Past events

Politics - 2025 Annual Peace Lecture - The Continuous Struggle: Women’s Rights in the Last Four Decades and the Backlash Against Progress

14:00 - 16:30 8 October 2025

Join us for the 40th Anniversary International Peace Lecture, hosted by the University of Manchester...

2025 Annual International Peace Lecture: The Continuous Struggle: Women’s Rights in the Last Four Decades and the Backlash Against Progress.

14:00 - 16:30 8 October 2025

Join us for the 40th Anniversary International Peace Lecture, hosted by the University of Manchester...

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series - Karoly Takas (Linkoping University) - Are High-Performing Ethnic Roma Students Excluded from their Minority Peer Group? Friendship, Ethnic Identification, and Labeling

15:00 - 16:30 8 October 2025

It is a puzzle whether and how social exclusion mechanisms hinder the academic performance of disadv...

MET Seminar - Marek Pycia (Zurich)

16:00 - 17:00 8 October 2025

Title: Cost over Content: Information Choice in Trade Authors: Kristof Madarasz & Marek Pycia Abst...

Macro Seminar - Calumn G. Hamilton (Groningen & Wageningen)

15:00 - 16:00 7 October 2025

Title: Foreign Aid and Structural Change

Declan Murray (University of Manchester) The Plastic Divide: Global environmentalism and the search for life in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

14:00 - 16:00 6 October 2025

On 1 June 2019 plastic bags were banned in Tanzania. The ban was driven by a global environmentalist...

Open Minds XVIII The Eighteenth Annual Philosophy Conference for Postgraduate Students in Philosophy

2 - 3 October 2025

We are delighted to announce the eighteenth annual Open Minds Conference for graduate students in ph...

Brownbag - Adam Sanjurjo (Boston College)

12:00 - 13:00 1 October 2025

Title TBD

Dangerous Writings -A Symposium on the Ethics, and Practicalities of Working with Risky Texts

08:30 - 17:00 30 September 2025

"Dangerous writings" have long served as both catalysts for transformation and sources of profound p...

Alistair Lomas (University of Manchester). Revolution, salvation, seaweed: Toward an anthropology of hype

14:00 - 16:00 29 September 2025

While undertaking research into seaweed cultivation on the west coast of Scotland in 2022-23, I stru...