Events
Manchester Environment and Development Lectures
Among the initiatives marking the foundation of the School of Environment and Development has been the establishment of the Manchester Lectures in Environment and Development series.
The next lecture will be held on Wednesday 26 October 2011:
8TH ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT LECTURE
Working Memories: Manchester on my Mind
Prof Linda McDowell, University of Oxford
Wednesday 26 October 2011, 4pm
Lecture Theatre A, University Place
Linda McDowell is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oxford and a fellow of St John's College. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and an honorary fellow of the Gender Institute at the London School of Economics.
Her books include Capital Culture (Blackwell 1997); Redundant Masculinities? (Blackwell 2003); Hard Labour: the forgotten voices of Latvian migrant ‘volunteer’ workers (UCL Press 2005) and Working Bodies (Wiley-Blackwell 2009). She has just completed a study of South Asian women’s involvement in workplace disputes in the UK and is planning a new book about women migrants’ working lives in Britain 1946 – 2006.
Her lecture will exploring changing gender divisions of labour in the twentieth century through the lens of migrant women’s working lives, in the main in Manchester and its surrounding area.
Admission is free and everyone is welcome.
Previous lectures were as follows:
- Globalization and Complex Inequalities - Sylvia Walby, Professor of Sociology and UNESCO Chair in Gender Research at the Department of Sociology of Lancaster University (3 November 2010) (7th Manchester Lecture on Environment and Development)
- Democracy in Dangerous Places - Paul Collier, Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies at Oxford University (25 November 2008) (6th Manchester Lecture on Environment and Development)
- Is there a cosmopolitically correct design? - Bruno Latour, Professor at Sciences Po Paris (5th October 2007) (5th Manchester Lecture on Environment and Development)
- Spatial Aspects of Economic Development: Cities, Regions and International Trade - Tony Venables, Chief Economist at DfID and Professor of Economics at Oxford University (3 May 2007) (4th Manchester Lecture on Environment and Development)
- Vanishing Points: Law, Violence and Spaces of Exception in the 'War on Terror' - Derek Gregory, Killam Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia (19 May 2006) (3rd Manchester Lecture on Environment and Development)
- Immigrants and Citizens - A New Architecture For Political Citizenship - Saskia Sassen, Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and Centennial Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics (9 March 2005) (2nd Manchester Lecture on Environment and Development)
- Reflections on the New Imperialism - David Harvey, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Centre of the City University of New York (23 January 2004) (1st Manchester Lecture on Environment and Development)