School of Social Sciences

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)

Cultures of Anti-Racism in Latin America: Documentary Screening and Q&A

17:00 - 19:30 8 March 2023
Join us for the screening of the documentary about the CARLA Festival of Anti-Racist and Decolonial Art, followed by a round-table conversation and Q&A. Cultures of Anti-Racism in…

MET Seminar - Aditya Kuvalekar (Essex)

17:00 - 18:00 8 March 2023
Title: #Change (joint with Deepal Basak and Joyee Deb) Abstract: A change may be socially desirable, but bringing about change involves costly action and enough people participating…

Applied Seminar - Monica Costa-Dias (Bristol and IFS)

13:00 - 14:00 9 March 2023
Title: Higher Education Sorting and Social Mobility (with Jack Britton and David Goll) Abstract: Education is a main facilitator of social, inter-generational mobility, and higher…

Democracy: Should We Replace Elections With Random Selection? (MANCEPT)

16:00 - 17:30 9 March 2023
Dr Annabelle Lever (Sciences Po, Paris) Abstract: Over the past ten years or so, a lively debate has developed about how democratic voting should take place and, to a lesser extent,…

Lewis Lab Seminar - Thilo Huning (York)

16:00 - 17:00 9 March 2023
Title: TBC

Annual Gillian White Lecture 2023

17:00 - 19:00 13 March 2023
Crude Knowledge: Decolonisation and Hydrocarbon Epistemes Decolonisation in the 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s included demands for sovereign control over and new ways of accounting for, pricing,…

Commoning Data: Informational politics in the Energy Crisis

16:00 13 March 2023
Dr Hannah Knox Commoning Data: Informational politics in the Energy Crisis In this talk I will draw on recent research with two projects that have been pursuing energy activism through…

Covid-19 Containment Measures in Japan and the Role of Society JOINT SEMINAR WITH JAPANESE STUDIES

17:00 - 18:30 14 March 2023
Amy Borovoy Covid-19 Containment Measures in Japan and the Role of Society This talk explores Japan’s policies of containing infection without heavy reliance on legally imposed lockdowns…

Macro Seminar - Tobias Broer (Paris School of Economics)

16:00 - 17:00 14 March 2023
Title: TBA

The Annual Arthur Lewis Lecture with Professor David Scott : "A Sense of Displacement: Stuart Hall's Art of Living."

18:00 - 20:00 14 March 2023
Stuart Hall was a leading intellectual of the Black experience in Britain, but also of the Caribbean. This talk will reflect on the particular distinctiveness that Hall’s biography…

Democracy and Election Seminar

15:30 - 17:00 15 March 2023
Tom O’Grady (University College London)

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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