School of Social Sciences

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)

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…

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…

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 3 - Housing

17:00 - 18:30 2 November 2022
This is the second session of a 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…

Racial Inequality in Times of Crises: Day 4 - Healthcare

17:00 - 18:30 3 November 2022
This is the second session of a 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…

Ageing and the Uncanny Return of Carceral Churn

16:00 - 18:00 7 November 2022
Jason Danely (Oxford Brookes University) Chair: Chika Watanabe

Brownbag - Sukanya Honkote

13:00 - 14:00 9 November 2022
Title: Labour-market flexibility and employment: Evidence from reforms in Rajasthan, India

Comparative Politics

16:00 - 17:30 9 November 2022
Periloux Peay (Georgia State University, via zoom) For zoom access please contact Olivia.Jankiewicz@manchester.ac.uk

Critical Global Politics

14:00 - 16:00 9 November 2022
"How can multisensory research (and its use in pedagogy where relevant) be useful to bring out the politics of the everyday?" This is the question addressed in this workshop. Several…

Half-Earth Socialism

17:00 - 19:00 9 November 2022
In the next few decades, humanity will confront the life-threatening changes of global warming and mass extinction. Yet the only ‘solutions’ on offer are market-oriented policies. In…

Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT)

16:00 - 17:30 9 November 2022
Marta Wojciechowska (King’s College London)

MET Seminar - Daniel Garrett (Essex)

17:00 - 18:00 9 November 2022
Meet the speaker: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K6pJH2D1qKGE_xDVXqfEPDJWDxMKMY-hgs12QB1qHaU/edit?usp=sharing Full schedule: http://daviddelacretaz.net/seminars/

Mitchell centre Seminar series

16:00 - 18:00 9 November 2022
Raffaele Vacca Statale University of Milan Unequal ties: describing and explaining stratification in personal networks Personal networks influence individual behaviors and outcomes…

Still This Puzzle and Promise of Technology

16:00 - 18:00 14 November 2022
James Cuffe (University College Cork) Chair: Jolynna Sinanan

Macro Seminar - Gisle Natvik (BI Norwegian)

16:00 - 17:00 15 November 2022
Title: Macro Shocks in a Micro Laboratory: Evidence on Spousal Income Insurance, Household Spending, and Spillovers

Brownbag - Veronica Vienne Arancibia

13:00 - 14:00 16 November 2022
Title: Extreme weather and children’s non-cognitive outcomes

Democracy and Elections

15:30 - 17:00 16 November 2022
Tessa Ditonto (University of Durham)

Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT)

16:00 - 17:30 16 November 2022
Christien Straehle

MET Seminar - Mariann Ollar (Edinburgh)

17:00 - 18:00 16 November 2022
Title: A Network Solution to Robust Implementation: the Case of Identical but UnknownDistributions (with Antonio Penta) Abstract: We study robust mechanism design in environments in…

Mitchell centre Seminar series

16:00 - 18:00 16 November 2022
Federico Bianchi Statale University of Milan Agent-based models of social networks The seminar will be centred on Agent-Based Modelling (ABM) as a strategy for modelling social networks…

Antisemitism as a Reservoir: Implications for the Sociology of Racism (Brendan McGeever)

13:00 - 14:00 17 November 2022
The Labour Party’s bitter antisemitism controversy provides an opportunity to reflect sociologically on the place of antisemitism within the field of racism studies. In this paper I…

Applied Seminar - Ludovica Gazze (Warwick)

13:00 - 14:00 17 November 2022
Title: A View from the Fenceline: Evaluating Monitoring and Enforcement Policies to Reduce Oil and Gas Methane Emissions (joint with Thomas Covert, Michael Greenstone, Olga Rostapshova)

Econometrics Seminar - Debopam Bhattacharya (Cambridge)

11:00 - 12:00 17 November 2022
Inferring trade-offs in university admissions: evidence from Cambridge Abstract: How do elite universities balance diversity vs academics during admissions? We develop a theory-based…

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