Lecture

Educating Out Prejudice through LGBT+ History Month

17:00 - 18:00 18 February 2026
Guest lecture from Sue Sanders, co-founder of UK LGBT+ History Month In this guest lecture, Sue will explore how we can use LGBT+ History Month - and other months dedicated to minoritised…

GDI Lecture: The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet, Brett Christophers

16:30 - 18:00 3 March 2026
GDI Lecture co-organised with the Geography Department Recent technical advances mean it is typically cheaper to produce electricity from renewable sources than from fossil fuels.…

GDI Lecture: Roundtable on Taxation and Development

16:30 - 18:00 4 March 2026
African states raise more revenue through taxation than the combined total of overseas development assistance, foreign direct investment, and remittances. Yet, on average, they only…

The New International Economic (Dis)order: On Law, Privatization and Power

04:00 - 17:00 4 March 2026
In 1976, Gillian White published her famous article ‘The New International Economic Order’ in the Virginia Journal of International Law, finding a ‘climate in which some genuine amelioration…

The Samuel Ferguson Lecture with Prof. Maureen Junker-Kenny

16:00 - 17:30 5 March 2026
Frameworks for Social Theology: Habermas and Ricoeur on Agency, Ethics, and Religion We are pleased to announce that the 2026 Samuel Ferguson lecturer is Prof. Maureen Junker-Kenny…

Professor Abigail Gilmore's Inaugural Lecture – 'Between a Rock and a Hard Place'

16:30 - 18:30 11 March 2026
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: England’s Cultural Policy Landscape under Austerity and Devolution What makes a town or city culturally vibrant, and who gets to decide? Which arts…

Voices for a Better Japan: Insights from Anthropology, Religion, Sociology, and History

17:00 - 18:30 11 March 2026
Dr. Chika Watanabe Prof. Erica Baffelli Dr. Yuki Asahina Dr. Aya Homei With a special introduction to Japanese Studies at the University of Manchester by Dr. Peter Cave. Talk Description…

Knowing Yesterday, Shaping Tomorrow: The Lou Kushnick Memorial Lecture

16:00 - 17:00 12 March 2026
Professor Abdul Alkalimat inaugurates the new annual lecture series commemorating our founder Professor Lou Kushnick. The Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust, in partnership with the…

New Lovell Lecture: How to Build a Sustainable Space Future

19 March 2026
Join Dr Ciara Mcgrath to discover how satellites shape our world and explore the sustainability challenges facing the space industry. Using augmented reality, glimpse our orbital future…

GDI Lecture: Navigating Uncertainty: Why Resilience and Team-Based Approaches Matter for Today’s Development Professionals

16:30 - 18:00 25 March 2026
Speaker: Hemansu-Roy Trivedy, former UN Resident Coodinator in Timor-Leste Drawing on Blanchard and Hersey’s work on leadership, this presentation will focus on three areas: (i) situational…

New Lovell Lecture - Down to Earth Astronomy: A Tour of the Radio Universe

23 April 2026
Dr. Emma Chapman, (Royal Society Fellow), takes us on a cosmic journey through radio astronomy. Discover secrets of pulsars, galaxies, and black holes and why listening to the sky changes everything. 19.30 - 21.00

GDI Lecture: The Toxic Effects of Border Violence, Claire Loughnan

16:30 - 18:00 29 April 2026
Speaker: Claire Loughnan, University of Melbourne The recent deaths of US citizens at the hands of that country’s ICE agents signal disturbing patterns of violence and misconduct that…

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