School of Social Sciences

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)

MET Seminar - Sinem Hidir (Warwick)

17:00 - 18:00 15 March 2023
Title: When to go negative? (joint with Xueying Zhao) Abstract: We consider the problem of an incumbent politician who decides whether to use negative advertising against a competitor…

Reflecting on Environmental NGOs in Regulation = POSTPONED

17:30 - 19:30 15 March 2023
Environmental NGOs contribute to the regulatory space in a variety of ways. They can be involved in shaping the rules of regulation by participating in both the drafting of law and…

Econometrics Seminar - Jeremy Fox (Rice)

13:00 - 14:00 20 March 2023
Title TBA

Macro Seminar - Anthony Priolo (Lancaster)

16:00 - 17:00 21 March 2023
Title: How Do Entrants Build Market Share? The Role of Demand Frictions

MET Seminar - Ludvig Sinander (Oxford)

17:00 - 18:00 22 March 2023
Title: Comparative statics with adjustment costs and the le Chatelier principle (joint with Eddie Dekel and John Quah) Abstract: We develop a theory of monotone comparative statics…

BASS Annual Lecture 2023

11:00 - 12:00 23 March 2023
Nazir Afzal was appointed Chancellor of the University of Manchester in 2022. He has a long and prestigious record of engaging with, and fighting for human rights, social justice,…

Lewis Lab Seminar - Edmond Smith (Manchester)

16:00 - 17:00 6 April 2023
Title: TBC

Macro Seminar - Alexander Ludwig (Frankfurt)

16:00 - 17:00 18 April 2023
Title: The Medical Expansion, Life-Expectancy and Endogenous Directed Technical Change

Brownbag - Patrick Bennett (Liverpool)

13:00 - 13:50 19 April 2023
Title: The Decline of Routine Tasks, Education Investments, and Intergenerational Mobility

Comparative Politics Research Cluster Seminar - Liz Richardson

16:00 - 17:30 19 April 2023
Liz Richardson (University of Manchester)

This Is Who I Am

14:30 - 17:00 19 April 2023
This is Who I Am - verbatim testimonies from LGBT+ refugees about their experiences in their own country and on arrival in the UK, addressing the particular challenges they face. Read…

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