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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…

Fear Research Network Seminar – Fear, Legal Victimhood and ‘Fraudulent’ Religion in Contemporary Japan

16:00 - 17:00 11 July 2024
Ioannis Gaitanidis (Chiba University) In the aftermath of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s assassination, a nearly 40-year-old legal debate surrounding methods of soliciting religious…

Global Development Today... Whose 'Development' Is It Really?

16:00 - 17:30 30 September 2024
Join Deborah Doane, author of ‘The INGO Problem: Power, Privilege and Renewal’, and Nana Asantewa Afadzinu, Executive Director of the West Africa Civil Society Institute, to discuss…

AMBS Event - Digital Echoes: How Our Tech Past Shapes Our Future

13:00 - 14:00 2 October 2024
Our Original Thinking Lecture series showcases some of the world-leading research from colleagues at Alliance Manchester Business School. Michelle Carter, Professor of Information Systems…

Fairtrade: Celebrating 30 Years of a Movement for Global Economic Justice

13:30 - 15:00 2 October 2024
The School of Environment, Education and Development Annual Social Responsibility Lecture Fairtrade is celebrating its 30th anniversary in the UK. When consumers buy Fairtrade labelled…

Lane Lecture 2024: Delivering Occupational Health Research in Government: an important front line service?

17:00 - 20:00 2 October 2024
HSE has a proud history of undertaking occupational health research, either by funding others or using its in house capability. In this lecture Professor Andrew Curran CBE will review…

AMES Public Seminar: Dr Walaa Quisay – Dying to Live: Islam, Incarceration, and Hunger Strikes

16:30 - 18:00 16 October 2024
The Department of Arabic & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), University of Manchester warmly invites you to this event: Part of the AMES Research Seminar Series 2024 – Living, Reconstructing…

Irene Manton Lecture 2024

17:30 - 19:00 16 October 2024
The Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health in collaboration with The Linnean Society of London and Manchester Museum, will host the 2024 Irene Manton lecture, celebrating the significant…

The Suburban Frontier: Middle-Class Construction in Dar es Salaam

16:30 - 18:00 16 October 2024
Speaker: Claire Mercer (LSE) Co-organised with the Geography Department African cities are under construction. Beyond the urban redevelopment schemes and large-scale infrastructure…

Back to Black? Identity Politics in Treacherous Times

11:30 - 13:00 22 October 2024
Claire Alexander, Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, gives the second in a series of lectures organised by the journal, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and…

Intersected: Class, Gender and Queer Lives in Post-Reform China - Susanne Yuk Ping Choi

15:30 - 18:00 22 October 2024
Please join us for the Department of Sociology’s guest lecture, by Leverhulme Visiting Professor Susanne Yuk Ping Choi. The lecture will run 3:30-5pm, followed by a drinks reception…

The Industrious Revolution Reconsidered: Did it Initiate a Consumer Revolution?

16:00 - 17:30 23 October 2024
This public lecture is co-hosted by the Economics and History departments.

Lecture: Professor Kath Albury (Swinburne University of Technology) and Yigit Aydinalp (University of Sheffield) 'Safer Sextech: Intimacy, Pleasure and Wellbeing'

15:30 - 17:30 25 October 2024
The event is co-organised by the Centre for Digital Humanities, Cultures and Media and the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture. This event will be held only in person and…

Uneven Development and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regional Tensions Around New Growth Models

16:30 - 18:00 6 November 2024
Speaker: Catherine Boone (LSE) This talk draws upon Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa (Cambridge, 2024) to trace the roots of strong regionalism within African countries,…

How can a circular economy protect the climate and help communities thrive? A conversation with Anshu Gupta, Founder of Goonj

14:00 - 15:15 11 November 2024
What role do restoration and repurposing play in supporting a more just, sustainable, and equitable world? Join Anshu Gupta, founder of the extraordinary social enterprise Goonj,…

Melland Schill Lecture 2024 - ''Deceiving the hopes of humanity'': Withdrawing from the United Nations

16:00 - 17:00 12 November 2024
The Manchester International Law Centre will host its 10-Year Anniversary Celebration in conjunction with its annual Melland Schill lecture. Professor Arnulf Becker Lorca (Chair in…

CSSC Lecture: Dr Danielle Bobker (Concordia Univ) with Dr Noelle Gallagher (EACW, UoM) 'Burlesque: Sexuality, Disability and Humour, 1734 v. 2024'

17:30 - 19:00 13 November 2024
Dr Danielle Bobker (Concordia Univ) with Dr Noelle Gallagher (EACW, UoM) 'Burlesque: Sexuality, Disability and Humour, 1734 v. 2024' C1.18 seminar room, Ellen Wilkinson Building…

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