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..
GDI Lecture: Fettered Development and Political Turmoil: 15 Years Since the Arab Spring, Gilbert Achcar
Speaker: Gilbert Achcar, SOAS The political landscape in the MENA region looks bleaker today than ever before. This is in sharp contrast with the euphoria aroused fifteen years ago by the 2011 revolutionary shockwave commonly known as the Arab Spring. Two years into that shockwave, regional political winds had already reversed. But a further..
Geography Department Research Seminar - Dr. Stephen Roberts
When the Wind Blew: Past changes in the Southern Hemisphere Westerlies and tracking historical nuclear bomb tests using lake and peat deposits from the Southern Ocean
An Overview of Educational Issues in Southeast Asia
"Research Matters: An Overview of Educational Issues in Southeast Asia Colleagues from MIE will share brief overviews of different educational issues in Southeast Asia. Miguel Antonio Lim - The State of Higher Education in Southeast Asia Nay Myo Htet - Migrant learning centres in Thailand and the education of displaced population Nashari..
An Overview of Educational Issues in Southeast Asia
Research Matters: An Overview of Educational Issues in Southeast Asia Colleagues from MIE will share brief overviews of different educational issues in Southeast Asia. Miguel Antonio Lim - The State of Higher Education in Southeast Asia Nay Myo Htet - Migrant learning centres in Thailand and the education of displaced population Nasharil..
GDI Community of Practice: Belonging and connection: The role of social cohesion in community resilience
Note: We are running two sessions at 8am and 2pm (UK time) Description While personal resilience is fundamental in staying optimistic and effective within challenging development roles, it’s not enough to keep us going in the long term. Community and solidarity represent a vital piece of the puzzle, helping us to tackle complex problems and..
GDI Lecture: Rethinking resistance: Sudan’s resistance committees during revolution, peace and war
Speaker: Sharath Srinivasan Professor Sharath Srinivasan is the David and Elaine Potter Professor of International Politics in the Department of Politics and International Studies and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He is a scholar of contentious politics in Africa in global perspective, whose work has evolved from explaining failed p..
GDI Lecture: Tax and Development: The OECD Experience, Joseph Stead
Speaker: Joseph Stead, OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration The Seville Commitment emphasized the pivotal role of tax revenues as the largest source of financing for development. Realising the optimal level of tax revenues to support development is a complex challenge combining policy and administration challenges, as well as domesti..
Geography Department Research Seminar - Dr. Jesse Proudfoot
Connecting symptoms to social causes: Reading carceral urbanism in Chicago through a drug addiction
MIE - Anti Racist Education Network: Countering Islamophobia.
"November marks Islamophobia Awareness Month, and the Anti-Racist Education Network is pleased to invite you to a special in-person conversation with Professor Salman Sayyid from the University of Leeds on Countering Islamophobia. We look forward to welcoming you to what promises to be an engaging and thought-provoking discussion."