 2024
Social protection is an essential component of public policy. Its successes or failures have direct implications for social welfare, especially among disadvantaged groups. Unlike other…

Albrecht Dürer’s Conceptions of Measurement with Prof Jeanne Nuechterlein

17:15 - 18:30 15 February 2024
This is a hybrid event taking place online and on the University of Manchester campus in the Mansfield Cooper Building G.22, you can find the exact location on this interactive map:…

Origin Stories - Comics Up Close one day conference

21 February 2024
Join us for a day of presentations, discussions and lectures to highlight the value of comics! Origin Stories seeks to explore the political and social situations that are the basis…

Dürer and the Making of Modernism with Prof Ulinka Rublack

17:15 - 18:30 22 February 2024
This is a hybrid event taking place online and at the Whitworth Art Gallery on Oxford Road in the Study Centre, you can find the precise location here: https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/maps/interactive-map/?id=80…

GDI Lecture: Ethiopia’s ‘Developmental State’: Political Order and Distributive Crisis

16:30 - 18:00 27 February 2024
In this lecture, Tom Lavers (UoM) will discuss his recent book, which is concerned with the politics of state-led development and, specifically, how regimes maintain power during the…

Inaugural lecture at AMBS 'The Kaleidoscope of International Business'

16:30 - 17:30 28 February 2024
At this Original Thinking Lecture Peter Buckley, Professor of International Business, will give his inaugural lecture at AMBS 'The Kaleidoscope of International Business – Evolving…

SEED Inaugural Lectures

16:30 - 18:30 28 February 2024
On Wednesday 28 February, join the School of Environment, Education and Development at The University of Manchester for inaugural lectures from Steven Courtney, Professor of Sociology…

Unknotting Dürer's Jerome with Professor Alexander Marr

17:15 - 18:30 29 February 2024
This is a hybrid event taking place online and on the University of Manchester campus in the Mansfield Cooper Building G.22, you can find the exact location on this interactive map:…

GDI Lecture: Contending nationalisms in Ethiopia: New contours of Amhara politics

16:30 - 18:00 6 March 2024
Ethiopia is one of the few countries in Africa where the idea of the nation state was implemented in the European sense of the term; expressed in the form of cultural homogenization…

International Women's Day 2024 #InspireInclusion with Professor Olive Mugenda

12:30 - 13:30 6 March 2024
The Faculty invites you to attend our extra-special bicentennial IWD 2024 event with Professor Olive Mugenda, who will reflect on her experiences of navigating challenges in the workplace…

Vital Topics: The Economics of Levelling Up

17:30 - 19:00 6 March 2024
In this Vital Topics lecture Paul Ormerod, chair of the Atom Valley Mayoral Development Zone and the Rochdale Development Agency and Honorary Professor at AMBS, will explore the connections…

The Samuel Ferguson Lecture with Prof. Niels Henrik Gregersen (Copenhagen University) - Lecture

16:00 - 17:30 7 March 2024
The Samuel Ferguson Lecture—Thursday 7 March 2024 We are pleased to announce that the 2024 Samuel Ferguson lecturer is Prof. Niels Henrik Gregersen (Copenhagen University). The focus…

The Samuel Ferguson Lecture with Prof. Niels Henrik Gregersen (Copenhagen University) - Presentation VENUE UPDATE

12:00 - 13:00 7 March 2024
The Samuel Ferguson Lecture—Thursday 7 March 2024 We are pleased to announce that the 2024 Samuel Ferguson lecturer is Prof. Niels Henrik Gregersen (Copenhagen University). The focus…

Re-orienting Global Development: The multiscalar dynamics of de-risking Chinese infrastructure investment in Europe

16:30 - 18:00 14 March 2024
China’s Belt and Road Initiative is the most visible manifestation of the country’s wider internationalisation efforts in which infrastructure connectivity projects are central. Existing…

Why are health outcomes so grim up north?

17:30 - 20:00 26 March 2024
That where you are can dictate how you are is increasingly and abundantly clear. Health outcomes in the north of the UK across numerous metrics, are poorer, whether it is for children,…

Jeremy Deller in-conversation

15:30 - 17:00 7 April 2024
This in-conversation event with Jeremy Deller will explore some of his public collaborations and the films which they have generated. Hosted by Rupert Cox from the Granda Centre for…

PPE Annual Lecture - Professor Diane Coyle (Cambridge) on 'The Digital Economy and Productivity'

16:00 - 19:00 9 April 2024
Diane Coyle is the Bennett Professor of Public Policy and Co-Director of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at the University of Cambridge. Her latest book - ‘Cogs and Monsters:…

Francesca Billiani's Inaugural Lecture – 'The Aesthetics of Modernisation: Italy and the Short Twentieth-Century'

16:00 - 18:00 10 April 2024
Throughout the Twentieth Century, Italy has struggled with the imperative of becoming a modern Nation-State. This lecture will focus on some key historical and political junctions –…

GDI Book Talk – Global Shifts: Business, Politics, and Deforestation in a Changing World Economy

12:00 - 14:00 17 April 2024
Organised by GDI's Global Production Networks, Trade, and Labour (GPNTL) group and Resources, Environment, and Development (RED) group. Philip Schleifer (University of Amsterdam) discusses…

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