School of Social Sciences

MANCEPT Research Cluster with Julie Rose: Work, Free Time, and Just Growth

16:00 - 17:30 9 May 2019
Please join the MANCEPT Research Cluster for Julie Rose's "Work, Free Time, and Just Growth". Julie Rose is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College.…

CMI Afternoon Seminar: Restricted Access: The Effect of Job Candidates’ Disability on Recruitment Judgements - Prof Daniela Lup

15:00 - 16:15 14 May 2019
Speaker: Prof. Daniela Lup, Associate Professor of Human Resources Management and Organisational Behaviour, ESCP Europe Abstract: To increase workforce diversity organizations depend…

The Philosophy of Events and Processes

09:00 - 17:00 14 May 2019
Events and processes have been the subject of philosophical study ever since event and process ontologies were proposed in the early twentieth century as a new way to systematise our…

CGP Research Cluster with Debbie Lisle: Making Safe: the dirty history of a bomb disposal robot

15:30 - 17:00 15 May 2019
Please join the CGP Research Cluster for Debbie Lisle's 'Making Safe: the dirty history of the bomb disposal robot'. Debbie Leslie is a Professor in the School of History, Anthropology,…

D&E Cluster Seminar with Sarah Liu: Limited Democracy? The Impact of Democratization on Women's Political Participation

15:30 - 17:00 15 May 2019
Democracy is believed to be more representative and inclusive than other forms of government and is generally coveted by the public. Gender equality is also considered as a core component…

Mitchell centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 15 May 2019
Vincent Lorant, Université Catholique de Louvain Ego-net consortium (François Wyngaerden, Pablo Nicaise, Hélène Garin, Sébastien d'Oreye de Lantremange, Sébastien Combéfis, Vincent…

MANCEPT - A one day conference on "Gender and Self-Identification"

10:00 - 18:00 16 May 2019
A one day conference on "Gender and Self-Identification" Gender and Self-Identification: Questions, Proposals, Controversies Holly Lawford-Smith (Melbourne): “Gender Self-identification…

CANCELLED: CMI Afternoon Seminar: Hate crime and hate speech around Brexit - Prof. Matthew L Williams

15:00 - 16:15 21 May 2019
Speaker: Prof. Matthew L Williams, Cardiff University 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,…

Social Anthropology Simon Professorship Research Seminar - Professor Bruce Grant

16:00 - 18:00 28 May 2019
“A Particular Pluralism: The Caucasus, Satirically” Molla Nasreddin was a satirical, Azerbaijani-language broadsheet that ran from 1905 to 1931, lampooning the powerful across some…

Brexit on the Brink: From Uncertainty to Cooperation

17:30 - 19:00 30 May 2019
The event, “Brexit on the Brink: from uncertainty to cooperation?” will focus on the most relevant issues pertaining to the exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union and the…

CMI Afternoon Seminar: Modelling international migration: State of the art, and new research frontiers - Prof Jakub Bijak

15:00 - 16:30 4 June 2019
Speaker: Prof Jakub Bijak, Professor of Social Statistics and Demography, University of Southampton Abstract: Two defining features of contemporary international migration are its…

CANCELLED: CMI Afternoon Seminar: Citizen competence in direct democracy - Dr Céline Colombo

15:00 - 16:15 11 June 2019
Speaker: Dr Céline Colombo, University of Zurich 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,…

PEC Workshop

17:00 - 20:00 12 June 2019
The Political Economy of the Post-Soviet Space: Between Empires, Histories, and Uncertain Futures. Convenors: Prof Stuart Shields and Dr Yuliya Yurchenko (Greenwich University)

David Lewis and His Place in the History of Analytic Philosophy

12:00 17 - 14:00 19 June 2019
The conference marks the end of our AHRC-funded project at the University of Manchester, The Age of Metaphysical Revolution: David Lewis and His Place in the History of Analytic Philosophy.…

CMI Afternoon Seminar: From the social to the biological - Dr Tony Robertson

15:00 - 16:15 18 June 2019
Speaker: Dr Tony Robertson, University of Stirling Abstract: Tea/coffee and cakes from 2.45. Join us for this event, which is part of the CMI Afternoon Seminar Series. All welcome.…

Morgan Centre seminar: Why Snobbery Still Matters (David Morgan)

13:45 - 15:30 21 June 2019
From one perspective snobbery seems slightly quaint, certainly old-fashioned and somewhat marginal to contemporary concerns. Yet, a quick look at a week's newspapers would indicate…

European Association of Environmental and Resource Economics Conference

26 - 29 June 2019
In 2019, the Department of Economics at the University of Manchester will have the pleasure to host the 24th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource…

Training: Creative approaches to qualitative research

1 - 5 July 2019
Join staff from the Morgan Centre to add a creative perspective to all aspects of your qualitative research. This in-depth course is run as part of the methods@manchester summer school.…

New Directions in Philosophy of Emotion

16 - 17 July 2019
A 2 day workshop at the University of Manchester. Keynote speakers: Fabrice Teroni (University of Geneva) Christine Tappolet (University of Montreal) Julien Deonna (University of…

Open Minds XIV

1 - 2 August 2019
The fourteenth annual philosophy conference for postgraduate students in philosophy. Sponsored by the University of Manchester. Event date and location *1st-2nd August 2019 *The University…

Striking connections: Tales of ties and affinities in the 21st Century

12:00 - 17:00 13 September 2019
This Morgan Centre event explores contemporary sentiments of connectedness and affinity. It brings together scholars whose work in a variety of ways shows light on the meaning of being…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Marco Di Nunzio - 23 September 2019

16:00 - 18:00 23 September 2019
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 23 September 2019 Dr Marco Di Nunzio – University of Birmingham “The Act of Living. Street Life, Marginality and Development in Urban Ethiopa…

CPPI Research Cluster Seminar with Dr. Gaby Ramia: Welfare State Transformation as a Global, National and Comparative Phenomenon: A Regulatory and Case Study Analysis

15:30 - 17:00 25 September 2019
Please join the CPPI Research Cluster for Dr. Gaby Ramia (University of Sydney) on 'Welfare State Transformation as a Global, National and Comparative Phenomenon: A Regulatory and Case…

GPE Cluster Seminar with David Blaney- Late-Victorian Economists and Empire: Jevons, Marshall and the Cultural Political Economy of Trade

15:30 - 17:00 25 September 2019
Please join us for the joint seminar of Global Political Economy and Critical Global Politics Research clusters with David Blaney (Macalester College). David Blaney works on the social…

Philosophy Research Seminar: Dr David Liggins (Manchester)

15:10 - 16:55 25 September 2019
*Title: The Truth-teller *Abstract: The Liar is the proposition which says of itself that it is not true. It has been extensively discussed, chiefly because it raises a paradox. Relatively…

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