Past events
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Gender Equality and Economic Growth: An Overlapping Generations Approach
16:00 - 18:00 7 May 2026
Join us as esteemed economist Pierre-Richard Agénor shared insights from his upcoming book ‘Gender Equality and Economic Growth: An Overlapping Generations Approach’, exploring the economic and political challenges faced in the moral task of closing the gender gap. The Arthur Lewis x Vital Topics...
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Survey data drop-in
11:00 - 12:00 6 May 2026
This free online drop-in is for anyone working or thinking of working with secondary survey data who are looking for help and advice with their project or research. It is targeted at academic and non-academic researchers, analysts, as well as students and anyone with an interest in survey data, whether...
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The Big Payback: Reparations and how money shapes our morality and views on racial justice - Marcus Ryder in conversation with Gary Younge
14:00 - 15:45 6 May 2026
Marcus Ryder in conversation with Gary Younge, on reparations and how money shapes our morality and our views on racial justice. See Eventbrite link for more details and to register for a free place. The transatlantic slave trade is often framed as a moral atrocity of the past. Yet both its legacy,...
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Stephen Mossman's Inaugural Lecture – ‘Spirituality and a Military Order: God’s House in Medieval Strasbourg’
15:30 - 17:30 6 May 2026
One focus of Stephen Mossman's research for more than a decade has been the commandery of the Knights Hospitaller in medieval Strasbourg, founded by the financier and mystical writer Rulman Merswin in the 1360s to enable a form of pious retreat for the devout laity of the late medieval city. The great...
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The Arab Nahda and the Rise of the “Moroccan Ear” – Talk and Book Launch
6 May - 6 October 2026
You are all warmly invited to the final talk in the AMES Seminar Series 2026 by SALC's very own Dr Samuel Llano, SPLAS. Hosts – Dr Ruth Abou Rached & Dr Ikram Bennai
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Fascism: Histories and Meanings
16:30 - 18:00 6 May 2026
Domenico Cangiano (Universitá Ca’ Foscari Venezia) Federico Marcon (Princeton University) In conversation with: Francesca Billiani (University of Manchester) Martin Kristoffer Hamre (Freie Universität Berlin) Levi McLaughin (North Carolina State University/Simon Visiting Professor, University...
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Role of informed consent in ethical data collection, sharing and reuse
09:00 - 10:30 30 April 2026
Are you collecting research data involving human participants? Do you plan to share these data? Understanding the role of informed consent when working with human participants is ethically crucial. Join us for a free, 90-minute online workshop designed to guide researchers through the complexities of...
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SALIENT Lunch & Learn Webinar Series 2026
30 April - 26 November 2026
SALIENT Lunch and Learn Webinars are your chance to:? Discover the latest developments in the world of National security and resilience? Hear short TED-style talks by experts on related topics.? Get your questions answered with 10 mins of Q&A.? Join us on the last Thursday of the month at 12:00 pm...
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Linguistics and English Language Seminar: 'Computational Linguistics Will Not Solve All Your Problems'
30 April - 6 October 2026
Speaker: Jonathan Dunn, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign The age of Large Language Models (LLMs) has created an over-confidence in computational experiments. As a computational linguist, I strongly believe that computational models can tell us a great deal about how language works and how it...
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Digital Trust & Security Webinar: Online Harms-Policy, Regulation & Policing
12:00 - 13:30 30 April 2026
Online harms are on the rise, but how well are our legal frameworks, regulatory bodies and police actually equipped to respond? This event brings together four speakers from NGO, regulation, frontline investigation and national policing to examine online harms from four different perspective: policy,...
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