Past events
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GDI Lecture: Globalisation, Populism, and Trump - Jan Nederveen Pieterse
16:00 - 17:30 15 October 2025
Speaker: Jan Nederveen Pieterse, University of California Santa Barbara What is the problem, Trump or the United States? American media talk about Trump nonstop, but what about frailties of the US? Are the frailties structural? The headline ‘The White House is undoing 80 years of American Greatness’ (Graff, New York Times 17.8.25) is off beam....
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SPRITE+ and Digital Futures: Lunch and Learn with Jennifer Cearns
13:00 - 13:30 15 October 2025
Time & Location 15 Oct 2025, 13:00 – 13:30 Online About the event Join SPRITE+ and our event partner Digital Futures on Wednesday 15th October for Dr Jennifer Cearns' talk 'Through the Looking Glass? The Collapse of Self/Other in AI Mental Health Apps'. Dr Jennifer Cearns is a digital anthropologist, specialising in AI and algorithms in social...
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Community of Practice: The role of hope in transforming places of despair into resilient spaces
08:00 - 09:00 21 October 2025
Hope represents a vital resource in a development landscape affected by rising geopolitical tensions, funding problems, employee burnout, climate crisis, and other interconnected challenges. But how can we harness hope to help us make genuine progress in our endeavours? How can we keep hope alive under difficult circumstances? And how can we...
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Digital Trust and Security Seminar Series: Robert Gorwa
14:00 - 15:00 5 November 2025
Talk Title: Full Stack AI Governance Every time someone trains, deploys, or queries an ‘artificial intelligence’ system, whether they know it or not, they are implicating the practices and services of an enormous number of interlinked businesses in the AI ‘stack’. In this talk, Robert Gorwa will present early findings from his ongoing...
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Digital Trust and Security Webinar: Wei-Yuan Wayne Lo
12:00 - 13:00 5 November 2025
Talk Title: Crypto and Crime in Taiwan As a prosecutor specializing in blockchain-related crime, Wei-Yuan Wayne Lo examines how the rise of blockchain technology has accelerated the growth of virtual assets while also creating new avenues for criminal misuse. The presentation first outlines Taiwan’s regulatory framework for virtual asset service...
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GDI Lecture: The Political Lives of Information - Janaki Srinivasan
16:30 - 18:00 5 November 2025
Speaker: Janaki Srinivasan, University of Oxford My talk will be based on my 2022 book, The Political Lives of Information: Information and the Production of Development in India, which examines the history of the idea of “information” and its political implications for poverty alleviation in India. We live in a world that sees information...
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Book Launch: Diverse Transnational Care: Ageing and Migration in Bolivia
16:00 - 17:00 7 November 2025
Join us to celebrate the publication of Diverse Transnational Care: Ageing and Migration in Bolivia, Policy Press https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/diverse-transnational-care By Tanja Bastia and Claudia Calsina Transnational care practices differ and are not available to everyone in equal measure. Drawing on interviews with migrants’...
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Digital Health Equity seminar: Bridging the divide in pain management in Pakistan using digital tools
13:00 - 14:00 12 November 2025
Pain is a complex and personal experience that affects people and societies worldwide. Yet, how pain is expressed, understood, and managed can vary greatly across countries and cultures. As a result, digital pain assessment and management tools developed in one context may not be suitable for use in another without adaptation. The next seminar...
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GDI Film Screening: A Place in the City, Gabriel Silvestre
16:30 - 18:00 12 November 2025
A Place in the City, by Dr Gabriel Silvestre, from Newcastle University's School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, features communities in Latin America facing displacement, segregation, and gender inequality. The film captures how ordinary people are reshaping their neighbourhoods—fighting not just for rights, but for the power to design...
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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 by the 2011 revolutionary shockwave commonly known as the Arab Spring. Two years into that shockwave, regional political winds had already reversed. But a further wave...
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GDI Community of Practice: Belonging and connection: The role of social cohesion in community resilience
08:00 - 09:00 25 November 2025
Note: We are running two sessions at 8am and 2pm (UK time) Description While personal resilience is fundamental in staying optimistic and effective within challenging development roles, it’s not enough to keep us going in the long term. Community and solidarity represent a vital piece of the puzzle, helping us to tackle complex problems and...
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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 and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He is a scholar of contentious politics in Africa in global perspective, whose work has evolved from explaining failed peace...
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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. Realising the optimal level of tax revenues to support development is a complex challenge combining policy and administration challenges, as well as domestic...
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Insubordinate and captive mobilities: Time and agency in irregularised return trajectories between North and West Africa
13:00 - 14:30 27 November 2025
A Migration, Refugees, and Asylum Research Seminar Speaker: Dr Sabina Barone, UCL In this seminar, I examine how the IOM’s ‘Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration’ (AVRR) programme plays out in the overall return trajectories of West African migrant men and women I could accompany before, during and after the AVRR procedure. Contrary...
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Co-created Futures Conference
09:00 - 17:00 3 December 2025
Sustainable Futures will deliver the Co-created Futures Conference in partnership with MERI, Royce, Tyndall and MUI. This one-day conference will convene academics, policymakers, industry and community partners to showcase co-developed and co-produced environmental sustainability research across three themes: Materials: Sustainable resource management,...
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Digital Trust and Security Webinar: Jonathan Reiter
12:00 - 13:00 3 December 2025
Talk Title: The Role of Third Party Intelligence in Transparent Markets The promise of public ledgers is that everyone can see everything. But most public data is not usable by most end users. Instead over the last decade this dynamic led to a proliferation of blockchain intelligence tools and services that leverage available data to address a...
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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 (tr. 1983) in framing the centrality of industrialisation for understanding economic development and the fundamental differences between centres and peripheries...
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Reflections on Modelling the Covid-19 Pandemic
08:45 - 13:00 4 December 2025
Book your ticket now for the next in series of the GM Connected Health Ecosystem! After the hugely successful AI in Healthcare: Transforming the Future with Large Language Models events, the GM Connected Health Ecosystem series will be returning in December with Reflections on Modelling the Covid-19 Pandemic! This event will look at the lessons...
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Digital Trust and Security seminar: Prof Marija Slavkovik
13:00 - 15:00 9 December 2025
This event invites participants from all disciplines and backgrounds to come together, fostering interdisciplinary connections and discussions. Talk Title: Autonomous Machines as Moral Arbiters Artificial Intelligence has enabled the automation of cognitive tasks. The more able autonomous machines are, and the more they share the same environment...
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Digital Health Equity seminar: A co-production approach to understanding diversity issues in digital research
13:00 - 14:00 10 December 2025
The next seminar in the University of Manchester Digital Health Equity Seminar Series is on Wed 10-Dec 1-2pm via Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/98736638103). Anita Banerji, Jasmine Folz, Ella Kaye, and Pauline Karega from the Universities of Manchester and Warwick will talk about “A co-production approach to understanding diversity issues in digital...
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