Past events
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GDI Webinar: Class, Politics, and Agrarian Policies in Post-Liberalisation India
16:30 - 18:00 16 April 2025
Speaker: Sejuti Das Gupta (Michigan State University) India entered a new political and economic phase in 1991 with adoption of the structural adjustment programme. Since then, studies have tended to focus on global and national factors to understand ongoing political processes in the country. With cultural nationalism and symbolic politics holding...
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GDI Lecture: The War on Gaza: Historical Context and Future Possibilities
16:30 - 18:00 23 April 2025
Israeli and Western officials deal with events of October 7 as an isolated incident of violence and as animosity against Jews. Contextualising events provides a different interpretation. It is not to justify what happed, rather to understand and assess these events in wider political context, with specific reference to escalating settler attacks...
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Sustainable Futures: Biodiversity Seminar
13:00 - 14:00 24 April 2025
Date: 24 Apr 2025 Time: 13:00- 14:00 Location: Nancy Rothwell building, 3A.012 Indicative Agenda: 13:00 - 14:05 - Introductions and Welcome. 13:05 - 13:25 -Dr Emma Shuttleworth, title tbc 13:25 - 13:30 - Q&A 13:30 - 13:50 - Dr Hannah Dickinson, Promising blue futures: marine biotechnologies and the uptake of ocean life 13:50 - 13:55 -...
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Cultural dislocation and the politics of recognition - Gary Younge in conversation with Michèle Lamont
15:00 - 17:30 29 April 2025
Creative Manchester and the American Studies Department of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures are delighted to welcome Michèle Lamont, Leverhulme Visiting Professor, for an in-conversation event with Gary Younge, award-winning journalist and Professor of Sociology at The University of Manchester. During this event Professors Michèle...
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Film Screening: No Other Land
16:00 - 19:00 30 April 2025
Join GDI Students for Palestine for a special screening of Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land. Following the film, we'll enjoy Palestinian catering from Jafra. Film synopsis: Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta, has been fighting his community's mass expulsion by the Israeli occupation since childhood. Basel documents...
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GDI Lecture: Age of Abandonment: States of Uncaring from Syria to Gaza
16:30 - 18:00 7 May 2025
Speaker: Noam Leshem (Durham University) This talk interrogates no man’s land as a site of radical uncaring: abandoned by a sovereign power in a relinquishment of responsibility for the space and anyone inside it. It documents the short history of Rukban, an encampment on the border of Syria and Jordan, and how it sheds light on our contemporary...
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Sustainable Futures - Inclusive Research Bid Development Sandbox
13:00 - 15:00 8 May 2025
Join our EDI Sandbox to explore how to design research bids that champion equity, diversity, and inclusion. Funders are placing increasing importance on equity, diversity and inclusivity (EDI) in their assessment of research bids, looking to see if researchers demonstrate a commitment to supporting a diverse and inclusive research culture in their...
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Digital Health equity seminar: The impact of patient-facing digital health technologies on equity: a realist review
13:00 - 14:00 14 May 2025
The next seminar in the Digital Health Inequities Seminar Series is on Wed 14-May 2025 at 1-2pm BST via zoom. This edition, Shoshana Bloom (founder of Equiti Health) will talk about The impact of patient-facing digital health technologies on equity: a realist review. Shoshana Bloom is the founder of Equiti Health, a specialist consultancy to operate...
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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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Digital Health equity seminar: Expansion of digital tools in secondary healthcare to reduce inequalities in care access and outcomes
13:00 - 14:00 9 July 2025
The next seminar in the Digital Health Inequities Seminar Series is on Wed 9-July 2025 at 1-2pm BST via zoom (https://zoom.us/j/92054457125). This edition, Simon Watts and Henry Morriss (Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust) will talk about Expansion of digital tools in secondary healthcare to reduce inequalities in care access and outcomes.
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GDI Webinar: Developing Resilience in Turbulent Times
09:00 - 10:00 15 July 2025
As economic and political crises stack up across the globe, development practitioners are facing increasing pressures and challenges. Tackling problems such as political unrest, increasing demand for aid, and dwindling development budgets requires strength and resilience. This webinar builds on a recent pilot series of microcredentials designed...
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