Lecture

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:…

GDI Lecture: Living the Urban Periphery: Our Book and Related Thoughts...

16:30 - 18:00 14 May 2025
The edges of cities are increasingly understood as places of dynamism and change, but there is little research on the complexities of African urban peripheries and the varied nature…

Lovell Lecture: The Ingredients for life - OSIRIS-REx mission update

19:30 - 21:00 15 May 2025
What can the Asteroid Bennu reveal about the early days of the Solar System? Join Dr Sarah Crowther for insights into the first published results from NASA's OSIRIS- REx misson - one…

The 2025 Sherman Lecture: Moses Gaster; Scholar, Collector, Rabbi, Activist

17:00 - 18:30 20 May 2025
Under the auspices of the Manchester University Centre for Jewish Studies: Professor Philip Alexander “Moses Gaster (1856-1939) – Scholar, Collector, Rabbi, Activist: His scholarly…

GDI Lecture: The transformative-transdisciplinary imperative: Decolonizing development in a transboundary delta

16:30 - 18:00 21 May 2025
Speaker: Jenia Mukherjee, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur The Sundarbans is the largest contiguous mangroves delta in the world, spanning India and Bangladesh. The delta is…

Creativity + AI: Fashion

14:30 - 16:30 26 June 2025
Presented in partnership by Creative Manchester, Digital Futures and the Turing Innovation Catalyst (TIC) Manchester, the CreaTech 2025 series of events is aimed at supporting the development…

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