Past events
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Launch Event: The Artefacts of Prediction – Imagining Tomorrow
14:00 - 15:30 2 December 2025
Join us for the opening of a new exhibition that explores how people from 1900-present have tried to glimpse, design, or control the future. Throughout the twentieth century and into our own time, the future has been imagined through science and superstition, data, design, and dreams. Drawing on objects...
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Ideal Leadership in the Temple Scroll (Religions and Theology – Erhardt Seminars)
15:00 - 17:00 1 December 2025
Speaker: Abigail Naidu (PhD candidate, University of Birmingham)
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MIOIR Seminar Series - Universities and the climate crisis: the case for a leadership role
15:30 - 16:30 1 December 2025
Meric S. Gertler discusses the case for universities to take leading roles in the fight against climate change. Abstract: The evidence continues to mount that the climate crisis is accelerating. The Financial Times reported recently that last year saw the largest single-year increase in atmospheric...
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Data in the spotlight: International time series databanks
10:00 - 11:30 27 November 2025
Are you wanting to understand how the world works? Have an interest in climate science, economy, trade, demographics, health or international development? Want to know about and how to access data from the IMF, World Bank, UN or OECD? This free 90-minute online workshop will introduce you to the international...
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Data in the spotlight: International time series databanks
10:00 - 11:30 27 November 2025
Are you wanting to understand how the world works? Have an interest in climate science, economy, trade, demographics, health or international development? Want to know about and how to access data from the IMF, World Bank, UN or OECD? This free 90-minute online workshop will introduce you to the international...
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