Past events

Building China: landscapes of change

10:00 - 16:00 30 October 2026

What does it mean to build a country? Beyond its dams, roads, housing developments and rapidly chang...

Those Serendipitous Mavericks: The Ratio Club and early British Cybernetics

13:00 - 15:00 29 October 2026

A series of nine monthly seminars at the University of Manchester exploring the rich and vibrant his...

National Emergency Briefing film screening and discussion

16:00 - 18:00 29 October 2026

Colleagues from Sustainability@SEED and SoSS, in collaboration with the Climate Justice Universities...

Book launch: China +100

17:30 - 18:30 29 October 2026

What might China look like in the year 2119, a century after the first outbreak of Covid-19? This is...

Everyday Money Mistakes, And How to Avoid Them

18:30 - 19:30 29 October 2026

Feel like you should “know more about money by now”? You’re not alone, and this event is desig...

Is Generosity Incompatible with a Rising Cost of Living?

10:00 - 15:30 28 October 2026

A free family event for primary-age children and their grown-ups Through games, creative activities...

GRiEG Seminar: African Indigenous Ontologies for Decolonial Climate Change Education and Resilience

14:00 - 15:00 28 October 2026

The presentation will argue that resilience requires epistemic plurality, to which African Indigenou...

SEED Anti-Racist Education Network: ‘The Road Made to Walk on Carnival Day: 50 Years Since the Notting Hill Carnival Riots’

15:00 - 16:30 22 October 2026

The talk will explore the events surrounding the 1976 Notting Hill Carnival, their wider political a...

GDI Lecture: The Political Economy of Rwanda's Rise

15:30 - 17:00 21 October 2026

In this lecture, GDI’s Pritish Behuria will launch his recent Open Access book, The Political Econ...

I Belong Here: Author talk and Q&A

11:00 - 13:00 19 October 2026

Come and hear Anita talk about her book, "I Belong here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain" an...