Events
We engage with students, researchers, government, policy makers and the public through our talks, seminars, workshops and conferences. Our events are open to students, staff and the general public.
Upcoming 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 [https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sustainable-futures-seminar-biodiversity-tickets-1246139770599?aff=oddtdtcreator&utm_campaign=fc56fb69b4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_03_27_08_54_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Sustainable+Futures&utm_term=0_-ca7d01eb96-522831373/ Register...
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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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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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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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