Exhibitions, Lecture

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…

Seeds of Hope and Action Exhibition

20 March - 30 April 2025
Seeds of Hope and Action Exhibition The Seeds of Hope and Action exhibition, developed by the Earth Charter and SGI UK, focuses on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and…

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…

Stachniewski Memorial Lecture: Prof. Ambereen Dadabhoy (Harvey Mudd College), 'Disappearing Muslims in Shakespeare' (Online Lecture)

17:00 - 18:00 9 April 2025
Stachniewski Memorial Lecture: Prof. Ambereen Dadabhoy (Harvey Mudd College), 'Disappearing Muslims in Shakespeare' (Online Lecture) Weds 9th April, 5pm UK time Venue: Online …

Lovell Lecture - Planetary Defence: Preventing Asteroid impacts

19:30 - 21:00 10 April 2025
A live stream of Professor Alan Fitzsimmons’s lecture about asteroid 2024 YRA and the critical importance of planetary defence. Discover how scientists track cosmic threats and the…

GDI Lecture: The War on Gaza: Historical Context and Future Possibilities

16:30 - 18:00 23 April 2025
Israeli and Western officials deal with events of October 7 as an isolated incident of violence and as animosity against Jews. Contextualising events provides a different interpretation.…

EACW Research Seminar: Dr. Natasha Periyan (KCL), 'Jacob’s Room, Meritocracy and Manchester'

16:30 - 18:00 30 April 2025
English, American Studies and Creative Writing research seminar: Dr. Natasha Periyan (KCL), 'Jacob’s Room, Meritocracy and Manchester' Venue: C1.18, Ellen Wilkinson Building All…

GDI Lecture: Age of Abandonment: States of Uncaring from Syria to Gaza

16:30 - 18:00 7 May 2025
Speaker: Noam Leshem (Durham University) This talk interrogates no man’s land as a site of radical uncaring: abandoned by a sovereign power in a relinquishment of responsibility for…

Henry Box Brown Lecture in American Studies: Prof. Adrienne Brown (Chicago), 'The Residential is Racial: A Perceptual History of Mass Homeownership'

16:00 - 17:30 7 May 2025
Henry Box Brown Lecture in American Studies: Prof. Adrienne Brown (Chicago), 'The Residential is Racial: A Perceptual History of Mass Homeownership' Venue: A7, Samuel Alexander Building…

EACW Research Seminar: Dr. Natalie Pollard (Exeter), '21st Century Climate Imaginaries: Activism, Ecopoetry and Environmental Justice'

13:30 - 15:00 8 May 2025
English, American Studies and Creative Writing research seminar: Dr. Natalie Pollard (Exeter), '21st Century Climate Imaginaries: Activism, Ecopoetry and Environmental Justice' Venue:…

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