School of Social Sciences

The Dug-Up Heart: Uncovering Trauma in an Indonesian Convent

16:00 - 18:00 6 February 2023
Dr Meghan Rose Donnelly The Dug-Up Heart: Uncovering Trauma in an Indonesian Convent Is everyone traumatized? What if we took trauma to be a fundamental aspect of human existence?…

Conversations on Urban Ageing and Alternative Housing Futures

11:45 - 13:15 7 February 2023
In Conversation, MUARG and the Manchester School of Architecture present: Urban Ageing and Alternative Housing Futures This in-person seminar, brought to you by the Manchester Urban…

Brownbag - Igor Francetic

13:00 - 13:50 8 February 2023
Title: Capacity constraints and heterogeneous spillover effects of emergency department crowding on patient outcomes

Comparative Politics

16:00 - 17:30 8 February 2023
Paul Tobin (University of Manchester)

Animating the Future: amplifying youth voices through animation co-production

16:00 - 18:00 13 February 2023
Dr Camilla Morelli Animating the Future: amplifying youth voices through animation co-production This talk explores the lives and imagined futures of children and youth who are facing…

Macro Seminar - Steven Ongena (Zurich)

16:00 - 17:00 14 February 2023
Title: “There is No Planet B", but for Banks “There are Countries B to Z": Domestic Climate Policy and Cross-Border Lending

Brownbag - Guillaume Blanc

13:00 - 13:50 15 February 2023
Title: French

Mitchell Centre for SNA seminar: Matthieu de Castlebajac - Tactical Ambiguity and Social Networks in the 1948 Bogotazo

16:00 - 17:00 15 February 2023
Matthieu de Castlebajac (Universidad de los Andes) Tactical Ambiguity and Social Networks in the 1948 Bogotazo Students of contentious politics often define social mobilizations…

Gilded Space-Time: Economic subjectivities in a boom-and-bust economy

16:00 - 18:00 20 February 2023
Dr Amy Penfield Gilded Space-Time: Economic subjectivities in a boom-and-bust economy This paper explores moral reflections in encounters with gold and the activity of prospector…

Macro Seminar - Xavier Mateos-Planas (Queen Mary)

16:00 - 17:00 21 February 2023
Title: Trade Credit Default

MET Seminar - Volker Nocke (Mannheim)

17:00 - 18:00 22 February 2023
Title: Consumer Search and Choice Overload Abstract: In this paper, we develop a model of within-firm sequential, directed search and study a firm’s ability and incentive to steer…

Applied Seminar - Michele Fioretti (Science Po)

13:00 - 14:00 23 February 2023
Title: Saving for a Dry Day: Coal, Dams and the Energy Transition Abstract: Renewable generation creates a tradeoff between current and future energy production as generators produce…

Lewis Lab Seminar - Sean Bottomley (Northumbria)

16:00 - 17:00 23 February 2023
Title: TBC

Anthropology against the big idea

16:00 - 18:00 27 February 2023
Dr David Zeitlyn (Oxford University) Anthropology against the big idea Enough of turns. They make me dizzy and give me vertigo so on health and safety grounds I am trying to avoid them.…

Developing area profiles using Census 2021 data

10:00 - 12:00 28 February 2023
Census 2021 will provide demographic, employment, housing and other characteristics about local populations at neighbourhood level. This free online workshop is designed to help you…

Macro Seminar - João Valle e Azevedo (Bank of Portugal)

16:00 - 17:00 28 February 2023
Title: Permanent and temporary monetary policy shocks and the dynamics of exchange rates

Applied Seminar - Francesco Amodio (McGill)

13:00 - 14:00 1 March 2023
Title: Labor Market Power, Self-employment, and Development Abstract: We use data on firms and workers in Peru and a general equilibrium model to investigate the extent, determinants…

MET Seminar - Antonio Rosato (Queensland)

17:00 - 18:00 1 March 2023
Title: Quality is in the Eye of the Beholder: Taste Projection in Markets with Observational Learning. (Joint with Tristan Gagnon-Bartsch, Florida State.) Abstract: We study how misperceptions…

Applied Seminar - Matthias Doepke (LSE)

13:00 - 14:00 2 March 2023
Title: It Takes a Village: The Economics of Parenting with Neighborhood and Peer Effects (with Francesco Agostinelli, Giuseppi Sorrenti and Fabrizio Zilibotti) Abstract: As children…

Cryptoassets: Law, Accounting, and Economics

08:30 - 17:30 2 March 2023
The University of Manchester, Department of Law. In collaboration with the UK Endorsement Board Programme • 8.30am - 9am: Registration & Coffee • 9am - 9.02am: Introduction - Dr…

Themes in Oppressive Language 2023

3 March 2023
A workshop exploring different topics in oppression and language, organised by the Philosophy Department. This workshop is kindly supported by the Mind Association and the University…

When ‘equal partners’ become parents: Individualism, equality and the cost of social reproduction

16:00 - 18:00 6 March 2023
Dr Charlotte Faircloth When ‘equal partners’ become parents: Individualism, equality and the cost of social reproduction Concerned with the sustainability of social reproduction,…

Lord Stephens at the University of Manchester

18:30 - 20:30 7 March 2023
In the first week the Supreme Court sits in Manchester, Lord Justice Stephens presides over a Public Law Moot at the University of Manchester On Tuesday 7th March, Lord Stephens will…

Brownbag - Matheus Trotta Vianna

13:00 - 13:50 8 March 2023
Title: Technical Change and Effective Demand: Insights in a New Simplified Version of the Micro-Macro Multisectoral Model

Comparative Politics Research Cluster Seminar - Angie Wilson

16:00 - 17:30 8 March 2023
Angie Wilson (University of Manchester)

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum