Events at The University of Manchester

School of Social Sciences

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 - 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” …

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Professor V. Spike Peterson (Arizona): ‘Intimate Politics and Global Inequalities: The pleasure and pain of border crossings’

16:00 - 18:00 11 October 2016
This event is co-organised by co-organised by the School of Social Sciences (SoSS) and CIDRAL. It is part of CIDRAL's 2016/17 programme 'Possible Worlds'. In the spirit of the rallying…

CMIST afternoon seminar: Work of Women is Affected by Norms About Gender Roles in India and Bangladesh

16:00 - 17:30 11 October 2016
Abstract: In response to a decline in Indian rural women’s formal labour supply, this paper explores attitudes and norms about gender in northern central states of India alongside Bangladesh.…

Department of Politics Public Lecture by V. Spike Petersen (Professor of International Relations, University of Arizona) Co-organised by the Critical Global Politics Cluster and CIDRAL

16:00 - 18:00 11 October 2016
V. Spike Peterson (Professor of International Relations, University of Arizona) 11 October 2016, 4-6 P. M. Samuel Alexander Building, A113 ‘Intimate Politics and Global Inequalities:…

Development Economics Seminar: Yanos Zylberberg (University of Bristol)

13:00 - 14:00 11 October 2016
Title: Internal Migration and Firm Growth: Evidence from China. Abstract: The reallocation of labour between the agricultural and the non-agricultural sector is central to the process…

Mitchell centre Seminar Series

16:00 12 October 2016
Competition and cooperation in organized criminal networks James Coutinho (University of Manchester); Johan Koskinen (University of Manchester); Andrew Wright (Calgary Police) Our talk…

Rodrigo Velez (Texas A&M University)

17:00 12 October 2016
Title: TBA Host: Antonio Nicolo

Social Anthropology Seminar - Marilyn Strathern - University of Cambridge

16:00 - 18:00 17 October 2016
Marilyn Strathern – University of Cambridge Travelling concepts: portraits and partible persons An invitation to revisit the notion of 'partible person' came the same year (2015)…

Is the EU Cohesion Policy failing East-Central European countries?

14:00 - 15:00 19 October 2016
Speaker: Daniel Šitera (Leipzig University/Charles University in Prague) Title: Is the EU Cohesion Policy failing East-Central European countries?

Mitchell centre Seminar Series

16:00 19 October 2016
Jennifer Badham Centre for Public Health Queen’s University Belfast Simulating network intervention strategies: Implications for adoption of behaviour Network interventions involve…

Francis DiTraglia (University of Pennsylvania)

16:15 - 17:45 20 October 2016
Title: Estimating the Effect of a Mis-measured, Endogenous, Binary Treatment Abstract: This paper studies the use of a discrete instrumental variable to identify the causal effect…

Visit of Niko Besnier - Simon Visiting Professor

23 October - 13 November 2016
Social Anthropology Visit of Niko Besnier Simon Visiting Professor 23 Oct – 13 Nov. 2016 Niko Besnier is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He is…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Peter Wade - University of Manchester

16:00 - 18:00 24 October 2016
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 24th October 2016 Peter Wade – University of Manchester ‘’ Liberalism and its contradictions: Democracy and Hierarchy in Mestizaje and Genomics…

CMIST Afternoon Seminar: Political patterns of decision-making on the UK Supreme Court

16:00 - 17:30 25 October 2016
Abstract: The UK Supreme Court is seven years old this month. It has decided enough cases for academics and legal commentators to form views about the court and the judges who comprise…

Environmental and Resource Economics Seminar by Jacquelyn Pless

13:00 - 14:00 25 October 2016
Title: The Surprising Pass-Through of Solar Subsidies Abstract Whether solar subsidies benefit consumers is an open question. In the U.S. residential solar market, consumers can either…

Seminar: Hakki Yazici (Sabanci University)

16:15 - 17:45 25 October 2016
Title: Wage Risk and the Skill Premium

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 26 October 2016
Bernie Hogan, University of Oxford Personal Network Capture among At-Risk Youth: Exploring Online Dating and Safer Sex Practices Structurally Personal network capture is evolving…

The life story of a marginalized person in Transylvania

14:00 - 15:00 26 October 2016
Speaker: Aron Bakos (Babe?-Bolyai University) Title: Autobiographical and Oral Ethnographical Narratives of War

Arthur Lewis Annual Lecture: The Enemy between Us - The Psychological and Social Costs Of Inequality

18:00 - 19:00 27 October 2016
We are delighted to announce that Professor Kate Pickett of Epidemiology in the Department of Health Sciences at the University of York will be delivering our annual public lecture.…

Leandro Carvalho (University of Southern California)

16:15 - 17:45 27 October 2016
Heterogeneous Effects of Education on Health Silvia Helena Barcellos, Leandro Carvalho and Patrick Turley Abstract Education and health have been shown to be strongly associated in…

Social Anthropology Visit of Niko Besnier - Simon Visiting Professor - Seminar

16:00 - 18:00 27 October 2016
Social Anthropology Visit of Niko Besnier Simon Visiting Professor 23 Oct – 13 Nov. 2016 Niko Besnier is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He is…

CMIST Afternoon Seminar - Adjustment to retirement and its consequences for intra-cohort social inequality in Germany

16:00 - 17:30 1 November 2016
Access to resources and well-being is socially stratified across populations in the life phase of work. The most obvious change that comes with transition to retirement is that the…

Seminar: Sekyu Choi (University of Bristol)

16:15 - 17:45 1 November 2016
Title: Sorting on-line and on-time

Workshop with Professor Niko Besnier - Getting Published

10:00 - 12:00 2 November 2016
Wednesday 02 Nov. 10am-12pm AL Building - Boardroom Workshop Getting published Convened by Professor Niko Besnier (Editor of American Ethnologist)

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