Events

• Online Course in Social Network Analysis (Mitchell Centre) (2 October - 11 December 2026)
• Brownbag Seminar: Maria Plakhtieva (28 October 2026 1pm-1.50pm)
• Is Generosity Incompatible with a Rising Cost of Living? (28 October 2026 10am-3.30pm)
• Everyday Money Mistakes, And How to Avoid Them (29 October 2026 6.30pm-7.30pm)
• Those Serendipitous Mavericks: The Ratio Club and early British Cybernetics (29 October 2026 1pm-3pm)
• Living and Dying: The Morgan Centre In Conversation Series (2 November 2026 1.30pm-3pm)
• Andrea Levy's Novels (3 November 2026 6.45pm-8.30pm)
• Art as Testimony of Prison Experience (3 November 2026 2pm-4pm)
• Colours in the Field: Cotton, Empire and alternative futures in India (3 November 2026 4.30pm-6pm)
• The Cost of Connection (3 November 2026 2pm-5pm)
• Dimitrios Theodossopoulos (University of Kent) "From Recognition to Misrecognition: Indigeneity, the AI Dialectic and the Anthropomorphic Temptation" (9 November 2026 3pm-5pm)
• Living and Dying: The Morgan Centre In Conversation Series (10 November 2026 1pm-3.30pm)
• The mobility trap: transport exclusion in global south cities (11 November 2026 12pm-1.30pm)
• Yael Navarro (University of Cambridge) "Fieldnotes, Library Scans and the Ethnographic Narrative After Catastrophe" (16 November 2026 3pm-5pm)
• 'The gender pay gap amongst high educated workers' - Arthur Lewis Lecture (17 November 2026 5pm-7.30pm)
• Morgan Centre special seminars: The ageing of family change - Torbjörn Bildtgård & A new gift for the barren ones: Examining the introduction of egg donation in Norway – Ingvill Stuvøy (18 November 2026 3pm-5pm)
• Ana Carolina Balthazar (UCL, London) "Shame, Anger, and the Emotional Logics of British Politics (23 November 2026 3pm-5pm)
• Celebrating older people’s lives and communities in North Manchester: An exhibition and celebration event (25 November 2026)
• Ghost in the Machine: The Battle for the Human Mind (26 November 2026 1pm-3pm)
• Alex Ungprateeb Flynn (UCLA) "The Momentinho and the March: Temporalities of Struggle in Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement" (30 November 2026 3pm-5pm)
• Academic Job Applications and Interviews: Online Q&A for Early Career Researchers & PhD Students (2 December 2026 11.30am-1pm)
• Laurie Denyer Willis (University of Edinburgh) "Wife-Work in an Evangelical Rio: Pleasure, Protection and the Minimally Safe Bedroom" (7 December 2026 3pm-5pm)
• Andrew Littlejohn (Leiden University) "Ecologizing Safety in Post-Tsunami Japan" (14 December 2026 3pm-5pm)
• The Spectre of Automation: Robots in the New Jerusalem (28 January 2027 1pm-3pm)
• “It’s alive!”: Prometheus, Frankenstein, and the Cyborgs (25 February 2027 1pm-3pm)
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Intergalactic Network: The real origins of the Internet (18 March 2027 1pm-3pm)
• A Tale of Beer, Chile, and Syn: Cybernetics in the service of socialism (20 April 2027 1pm-3pm)
• Dalton ECR Conference 2027 (12 May 2027)
• Algorithms against Neurons: The great schism between AI and cybernetics (27 May 2027 1pm-3pm)
• Transcendence or Termination?: Cybernetics, transhumanism, and the future (24 June 2027 1pm-3pm)