Past events

Film Screening: Not Just Roads

17:00 - 20:00 9 June 2023

The University of Manchester's Global Urban Futures research group present a rare UK screening of th...

One World Together Launch

10:00 - 11:30 8 June 2023

Please join GDI staff and students for a celebration and soft launch of their radical new social ent...

Global China's Knowledge Infrastructure: The Rise of Chinese International Development Thinking

11:00 - 12:00 31 May 2023

This talk discusses the rise of Chinese international development thinking. In the past 5-10 years,...

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) - Lunch and Learn Workshop

10:45 - 13:00 25 May 2023

A Life Cycle Assessment is the act of measuring the environmental impact of a product or service thr...

Under the Weather: Reimagining mobility in the climate crisis (book launch)

11:30 - 13:00 23 May 2023

HCRI's Dr Stephanie Sodero will discuss her new book 'Under the Weather: Reimagining mobility in the...

Online Deaf Awareness (for University of Manchester Humanities staff only)

5 May - 10 June 2023

2-hour online session delivered by Manchester Deaf Centre by one of their experienced, profoundly De...

Online Deaf Awareness (for University of Manchester Humanities staff only)

09:00 - 11:00 3 May 2023

2-hour online session delivered by Manchester Deaf Centre by one of their experienced, profoundly De...

Book Launch: Legitimation as Political Practice: Crafting Everyday Authority in Tanzania

15:00 - 17:00 3 May 2023

Legitimacy has long been perceived through a Westernized lens as a fixed, binary state. In her book,...

Inaugural Lectures - Professor Tanja Müller and Professor Martin Hess

15:30 - 17:30 17 April 2023

On Monday, 17 April join the School of Environment, Education and Development for our spring inaugur...

Nuclear weapons and humanitarian risks

17:00 - 18:30 7 March 2023

A HCRI public seminar exploring the current risks and potential humanitarian consequences of nuclear...