School of Social Sciences

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’:…

Adriaan Soetevent (University of Groningen)

17:00 - 18:00 9 March 2016
A Commercial Gift for Charity

Asylum Monologues

16:15 - 18:00 9 March 2016
Asylum Monologues is a first-hand account of the UK’s asylum system in the words of people who have experienced it. The script is performed by members of Actors for Human Rights, a…

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…

Econometrics and Applied Economics workshop: Prof Michele Pellizzari

16:15 - 17:45 10 March 2016
Econometrics and Applied Economics workshop

Social Anthropology Seminar - Theodoros Kyriakides (University of Manchester)

16:00 - 18:00 14 March 2016
Title : A question of form: Gene therapy and thalassaemia in Cyprus. Abstract: Thalassaemia is a recessive blood disorder prevalent in countries situated around the Mediterranean…

Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop by Elizabeth Baldwin

13:00 - 14:00 15 March 2016
Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop by Elizabeth Baldwin Title: Choosing in the Dark: Incomplete Preferences, and Climate Policy Abstract: How should we frame collective…

How the United States became the Most Punitive Democracy in the World”, by Peter Enns (Cornell University)

14:30 - 16:00 15 March 2016
Hear “How the United States became the Most Punitive Democracy in the World”, by Peter Enns (Cornell University) We are delighted that Peter Enns will be speaking to the Democracy…

Philosophy Research Seminar - Tuesday 15th of March 2016 - Title: Just-left-of-the-middle knowledge: Freedom, foreknowledge, and the problem of evil

15:00 - 17:00 15 March 2016
Dear all, Date and time: 3 - 4.45pm Tuesday 15 March Speaker: Chris Ovenden (Manchester) Venue: Zochonis A Title: Just-left-of-the-middle knowledge: Freedom, foreknowledge, and…

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