Events
GDI Lecture: The Rulers: Corporate Power in the age of AI and the cloud
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 beyond the tech sector. Combining more than..
GDI Lecture: The Political Economy of Rwanda's Rise
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 genocide into one of the most rapidly growi..
Is Generosity Incompatible with a Rising Cost of Living?
A free family event for primary-age children and their grown-ups Through games, creative activities and family-friendly discussions, you'll discover research showing that generosity isn't about giving more. It's about giving in ways that can make even small amounts go further. Designed especially for primary-aged children and their parents,..
Everyday Money Mistakes, And How to Avoid Them
Feel like you should “know more about money by now”? You’re not alone, and this event is designed exactly for you. Join Laura Whateley, award?winning journalist and author of Money: A User’s Guide, and Emiel Jerphanion, lecturer in finance at the University of Manchester, for an accessible, myth?busting session on the everyday money m..
Those Serendipitous Mavericks: The Ratio Club and early British Cybernetics
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 history for our shared socio-technical futures. All events will run from 13:00 to 15:00 and will be hosted at the University of Manc..
Art as Testimony of Prison Experience
Join us for a unique exhibition showcasing artwork created during a prison sentence, offering rare, personal insight into the realities of imprisonment, rehabilitation, and life beyond crime. Visitors can explore a collection of artworks the featured artist produced while serving time in prison. Alongside the artwork, extracts from interviews..
The Cost of Connection
The event will feature a panel discussion bringing together researchers, community organisations and people with lived experience, followed by screenings of two short films: Amphetamine (1967) by Warren Sonbert, exploring gay male intimacy and drug use in 1960s New York. GHOSTS by Thomas Roughan, examining addiction, recovery and connection w..
'The gender pay gap amongst high educated workers' - Arthur Lewis Lecture
Join us for the Annual Arthur Lewis Lecture as our guest speaker Dame Rachel Griffith, Professor of Economics, reflects on the gender pay gap, and why it is still so prevalent in highly skilled work. The extent to which males are paid more than females (the gender pay gap) has declined considerably over the past several decades, but much more..
Ghost in the Machine: The Battle for the Human Mind
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 history for our shared socio-technical f..
The Spectre of Automation: Robots in the New Jerusalem
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 history for our shared socio-technical f..