Events
Architecture for the People: Manchester City Architect’s Department, 1902-2003
Public Exhibition: Architecture for the People For 101 years, the City Architect’s Department in the Town Hall served the citizens and met diverse civic needs by designing hundreds of different municipal buildings. They ranged from grand airport terminals to the small public lavatories, from the high profile like the new Free Trade Hall to..
Digital Trust and Security Webinar: Jonathan Reiter
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..
GDI Lecture: The Myth of Deindustrialisation and the Possibilities for Development within Industrial Civilisation
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 periph..
Geography Department Research Seminar - Dr. Felipe Magalhães
Forty years of neoliberalization in Latin American cities: volatility, deindustrialization and the multiplication of extractivism
Reflections on Modelling the Covid-19 Pandemic
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 less..
SEED Decolonisation Seminar
"Presentation is captioned ""The political dilemmas of decolonisation: Race, migration and the production of knowledge"". The thesis is that decolonisation movements from the Global South lacked radical edge. They underestimated institutional power, relied on limiting binaries, undermined African scholarly agency, and diluted impact by overe..
SEED Decolonisation Seminar
Presentation is captioned "The political dilemmas of decolonisation: Race, migration and the production of knowledge". The thesis is that decolonisation movements from the Global South lacked radical edge. They underestimated institutional power, relied on limiting binaries, undermined African scholarly agency, and diluted impact by overexte..
Digital Trust and Security seminar: Prof Marija Slavkovik
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 envir..
GDI Lecture: The rise and fall of the UK aid budget: How has the NGO landscape changed over the last 20 years?
Speakers: Tom Baker (Save the Children UK) in conversation with Alex Molton and Fin Hanna (GDI Postgraduate Students) Cuts to the UK aid budget represent just the latest in a more protracted decline of overseas aid. To help us make sense of this shift and discuss potential ways forward, this session will take the form of a fireside chat betwe..
What can Digital Futures do for you
Register to this special event and find out more about the Digital Futures platform and how you can get involved. Join President Duncan Ivison, Digital Futures Director Richard Kingston, and the platform’s theme leads for this special event and find out more about the Digital Futures platform and how you can get involved. Full agenda to be c..