School of Social Sciences

(Cancelled) Social Anthropology Public Lecture and Wine Reception - Dr Shane Green - Please register on our Eventbrite page (Details included below)

16:00 - 18:00 18 March 2020
Title: Not Being Punk or Mexican-American while Predicating the Wildebeest of Our Future Abstract: This talk departs from a now abandoned historical question: When exactly did the…

Critical Global Politics Research Seminar with Aoileann Ní Mhurchú

15:30 - 17:00 18 March 2020
Please join the CGP Research Cluster for a seminar with Aoileann Ní Mhurchú entitled 'Voice, Imperialism and Struggles in Language'. Aoileann is a Lecturer in International Politics…

Known Unknowns: The Pros, Cons and Consequences of Known Donation

18:30 - 20:00 18 March 2020
A free-to-attend public event in London. The event is produced by the Progress Educational Trust (PET) in partnership with the University of Manchester's Morgan Centre for Research…

MES Seminar - Barbara Rossi (UPF)

13:30 - 15:00 18 March 2020
Title: TBA

(cancelled) Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Nayanika Mathur

16:00 - 18:00 23 March 2020
Entrapment: new ways of seeing big cats in India This paper is taken from my forthcoming book, Crooked Cats, which is centred upon understanding how humans live in close proximity…

MES Seminar - Kjetil Storesletten (Oslo)

13:30 - 15:00 25 March 2020
Title: TBA

Philosophy Research Seminar - Olly Spinney (Manchester)

15:10 - 16:55 25 March 2020
*Title: Wittgenstein's Fundamental Thought *Abstract: That Wittgenstein was committed to the principle of ‘bipolarity’ during his early period is a claim which enjoys widespread agreement…

Critical Global Politics Research Seminar with Joe Turner

15:30 22 April 2020
Please join the CGP Research Cluster for a seminar with Joe Turner entitled 'Making Love, Making Empire'. Joe is a Lecturer at the University of York. Joe's research focuses on the…

Annual Ombudsman Lecture

18:30 - 20:30 5 May 2020
Improving patient safety: using evidence and insight to prevent suicide in mental health care In partnership with The Manchester Centre for Regulation, Governance and Public Law (ManReg)…

Critical Global Politics Seminar with Jamie Hagen

15:30 - 17:00 6 May 2020
Please join the CGP Research Cluster for a seminar with Jamie Hagen entitled 'An Intersectional Approach to Queering Women, Peace and Security'. Jamie is a Lecturer at Queens University…

The Dorothy Emmet Lecture - Prof Jane Heal, University of Cambridge

17:00 - 18:15 11 May 2020
The Dorothy Emmet Lectures commemorate Dorothy Emmet, an eminent mid-20th Century philosopher and head of the Philosophy Department at Manchester for over 20 years. The lectures are…

MES Seminar - Balazs Szentes (LSE)

13:30 - 15:00 20 May 2020
Title: TBA

Mitchell Centre Seminar

16:00 - 17:30 17 June 2020
Nikita Basov, St Petersburg University "Socio-semantic network analysis of meaning structures" Please contact david.schoch@manchester.ac.uk for zoom link

The 7th International Degrowth and 16th ISEE Joint Conference

1 - 5 September 2020
Building Alternative Livelihoods in times of Ecological and Political Crisis.

Sexual Violence on University Campuses

17:00 - 18:30 14 September 2020
Shamus Khan & Jennifer Hirsch, authors of Sexual Citizens, In conversation with Dr Caroline M Parker In SEXUAL CITIZENS: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus, Columbia…

Known Unknowns: The Pros, Cons and Consequences of Known Donation

18:30 - 20:00 16 September 2020
Donor conception was once routinely kept secret in families, while donors were kept a good distance away through anonymity laws, regulation and standard clinical practices. In 2004,…

Pankhurst Seminar: A Green New Deal for the UK: Why, What, How, and Other Important Questions

13:00 - 14:00 14 October 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated calls for a ‘new deal’ for the British economy. It has highlighted the neglect of public services, the precarity of jobs, deep socio-economic inequalities,…

Philosophy Research Seminar - Dr Joe Morrison (Queen's University Belfast)

15:15 - 16:50 14 October 2020
This year we are running all of our research seminars online using Zoom. If you would like to attend, and are not included on our events mailing list, please email Dr Stephen Ingram…

Sociology seminar- Conceptualising Morality in terms of Practice: Challenges and Contributions (Owen Abbott)

15:45 - 16:45 14 October 2020
This seminar sets out the arguments firstly for conceptualising of morality as an ordinary facet of social living, and secondly for why an interactionist relational sociology provides…

Macro Seminar - Liliana Varela (LSE)

16:00 - 17:00 20 October 2020
Title: The Micro and Macro Dynamics of Capital Flows

Macro Seminar - Alexander Rodnyansky (Cambridge)

16:00 - 17:00 27 October 2020
Title: The Bond Lending Channel of Monetary Policy

Mitchell Centre Zoominar Series

16:00 - 17:30 28 October 2020
Steve Borgatti,Links Center for Social Network Analysis,University of Kentucky What Social Ties Mean In this talk we explore the difference between relational events, that is things…

Morgan Centre seminar: On not having children in an age of austerity: Reproductive rights, delays and defaults (Sarah Marie Hall)

15:00 - 16:00 28 October 2020
This talk will explore findings from an ISRF-funded fellowship on fertility, austerity and social reproduction. Reproduction represents a considerable concern in contemporary Europe,…

Philosophy Research Seminar - Olly Spinney (University of Manchester)

15:15 - 17:00 28 October 2020
This year we are running all of our research seminars online using Zoom. If you would like to attend, and are not included on our events mailing list, please email Dr Stephen Ingram…

Hierarchical Modelling of COVID-19 Death Risk in India in the Early Phase of the Pandemic

16:00 - 17:00 3 November 2020
We model of India’s pandemic vulnerability in an innovative way. We create and estimate a multi-disciplinary model of the risk of severe COVID-19 and death. Our model allows for socio-demographic-group…

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