School of Social Sciences

Politics - MANCEPT Research Seminar - Presented by Billy Christmas “Toward Methodological Anarchism”

16:00 - 18:00 11 February 2016
Dear all, The next MANCEPT research seminar will be on Thursday 11 February, when our very own Billy Christmas will give a presentation titled “Toward Methodological Anarchism”. The…

CMIST Afternoon Seminar: Why God is Watching: Supernatural Punishment and the Evolution of Cooperation

16:00 - 17:30 15 February 2016
Abstract: Amidst the dazzling diversity of religions across the world, certain elements stand out as common to them all. One of the most widespread and powerful is belief in supernatural…

JMCE Event - Seminar - Where Next for the UK and the EU? An Irish perspective - Ambassador DANIEL MULHALL

16:30 - 17:30 15 February 2016
You are warmly invited to this special JMCE Event: Where Next for the UK and the EU? An Irish perspective Ambassador DANIEL MULHALL (Irish Ambassador to the UK) 15 February,…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Prof Signe Howell (University of Oslo)

16:00 - 18:00 15 February 2016
Title: ”Seeing, Knowing, Being, Acting: Chewong animism and human anthropomorphizing” Drawing on ethnographic material from Chewong, a hunting, gathering and shifting cultivating…

Where Next for the UK and the EU? An Irish perspective

16:30 - 17:30 15 February 2016
A special joint event by the JMCE/EDIC and the European Movement ***The event is free and open to all***

Environmental and Resource Economics Seminar CANCELLED

13:00 - 14:00 16 February 2016
Environmental and Resource Economics Seminar Speaker: Torben Klarl (University of Augsburg) CANCELLED

Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop: Dr Torben Klarl

13:00 - 14:00 16 February 2016
Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop https://www.uni-ulm.de/mawi/mawi-wiwi/mitarbeiter/dr-dr-habil-torben-klarl.html

Stacie Friend (Birkbeck): The Real Foundation of Fictional Worlds

15:00 - 17:00 16 February 2016
Abstract: I argue that judgements of what is ‘true in a fiction’ presuppose the Reality Assumption: the assumption that everything that is (really) true is also fictionally the case,…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 17 February 2016
Bruce Edmonds, Manchester Metropolitan University How can we check Social Network models and measures? Agent-base modelling as the next level test after face validity. All social network…

MANCEPT research seminar - Thursday 18 February - “Beyond Reforms: Implementing the Responsibility to Protect” - Bola Adediran (University of Manchester)

16:00 - 18:00 18 February 2016
Dear all, The next MANCEPT research seminar will be on Thursday 18 February, when our very own Bola Adediran will give a presentation titled “Beyond Reforms: Implementing the Responsibility…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Katherine Swancutt (King's College London)

16:00 - 18:00 22 February 2016
Title : Religion through the Looking Glass: Fieldwork, Biography and Esprit de Corps in Southwest China and Beyond This paper is an exploration into the excess of fascination with…

Development Economics Seminar

01:00 - 14:00 23 February 2016
Development Economics Seminar- Dr. Mehdi Chowdoury, University of Bournemouth

Lee Walters (Southampton): The Unforgeable

15:00 - 17:00 23 February 2016
Abstract: in music, unlike painting, there is no such thing as a forgery of a known work. There are, indeed, compositions falsely purporting to be by Haydn as there are paintings falsely…

Critical Global Politics cluster - research seminar - Dr Juliet Brough Rogers (University of Melbourne, Australia)

16:00 - 18:00 24 February 2016
Dear all, Critical Global Politics cluster invites you to a research seminar taking place on Wednesday, February 24, 4 - 6pm in 5.209 University Place. Dr Juliet Brough Rogers (University…

Ines Moreno de Barreda (University of Oxford)

17:00 - 18:00 24 February 2016
Equilibrium Persuasion

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 24 February 2016
Carlo Morselli, University of Montreal Network Patterns of Collusion in Quebec's Construction Industry Summary: Over the past six years, the construction industry in the province of…

The Supposed Decline of the European Commission

14:00 - 15:00 24 February 2016
Title: The Supposed Decline of the European Commission by Prof Neill Nugent (College of Europe, Bruges). The event is free and open to all.

Lecture : Stephen Gill, York University, Toronto, and Hallsworth Visiting Professor, The University of Manchester

17:00 - 18:30 25 February 2016
The Political Economy Institute and Global Political Economy research cluster at The University of Manchester are very pleased to announce the following public lecture: Stephen Gill,…

MANCEPT research seminar - “Justice and Attributions of Responsibility” - Thursday 25 February - Jodie Lamb - University of Manchester

16:00 - 18:00 25 February 2016
MANCEPT research seminar - “Justice and Attributions of Responsibility” - Thursday 25 February - Jodie Lamb - University of Manchester ABSTRACT: The standard formulation of responsibility…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Victor Cova (University of St Andrews)

16:00 - 18:00 29 February 2016
Title: Back from the Future. In this paper I ask how it is that humans can experience the future in the present, even though the future, by definition, can never be made present. I…

CMIST Afternoon Seminar: Assessing risk of non-response bias and dataset representativeness during survey data collection

16:00 - 17:30 1 March 2016
Abstract: Survey methodologists have shifted away from using response rates as an indicator of survey non-response bias. Instead, monitoring of response within and across sample subgroups…

Public Lecture Professor Susana Narotzky ‘’Autonomy, dependence and solidarity : grassroots responses to structural adjustment in Spain’’

16:00 - 18:00 2 March 2016
PUBLIC LECTURE Faculty of Humanities Visiting Hallsworth Professor Wednesday 2nd March 2016 Susana Narotzky, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Barcelona…

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