School of Social Sciences

CMIST Afternoon Seminar- Frozen or Malleable: Political Ideology in the Face of Economic Hardship

16:00 - 17:30 14 March 2017
Abstract: To what degree do people adjust their political ideology in response to deteriorations in their material circumstances, such as job loss or negative income shocks? To answer…

Department of Politics - The JMCE Annual Lecture

16:00 14 March 2017
Department of Politics - The JMCE Annual Lecture (THE JMCE ANNUAL LECTURE) Tuesday 14 March 2017, 16:00 @ TBC Speaker: Jeffrey Franks (Director of the IMF Europe Office and Senior…

Environmental Economics Seminar: Souvik Datta (University of Glasgow)

13:00 - 14:00 14 March 2017
Title: The impact of indoor solid fuel use on the stunting of Indian children Abstract: About half of Indian children under the age of three years are stunted. We use data from the…

Philosophy Research Seminar - Jules Holroyd (Sheffield)

15:00 - 17:00 14 March 2017
Title *Implicit Bias, Self-Defence, and the Reasonable Person Abstract *The reasonable person standard is used in adjudicating claims of self-defence. In US law, an individual may…

Seminar: Ludo Visschers (Edinburgh)

16:15 - 17:45 14 March 2017
Title: TBA

The IMF and the Eurozone Crisis: troublemaker or trouble-shooter?

16:00 - 17:30 14 March 2017
You are cordially welcome to this JMCE special event: The IMF and the Eurozone Crisis: troublemaker or trouble-shooter? A special JMCE event Dr. Jeffrey Franks Director of…

Andrew Ellis (LSE)

17:00 - 18:00 15 March 2017
Title: TBA Host: Dimitri Migrow

Critical Global Politics - CGP Cluster Seminar - Semester 2

15:30 - 17:00 15 March 2017
Critical Global Politics - CGP Cluster Seminar - Semester 2 Berit Bliesemann de Guevara (Aberystwyth) Raising Silent Voices Details to be advised

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 15 March 2017
Speaker: Paolo Campana is a University Lecturer at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. His work specialises in organised crime and forms of extra-legal governance.…

Sociology Seminar 15 Mar 2-3pm- 'Eating out in three English cities: casualization and social division' by Alan Warde, Jessica Paddock and Jennifer Whillans

14:00 - 15:00 15 March 2017
You are warmly invited to the March Sociology seminar. To be held on Weds 15th March 2-3pm in the Hanson Room, HBS. The seminar will be given by Prof Alan Warde, Dr Jessica Paddock…

Konrad Burchardi (Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm)

16:15 - 17:45 16 March 2017
Title: Migrants, Ancestors, and Foreign Investment Abstract We use 130 years of data on historical migrations to the United States to show a causal effect of the ancestry composition…

Please note this Lecture has been cancelled, until further notice, Politics Pankhurst Lecture : Professor Cornelissen from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

17:30 - 18:30 16 March 2017
Please note this Lecture has been cancelled, until further notice, Politics Pankhurst Lecture : Professor Cornelissen from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

Social Anthropology Seminar - Monday, 20th March 2017 - Dr Giulia Liberatore – University of Edinburgh

16:00 - 18:00 20 March 2017
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 20th March 2017 Dr Giulia Liberatore – University of Edinburgh Navigating Islamic Knowledge in Security Britain This paper is based on ethnographic…

Philosophy Research Seminar - Alex Grzankowski (Birkbeck)

15:00 - 17:00 21 March 2017
Title *Towards a Minimal Account of Propositions Abstract *In recent years the classical view of propositional content has come under considerable scrutiny. The classical account consists…

Seminar: Marija Vukotic (Warwick)

16:15 - 17:45 21 March 2017
Title: TBA

Chris Wilson (Loughborough University)

17:00 - 18:00 22 March 2017
Title: TBA Host: Carlo Reggiani

Global Political Economy Cluster Seminars - Scarlett Cornelissen - Stellenbosch University

15:30 - 17:00 22 March 2017
Scarlett Cornelissen, Stellenbosch University #FeesMustFall’s antecedents: Reflecting on political change and transitional justice in post-apartheid South Africa Details to follow :

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 22 March 2017
Speaker: Federico Varese Title: A new framework for Organized Crime and an empirical exploration using UK data (paper co-authored with P Campana) The paper argues that Organized…

Parliamentary Scrutiny of Brexit

14:00 22 March 2017
Parliamentary Scrutiny of Brexit

Guy Michaels (LSE)

16:15 - 17:45 23 March 2017
Title: Flooded Cities Abstract Does economic activity relocate away from areas that are at high risk of recurring shocks? We examine this question in the context of floods, which…

Hallsworth Conference on China and the Changing Global Order

23 - 24 March 2017
How is China’s rise changing the global order? This question has become increasingly salient since the beginning of the 2010s, when the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is widely assumed…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Monday, 27th March 2017 - Dr Amy Penfield – University of Manchester

16:00 - 18:00 27 March 2017
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 27th March 2017 Dr Amy Penfield – University of Manchester Fueling The Uncanny: Gasoline, Material Politics And The New Magical State In Venezuelan…

Environmental Economics Seminar: Till Requate (Kiel University)

13:00 - 14:00 28 March 2017
Title: Asymmetry Enhances Success Chances for International Climate Change Negotiations Abstract: Fighting climate change, in particular mitigating CO2 emissions is a global public…

Critical Global Politics - CGP Cluster Seminar - Semester 2

15:30 - 17:00 29 March 2017
Critical Global Politics - CGP Cluster Seminar - Semester 2 IDEASLAB IdeasLab is a PhD-led seminar exploring a timely theme over the course of a term. The organisers will choose a…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 29 March 2017
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