School of Social Sciences

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Tom Boylston – University of Edinburgh

16:00 - 18:00 25 February 2019
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 25th February 2019 Dr Tom Boylston – University of Edinburgh “ Religion as a Problem of Distraction : Ecologies of Attention in Addis Ababa”…

Package Factories: Warehouses as New places For Contemporary Working-class (David Gaborieau)

17:30 26 February 2019
The backstage of contemporary capitalism is a vast logistical network through which goods and materials pass from one end of the planet to the other. In order to produce this circulation,…

Petr Sadlacek (Oxford)

16:15 - 17:45 26 February 2019
Macro seminar

GPE Research Cluster with Johnna Montgomerie: Narrating the search for a Methodology of the Household

15:00 - 16:30 27 February 2019
Please join the GPE Research Cluster for Johnna Montgomerie's "Narrating the search for a Methodology of the Household" Dr Johnna Montgomerie is a Reader in International Political…

Mitchell centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 27 February 2019
Matteo Valleriani, The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science The Sphere. A multilayer network approach to knowledge evolution in history The lecture shows the ongoing development…

Miguel Almunia (CUNEF)

13:00 - 14:15 28 February 2019
Applied Economics Seminar

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Sohini Kar – London School of Economics

16:00 - 18:00 4 March 2019
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 4th March 2019 Dr Sohini Kar – London School of Economics “ Enfolding the Poor : Microfinance and the Mediation of Risk in India” Over the past…

CGP Research Cluster with Nadine Voelkner: Riding the Shi: From Infection Barriers to the Microbial City

14:30 - 16:00 6 March 2019
Please join the CGP Research Cluster for Nadine Voelkner's 'Riding The Shi: From Infection Barriers To The Microbial City'. Nadine Voelkner is an Assistant Professor in International…

CPPI Research Cluster with Prof. Kevin Morgan: Leader Personality Cults

15:30 - 17:00 6 March 2019
Please join the CPPI Research Cluster with Prof. Kevin Morgan for the seminar 'Leader Personality Cults'. Kevin Morgan is a Professor of Politics and Contemporary History at the University…

Departmental Seminar: Dr Jeroen Smid (Manchester)

15:00 - 17:00 6 March 2019
Title *The Logic Behind Quine's Criterion of Ontological Commitment Abstract *In this talk I first explains why Quine took first-order classical logic to be the only language in which…

Mitchell centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 6 March 2019
Mark McCann, University of Glasgow The STis and Sexual Health – STASH study: process evaluation of a peer supporter intervention to improve adolescent sexual health Young people in…

Morgan Centre book launch

17:30 - 20:00 6 March 2019
Join us to celebrate the official launch of three books by Morgan Centre members: Sociology of Personal Life (2nd edition) edited by Vanessa May and Petra Nordqvist Snobbery by David…

Morgan Centre seminar: ‘You need a map not a stopwatch’: Towards a relational interpretation of busyness (Clare Holdsworth)

15:30 - 17:00 6 March 2019
Busyness is a current popular obsession. Claims that everyone is busy with too much to do and not enough time have considerable popular and academic support. At both work and home people…

Emanuele Bracco (Lancaster)

13:00 - 14:15 7 March 2019
Applied Economics Seminar

Tweet Yourself Well

12:00 - 14:00 7 March 2019
To celebrate University Mental Health Day, The School of Social Sciences are hosting an informal event in the Arthur Lewis Building based around wellbeing and what makes us happy. …

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Patrick O'Hare (University of Manchester)

16:00 - 18:00 11 March 2019
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 11th March 2019 Dr Patrick O’Hare – University of Manchester Manchester Seminar Abstract “Rubbish belongs to the poor”: Hygienic Enclosure and…

Leo Kaas (Goethe University Frankfurt)

16:15 - 17:45 12 March 2019
Macro seminar

D&E Cluster Seminar with Dr David Schoch: 'Political Astroturfing'

13 March 2019
Dr David Schoch is a Presidential Fellow in Sociology at the University of Manchester since September 2018. David Schoch is part of an international team of researchers, dedicated to…

GPE Research Cluster with Dan Bailey: Greening the State: Quantitative Easing and state financing

15:00 - 16:30 13 March 2019
Please join the GPE Research Cluster for Dan Bailey's "Greening the State: Quantitative Easing and state financing" Dr Dan Bailey is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of…

Mitchell Centre Seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 13 March 2019
Heather McGregor, Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University Yasaman Sarabi, Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University Dimitris Christopoulos, Edinburgh Business School,…

The 2019 Dorothy Emmet Lecture

18:15 - 19:30 13 March 2019
The Philosophy Department at the University of Manchester is proud to present the 2019 Dorothy Emmet Lecture: Professor Clare Chambers (University of Cambridge) "Against Marriage:…

“I got the impression that people who went to the pub had horns and a tail”: Narrative inheritance and intergenerational learning about alcohol in families

14:00 13 March 2019
As sociologists of kinship have argued, families are 'mnemonic communities': they are brought into being through the creation, telling and re-telling of memories and family stories.…

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