Lecture

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…

Annual Harry Street Lecture 2026 with Attorney General Richard Hermer KC

17:00 - 19:00 23 March 2026
The School of Social Sciences and Department of Law are delighted to host the 2026 Annual Harry Street Lecture delivered by an alumnus of our school and leading figure in the legal…

The Erosion of the Right to Humanitarian Assistance

13:00 - 15:00 23 March 2026
In this Guest Lecture, Professor Patrycja Grzebyk will guide us through the legal foundations of the right to humanitarian assistance and explore contemporary developments that place…

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…

GDI Lecture: Beyond the World Bank: The Fight for Universal Social Protection in the Global South

16:30 - 18:00 22 April 2026
Speaker: Matthew Greenslade, Economist and former employee of the UK Department for International Development Matthew Greenslade describes the damage being done by the World Bank's…

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

Multispecies Deconstructions of the “Human" within International Human Rights Law

13:00 - 15:00 27 April 2026
Critical multispecies studies reveal that the philosophical, social, and legal pedestal on which human subjects are placed within Western modernity rests on faulty foundations. This…

Christabel Pankhurst Lecture 2026: PUSHing for Justice: Women, Power and the Unfinished Fight for Equality

16:00 - 18:30 29 April 2026
Join us for the Annual Christabel Pankhurst Lecture as our guest speaker, trailblazing legal leader and equality advocate Dr I. Stephanie Boyce CBE FKC. reflects on what it truly means…

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…

Fascism: Histories and Meanings

17:30 - 19:00 6 May 2026
Domenico Cangiano (Universitá Ca’ Foscari Venezia) Federico Marcon (Princeton University) In conversation with: Francesca Billiani (University of Manchester) Martin Kristoffer…

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