Past events
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GRiEG Seminar: African Indigenous Ontologies for Decolonial Climate Change Education and Resilience
14:00 - 15:00 28 October 2026
The presentation will argue that resilience requires epistemic plurality, to which African Indigenous ontologies and decolonial climate change education make vital contributions. Colonial legacies across Africa disconnect climate change education from socio-cultural realities and constrain local epistemic...
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SEED Anti-Racist Education Network: ‘The Road Made to Walk on Carnival Day: 50 Years Since the Notting Hill Carnival Riots’
15:00 - 16:30 22 October 2026
The talk will explore the events surrounding the 1976 Notting Hill Carnival, their wider political and social context, and their significance for anti-racist struggles in Britain, 50 years on.
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GDI Lecture: The Political Economy of Rwanda's Rise
15:30 - 17:00 21 October 2026
In this lecture, GDI’s Pritish Behuria will launch his recent Open Access book, The Political Economy of Rwanda’s Rise. Drawing on a decade of research and more than 580 interviews, this innovative political economy case study explores Rwanda's bold attempt to transform its economy after the 1994...
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I Belong Here: Author talk and Q&A
11:00 - 13:00 19 October 2026
Come and hear Anita talk about her book, "I Belong here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain" and have the opportunity to explore issues around reclamation, resilience, and a personal journey through nature after a race-hate crime.
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Sustainability@SEED autumn bat walk
17:30 - 19:30 16 October 2026
The University of Manchester's Sustainability@SEED steering group is delighted to present the Sustainability@SEED autumn bat walk! Join us for an evening of helping to map local bat species and their abundance in Manchester. The data gathered will be fed back to the Bat Conservation Trust so that they...
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De/Colonial ?Entanglements ??i?n Architectural Research
16:00 - 18:00 13 October 2026
Prof. Georgia Traganou is our Visiting Professor of Architectural Humanities and Urbanism. This will be her second visit to the Manchester School of Architecture. She will introduce her work on decolonising design through a keynote exploring De/colonial Entanglements in Architectural Research.
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GDI Lecture: The Rulers: Corporate Power in the age of AI and the cloud
15:30 - 17:00 7 October 2026
Why are Amazon, Microsoft and Google different from every other company and why should people and governments care? The Rulers explains how the power of these three giants lies in their dominance over today’s control technologies, from simple digital tools to frontier AI models, deployed within and...
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Fire and Ice: The Conception, Birth and Infancy of Cybernetics.
12:00 - 14:00 24 September 2026
Meat the Machine: or, the Hidden History of Cybernetics and the Possible Futures of Humans A series of nine monthly seminars at the University of Manchester exploring the rich and vibrant history of the radical science of cybernetics, and the potentially profound implications of this hitherto occluded...
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Book Launch: Surplus Lives under Racial Capitalism: Roma in Post-Socialist Czechia by Barbora ?ernušáková
15:00 - 17:00 24 September 2026
The Political Economy Centre (PEC) at the University of Manchester is delighted to host the launch of Barbora ?ernušáková’s new book, Surplus Lives under Racial Capitalism: Roma in Post-Socialist Czechia, published by Manchester University Press. The launch will take place from 4-6pm on Thursday...
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NVIDIA Quantum Day: Accelerated Quantum Supercomputing with CUDA-Q
17 September - 29 October 2026
Discover how to harness CUDA-Q and GPU acceleration for quantum computing, hybrid algorithms, and next-generation quantum hardware. *Please Note: This event is for The University of Manchester internal staff only As the era of hybrid quantum-classical computing matures, programming these heterogeneous...
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Digital Health Equity seminar: Towards global cooperation for equitable and inclusive AI in healthcare
12:00 - 13:00 8 July 2026
The next seminar in the University of Manchester Digital Health Equity Seminar Series is on Wed 8th-July, 1-2pm via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/99730752650. Mahima Kalla (University of Melbourne, Australia) will talk about Towards global cooperation for equitable and inclusive AI in healthcare. Find more...
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Interdisciplinarity & Lost in Translation? Bridging Research Cultures Through Dialogue & Speed Networking
14:00 - 15:30 8 July 2026
Each research discipline has its own ethos - distinct ways of asking questions, applying methods, and communicating ideas. This diversity can sometimes feel like a barrier to collaboration, even within schools, let alone across the wider university. As interdisciplinary research becomes increasingly...
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Centre for Digital Trust and Society Forum 2026
2 July - 29 October 2026
Now in its 4th year, the Centre for Digital Trust and Society Annual Forum brings together leading voices from academia, government and civil society to explore the evolving challenges and opportunities shaping digital trust and security. The Centre for Digital Trust and Society (CDTS) brings together...
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Regulating the Digital Society: UK and EU Perspectives
1 July - 29 October 2026
Join us & explore how the UK and EU member states are approaching the regulation of the digital society in the the post-Brexit era! The increasing digitisation of daily life poses important questions for policy makers, service providers and academics about whether and how we can regulate these technologies...
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Digital Economy Ethics of AI Workshop
13:30 - 15:30 24 June 2026
Join us for an engaging and timely workshop exploring the ethical challenges emerging from the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence across research, industry and policy. Dr. Arash Hajikhani (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland; LUT University) will deliver a thought-provoking talk on the ethics...
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Developmental Dilemmas, Power, and Institutional Entrepreneurship: A Lens for Policy Analysis
10:00 - 11:00 23 June 2026
Speaker: William D. Ferguson, Gertrude B. Austin Professor of Economics Grinnell College Why do well-meaning developmental policies so often fail? Consider the recent collapse of the well-constructed peace agreement between the Colombian government and FARC guerillas. Likewise, privatizing former Soviet...
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Digital Health Equity seminar: Women’s health, equity and the role of digital health policy in addressing health inequalities in the UK
12:00 - 13:00 13 May 2026
The next seminar in the University of Manchester Digital Health Equity Seminar Series is on Wed 13th-May, 1-2pm BST via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/92175396746. Lopa Patel MBE (Diversity UK) will talk about Women’s health, equity and the role of digital health policy in addressing health inequalities...
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Digital Trust and Security Seminar: Tao Wen
12:00 - 14:00 7 May 2026
Explore a series of interconnected studies that examine human behavior and decision-making processes within social networks This event invites participants from all disciplines and backgrounds to come together, fostering interdisciplinary connections and discussions. Talk Title: Modeling and Analyzing...
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Digital Trust & Security Webinar: Online Harms-Policy, Regulation & Policing
12:00 - 13:30 30 April 2026
Online harms are on the rise, but how well are our legal frameworks, regulatory bodies and police actually equipped to respond? This event brings together four speakers from NGO, regulation, frontline investigation and national policing to examine online harms from four different perspective: policy,...
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Digital Trust and Security Webinar: Daniel Shiu
11:00 - 12:00 29 April 2026
The Internet is shifting to post?quantum security as current encryption weakens. This talk explores the risks &how we can protect our future This event invites participants from all disciplines and backgrounds to come together, fostering interdisciplinary connections and discussions. Talk Title: Can...
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