School of Social Sciences

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)…

Time-Perception

10:00 - 17:00 13 June 2016
A one-day interdisciplinary workshop on time-perception Speakers: Abigail Connor (Manchester) Barry Dainton (Liverpool) Luke Jones (Manchester) Julian Kiverstein (UvA) John Wearden…

The Mind's Construction

10:00 - 17:00 14 June 2016
A one-day workshop on Matthew Soteriou's, The Mind's Construction. Provisional timetable: 10.00 - 10.15: Coffee & Introduction 10.15 - 11.15: Craig French (Cambridge), 'Naive Realism…

Renmin-Manchester Workshop on Inequality and Poverty in China

16 - 17 June 2016
Hosted by the School of Social Sciences (SoSS) and Global Development Institute (GDI), the University of Manchester Funded by University of Manchester Research Institute (UMRI) Please…

Brave New World 2016 Post Grad Conference

09:00 20 - 17:00 21 June 2016
Brave New World 2016 is the twentieth annual postgraduate conference organised by the Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT). The conference will take place on Monday 20th…

International Migration and Expressions of Political Identity and Belonging through Vernacular Music and Language

13:00 - 16:00 20 June 2016
Thinking carefully about what it means to ‘listen to’ or ‘hear’ everyday voices and experiences of young people whose local lives are entangled in global migratory movements. The event…

CMIST Afternoon Seminars: Combining data-sets to test the normalization of protest thesis'

16:00 - 17:30 21 June 2016
Abstract: Scholars have for a long time claimed that protest is becoming an increasingly common thing to do, and that the people doing it are becoming increasingly normal. But these…

Democracy and Elections seminar: Professor Tim Hellwig (Indiana University)

15:00 - 16:30 28 June 2016
June 28th 3.00 – 4.30 pm Arthur Lewis Building G.035/36 “Public Perceptions of Risk and Insecurity in the Wake of the Great Recession” Professor Tim Hellwig (Indiana University) …

Fighting torture around the world – from Geneva, Strasbourg and Washington?

12:00 - 14:00 29 June 2016
Social science perspectives on the trajectories, workings, and effects of anti-torture multilateralism. The lecture will be given in French, with interpretation into English, Mandarin…

The Little Book of Answers: exploring identity, Britishness and citizenship

12:00 - 16:30 9 July 2016
What does it mean to be British? Join us for this event at Manchester Central Library for an exploration of identity, Britishness and citizenship. The event is based on visual artist…

Unfolding Stories: Sketching the Everyday

10:00 26 July - 14:00 1 August 2016
See the everyday world a little differently, with this free exhibition from urban sketcher and award-winning illustrator, Lynne Chapman. The exhibition features over fifty metres of…

Unfolding Stories: sketching workshops

10:15 - 12:45 26 July 2016
As part of our exhibition Unfolding Stories: Sketching the Everyday, Lynne Chapman is leading two sketching workshops for adults and children aged 9 and up. Lynne is a book illustrator…

Unfolding Stories: sketching workshops

10:15 1 August 2016
As part of our exhibition Unfolding Stories: Sketching the Everyday, Lynne Chapman is leading two sketching workshops for adults and children aged 9 and up. Lynne is a book illustrator…

Living the weather: Voices from the Calder Valley

19:30 - 21:30 15 September 2016
An evening for people who know and love the Calder Valley and all its weather! We will be showing a documentary made by Lorenzo Ferrarini. It was made with local residents as part…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Monday, 26th September 2016 - Flavia Kremer, University of Manchester

16:00 - 18:00 26 September 2016
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 26th September 2016 Flavia Kremer, University of Manchester ‘’ Filmmaking and ‘The Exchange of Men’: Exploring the use of film in research through…

Seminar: Christodoulos Stefanadis (University of Piraeus)

16:15 - 17:45 27 September 2016
Title: Monopolistic Competition and Inadequate Aggregate Demand

Lived Brutalism: Portraits at Robin Hood Gardens

3 - 21 October 2016
OPENING NIGHT: Tuesday 4 October, 7pm – 9pm. With a talk by Architects for Social Housing on estate demolition and strategies to resist it, and an introduction to the exhibition by…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Monday 3rd October 2016 - Giulia Battaglia, Universite Sorbonne Novelle – Paris 3

16:00 - 18:00 3 October 2016
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 3rd October 2016 Giulia Battaglia, Universite Sorbonne Novelle – Paris 3 ‘’ Processes of engagement : Documentary Cinema and Anthropology” In…

Britain after Brexit: political and economic challenges

17:00 - 18:30 4 October 2016
A special Pankhurst Lecture by the Politics DA and the JMCE ***The event is free and open to all, but registration is essential*** https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lord-peter-mandelson-britain-after-br…

Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop by Antoine Dechezlepretre, LSE

13:00 - 14:00 4 October 2016
Title: Do pollution offsets offset pollution? Evidence from the Clean Development Mechanism in India. Abstract: We provide the first large-scale empirical evaluation of the additionality…

Burn the Bills: Irish Responses to Austerity in Social Context

14:00 - 15:00 5 October 2016
Speaker: Dr. Silke Trommer (University of Manchester) Title: Burn the Bills: Irish Responses to Austerity in Social Context

Maria Kozlovskaya (University of Huddersfield)

17:00 - 18:00 5 October 2016
Title: A Representation Theorem of Guilt Aversion, Host: Horst Zank

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 5 October 2016
Cities and Networks: Exploring Hierarchy, Form and Function Using Complexity Science Michael Batty Bartlett Professor of Planning, UCL Cities are places where people come together…

Sociology Research Seminar: 'What, Why, When? Sociality and Female Body Modification' by Dr Abigail Tazzyman

14:00 - 15:00 5 October 2016
5th October, 2-3pm, Arthur Lewis Boardroom. Sociology Research Seminar Series: 'What, Why, When? Sociality and Female Body Modification' By Dr Abigail Tazzyman, Alliance Manchester…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Zemirah Moffat – (University of Glasgow)

16:00 - 18:00 10 October 2016
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 10thd October 2016 Zemirah Moffat - University of Glasgow ‘’ Working Visuals: capturing, prompting and enabling moments of transformation” …

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