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Alexandru Nichifor (University of St Andrews)

17:00 - 18:00 27 April 2016
Title: TBA

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 27 April 2016
Fiona Dobbie, University of Stirling Social network research and health behavior change: examples from smoking cessation Fiona Dobbie is a Research Fellow and PhD student in the School…

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Working Beyond the Border: Labour Standards and EU Trade Agreements

14:00 - 15:00 27 April 2016
Working Beyond the Border: Labour Standards and EU Trade Agreements

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Econometrics and Applied Economics workshop: Anna Salomons

16:15 - 17:45 28 April 2016
Econometrics and Applied Economics workshop

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MANCEPT research seminar - Thursday 28 April - Massimo Renzo - University of Warwick

16:00 - 18:00 28 April 2016
ABSTRACT: It is now widely acknowledged that it is morally permissible to interfere with the sovereignty of another state in order to stop widespread or systematic violations of…

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The JMCE Annual Lecture 2016: Where Will Brexit Leave Britain?

15:30 - 17:00 28 April 2016
This year the JMCE Annual Lecture will be delivered by the Executive Director of the 'Britain Stronger in Europe' campaign, Will Straw. The event is free and open to both university…

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Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop: Dr. A. M. Tanvir Hussain

13:00 - 14:00 3 May 2016
Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop Title: Willingness to pay for environmental goods under uncertainty Abstract: We develop a microeconomic approach for valuing the benefits…

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Helen Yetter-Chappell (York): Idealism and the Mind-Body Problem

15:00 - 16:30 3 May 2016
This talk has two aims: (i) I develop and defend a nontheistic (quasi-Berkeleyan) idealism. On this picture, reality is a vast unity of consciousness, with an interesting internal structure.…

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Ever closer Union? Changing relations between the Commission and the European Parliament

14:00 - 15:00 4 May 2016
Ever closer Union? Changing relations between the Commission and the European Parliament

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 4 May 2016
Filip Agneessens, University of Surrey Centrality measure(s): local and global versions of walks, trails and paths. Measures of individual centrality for an actor (i) in a network are…

Robin Burgess. London School of Economics

14:00 - 15:00 4 May 2016
TBC

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MANCEPT research seminar - Thursday 05 May - Elizabeth Ashford - University of St Andrews

16:00 - 18:00 5 May 2016
To be confirmed

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Looking back and looking forward to future LGBT parenting research agendas (BSA Families and Relationships study group event)

10:30 - 16:30 6 May 2016
This study day aims to look back at 20+ years of LGBT parenting research but with the main focus on 'what next'? By the end of the day we will have worked together to identify future…

Luke Russell (Sydney): Forgiveness, Big and Small (this event is co-sponsored by MANCEPT)

15:00 - 16:30 10 May 2016
Abstract: There are two bundles of claims about forgiveness that often appear together in the philosophical literature. The Supererogation Bundle includes the claims that forgiveness…

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DemElect seminar: Does Material Hardship Affect Political Preferences?

15:45 - 17:15 11 May 2016
Anja Neundorf (University of Nottingham) asks if material hardship affect political preferences? And her answer: depends on the political context Anja argues that preference updating…

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The choice for child-care arrangements and consequences for the well-being of families - Melissa Verhoef (Utrecht University)

12:00 11 May 2016
Nonparental child-care arrangements are an important aspect of parents' daily lives. Formal and informal child care (by professionals and relatives or friends respectively) allows parents…

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MANCEPT research seminar - Thursday 12 May - Simon Hope - University of Stirling

16:00 - 18:00 12 May 2016
ABSTRACT: This paper advances three claims. 1: The on-going debates in moral and political philosophy over idealisation and "ideal theory" vs "non-ideal theory" are ill-served…

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CMIST Afternoon Seminar: “Income inequality thesis” revisited

16:00 - 17:30 16 May 2016
The focus of the presentation is the so called “income inequality thesis”, i.e., the idea that living in countries with high income inequality is detrimental for health and well-being.…

Importing the liberal arts to England: differentiation and elitism in a marketised HE system

14:00 - 15:00 18 May 2016
The current higher education policy landscape is characterised by an increasing focus on employability, and in such a context it is particularly difficult for HEIs to make a case for…

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Democracy and Elections seminar: Do You See What I See?: Ethnic Diversity, Pseudoenvironments, and Social Capital

15:30 - 17:00 23 May 2016
Professor Cara Wong, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign How does place affect politics? Using maps drawn by respondents of their local communities as an individual-level measure…

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CANCELLED: CMIST Afternoon Seminar: Ethnic variations in intragenerational social mobility between 1971 and 2011

16:00 - 17:30 24 May 2016
This seminar has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. We hope to bring you this seminar in the 2016/17 academic year. Ethnic minority groups in England and Wales have repeatedly…

Yoram Halevy. Vancouver School of Economics

14:00 25 May 2016
TBC

Environmental and Resource Economics Seminar: Prof. Michael Finus

14:00 - 15:00 26 May 2016
Environmental and Resource Economics Seminar Speaker: Prof. Michael Finus (University of Bath) Title: Public Good Agreements under the Weakest-link Technology Abstract: We analyze…

Axel Void

16:00 - 18:00 27 May 2016
Axel Void: Street Artist speaks about his work.

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JMC Manchester Graduate Conference - The Enduring Reproduction of Crises in Europe

10:00 - 18:00 3 June 2016
Title: The Enduring Reproduction of Crises in Europe Manchester Graduate Conference 3 June 2016 Place: Arthur Lewis Building, Boardroom (2nd floor) M13 9PL, UK Public debate (16.00)…

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