School of Social Sciences

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…

Mitchell centre seminar series

16:00 26 September 2018
Nick Crossley, University of Manchester Exploring and Explaining a Two-Mode Core/Periphery Structure in a Musicking Network In this presentation I will discuss two studies, both substantively…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Zoe Cormack - African Studies, University of Oxford

16:00 - 18:00 1 October 2018
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 1st October 2018 Dr Zoe Cormack – African Studies Centre – The University Of Oxford Life and death in a UN ‘Protection of Civilians’ site in war-time…

CMI Afternoon Seminar: Pseudo OLS for linkage-data regression by Prof Li-Chun Zhang

15:00 - 16:15 2 October 2018
Speaker: Prof Li-Chun Zhang Abstract: Unless a unique identifier exists for this purpose, linkage of separate datasets will generate errors that can cause bias of the subsequent analysis,…

Mitchell centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 3 October 2018
Ella Guest, University of Manchester (Anti-)Echo Chamber Participation: Examining Online Contributor Activity Beyond the Chamber The existence of echo chambers as a phenomenon in…

The urban imaginary in ruins: video games and the future-present feedback loop

14:00 - 15:00 3 October 2018
Urban ruins have come to dominate the conception of the modern city to such an extent that in 2014 Cairns and Jacobs wondered whether such ruins are “too full of multiple, hyper-meanings…

The Future of Europe: an EU that empowers and protects

17:30 - 19:00 5 October 2018
The Manachester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Annual Lecture 2018/19 One of the European Commission’s most senior officials, Mr. Margaritis Schinas, is visiting the University of…

The Manchester JMCE Annual Lecture 2019 - Mr. Margaritis Schinas (Chief Spokesperson, European Commission)

17:30 - 19:00 5 October 2018
You are cordially welcome to: The Manchester JMCE Annual Lecture 2019 The Future of Europe: an EU that empowers and protects…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Victor Cova - Anthropology, Aarhus University, Denmark

16:00 - 18:00 8 October 2018
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 8th of October 2018 Dr Victor Sacha Cova Anthropology Aarhus University Denmark Nicole, Queen of Macas This talk locates the trajectory of…

Departmental Seminar: Mr Andreas De Jong

15:00 - 17:00 10 October 2018
Title *TBC Abstract *TBC

Mitchell centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 10 October 2018
Dorottya Hoor, University of Manchester, Home, sweet home? A mixed method network study of the experiences of high- skilled migrants returning to Hungary The eastern enlargement…

Juan Pablo Rud (Royal Holloway)

13:00 - 14:15 11 October 2018
Title and Abstract: TBC

Fists of Defiance: Tommy Smith 50 years after Mexico '68

18:15 - 20:00 12 October 2018
The 'Black power salute' of African-American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos during the 200m medal ceremony at the 1968 Mexico Olympics is one of our age's iconic images. To celebrate…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Professor James Thompson - University of Manchester

16:00 - 18:00 15 October 2018
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 15th of October 2018 Professor James Thompson University of Manchester Grandchildren of Hiroshima and the 70th Anniversary of the Atomic Bomb…

CMI Afternoon Seminar: Assume nothing. Benchmarking the numeracy levels of UK social science undergraduates

15:00 - 16:15 16 October 2018
Speaker: Paul Foss, National Numeracy Abstract: Social science undergraduate students typically do not see themselves as requiring data skills. Many new entrants to higher education…

Departmental Seminar: Dr Catharine Abell

15:00 - 17:00 17 October 2018
Title *Fictional Entities Abstract *Do fictional entities exist? I argue that they do. They are social objects. I draw on theories of social objects to identify their existence and…

JMCE Seminar Series 2018-19 SEMESTER I - peaker: Dr. Kathryn Simpson (Manchester Metropolitan University)

14:00 - 17:00 17 October 2018
? Wednesday 17 October 2018, 14:00 @ University Place, 6.206 Speaker: Dr. Kathryn Simpson (Manchester Metropolitan University) Title: Making Sense of Brexit – The Political and Policy…

Making Sense of Brexit: The Political & Policy Implications for the UK’s Devolved Administrations (Dr. Kathryn Simpson - MMU)

14:00 - 15:00 17 October 2018
Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence (JMCE) Seminar

Mitchell centre seminar series

16:00 17 October 2018
Carl Nordlund, Institute for Analytical Sociology, Linköping University The anatomy of integration: mapping the networks of inter-ethnic family formations in Sweden, 1968-2012 Looking…

Thilo Huning (York)

13:00 - 14:15 18 October 2018
How Britain Unified Germany: Endogenous Trade Costs, and the Formation of a Customs Union Abstract: We analyze the foundation of the German Zollverein as an example how geography…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Ammara Maqsood - Anthropology, UCL

16:00 - 18:00 22 October 2018
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 22nd of October 2018 Dr Ammara Maqsood University College London The social life of rumors: uncertainty in everyday encounters between the military,…

CMI Afternoon Seminar: Dynamic Bayesian Adjustment of Anticipatory (Current-time) Covariates: Disentangling Causation and Misclassification - Prof Gebrenegus Ghilagaber

15:00 - 16:15 23 October 2018
Speaker: Professor Gebrenegus Ghilagaber, Head of the Department of Statistics, Stockholm University, Sweden Abstract: Anticipatory covariates, such as educational level and social…

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