School of Social Sciences

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…

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:…

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…

Pankhurst Seminar Series 2020/21

13:00 - 14:00 9 February 2022
Bev Craig Labour Ward Councillor for Burnage Ward February 9th 2022 1-2pm, Simon Building 2.61

Clothing Poverty: Exposed

18:00 - 19:30 11 February 2022
A short documentary exposing the truth about the most hidden aspect of poverty in the UK today -- lack of access to clothing, and its impact • What does it mean to really have nothing…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr. Stefano Pontiggia

16:00 - 18:00 14 February 2022
Title : Of Money and Relations: Marginality and Post-Revolutionary Life in South-Western Tunisia Description : Redeyef is a mining town located in the Tunisian southwest, known…

Macro Seminar - Markus Poschke (McGill)

16:00 - 17:00 15 February 2022
Title: Gender, Work, and Structural Transformation

Mitchell Centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:00 16 February 2022
Ossi Mokryn University of Haifa The rich get richer, but what else? Observations in network growth over time” The temporal changes in complex systems of interactions have excited…

Sociology seminar: Towards Inclusive Environmental Sustainability (TIES): why are we still talking about ‘inclusion’?

14:45 - 15:45 16 February 2022
Speaker: Nafhesa Ali (SCI, University of Manchester) Abstract: The ‘Towards Inclusive Environmental Sustainability (TIES)’ project is a 3-year Leverhulme funded project and the first…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr. Laura Roe

16:00 21 February 2022
Title : Memories of dust: Heroin and polydrug temporalities in post-industrial Scotland. Description : Laura Roe is a social researcher within the Scottish Government. She recently…

Macro Seminar - Nicola Limodio (Bocconi)

16:00 - 17:00 22 February 2022
Title: Depositor Behaviour and Deposit Insurance: Evidence from Colombia

Brownbag - Veronica Vienne Arancibia

13:00 - 14:00 23 February 2022
Title: Air Pollution and Labour Productivity: Evidence from Europe

Mitchell Centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:00 23 February 2022
Marion Hoffman IAST Toulouse Statistical modeling of social groups: An example and some outlooks Many social relations are situated within groups. Social groups are formed, for example,…

Philosophy Research Seminar: Professor Michael Ridge (Edinburgh)

15:15 - 16:50 23 February 2022
Please note that this seminar will be taking place on Zoom. For the relevant Zoom link, contact Dr Stephen Ingram Title: *Playfulness as a Moral Virtue? Abstract: *In this paper I…

"I danced here on other peoples' dreams" - Gary Younge

18:30 24 February 2022
This is a young people's talk organised by Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society. This lecture will explore the topic of building a more diverse, respectful and inclusive society,…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr. Ed Pulford

16:00 - 18:00 28 February 2022
Title : Colliding temporalities across northeast China’s postsocialist borders Description : Crossing borders between states often involves a sense of temporal shift, with varied…

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