School of Social Sciences

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series: Adam Stevens

16:00 27 May 2015
Adam Stevens, University of Manchester Network analysis in the study of gene:environment interactions: the integration of genomic, environmental and social data The interactions…

Veena Das Public Lecture: The Limits of the Human

15:30 - 18:00 27 May 2015
Veena Das Public Lecture 4-6 pm (teas and coffees from 3.30), John Caskin Lecture Theatre, Martin Harris Building.

Knowledge of Emotion: Two Day Conference

1 - 2 June 2015
The final conference of the AHRC Knowledge of Emotion project. Confirmed speakers: Dorit Bar-On; Jonathan Doak; Naomi Eilan; Roger Giner-Sorolla; Ursula Hess; Heidi Maibom; Joel Smith;…

Polls, politicians and pundits: the inside story of GE2015

12:00 - 14:10 1 June 2015
Staff and students are invited to join Democracy and Elections, the hub for electoral politics at The University of Manchester, for the inside story of GE2015 as told by the experts…

Afternoon Seminars@CMIST - Aaron Winter

16:00 - 17:15 2 June 2015
In this Afternoon Seminars@CMIST event, Aaron Winter from the University of East London will deliver a talk entitled 'Haunted by a ‘Ghost-Robed Ku Klux Klan’: Organised Racism in Post-Racial…

Global Political Economy Annual Lecture: Prof Phil Cerny

15:30 - 17:30 3 June 2015
"Antinomies of Globalisation"

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series: Sam Roberts

16:00 - 17:30 3 June 2015
Sam Roberts, University of Chester

5th Royal Anthropological Institute Postgraduate Conference

4 - 5 June 2015
The Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) and The University of Manchester Social Anthropology department are proud to be hosting the 5th Postgraduate conference. This year’s conference…

Sociology Seminar: ‘‘Real’ Bread: Biopower, Biopolitics and Governance in an ‘Alternative’ Food Network’ (Samantha Foster)

14:00 - 15:00 10 June 2015
All staff and students welcome at our Sociology seminar, this time given by Samantha Foster. We start at 2pm (tea and coffee available from 1.45pm). Bread has been at the heart of…

Seminar - Juan Galeano - International migration and demographic change in Spain before and during the economic crisis(2000-2014): A demo-spatial analysis

13:00 - 14:00 11 June 2015
You are warmly invited to a CoDE/CMIST seminar by visiting researcher Juan Galeano (CED, Barcelona) on Thursday 11th June, 1-2pm, HBS room 2.07. The seminar will discuss international…

Seminar - Antoine Bilodeau (Concordia University) - Feeling Accepted: Another Tool to Understand Immigrant Integration

13:00 - 14:00 12 June 2015
You are all cordially invited to attend a talk by Antoine Bilodeau (Concordia University) on 12 June 2015 at 1 pm in room 2.07 in the Humanities Bridgeford Street building. Details…

Justice & Work

09:00 - 17:00 15 June 2015
Conference organised by the Cooperation & Equality Project. Theme: At the heart of social, economic and political life is work. Work is required to produce vital goods, without which…

Afternoon Seminars@CMIST - Nicole Martin (ISER, Essex) [change of speaker]

16:00 - 17:15 16 June 2015
In this Afternoon Seminars@CMIST event, Nicole Martin from ISER (University of Essex) will talk about her ongoing research. No need to register; all welcome!

Joining the Dots: Music and Social Networks

16 - 18 June 2015
A Sociological Review/Mitchell Centre Symposium This event is free but places are limited and booking is essential Register by email: rachel.emms@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk Download…

Democracy and Elections seminar: impact

15:00 - 17:00 17 June 2015
This session - all about the impact agenda - will take place on the afternoon June 17th, where we shall welcome the School of Social Sciences' Knowledge Exchange & Impact Officer…

Sharing

19 June 2015
Conference organised by the Cooperation & Equality Project. Programme: Jerry Gaus (Arizona): ‘Amour-propre as a Basis of Fairness Norms (Or, Why Being Touchy Protects Egoists from…

Short Course in Ethnographic Documentary 2015

22 June - 3 July 2015
The 2015 Short Course in Ethnographic Documentary at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, University of Manchester, is addressed to beginners who want to learn the technicalities…

Brave New World 2015 MANCEPT Graduate Conference

25 - 26 June 2015
Brave New World 2015, is the nineteenth annual postgraduate conference organised by the Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT). The conference will take place on Thursday…

CoDE_Seminars@Cmist

13:00 - 14:00 30 June 2015
Religious Heterogeneity, Identity and Civic Participation in the UK. This paper examines the relationship between neighbourhood religious heterogeneity and civic participation among…

Atmospheres

1 - 2 July 2015
Morgan Centre interdisciplinary conference.

Atmospheres

1 - 2 July 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…

British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Conference

2 - 3 July 2015
The British Society for the Philosophy of Science's annual conference 2015 will be held at The University of Manchester. Please click the link to the conference website for more information.

Rethinking Social Mobility

09:30 - 16:30 2 July 2015
Reflecting concerns that the post-war mobility boom has been put into reverse, ‘the problem of social mobility’ has come to the fore in public policy discourse in the UK over the last…

Open Minds X

3 July 2015
'Open Minds', now in its tenth year, is our annual postgraduate philosophy conference. Registration is free, and the conference will be open to all philosophy postgraduates in the UK…

Democracy and Elections Seminar: Young people's civic engagement in a social media age

01:00 - 14:30 13 July 2015
Young voters' civic engagement in a social media age. Dr Ariadne Vromen How young people use social media to engage with politics in an age of online celebrities and politicians is…

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