School of Social Sciences

Atmospheres - CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

23 September 2014 - 12 January 2015
Atmospheres play a significant role in, and add an important quality to, our intimate, domestic and public lives, yet are often overlooked in social research, not least because of the…

What Future for Britain and the EU? an MEP panel discussion hosted by the Manchester JMCE

18:00 - 20:00 11 December 2014
A panel discussion by three eminent former members of the European Parliament, chaired by Prof Dimitris Papadimitriou and involving a lengthy Q&A session. The event is co-organised…

The Winter 2014 NIE Conference: IO of Media and Advertising

10:15 - 18:00 15 December 2014
The Network of Industrial Economists (NIE) is a forum for interchange among university economists in the UK and for interaction between academia, business, and government on topics…

CoDE_Seminar@Glasgow_University

13:00 - 14:00 16 December 2014
The Diversity of Persistence: A Critical Analysis of Language Policy and Ethnicity in Scotland Language offerings in Scotland are diverse and have their own acute sense of their situation.…

Democracy and elections seminar

15:30 - 17:00 14 January 2015
Eduardo Olivares Concha ‘Hierarchical importance of cleavages: not all are the same for party systems’ Abstract One of the most studied fields in party system scholarship is that…

CMISt Short Course :: Intermediate :: Introduction to Bayesian Analysis using WinBUGS/OpenBugs

10:00 15 - 16:00 16 January 2015
This course is delivered over two consecutive days and is aimed at those with no demographic training. The focus will be on the basic components of demographic change through measures…

Afternoon Seminars@CMIST - Adrian Favell - The transnationalization of everyday life in Europe: mixed methods in the EUCROSS project

16:00 - 17:15 20 January 2015
In this Afternoon Seminars@CMIST event, Adrian Favell from Sciences Po will deliver a talk entitled The transnationalization of everyday life in Europe: mixed methods in the EUCROSS…

CoDE_Seminars@CMIST

13:00 - 14:00 27 January 2015
Mr. Jon Spencer, Senior Lecturer in Criminology University of Manchester Title: Becoming Undocumented and Staying Undocumented: The Routes to Irregularity and No Way Back This seminar…

Global Political Economy research cluster seminar, Martín Arboleda (Manchester)

15:30 - 17:00 28 January 2015
‘Financialisation of nature, urbanisation of the world: the sociospatial ramifications of the gold bubble in the Chilean Andes’, PhD presentation.

Afternoon Seminars@CMIST - Michael L Smith (Economics Institute)

16:00 - 17:15 3 February 2015
In this Afternoon Seminars@CMIST event, Michael L Smith from the Economics Institute will give a talk entitled 'Selection Bias in Heterogeneous Returns to College in Highly Stratified…

Can Cameron capture women’s votes?

14:00 - 15:00 4 February 2015
The third Pankhurst Politics Seminar will take place on Wednesday 4 February, 2-3pm, University Place 3.204. It will be delivered by Professor Francesca Gains on the topic of ‘Can…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 4 February 2015
Cohen R. Simpson, LSE Bipartite Networks, Status and Competition for Financial Patronage: A Mutualistic Model of External Resource Derivation amongst Social Movement Organisations…

Social Anthropology Seminar - ‘’Containment and Contagion : on the gender of sin in contemporary Catholicism’’

15:00 - 17:00 9 February 2015
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 09 February 2015 Dr Maya Mayblin, University of Edinburgh ‘’Containment and Contagion : on the gender of sin in contemporary Catholicism’’ This…

Cooperation and Equality Seminar: Alex Barber (Open), 'Equality & Roles'

13:00 - 14:30 10 February 2015
Seminar organised by the Cooperation & Equality project. More information: http://thomassmit3.wix.com/cooperation-equality

Home Grown Talent Seminars@CMIST - James Laurence - Is it Diversity or Segregation (or both) that is Harmful for Social Cohesion? A Preliminary Investigation

12:00 - 13:00 10 February 2015
The Home Grown Talent Seminars@CMIST events showcase the work of Manchester-based early career researchers. In this instalment, which will is held ay lunchtime, James Laurence (CMIST,…

Philosophy Research Seminar - 'The Claimability of the Human Right to Subsistence'

15:00 - 17:00 10 February 2015
Abstract: The naturalistic conception of human rights takes human rights to exist independently of specific institutional arrangements. The human right to subsistence is often said…

Critical Global Politics Research Cluster and Centre for Chinese Studies

14:00 - 16:00 11 February 2015
Critical Global Politics Research Cluster and Centre for Chinese Studies Joint Research Seminar ‘Sino-Russian Border Architecture: Mimesis, Orientalism, Gigantism’ Franck Billé, University…

Global Political Economy research cluster seminar, Dr Meera Sabaratnam (SOAS)

15:30 - 17:00 11 February 2015
'Towards a de-colonial political economy? Re-thinking international statebuilding in Mozambique'

Losing the Hearts and Minds: Public Euroscepticism and the Future of European Integration

14:00 - 15:00 11 February 2015
A Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence seminar. Open to all.

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 11 February 2015
Robert Hellpap, Nuffield College, University of Oxford Enis Bicer, University of Bremen “Triadic homophily” - The role of (inter-)connected actors for inter-ethnic friendship formation…

Sociology Seminar: Laura Fenton and Feng Zhu

13:45 - 15:00 11 February 2015
Our first seminar of 2015 showcases the work of two of our PhD students. All staff and students welcome. Tea, coffee and biscuits from 1.45pm. 'Earning a drink? The Alcohol-Work Connection…

Why do voters prefer politicians in power?

12:00 - 13:30 12 February 2015
Special Democracy and Elections seminar The Incumbency Bias: When the Wisdom of the Crowd Fails by Catherine De Vries, University of Oxford The incumbency advantage is a well-documented…

Social Anthropology Seminar - ‘’cows, beef and identity politics in contemporary India” - Dr James Staples, University of Brunel, London

13 February 2015
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 23rd February 2015 Dr James Staples, University of Brunel, London ‘’COWS, BEEF, AND IDENTITY POLITICS IN CONTEMPORARY INDIA” The fact that debates…

Social Anthropology Seminar - "The Business of Being Kind in Russia"

15:00 - 17:00 16 February 2015
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 16 February 2015 Dr Melissa Caldwell, University of California, Santa Cruz "The Business of Being Kind in Russia" In Russia over the past ten…

Political parties and non-standard employment

15:30 - 17:00 18 February 2015
Democracy and Elections seminar Political Parties and Non-Standard Employment: France, Germany, Italy, and Spain in Comparison by Georg Picot, University of Manchester & Irene Menendez,…

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