Past events
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Pankhurst Seminar Series: Digital Health Inequities Edition - Research inequalities and supporting digital inclusion in remote monitoring for rheumatoid arthritis
13:00 - 14:00 10 January 2024
Next seminar in the Digital Health Inequities seminar series is on 10th January, 1-2pm via Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/97370960983). Prof Caroline Sanders from the University of Manchester will talk about “Research inequalities and supporting digital inclusion in remote monitoring for rheumatoid arthritis”
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The 695th Lord Mayor's Lectures: Computational Medicine and Digital Twins Improving Medical Care, with Prof Alex Frangi
11:00 - 12:00 12 January 2024
Prof Alex Frangi, Director of the Christabel Pankhurst Institute, and the Bicentennial Turing Chair for Computational Medicine, will speak at the Lord Mayor’s Lectures Series next week about computational medicine and digital twins in healthcare. Novel medical technologies are being introduced at unprecedented rates, demanding scientific evidence...
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Industrialization and Assimilation: Understanding Ethnic Change in the Modern World
16:00 - 17:30 24 January 2024
Elliott Green (LSE) explains how and why ethnicity changes across time, showing that, by altering the basis of economic production from land to labour and removing people from the 'idiocy of rural life', industrialization makes societies more ethnically homogenous. More speci?cally, the author argues that industrialization lowers the relative value...
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GDI Webinar: Never let a crisis go to waste: Speculation, rent-seeking and rent-extraction in the food sector
13:00 - 14:00 25 January 2024
Join us for the first instalment of our pilot GDI lunchtime webinar series. These webinars are open to all and designed to provide a space for speakers to share their ideas and discuss pressing topics with staff and students across a range of departments. This webinar will be led by Sophie van Huellen, Senior Lecturer in Development Economics...
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The Albatross Lecture 2024: Professor Mark Miodownik
11:00 - 14:00 30 January 2024
Why the Albatross Lectures? Check back soon to find out why we chose the Albatross to champion this lecture. The Albatross Lecture 2024 Join us on 30th January 2024 to hear a keynote presentation from Professor Mark Miodownik, University College London. For more than twenty years Prof. Miodownik has championed materials science research that...
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The infrastructural South:Techno-environments of the third wave of urbanization
15:00 - 17:00 7 February 2024
GDI Lecture organised in conjunction with the Department of Geography and Manchester Urban Institute. In this lecture, Jon Silver will discuss insights from his recent book, The Infrastructural South. The book represents a major theoretical contribution to the study of infrastructure's role in the third wave of urbanization centred on Africa....
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Expanding the horizon of GIS in the environmental research landscape
14:00 - 16:00 8 February 2024
A seminar in which researchers from different environmental backgrounds and disciplines show how the GIS can be applied in their research. The target audience are researchers who are exploring methods for which GIS might be an interesting tool. The seminar consists of one introductory plus three thematic sessions of 20 minutes (15-minute presentation...
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Chips war? Global production networks and geopolitics in the post-pandemic US and East Asia
15:00 - 16:30 12 February 2024
Lecture organised by the Global production networks, trade and labour group Based on his lead-authored chapter on semiconductors in Global Value Chain Development Report 2023 and his monograph Interconnected Worlds (Stanford University Press, June 2022), Professor Yeung’s presentation will offer some key empirical observations on the highly...
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Careers Panel: Work and life in the humanitarian sector
13:30 - 14 February 2024
A discussion with experienced professionals from humanitarian and human rights organisations, for University of Manchester students and interested members of the public. SPEAKERS INCLUDE: Michelle Farrington - Public Health Promotion & Community Lead (and Interim Deputy Humanitarian Director) at Oxfam Fatima Katergi - Senior Programmes Coordinator...
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Pankhurst Seminar Series: Digital Health Inequities Edition - Co-designing ???? (Gene) a genetics app to improve genetics understanding with the British Pakistani community
13:00 - 14:00 14 February 2024
Our next seminar in the Digital Health Inequities seminar series is on 14th February, 1-2pm via Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/93665163466). Prof Ang Davies from the University of Manchester will talk about “Co-designing ???? (Gene) a genetics app to improve genetics understanding with the British Pakistani community”
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Social Protection in Latin America: Causality, stratification, and outcomes
16:30 - 18:00 14 February 2024
Social protection is an essential component of public policy. Its successes or failures have direct implications for social welfare, especially among disadvantaged groups. Unlike other institutions, the evolution of social protection reflects advances or regressions in social justice. This lecture discusses social protection in Latin America, its...
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Community of Practice: Sharing Stories and Conversations About the Practicalities of Supporting Migrant- and Refugee-Led Organisations
14:00 - 15:00 16 February 2024
How can development practitioners help refugee- and migrant-led organisations implement practices, processes, and policies that make a real difference to the lives of migrants and refugees in different contexts? Join us to explore this issue at our next community of practice. The online session will build on a lively discussion that took place...
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Advanced Materials in Medicine Seminar
13:00 - 14:00 21 February 2024
The Advanced Materials in Medicine (AMM) Seminars are delivered as part of the Pankhurst Seminar Series. The Pankhurst Seminar Series provides an opportunity to experience talk and discussion from a wide range of disciplines and perspectives, reflecting the diverse and inter-disciplinary character of the Christabel Pankhurst Institute. The series...
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GDI Lecture: Ethiopia’s ‘Developmental State’: Political Order and Distributive Crisis
16:30 - 18:00 27 February 2024
In this lecture, Tom Lavers (UoM) will discuss his recent book, which is concerned with the politics of state-led development and, specifically, how regimes maintain power during the extended periods required to bring about economic transformation. The book focuses on Ethiopia, the leading example of state-led development in Africa in recent decades....
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Careers in Humanitarianism Fair - Meet NGOs, charities, Careers Service and more
13:00 - 15:00 28 February 2024
Come and meet staff from a range of local and international humanitarian and rights organisations, who can answer questions about what it is like to work in the sector, how they got started, what their organisation is about, and any potential work, volunteering and training opportunities. This event is open to all University of Manchester students....
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GDI Lecture: Contending nationalisms in Ethiopia: New contours of Amhara politics
16:30 - 18:00 6 March 2024
Ethiopia is one of the few countries in Africa where the idea of the nation state was implemented in the European sense of the term; expressed in the form of cultural homogenization and political centralisation. This nation state project has succeeded to the extent that it has produced a national Ethiopian identity for some. However, the political...
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How can we create sustainable forests? - Manchester Museum Late Event
18:00 - 20:00 6 March 2024
Can’t see the wood for the trees? Exploring the future of forests for people and planet. If we’re serious about tacking the climate crisis, while also reducing poverty, then restoring forests around the world is an urgent task. Forests host most of the biodiversity on land, are the world’s largest carbon stores, and contribute directly to...
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Pankhurst Seminar Series: Digital Health Inequities Edition - Drawing from sociological and other disciplinary literature for digital health equity translational pedagogy
13:00 - 14:00 13 March 2024
In collaboration with the International Centre for Translational Digital Health, our next seminar in the Digital Health Inequities seminar series is on 13th March. It will be a hybrid event with a networking lunch. The programme is as follows: - Networking lunch – 13th March, 1200-1300 on the ground floor of the Christabel Pankhurst Building,...
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Re-orienting Global Development: The multiscalar dynamics of de-risking Chinese infrastructure investment in Europe
16:30 - 18:00 14 March 2024
China’s Belt and Road Initiative is the most visible manifestation of the country’s wider internationalisation efforts in which infrastructure connectivity projects are central. Existing spatialised narratives of these projects have usefully focused on long-standing geopolitical binaries and bilateral state relations, as well as newer spatial...
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The power of community: launching One World Together’s community space
15:00 - 16:30 15 March 2024
One World Together and One World Together Students’ Union Society are delighted to welcome you to celebrate the launch of our online Community Space. The Community Space connects community activists with One World Together’s Global Citizens, enabling people to share and learn about new forms of support for global development. Come and celebrate...
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