School of Social Sciences

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…

Politics, The Law, and Ontology

16 - 17 April 2019
This workshop, jointly sponsored by the University of Manchester philosophy department and the Mind Association, considers the practical implications of metaphysics on policy, legislation,…

CMI Afternoon Seminar: Combining Self-reports with Passive Data Collection on Smartphones - Prof Florian Keusch

15:00 - 16:15 30 April 2019
Speaker: Prof. Florian Keusch, University of Mannheim Abstract: An abstract will be available closer to the date of the seminar Tea/coffee and cakes from 2.45. Join us for this event,…

Serhiy Stepanchuk (Southampton)

16:15 - 17:45 30 April 2019
Macro seminar

D&E Seminar with Chris Prosser: ‘What we talk about when we talk about Leave: Using open-ended survey questions to understand Brexit

15:30 - 17:00 1 May 2019
Dr Chris Prosser is a Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, working on the British Election Study. In the aftermath of the 2016 EU Referendum, there has been much discussion…

Departmental Seminar: Dr Jani Hakkarainen

15:10 - 16:55 1 May 2019
Title *Categorial Fundamentality and Non-Fundamentality Abstract *At the moment, there is a lively debate on fundamentality in metaphysics and metametaphysics, as is documented by…

GPE Seminar with Kathryn Hochstetler: Political Economies of Energy Transition: Wind and Solar Power in Brazil and South Africa

15:00 - 16:30 1 May 2019
Professor Kathryn Hochstetler is a Professor of International Development at the LSE. http://www.lse.ac.uk/international-development/people/kathy-hochstetler 'Wind power has expanded…

Mitchell centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 1 May 2019
Siobhan McAndrew, University of Bristol Explaining values divides using network methods The ongoing rise of authoritarian populism has revealed new political cleavages rooted in…

Pankhurst Seminar Series with Dr Nicole Martin: Biases at the Ballot Box: How Prejudiced are British Voters against Ethnic Minority MPs?

12:00 - 13:00 1 May 2019
Dr Nicole Martin is a Lecturer at the University of Manchester. 'Candidates for political office are increasingly ethnically diverse, including in the UK. In this presentation, I look…

MANCEPT Research Cluster with Catherine Lu: Three Faces of Ethics – How Our Conceptions of Individual Ethics Need to Expand in Light of Structural Injustice

16:00 - 17:30 2 May 2019
Please join the MANCEPT Research Cluster for Catherine Lu's: "Three Faces of Ethics – How Our Conceptions of Individual Ethics Need to Expand in Light of Structural Injustice" Catherine…

JMCE Seminar with Soumhya Venkatesan, ‘The Promise and Melancholy of Brexit from the Perspective of Brexiteers’

6 May 2019
Please join the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence for the seminar 'The Promise and Melancholy of Brexit from the Perspective of Brexiteers' with Soumhya Venkatesan. Soumhya is a Lecturer…

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