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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…

Manchester International Peace Lecture - “Societal Polarization and Academic Freedom in the Time of Symbolic Liberalism”

16:00 - 17:30 25 April 2024
This year’s Manchester International Peace Lecture will be given by Professor Sari Hanafi and will be on the topic of “Societal Polarization and Academic Freedom in the Time of Symbolic…

Esra Özyürek – 'Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany'

16:30 - 18:30 26 April 2024
At the turn of the millennium, Middle Eastern and Muslim Germans had rather unexpectedly become central to the country's Holocaust memory culture—not as welcome participants, but as…

Class, Cultural Knowledge, and Barriers to Mobility - Visiting Leverhulme Professor Annette Lareau

14:30 - 17:30 29 April 2024
Please join us for our very first University of Manchester Department of Sociology annual lecture, given in our 60th anniversary year. We are delighted that our inaugural lecture will…

AMBS Event: In search of a Just Transition: Taking a stakeholder engagement perspective

16:00 - 17:00 30 April 2024
A guest lecture from Professor Fran Ackermann, John Curtin Distinguished Professor in the School of Management, Curtin Business School

AMBS Event: A multi-level analysis of net-zero transitions Acceleration and new obstacles

12:00 - 13:00 1 May 2024
At this Original Thinking Lecture, Frank Geels, Eddie Davies Professor of Sustainability Transition, will give his inaugural lecture as Eddie Davies Chair. Net-zero transitions have…

Art Not Evidence: The misuse of rap in criminal trials

17:00 - 18:30 1 May 2024
Keir Monteith KC, in his inaugural lecture for the Law School at the University of Manchester, will review the increased criminalisation of rap music, including the use of lyrics and…

Hannah Cobb's Inaugural Lecture – Assemblages of Teaching and Learning: Past, Present and Future

16:15 - 18:00 1 May 2024
In the metrics driven audit culture of today’s Higher Education landscape, there is a danger that teaching and learning are reduced to homogenised, transactional processes. In her…

AMBS Event: Tom Beahon, Co-founder and Co-CEO of Castore

17:00 - 18:00 7 May 2024
Title: Anyone can do it – from the kitchen table to billion-pound firm Hear from Tom Beahon as he shares how he and his brother launched Castore, the world’s first premium performance sportswear apparel brand for men.

AMBS Event: Data Analytics and Digital Transformations

16:00 - 17:00 8 May 2024
Join Erik Beulen, Professor of Information Management at AMBS, and Marla A. Dans, Head of Data Management and Governance at Chicago Trading Company, as they launch their new book 'Data…

Dirk Moses – 'The End(s) of German Memory Culture and the Catastrophization of Politics'

17:30 - 19:30 8 May 2024
This paper begins with the catastrophization of politics in Germany today, meaning that the present is understood in terms of its catastrophic past: a repetition of impending National…

The Ehrhardt seminar: "Monotheism and Creation in Proverbs, Job and Ecclesiastes"

16:10 9 May 2024
Katharine Dell 9 May 2024 4.10pm University Place 6.208, Hybrid format via Zoom Administration and registration: lev.eakins@manchester.ac.uk

Tan Dun's Ghost Opera and the Chinese New Wave

18:00 - 19:00 13 May 2024
Join us for our May public talk given by the curator of our 2024 Chinese New Year concert, Po Hang Yuen (Arthur). The work of a group of modern Chinese composers known as the ‘New…

Social Metabolism and Valuation Languages in the Atlas of Environmental Justice

16:30 - 18:00 15 May 2024
Join us for a lecture delivered by Joan Martinez-Alier, Emeritus Professor of Economics and Economic History, and senior researcher at ICTA UAB. Joan will discuss the Atlas of Environmental…

Good Governance in Nigeria: Rethinking Accountability and Transparency in the Twenty-First Century

16:00 - 17:30 20 May 2024
Book launch with Dr Portia Roelofs, King’s College London Political science has long claimed that African political systems are dysfunctional because they are too embedded in social…

Blind Spots, Gaps, and Archival Silences: Reconstructing Contestation in the Venetian State Archive

16:00 - 18:00 28 May 2024
Venice boasts one of the largest early modern state archives. Produced by the Republic of Venice (797-1797), it has been mined for pioneering studies in political, economic, social,…

Restructuring of the European semiconductor industry through government subsidies: focus on Germany and implications for GPNs

15:00 - 16:30 3 June 2024
This lecture is hosted by GDI's Global Production Networks, Trade, and Labour (GPNTL) group. Speakers: Gale Raj-Reichert,?Professor of Politics,?Bard College Berlin Tobias Wuttke,…

POSTPONED - Bridging the gap: An introduction to intercultural communication with China

13:00 - 14:30 4 June 2024
THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN POSTPONED TO THE AUTUMN TERM DUE TO TRAVEL DISRUPTION. NEW DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON! Join our next lunchtime public talk given by Catherine Hua Xiang, Director…

Work and Equalities Institute 6th Annual Lecture "Collectivism after Collectivism: orientations to collectivism and its role in post-redundancy lives of ex-steelworkers in the UK and Sweden

11:00 - 12:30 5 June 2024
At this year's annual Work and Equalities Institute lecture, guest speaker Professor Robert MacKenzie will explore orientations to collectivism amongst ex-steelworkers, based on an…

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