Exhibitions, Lecture

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…

Exhibition launch: Teenage Kicks

14:00 - 16:00 8 March 2024
Join us at Glasgow Women's Library this International Women’s Day to celebrate the launch of our Teenage Kicks exhibition about eight girls growing up in the 1960s. Life in 1960s…

Teenage Kicks: Girls growing up in Britain 1956-1974

8 March - 18 May 2024
Meg can’t wait to leave home. Cynthia misses her family back in the Caribbean. Pamela is pregnant and her mum wants the baby adopted. Andrea fancies girls. Life in 1960s Britain was…

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 –…

AMBS Event: Sustainable manufacturing: from good to great

17:30 - 19:00 17 April 2024
Join us for this Vital Topics event where our panel of industry experts and academics will discuss the improvement of sustainable manufacturing. Hear from industry experts and academics…

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…

GDI Lecture: Where do we go from here? Navigating power inequalities between development NGOs in the aid system

15:00 - 16:30 17 April 2024
With speakers Nicola Banks, Badru Bukenya (Makarere University), Willem Elbers (Radboud University), Emmanuel Kumi (University of Ghana), Margit van Wessel (Wageningen University),…

'Secured Transactions in Global Lawmaking' - Inaugural Lecture by Professor Orkun Akseli

16:00 - 18:00 23 April 2024
Secured transactions law has been subjected to a close scrutiny over the last three decades by governments, academics, mandated international organs and international financial institutions.…

AMBS Event: Women Leading in Business with Helen Tither

10:00 - 11:30 24 April 2024
Looking to make new connections and speak with other inspiring and aspiring business people? Brush up on your people skills and join us for the networking event of the month! At this…

GDI Lecture: The politics of complaint: Digitalizing discontent, in Bangladesh and beyond

16:30 - 18:00 24 April 2024
The first quarter of the 21st century has seen so many mass protest movements that popular discontent barely registers any more. It may be no coincidence that digital platforms for…

POSTPONED – NEW DATE TBC: ‘Beyond Subcultures: Populism, Hegemony and Cultural Production’ – David Alderson’s Inaugural Lecture

16:15 - 18:00 24 April 2024
This event has been postponed. A new date will be announced soon. Existing bookings will be valid for the rescheduled event, and more tickets will be released when the final details…

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