School of Social Sciences

Youth Mobilisation and the (anti)-Brexit Campaign: where next?

18:00 - 20:00 27 April 2018
Youth Mobilisation and the (anti)-Brexit Campaign: where next?

CMI Afternoon Seminar: Negotiating Digital Rights - Public Attitudes on Online Privacy and Targeting, at Home and at Work

15:00 - 16:30 1 May 2018
Professor Ariadne Vromen, University of Sydney Ariadne Vromen is Professor of Political Sociology in the Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney…

Critical Global Politics Cluster Seminars Semester 2, 2017-2018 - Wednesday May the 2nd - Lauren Wilcox - University of Cambridge

15:30 - 17:00 2 May 2018
Wednesday, May 2 3.30-5 ALB G30/31 Lauren Wilcox University of Cambridge War Beyond the Human

Morgan Centre seminar: 'Temporal atmospheres: the micro-politics of power at Smithfield Market, London'

14:00 - 16:00 2 May 2018
Speaker: Monica Degen (Brunel) and Camilla Lewis (Manchester) Exploring the changing feel of place, this paper offers a detailed account of the micro-politics of power at Smithfield…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 9 May 2018
Vincent Lorant and SILNE-R consortium, Institute of Health and Society, UCLouvain, Belgium The evolving social structure of adolescent smokers: a longitudinal study in six European…

metaphysics@manchester workshop

10:00 10 - 17:00 11 May 2018
A two-day workshop on a wide range of metaphysical topics, hosted by the Department of Philosophy at the University of Manchester. For further information, please go to the Eventbrite…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 16 May 2018
Pete Jones, University of Manchester

Professor Robert Stainton - An Anscombian Reference for 'I'

16:00 - 18:00 22 May 2018
Robert Stainton, Distinguished University Professor at the University of Western Ontario, will be giving a talk to the Mind & Language Research Group 4-6pm Tuesday 22 May in HBS 2.53.…

Sociology Seminar - Dr Jacopo Galimberti, 23rd May 2-3pm ALB

14:00 - 15:00 23 May 2018
You are warmly invited to the final Sociology seminar of this academic year which will be given by Dr Jacopo Galimberti, Sociology, SoSS. The seminar will take place on Wednesday,…

Free Will Workshop: Luck and Abilities

10:15 - 17:00 25 May 2018
This workshop is free to attend. No registration is necessary but please contact Helen Beebee (helen.beebee@manchester.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend. Timetable: 10.15-10.30:…

Understanding Ukraine's Goals of and the Main Obstacles to Eurointegration - JMCE Annual Lecture 2018

17:30 - 19:00 25 May 2018
Sergii Leshchenko is a member of Ukrainian Parliament, former investigative journalist, blogger, and press freedom activist. In 2013/14 he played a key role in the launching of the…

CMI Afternoon Seminar: Grouped functional time series forecasting method for multiple sub-populations

15:00 - 16:30 29 May 2018
Associate Professor Han Lin Shang, Associate Professor of Statistics, Australian National University Abstract: Age-specific mortality rates are often disaggregated by different attributes,…

CMI Afternoon Seminar: Understanding human behaviour and wellbeing with online photographs

15:00 - 16:15 5 June 2018
Dr Suzy Moat, University of Warwick Abstract: Our global society is now uploading increasing volumes of photographs to the Internet, creating vast quantities of data on where we are…

Northern Phenomenology Network I

5 June 2018
A workshop presenting recent work in phenomenology. 10.30 - 14.40: Coffee 10.40 - 12.00: Keith Allen (York), ‘Space and Idealism in Merleau-Ponty’ 12.00 - 13.10: Lunch 13.10 - 14.30:…

Understanding Everyday Participation: Relocating Culture, Value and Inequality

11 - 12 June 2018
Questioning traditional boundaries of culture The Understanding Everyday Participation – Articulating Cultural Values project calls into question the traditional boundaries of ‘culture’…

CMI Afternoon Seminar: Synthetic data in Scotland and beyond: lessons learned and future directions

15:00 - 16:30 12 June 2018
Dr Beata Nowok, Longitudinal Studies Centre Scotland Abstract: Confidentiality constraints severely restrict access to unique and valuable microdata in many contexts. Synthetic data…

Examining the link between different tie properties in ego networks (Omar Lizardo)

16:00 - 17:30 13 June 2018
Recent work in social network analysis has examined the theoretical implications of different ways of conceptualizing and measuring the notion of a “social tie.” Scholars have noted…

Conference: The place I call research: localizing sociological inquiry

15 June 2018
The practicalities of selecting and navigating particular contexts remain difficult despite the recent focus across the social sciences on situating one’s research. The reconfiguring…

Manchester Economic Theory Workshop 2018

19 - 20 June 2018
The Economics Department of the University of Manchester invites you to its annual Workshop on Topics in Economic Theory to be held on June 19-20, 2018.

Morgan Centre conference: Everyday Creativity

10 - 11 July 2018
Two days of explorations into research on everyday creativity. Full information on the conference page on the Morgan Centre website (see link).

Personhood and Selfhood

09:00 - 18:00 17 July 2018
The third in a Royal Institute of Philosophy conference series on Personhood and Selfhood at the University of Manchester. Additionally sponsored by the AHRC North West Doctoral Training…

Open Minds XIII

2 - 3 August 2018
Open Minds is a two-day conference which offers graduate students working in all areas of philosophy the chance to present their work and gain feedback in a welcoming and a friendly…

Politics CPPI and Democracy & Elections Seminar - Prof Francesca Gains

16:00 - 17:30 19 September 2018
Wednesday, September 19, 2018 ‘Tackling Violence Against Women: Gender, Actors and Institutions at The Local Level’ Prof. Francesca Gains 4:00 - 5:30pm, Hanson Room (HumBridge…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Juan del Nido - Uber and What The People Want: The Populist Persuasion of Algorithmic Reason

16:00 - 18:00 24 September 2018
When Uber arrived in Buenos Aires in 2016, middle class urbanites understood the labor of its algorithms through a realpolitik of empowerment and popular expertise. A rhetoric of “What…

Departmental Seminar: Dr Stephen Ingram

15:00 - 17:00 26 September 2018
Title *Moral Intuitionism and the Cooperative A Priori Abstract *The non-naturalist moral realist must explain how moral beliefs can be epistemically justified, for they take the truths…

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