School of Social Sciences

Brownbag - Christopher Wallace

13:00 - 14:00 19 October 2022
Title: Evidence Disclosure in Competitive Markets

Democracy and Elections

15:30 - 17:00 19 October 2022
Hannah Bunting (University of Exeter)

ESRC Festival of Social Science Returns to Manchester for its 20th anniversary

18 October - 13 November 2022
We are delighted to announce that between 22nd October to 13th November, the annual ESRC Festival of Social Sciences returns to Manchester for its 20th anniversary, with events taking…

Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT)

16:00 - 17:30 19 October 2022
Zosia Stemplowska (Oxford University)

Mitchell centre Seminar series

16:00 - 18:00 19 October 2022
Petr Matous The University of Sydney Male and stale? Questioning the role of opinion leaders in network interventions Social networks can influence people’s behaviour and therefore…

Morgan Centre seminar: #WeAreFamilyToo - Globordered Families Struggles against Covid-Regulation (Daphna Hacker)

14:00 - 15:30 19 October 2022
In my latest book, I explored the many ways families are affected by the interrelations between globalization and borders, and the key role of the law in shaping these globordered families’…

Applied Seminar - Gedeon Lim (HKU)

13:00 - 14:00 20 October 2022
Title: Local Elites, Land Rents and Incentives for Development: Evidence from Village Chiefs in Indonesia

Econometrics Seminar - Emily Whitehouse (Sheffield)

11:00 - 12:00 20 October 2022
Title: TBC

The Chinese economy in the long run

21 October 2022
Date: October 21, 2022 Conference title: The Chinese Economy in the Long Run Location: The University of Manchester Room: Arthur Lewis Building Boardroom 2.016 (second floor)…

Doing Legal Anthropology in Indonesia and Japan: Reimagining Law and its Plurality through the Concept of "Jyouri"

16:00 - 18:00 24 October 2022
Sayaka Takano (Chuo University) Chair: Méadhbh McIvor

Macro Seminar - Jane Olmstead-Rumsey (LSE)

16:00 - 17:00 25 October 2022
Title: Market Concentration and the Productivity Slowdown

Brownbag - Guillaume Blanc

13:00 - 14:00 26 October 2022
Title: Demographic Change and Development Using Crowdsourced Genealogies

Comparative Politics

16:00 - 17:30 26 October 2022
Dishil Shrimankar (University of Manchester): “Mobilization networks, turnout and the success of local candidates in India”

Global Political Economy

15:00 - 17:00 26 October 2022
Paul Cammack (Manchester University), and Stuart Elden/Adam Morton (Warwick University/Sydney University, Australia), discuss their new books “The Politics of Global Competitiveness”…

The Annual Harry Street Lecture

17:00 - 19:00 26 October 2022
Newly appointed Chancellor of the University of Manchester, Nazir Afzal, is one of the UK’s leading advocates for social justice. Nazir spent many years with the CPS, and later joined…

Applied Seminar - Arthur Seibold (Mannheim)

13:00 - 14:00 27 October 2022
Title: Privatizing Disability Insurance

Lewis Lab Seminar - Richard von Glahn (UCLA)

17:00 - 18:00 27 October 2022
Title: TBC

Holistic Connections: A Social Sciences Look at Alternative Therapies - FULLY BOOKED

10:00 - 13:00 29 October 2022
*** This workshop is now fully booked *** Social Scientists are becoming more and more interested in Holistic therapies as topics of research. Recent studies have found them hugely…

Photography for all: identities and representations of ourselves

11:00 - 13:00 29 October 2022
This workshop is for 16-18 year olds to get an introduction to visual sociology. It is part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science. Young people joining the workshop will be invited…

Racial Inequality in Times of Crises

17:00 31 October - 18:30 3 November 2022
This four day online conference explores the impact of present-day crises on ethnic minority people in the UK. The event will take place online each day at 5pm from Monday 31 October…

Racial Inequality in Times of Crises: Day 1 - Education and Policing

17:00 - 18:30 31 October 2022
This is the first session of a four day online conference exploring the impact of present-day crises on ethnic minority people in the UK. The event will take place online each day at…

Racial Inequality in Times of Crises: Day 2 - Activism

17:00 - 18:30 1 November 2022
This is the second session of a four day online conference exploring the impact of present-day crises on ethnic minority people in the UK. The event will take place online each day…

Brownbag - Timea Laura Molnar (CEU)

13:00 - 14:00 2 November 2022
Title: Accident-Induced Absence from Work and Job ladders

Democracy and Elections

15:30 - 17:00 2 November 2022
Jessica Smith (University of Southampton)

MET Seminar - Alp Atakan (Queen Mary, University of London)

17:00 - 18:00 2 November 2022
Title: Information Aggregation in Auctions with Costly Information (with Mehmet Ekmekci) Abstract: We study a common-value auction in which a large number of identical, indivisible…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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