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: 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."
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.
Insubordinate and captive mobilities: Time and agency in irregularised return trajectories between North and West Africa
A Migration, Refugees, and Asylum Research Seminar Speaker: Dr Sabina Barone, UCL In this seminar, I examine how the IOM’s ‘Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration’ (AVRR) programme plays out in the overall return trajectories of West African migrant men and women I could accompany before, during and after the AVRR procedure. Contr..
Green Research in Education Group (GRiEG seminar)
The subject of the seminar is: ""Learning and response-ability in dangerous times: the challenge of transformation
Green Research in Education Group (GRiEG seminar)
The subject of the seminar is: ""Learning and response-ability in dangerous times: the challenge of transformation"
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..