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GDI Film Screening and Panel Discussion: We Don't Do Charity

16:30 - 18:00 12 February 2025
Panel: Alan Braithwaite (Executive Producer) Amanda Campbell (Producer) David Campbell (Director) Join GDI and One World Together for a screening of ‘We don’t do charity’, a compelling…

Leverhulme Visiting Professor Lecture: Prof. Karen Karbiener (NYU), “I Am What I Am”: Walt Whitman, Good Gay Poet

16:00 - 17:30 12 February 2025
Leverhulme Visiting Professor Karen Karbiener (NYU) will deliver a public lecture on Walt Whitman: “I Am What I Am”: Walt Whitman, Good Gay Poet Venue: Sam Alex Lecture Theatre, Samuel…

Christabel Pankhurst Lecture 2025: 'The Terrorism Nobody is Talking About'

17:00 - 19:30 13 February 2025
Join us for the Annual Christabel Pankhurst Lecture as our guest speaker, best-selling author and founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, Laura Bates reveals her two-year undercover…

David Conn: The miscarriages of justice following the Hillsborough disaster (Mark George Memorial Lecture)

17:30 - 19:00 13 February 2025
<strong>About the event</strong> David Conn will deliver the inaugural Mark George Memorial Lecture, which will reflect on the Hillsborough disaster, the families’ longstanding fight…

Technologies of the YouTuber Self: Digital Vigilantism, Masculinities, and the Attention Economy in Neoliberal Japan

16:30 14 February 2025
Technologies of the YouTuber Self: Digital Vigilantism, Masculinities, and the Attention Economy in Neoliberal Japan Yutaka Yoshida (Cardiff University) and Yoko Demelius (Turku Universities)…

EACW research seminar: Dr. Kelechi Anucha (Manchester), 'Moten’s Fugitive Style: Literary Form and the (Necro)politics of Refusal'

12:30 - 14:30 19 February 2025
English, American Studies and Creative Writing Research Seminar: Dr. Kelechi Anucha (Manchester), 'Moten’s Fugitive Style: Literary Form and the (Necro)politics of Refusal' 12.30pm:…

GDI Lecture: Do Courts Grant Indian Women Their Inheritance Claims?

16:30 - 18:00 19 February 2025
Despite inheritance law reform towards gender equality in India, families rarely transfer immovable property to women. Given this, do women use courts to claim their rights? If so,…

GDI Book Talk: City of Desire: Biography of the Largest Informal Settlement in Bangladesh

16:30 - 18:00 26 February 2025
Speaker: Tanzil Shafique (University of Sheffield) City of Desire, by Tanzil Shafique, is a portrait of the largest informal settlement in Bangladesh. It seeks to develop a Southern…

Lecture: Dr Michael Sappol (Uppsala University, Sweden) 'Queer Anatomies: Aesthetics and perverse desire in the anatomical image; or The Epistemology of the Anatomical Closet'.

17:30 - 19:00 4 March 2025
Dr Michael Sappol (Uppsala University, Sweden) 'Queer Anatomies: Aesthetics and perverse desire in the anatomical image; or The Epistemology of the Anatomical Closet'. Room 2.60,…

American Studies Lecture: Prof. Lisa McGirr (Harvard), 'Charles Lindbergh: Hitler’s American Friend and the America First Movement'

16:30 - 18:00 5 March 2025
American Studies lecture: Prof. Lisa McGirr (Harvard), 'Charles Lindbergh: Hitler’s American Friend and the America First Movement' Venue: SG.16, Samuel Alexander Building 4.30pm…

EAS-FeRN Seminar – Nuclear Minds: Anxiety and Transformation in A-bomb Psychology

16:30 - 18:00 5 March 2025
In 1945, researchers on a mission to Hiroshima with the United States Strategic Bombing Survey canvassed survivors of the nuclear attack. This marked the beginning of global efforts—by…

GDI Lecture: Enforcers Beyond Borders: The Growing Role of NGOs in International Law Enforcement and Effects on Wider Advocacy Movements

15:00 - 16:30 5 March 2025
Speaker: Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni NGOs have generally served as issue-entrepreneurs, advocates and service providers, leaving law enforcement to states. However, in recent decades,…

Manchester Cathedral Event: The Samuel Ferguson Lecture with Prof. J. Kameron Carter (University of California, Irvine)

12:00 - 13:00 6 March 2025
The annual Samuel Ferguson Lecture will be delivered by J. Kameron Carter who will give his presentation on Beyond Idolatry (Political and Otherwise) at Manchester Cathedral. Inaugurated…

The Samuel Ferguson Lecture with Prof. J. Kameron Carter (University of California, Irvine)) - Lecture

16:00 - 17:30 6 March 2025
We are pleased to announce that the 2025 Samuel Ferguson lecturer is Prof. J. Kameron Carter (University of California, Irvine). Prof. Carter is Professor of African American Studies,…

GDI Lecture: Africa's Structural Transformation for Job Creation: Trends and Policy Priorities

14:30 - 16:00 12 March 2025
Africa’s GDP has grown 5.3 times between 1990 and 2020. Still, at USD 8.86 trillion today, the continent’s economy is just twice the size of the UK, with a population (1.5 billion)…

Raymond Williams Society Lecture: Prof. Benjamin Kohlmann (Regensburg/Oxford), 'World Literature and the Work of Revolution: A Radical History of the Bildungsroman, 1820-2020'

17:00 - 18:30 12 March 2025
Raymond Williams Society Lecture Professor Benjamin Kohlmann (Regensburg/Oxford), "World Literature and the Work of Revolution: A Radical History of the Bildungsroman, 1820-2020" …

Decentralised Justice: A Future of Commercial Arbitration

12:00 - 13:00 18 March 2025
Join Dr Joseph Lee and Dr Federico Ast as they explore how blockchain and decentralized technologies are revolutionizing commercial arbitration. This masterclass covers the principles…

Annual PPE Lecture - Professor Alex Voorhoeve (LSE) on 'Power, Privacy, and the Digital Pound'

15:00 - 16:30 19 March 2025
We are pleased to announce the Annual PPE lecture for 2025. This is a lecture on interdisciplinary issues relating to philosophy, politics, and economics. Our speaker this year will…

GDI Lecture: Decolonization and the Future of Academic Research

16:30 - 18:00 19 March 2025
On the panel: - Diana Mitlin (African Cities Research Consortium, GDI) - Eyob Balcha Gebremariam (Perivoli Africa research centre, Bristol) - Dani Beltrame (GDI, reflecting on her…

Leverhulme Visiting Professor Lecture: Prof. Karen Karbiener (NYU), 'Whitman, Censorship, and the Question of Truly Free Verse'

16:00 - 17:15 19 March 2025
Leverhulme Visiting Professor Karen Karbiener (NYU) will deliver a public lecture on Walt Whitman: 'Whitman, Censorship, and the Question of Truly Free Verse' Venue: Samuel Alexander…

Global Dignity And ‘Seeing Others’ - Professor Michèle Lamont

14:30 - 17:30 20 March 2025
In this lecture Michèle Lamont addresses the power of recognition for understanding and addressing the global contemporary crisis of inequality. Discussing the key ideas from her recent…

Lovell Lecture Live stream - Exploring the universe with the SKA Observatory

19:30 - 21:00 20 March 2025
Curious about the ground-breaking discoveries made at one of the world’s top observatories? Fresh from a milestone announcement (coming soon!), join Prof. Philip Diamond CBE, Director-General…

Climate Crimes and Human Rights: Examining the Efficacy of Human Rights, International Law and Criminal Law in the Fight for Climate Justice

16:00 - 17:30 24 March 2025
Seminar hosted by the Climate and Justice Study Group Speaker: Paul Clark, Barrister, Garden Court Chambers Given the role that the law and the courts play in contemporary governance…

AMBS Event - Reimagining Business and Management as a Force for Good

17:30 2 April 2025
Alliance MBS and The British Academy present Professor Nelarine Cornelius, who will explore how EDI must evolve and adopt a more inclusive approach - including incorporating social…

Leverhulme Visiting Professor Lecture: Prof. Karen Karbiener (NYU), 'With Walt Whitman in Manchester: Local Access to America’s Global Poet'

16:00 - 17:30 2 April 2025
Leverhulme Visiting Professor Karen Karbiener (NYU) will deliver a public lecture on Walt Whitman: 'With Walt Whitman in Manchester: Local Access to America’s Global Poet' Venue: Ground…

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