School of Social Sciences

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…

Development Economics Seminars

13:00 - 14:00 1 March 2016
Development Economics Seminars- Dr. Simon Quinn, University of Oxford

Environmental and Resource Economics Seminar by Katrin Millock CANCELLED

12:00 - 13:00 1 March 2016
Environmental and Resource Economics Seminar Speaker: Katrin Millock (Paris School of Economics) CANCELLED

Global Political Economy Research Seminar - Wednesday 2nd March

15:00 - 17:00 2 March 2016
You are all cordially invited to a Global Political Economy Research Seminar from 3-5pm on Wednesday 2nd March, in 4.209 University Place. The seminar will comprise of presentations…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 2 March 2016
David Jarman, Edinburgh Napier University The Strength of Festival Ties: a social network analysis of the 2014 Edinburgh International Science Festival, and proposed ego network research…

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…

Sander Onderstal (University of Amsterdam)

17:00 - 18:30 2 March 2016
Does Relative Grading Help Male Students? Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Classroom

Econometrics and Applied Economics workshop: Prof Jesus Gonzalo

16:15 - 17:45 3 March 2016
TRENDs in Distributional Characteristics: Existence of Global Warming.

Politics MANCEPT research seminar - Thursday 03 March - Fred Horton - University of Manchester - “Scanlon’s Motivation Problem”

16:00 - 18:00 3 March 2016
The next MANCEPT research seminar will be on Thursday 3 March, when our very own Fred Horton will give a presentation titled “Scanlon’s Motivation Problem”. The seminar starts…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr William Schroeder III (The University of Manchester)

16:00 - 18:00 7 March 2016
Title : Playing with Happiness: Queer Chinese Views on Finding Emotional Satisfaction Although escaping from the mundane is a common strategy for achieving happiness, queer Chinese…

CMIST Afternoon Seminar: Corruption and preferences for decentralisation

16:00 - 17:30 8 March 2016
Abstract: Existing studies on individual preferences for decentralization focus on collective identity, economic considerations, and party politics as explanations of support for decentralization.…

Democracy and Elections seminar: corruption and preferences for decentralisation. Dr Sergi Pardos-Prado

15:30 - 17:00 8 March 2016
Dr. Sergi Pardos-Prad, Merton College, University of Oxford. Existing studies on individual preferences for decentralization focus on collective identity, economic considerations,…

Tom Crowther (Warwick): Recent Work on Temporal Ontology: Processes as Continuants and Processes as Stuffs

15:00 - 17:00 8 March 2016
Abstract: A number of philosophers, including Rowland Stout (2015) and Helen Steward (2015), have attempted to argue that processes—for example, running, or walking—are ‘continuants’:…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 9 March 2016
Goylette Chami, University of Cambridge

Politics Global Political Economy research cluster Seminar - The Managerial Lineages of Neoliberalism - Samuel Knafo (University of Sussex) - Wednesday 9th March

15:00 - 17:00 9 March 2016
Dear colleagues The Global Political Economy research cluster invite you to the following seminar, which takes place at 3pm on Wednesday 9th March in 4.211 University Place: The…

Statebuilding in Kosovo: Comparing the International and Local Perspectives

14:00 - 15:00 9 March 2016
Title: Statebuilding in Kosovo: Comparing the International and Local Perspectives

The Global Political Economy research cluster invite you to the following seminar - The Managerial Lineages of Neoliberalism - which takes place at 3pm on Wednesday 9th March in 4.211 University Place

15:00 - 18:00 9 March 2016
Dear colleagues The Global Political Economy research cluster invite you to the following seminar, which takes place at 3pm on Wednesday 9th March in 4.211 University Place: The…

The Indian Video Gaming Parlour: Embodiment, Field and Physical Space

14:00 - 15:00 9 March 2016
In my research I set out to analyse the subjective game play experience outside of a Western context focusing on how player experience is framed through different cultural and social…

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