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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…

DKO 2024 Lecture: Professor Reidun Twarock

17:00 - 20:00 13 November 2024
This year’s speaker is Professor Reidun Twarock form the University of York. Reidun Twarock is Professor of Mathematical & Computational Virology at the University of York. Her research…

Extreme Nationalism in Contemporary Norway: Ideologies, Mobilisation and Activism - Christopher Fardan

15:00 - 16:00 13 November 2024
Christopher Fardan, winner of the inaugural Manchester Jean Monnet Centre Doctoral Thesis Prize, shares his research on extreme nationalism in Norway. All welcome at this online lecture.…

A Political Epistemology of International Development

16:30 - 18:00 20 November 2024
Speaker: David Ludwig (Wageningen) The colonial myth of a “civilizing mission” is built on imagining the colonized as ignorant and in need of education by colonial knowledge holders.…

AMES Public Seminar: Dr cHana Morgenstern – Rupture and Reconstruction: The Palestinian Cultural Magazine after 1948

16:30 - 18:00 20 November 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…

Book Launch: Syndicates and Societies: Criminal Politics in Dhaka

15:30 - 17:00 21 November 2024
Join GDI’s State-Society Relations Group for a panel discussion celebrating the launch of David Jackman’s new book, Syndicates and Societies: Criminal Politics in Dhaka (Cambridge University…

Brook Lecture in Middle English: Prof. Marion Turner (Oxford): 'Imagining Medieval Lives'

17:00 - 19:30 27 November 2024
Everyone is warmly invited to the Annual Brook Lecture in Middle English, to take place in: Ellen Wilkinson C1.18 at 5pm on Wednesday 27 November This year's lecturer is Marion Turner,…

Racial Capitalism Across the Black/White Atlantic

16:00 - 17:30 27 November 2024
Racial capitalism has become a widely used term—pointing to the intimate connections between processes of racialization and of capitalist organization. This talk will focus on an eighteenth-century…

From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia

17:00 - 18:30 28 November 2024
Speakers: Dan Slater (Michigan) and Joe Wong (Toronto) Over the past century, Asia has been transformed by rapid economic growth, industrialization, and urbanization—a spectacular…

Inaugural Annual Healthier Futures Lecture Event

18:00 - 20:30 28 November 2024
The University of Manchester's Healthier Futures research platform is delighted to invite you to our inaugural annual lecture event, taking place at the Renold Innovation Hub, in Manchester's…

SCI Annual Lecture with Harriet Bulkeley: Governing with Nature

15:00 - 16:30 3 December 2024
We are delighted to announce that we are welcoming Professor Harriet Bulkeley for the Sustainable Consumption Institute Annual Lecture 2024 on Tuesday 3rd December from 3pm in the blended…

Dams, Power and the Politics of Ethiopia’s Renaissance

15:00 - 16:30 4 December 2024
Speaker: Tom Lavers (GDI) After more than a decade, Ethiopia is filling the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a controversial dam with the potential to transform the hydrology…

Professor David Alderson’s Inaugural Lecture – Beyond Subcultures: Populism, Hegemony and Cultural Production

16:30 - 18:30 4 December 2024
Alan Sinfield once distinctively theorised both the New Left generally and liberation movements individually as subcultures, but regarded these positively in the context of the defeats…

Welcome to the Sacrifice Zone(s): Fear and Militarism in Okinawa (Fear Research Network Seminar Series / East Asian Studies Seminar Series)

16:30 5 December 2024
American and increasingly Japanese militarism is an ever-present feature of people’s daily lives in Japan’s southernmost prefecture, Okinawa. Being located closer to Taiwan than to…

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