Events
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Class, Cultural Knowledge, and Barriers to Mobility - Visiting Leverhulme Professor Annette Lareau
14:30 - 17:30 29 April 2024
Please join us for our very first University of Manchester Department of Sociology annual lecture, given in our 60th anniversary year. We are delighted that our inaugural lecture will be given by Visiting Leverhulme Professor Annette Lareau: Class, Cultural Knowledge, and Barriers to Mobility Professor Annette Lareau, University of Pennsylvania ...
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AMBS Event: In search of a Just Transition: Taking a stakeholder engagement perspective
16:00 - 17:00 30 April 2024
A guest lecture from Professor Fran Ackermann, John Curtin Distinguished Professor in the School of Management, Curtin Business School
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Digital Futures PhD Network
14:00 - 15:30 30 April 2024
The Digital Futures network serves as a dynamic and collaborative hub exclusively designed for the community of PhD students within The University of Manchester, who are conducting research related to digital topics. The primary objective of this network is to help students to develop interdisciplinary, cross faculty relationships that can lead...
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AMBS Event: A multi-level analysis of net-zero transitions Acceleration and new obstacles
12:00 - 13:00 1 May 2024
At this Original Thinking Lecture, Frank Geels, Eddie Davies Professor of Sustainability Transition, will give his inaugural lecture as Eddie Davies Chair. Net-zero transitions have entered a new and confusing phase since the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and the gas price crisis. On the one hand, net-zero transitions are accelerating...
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Art Not Evidence: The misuse of rap in criminal trials
17:00 - 18:30 1 May 2024
Keir Monteith KC, in his inaugural lecture for the Law School at the University of Manchester, will review the increased criminalisation of rap music, including the use of lyrics and music videos as evidence against young people accused of serious crimes. Keir will provide contemporary examples of how prosecutors, supported by judges, have suggested...
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