School of Social Sciences

Social Anthropology Seminar - Samuli Schielke and Mukhtar Shehata - ‘What literature does to writers. Intersections of writing and life from Alexandria’

16:00 - 18:00 29 November 2021
Samuli Schielke and Mukhtar Shehata ‘What literature does to writers. Intersections of writing and life from Alexandria’ From 2010 to 2019, the anthropologist Samuli Schielke and…

Social Statistics Seminars 2021/22

1 October 2021 - 30 June 2022
We are pleased to announce this year's Social Statistics Seminars. Our speakers: 12/10: Iris Gomez-Lopez (University of Michigan) 02/11: David Haziza (University of Ottawa) 07/12:…

Macro Seminar - Andreas Mueller (Essex)

16:00 - 17:00 30 November 2021
Title: Structural Reforms in the Shadow of Debt Overhang: A Quantitative Perspective (joint with Kjetil Storesletten and Fabrizio Zilibotti)

Brownbag - Michele Berardi

12:00 - 13:00 1 December 2021
Title: TBA

Applied Seminar - Andrea Tesei (Queen Mary)

13:00 - 14:00 2 December 2021
Title: TBA

Social Anthropology Seminar - via Zoom and in the Boardroom - Dr Rosana Pinheiro Machado

16:00 - 18:00 6 December 2021
Speaker : Rosana Pinheiro Machado Title : The right to shine : Poverty, consumption, and the politics of pleasure in Brazil. Description of the talk : The talk examines the political…

Macro Seminar - Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis (Barcelona)

16:00 - 17:00 7 December 2021
Title: Transfer Progressivity and Development (joint with Enric Martorell and Leandro De Magalhaes)

Social Statistics Seminar - 7 December 2021

16:00 - 17:00 7 December 2021
Social Statistics Seminars 2021/22 – December Session New measures for assessing non-ignorable selection bias in non-probability samples and low response rate probability samples…

Philosophy Research Seminar: Dr Jessie Munton (University of Cambridge)

15:15 - 16:50 8 December 2021
This seminar will be taking place on campus, and in person, at Roscoe 2.3. If you are unable to come to campus, a zoom option will be available - please contact Dr Stephen Ingram to…

Applied Seminar - Jacquelyn Pless (MIT)

13:00 - 14:00 9 December 2021
Title: TBA

Material potencies and dormant things - inaugural lecture by Professor Sophie Woodward

16:00 - 17:00 9 December 2021
Join us for Professor Sophie Woodward's inaugural lecture: "Material potencies and dormant things: expanding a vital sociology of the everyday" There is perhaps no more striking example…

Comics, short stories and fiction: Communicating research creatively

15:00 - 16:15 13 December 2021
Communicating research findings is a key aspect of academic work. In the main, scholarly papers and presentations to academic and non-academic audiences take the form of conventional…

Brownbag - Jasmin Fliegner

12:00 - 13:00 15 December 2021
Title: TBA

The Limits of Racial Representation: Race, Culture, & Media

17:00 - 18:15 16 December 2021
A conversation between Herman Gray (UC Santa Cruz) and Anamik Saha (Goldsmiths). How has the politics of racial representation changed in the past thirty years? Professor Herman Gray…

Social Statistics Seminar - 18 January 2022

16:00 - 17:00 18 January 2022
Social Statistics Seminars 2021/22 – January Session We need to talk about statistics: The purpose of statistics is insight not numbers Neil Sheldon (Teaching Statistics Trust) …

Mitchell Centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:00 2 February 2022
Ulrik Brandes, ETH Taking Positions when Talking Networks Viewing networks as data rather than representations of systems, we break the suggestive bond between phenomenon and metaphor.…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr. Juan M. del Nido

16:00 - 18:00 7 February 2022
The Stranger that Stays as Such: Uber, competition and the logics of alterity in Buenos Aires Max Planck Cambridge Centre for Ethics, Economics and Social Change From the moment…

Social Statistics Seminar - 8 February 2022

16:00 - 17:00 8 February 2022
Social Statistics Seminars 2021/22 – February Session Empirically calibrated network simulation as a methodology of the middle range Christian Steglich (Linköping University and…

Mitchell Centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:00 9 February 2022
Dimitris Christopoulos Heriot-Watt University Syndication networks of venture capital deals: Identifying predictors of corporate survival We look at syndication in the venture…

Morgan Centre seminar: 'Blackface Desdemona: Theorizing Interracial Kinship Anxieties from William Shakespeare to Toni Morrison'

15:00 - 16:00 9 February 2022
Speaker: Brigitte Fielder (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Depictions of white women in interracial sexual kinship illustrate the rhetoric by which antebellum discourses of race theorize…

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