Past events

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-autho...

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...

Digital Transformation in Healthcare: An Ecosystem Approach

17:30 - 18:30 7 February 2024

At this event Panos Constantinides, Professor of Digital Innovation and Digital Learning Lead for Ex...

Annual Arthur Lewis Lecture - Trust in Government and Economic Performance

17:00 - 19:00 6 February 2024

Join us for Professor Sir Tim Besley's public lecture addressing how trust in the government is link...

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...

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...

Sustainable Futures January 2024 Seminar Series

14:00 - 15:00 25 January 2024

On Thursday 25th January 2024, Sustainable Futures will be launching the first occurrence in our 202...

M-ADE | Innovations in Apparel and Textiles for Sportswear

10:30 - 15:00 24 January 2024

Join the Apparel Design Engineering (ADE) group and Digital Futures at The University of Manchester...

Digital Humanities Seminar: James Baker, 'Data Environmentalism'

13:00 - 14:00 24 January 2024

James Baker (U. Southampton), 'Data Environmentalism: reflections on 'Digital Humanities in the Anth...

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 th...