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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

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,…

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…

Book Launch: “Charaiveti: An Academic's Global Journey“

14:00 - 15:30 7 June 2024
Seminar with Professor Pranab Bardhan (Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at University of California, Berkeley). We are happy to welcome Professor Pranab Bardhan, one of…

Myanmar's Changing Political and Security Context and Rohingya Repatriation

13:00 - 14:30 18 June 2024
Guest lecture with Professor Sk. Tawfique M. Haque, Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Director of the South Asian Institute of Policy and Governance (SIPG)…

Thomas Ashton Institute Lecture 2024 - A world of risk: the unheard voices and what we can learn from them, with guest speaker Dr Ruth Boumphrey

16:00 - 17:30 20 June 2024
The Lloyd’s Register Foundation World Risk Poll is the first global study of worry about, and harm from, risks to people’s safety. The latest edition includes the views of more than…

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