Lecture

2025 Melland Schill Roundtable: ‘Who Governs When the World Is Falling Apart?’

17:00 - 18:30 19 November 2025
Global governance looks very different today than it did a few decades ago. Traditional diplomacy and international legal frameworks that once structured multilateralism are weakening,…

GDI Lecture: Fettered Development and Political Turmoil: 15 Years Since the Arab Spring, Gilbert Achcar

16:30 - 18:00 19 November 2025
Speaker: Gilbert Achcar, SOAS The political landscape in the MENA region looks bleaker today than ever before. This is in sharp contrast with the euphoria aroused fifteen years ago…

REF: AI? A seminar with Richard Watermeyer (University of Bristol)

14:00 - 15:00 20 November 2025
In this talk I will present emerging findings from a study of how generative AI (GenAI) is impacting the UK's Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2029. By means of national consultation…

Inaugural Lecture: Drawing maps on equilateral triangles

12:00 - 13:00 21 November 2025
Register for Professor Lasse Rempe's Inaugural Lecture: Friday, 21 November 2025, 12.00 - 1.00pm, Alan Turing Building, Department of Mathematics, G.107 This is an opportunity to come…

Manchester Cancer Research Centre 20th Anniversary Director's Lecture - Professor David Jaffray, Anderson Cancer Center, USA

14:00 - 15:00 21 November 2025
This special Director's Lecture will be held as part of the Manchester Cancer Research Centre's 20th anniversary celebrations and International Advisory Board meeting. Guest speaker,…

GDI Lecture: Rethinking resistance: Sudan’s resistance committees during revolution, peace and war

16:30 - 18:00 25 November 2025
Speaker: Sharath Srinivasan Professor Sharath Srinivasan is the David and Elaine Potter Professor of International Politics in the Department of Politics and International Studies…

GDI Lecture: Tax and Development: The OECD Experience, Joseph Stead

16:30 - 18:00 26 November 2025
Speaker: Joseph Stead, OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration The Seville Commitment emphasized the pivotal role of tax revenues as the largest source of financing for development.…

The 3rd Brian Robson Lecture 2025: High Hopes, Hard Realities - Civic Universities at the crossroads

17:00 - 19:00 27 November 2025
Guest speaker: Prof John Goddard OBE Manchester alongside Newcastle, Sheffield, Leeds and Birmingham is one of the initial group of civic universities that evolved in the great Northern…

Sustainable Consumption Institute Annual Lecture with Prof. Henrietta L. Moore

16:00 - 17:30 2 December 2025
Join us for an inspiring talk by Prof. Henrietta L. Moore at the Sustainable Consumption Institute Annual Lecture! Sustainable Consumption Institute Annual Lecture with Professor Henrietta…

Follow the White Rabbit: In defence of conspiracy theories

18:00 - 19:30 3 December 2025
A reporter’s perspective on conspiracy theories with Gabriel Gatehouse, journalist and creator of 'The Coming Storm' podcast. Gabriel Gatehouse has spent many years investigating conspiracy…

GDI Lecture: The Myth of Deindustrialisation and the Possibilities for Development within Industrial Civilisation

16:30 - 18:00 3 December 2025
Speaker: Andrew Fischer, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) This lecture draws from Celso Furtado's classic, Accumulation and Development: the logic of industrial civilisation…

WEI and MiRS Lecture 2025 with Professor Virginia Doellgast

15:00 - 17:00 11 December 2025
Building worker voice and power in AI decisions: Three cases in the German ICT industry Virginia Doellgast (Cornell University, USA), Tobias Kämpf (University of Labour, Germany), Barbara…

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