Past events
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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 of building, growth, investment and decline that is shaping them. Our multi-authored collaboratively-produced monograph ‘Living the urban periphery’ (2024) examines...
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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 a volatile island archipelago, a fluid geography, traversed by rivers, separating landmasses – it is neither land, nor water, but a liminal-dichotomous space. It...
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SEED Symposium: Getting serious about sustainability: Research, education and advocacy’
22 - 23 May 2025
A transdisciplinary symposium exploring transformative pathways for sustainable futures This two-day symposium will feature contributions from diverse actors within and beyond the University of Manchester community on how we might ‘get serious’ about sustainability in our research, teaching, advocacy and daily lives. Day 1 Thursday, 22 May:...
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GDI Webinar: No Blood in My Mobile: Regulating Foreign Suppliers
13:00 - 14:00 3 June 2025
Speaker: Ninon Moreau Kastler, postdoctoral economist at the Paris School of Economics Can developed countries enforce that goods consumed domestically do not contribute to human rights violations in developing countries where they are sourced? This paper studies the enforcement of new due diligence policies, which constrain firms in developed...
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Advances in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Conference 2025
9 - 10 June 2025
We are excited to invite you to the Advances in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Conference 2025. This annual conference brings together leading researchers and innovators to discuss the future of AI and data science, with a focus on new technologies and the societal impacts of these advancements. Through engaging talks, workshops, and...
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Innovation for Creating Sustainable Value: Understanding Global Value Chains in the Amazon
10 - 11 June 2025
The University of Manchester is hosting an academic workshop from June 10-11, 2025, for the research project Innovation for Creating Sustainable Value: Understanding Global Value Chains in the Amazon, part of the Amazônia+10 Initiative. This project brings together academics from UoM with colleagues from various Brazilian universities. It focuses...
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Digital Technology, Crime, and the Law Conference 2025
11 June 2025
Digital technology is becoming ubiquitous in our daily lives, shaping how we communicate, work, and interact. To build trust in technology, its design, development, and deployment must ensure security and safety. A sustainable digital future relies on frameworks that protect both systems and users. Date and Time: 11 June 2025 | 8.30AM - 5PM Location:...
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Socially constructed concepts related to Gene and Health for addressing health inequities
13:00 - 14:00 11 June 2025
The next seminar in the Digital Health Inequities Seminar Series is on Wed 11-June 2025 at 1-2pm BST via zoom (https://zoom.us/j/91602578521). This edition, Salman Waqar (president of the British Islamic Medical Association) will talk about socially constructed concepts related to Gene and Health for addressing health inequities.
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Ecotopian pedagogies for the symbiocene
10:00 - 17:00 27 June 2025
The session will begin with a critical historical investigation of the rise of (E)SD before going on to explore ecotopian pedagogical possibilities, speculating about the following: How might we enable students’ sense of pathways of transformative possibility that abound? What teaching and learning methods and activities can further enhance...
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Digital Trust and Security in the Era of Generative AI Forum
2 July 2025
Following on from the success of our Centre for Digital Trust and Society (CDTS) Forum series we are delighted to invite you to our upcoming Digital Trust and Security in the Era of Generative AI Forum, which will take place on 2nd July, from 9:30 – 16:30, followed by an optional drinks reception, at No.1 Circle Square, Oxford Road, Manchester...
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Shaping the Future of Global Sustainability Policy
11:00 - 15:00 22 July 2025
The need for international cooperation has never been greater. The "triple planetary crisis" of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution is a global threat that requires global solutions. But what are the routes for academic research to influence decision-making on an international scale? Join Sustainable Futures and Policy@Manchester...
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Shaping the Future of Global Sustainability Policy
11:00 - 15:00 22 July 2025
The need for international cooperation has never been greater. The "triple planetary crisis" of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution is a global threat that requires global solutions. But what are the routes for academic research to influence decision-making on an international scale? Join Sustainable Futures and Policy@Manchester...
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