School of Social Sciences

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Tom Grisaffi – University College London

16:00 - 18:00 18 March 2019
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 18th March 2019 Dr Tom Grisaffi – University College London To Lead by Obeying: How Bolivia’s Coca Growers Reinvented Democracy At the turn…

Vania Stavrakeva (LBS)

16:15 - 17:45 19 March 2019
Macro seminar

Alessandro Pavan (Northwestern University) "Price Customization and Targeting in Matching Markets"

13:30 - 15:00 20 March 2019
Abstract: Recent technologies enable matching intermediaries to engage in unprecedented levels of targeting, whereby matches finely depend on the agents' characteristics, but also favour…

CGP Research Cluster with Jess Gifkins: The practice of legitimacy in the UN Security Council: Debating Darfur

13:30 - 15:00 20 March 2019
Please join the CGP Research Cluster for a seminar with Dr Jess Gifkins (University of Manchester). Dr Jess Gifkins' researches global governance in relation to questions of peace…

CPPI Research Cluster with Anna Sanders: The Impact of Gendered Policies on Women's Voting Behaviour: A Focus Group Analysis of the 2015 UK General Election'

15:30 - 17:00 20 March 2019
Please join the CPPI Research Cluster for Anna Sanders' seminar on 'The Impact of Gendered Policies on Women's Voting Behaviour: A Focus Group Analysis of the 2015 UK General Election'.…

Departmental Seminar: Dr Thomas Uebel (Manchester)

15:00 - 17:00 20 March 2019
Title *A Puzzle about Other Minds in Early Ayer Abstract *Language, Truth and Logic (LTL) had its share of critics over the years but one particular oddity pertaining to it appears…

Mitchell centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 20 March 2019
Xi Yang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Identifying Patent Risks in Technological Competition Based on Social Network Analysis Identifying patent risk is a crucial…

Marco Manacorda (Queen Mary)

13:00 - 14:15 21 March 2019
Applied Economics Seminar

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Martin Holbraad (UCL)

16:00 - 18:00 25 March 2019
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 25th March 2019 Dr Martin Holbraad – University College London Permanence premised: the granted power of revolution in Cuba. Martin Holbraad…

Emircan Yurdagul (Carlos III Madrid)

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

D&E Seminar with Rosalind Shorrocks: Party Policy Positions and the Varying Electoral Gender Gap

15:30 - 17:00 27 March 2019
Rosalind Shorrocks is a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Manchester. Rosie's research interests focus on gender and voting, British elections, and generational change in political…

GPE Research Cluster with Simone Claar: South African class relations and international trade

15:00 - 16:30 27 March 2019
Please join the GPE Research Cluster for Simone Claar's "South African class relations and international trade" The South African government freely joined the negotiations of an Economic…

JMCE Seminar with Martin Steven: Euro-realism in Party Politics, The Rise of European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) at the European Parliament

14:00 - 15:00 27 March 2019
Dr Martin Steven is a Lecturer at Lancaster University as well as a Research Associate with the Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence. At present Martin's focus is on the European…

Mitchell centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 27 March 2019
Andreas Herz, University of Hildesheim, Germany Gil Viry, University of Edinburgh Spatiality and reciprocity in family networks: A multilevel analysis The geographical dispersion…

Pankhurt Seminar with David Tobin: Forever Frontier? Identity and Insecurity in Chinese Central Asia

13:30 - 14:30 27 March 2019
David Tobin is Hallsworth Research Fellow in the Political Economy of China at the University of Manchester. He is currently researching how postcolonial relations between China and…

Nicolas Berman (Aix Marseille / Geneva)

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

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Ivan Rajkovic – (Max Planck)

16:00 - 18:00 1 April 2019
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 1st April 2019 Dr Ivan Rajkovic – (Max Planck) “Balkanizing Sahlins: National Humiliation and Stranger Capitalism in a Semi-Periphery” Focusing…

Josep Pijoan-Mas (CEMFI)

16:15 - 17:45 2 April 2019
Macro seminar

Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Research Seminar - Olivia Casagrande (Marie Curie Fellow, Social Anthropology, Manchester) - Wednesday 3 April 2019

17:00 - 18:30 3 April 2019
Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Research Seminar Date : Wednesday 3 April 2019 Manchas Y Parches: (Un)Making The Indigenous City Through Performance And Critical Mapping…

CGP Research Cluster Seminar with Reiko Shindo: Solidarity with migrants? Rethinking citizenship from the perspective of inaudibility'

15:30 - 17:00 3 April 2019
Please join the CGP Research Cluster Seminar for Reiko Shindo's 'Solidarity with migrants? Rethinking citizenship from the perspective of inaudibility'. Dr Reiko Shindo is a Lecturer…

CPPI Research Cluster Seminar with Tao Wang: Legislators as Mommies and Daddies, How Confucian Culture Shapes Representation in Taiwan

15:30 - 17:00 3 April 2019
Please join the CPPI Research Cluster for Tao Wang's 'Legislators as Mommies and Daddies, How Confucian Culture Shapes Representation in Taiwan'. Tao Wang is a Doctoral Researcher…

Departmental Seminar: Dr Rachael Wiseman (Liverpool)

15:00 3 April 2019
Title *Linguistic Idealism, Rule-Following, and Human Essence Abstract *G. E. M. Anscombe, following Wittgenstein, endorses a ‘partial linguistic idealism’: some things that fall under…

Mitchell centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 3 April 2019
Alex Stivala, Swinburne University of Technology ERGM parameter estimation of very large directed networks: implementation, example, and application to the geography of knowledge spillovers…

Morgan Centre seminar: “Well, it’ll be quite a worksite” - Young women’s expectations of and solutions towards work-family reconciliation

02:30 - 15:15 3 April 2019
Speaker: Outi Alakärppä, visiting PhD student, Department of Education, University of Jyväskylä, Finland Work intensification, uncertainty about getting a job and non-standard working…

MANCEPT Research Cluster with Jessica Begon: Neutral Impairment, Disadvantageous Disability

16:00 - 17:30 4 April 2019
Please join the MANCEPT Research Cluster for Jessica Begon's "Neutral Impairment, Disadvantageous Disability". Dr Jessica Begon is an Assistant Professor in Political Theory in the…

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