School of Social Sciences

Democracy and Election Seminar

09:00 - 17:00 24 May 2023
Joint workshop held with Cathie Marsh Institute

MET Seminar - Gregorio Curello (Bonn)

17:00 - 18:00 24 May 2023
Title: Incentives for Collective Innovation Abstract: Agents exert hidden effort to produce randomly-sized innovations in a technology they share. Returns from using the technology…

The Vienna Circle and Beyond: A Workshop Inspired by the Work of Thomas Uebel

24 May 2023
A workshop in honour of and inspired by the work of Professor Thomas Uebel. 09.00 - 09.30: COFFEE/ARRIVAL 09.30 - 09.45: Graham Stevens - Introduction 09.50 - 11.05: Andre Carus…

The Muslim, State and Mind: Islamophobia in Mental Health and Psychology (Tarek Younis)

13:00 - 14:15 25 May 2023
Please join the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) for a hybrid seminar with Dr Tarek Younis (Middlesex University). Mental health is placed as the cure for all of society’s…

MET Seminar - Gabriel Carroll (Toronto)

17:00 - 18:00 31 May 2023
Title: Dynamic Incentives in Incompletely Specified Environments Abstract: Consider a repeated interaction where it is unknown which of various stage games will be played each period.…

Political Economy Seminar with Ilias Alami "Foreign investment screening mechanisms and emergent geographies of (post)globalization"

15:00 - 16:30 6 June 2023
Abstract. Technologically advanced states and large emerging economies increasingly use foreign investment screening mechanisms (FISM) to block inward foreign investment targeting sectors…

Democracy and Election Seminar

7 June 2023
Lucan Way (University of Toronto) Joint with Comparative Politics

Joint CGP and GPE Talk by Luca Mavelli (University of Kent)

14:00 - 15:30 15 June 2023
Hybrid Event: On campus: Arthur Lewis Building, Boardroom 2nd floor Online: https://zoom.us/j/94598599902

Open Minds XVI

15 - 16 June 2023
Open Minds is a two-day conference which offers graduate students working in all areas of philosophy the chance to present their work and gain feedback in a welcoming and friendly…

Russia’s War Against Ukraine: Resistance, Reform and Reconstruction

09:00 19 June 2023
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP Since Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine that commenced on 24 February 2022 the Ukrainian government and people have faced and responded to a series of acute challenges.…

Lewis Lab Seminar - Xiaobing Wang (Manchester)

16:00 - 17:00 22 June 2023
Title: TBC

MASS Workshop 2023

22 - 23 June 2023
Context of the workshop Augmenting survey data with data collected from mobile apps, sensors, and wearables allows researchers to better explore and understand social reality, further…

Varieties of Fictionalism

22 - 23 June 2023
Workshop on Varieties of Fictionalism. This workshop is organised by the Philosophy Department and will take place The University of Manchester. June 22 / 23 DAY 1: JUNE 22 Location:…

Working with and against race (Alana Lentin)

14:00 - 17:00 22 June 2023
The CODE ECR network invites you to an afternoon seminar with Professor Alana Lentin from Western Sydney University entitled "Working With and Against Race". Professor Lentin will talk…

Nationalism, Liberalism and Democracy – MANCEPT Workshop

10:30 - 17:30 27 June 2023
There is a lot of interest in the contemporary political theory literature on the relationship between nationalism, liberalism and democracy. The aim of this workshop is to explore…

Brave New World conference

28 - 29 June 2023
The Brave New World conference series is a leading international forum 27 years in the running. It is dedicated to the discussion of postgraduate research in political theory. Participants…

You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You're Innocent - Justin Brooks and the Manchester Innocence Project

17:00 - 19:00 4 July 2023
Join us on July 4th, 2023 at 5 PM in AMBS 3.009 to learn about the harsh reality of wrongful convictions with Attorney and Professor of Law Justin Brooks. Justin Brooks is the Director…

Digital Platforms Governance: A China Perspective

14:00 - 17:00 5 July 2023
The University of Manchester, School of Social Sciences, Department of Law in collaboration with the British Council Convener: Dr Joseph Lee, Reader in Corporate and Financial Law,…

Everyday Enchantments: thinking with and about everyday life

5 - 6 July 2023
The conference, organised by the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives invites participants to take up the challenge of thinking about everyday life in all of its diverse facets:…

Web3 Governance: Law and Policy

6 July 2023
Convened by Dr Joseph Lee (Reader in Corporate and Financial Law, Department of Law, School of Social Sciences, The University of Manchester) and Professor Jyh-An Lee (Professor and…

Harmful Content (offline and online): Challenges and Ways Out

10 - 11 July 2023
Join us for a two-day workshop exploring topics in offline and online harmful content. This workshop is organised by the Philosophy Department. FUNDING: This event is kindly funded…

Call for Papers: 6th Manchester Peace and Conflict Studies Conference

14 - 15 September 2023
Call for Papers: 6th Manchester Peace and Conflict Studies Conference (14/15 September 2023) Supported by the International Association for Peace and Conflict Studies and the ECPR…

Econometrics Seminar - Robert Miller (Carnegie Mellon)

12:00 - 13:00 26 September 2023
Title: An Empirical Model of Matching Job Applicants to Vacancies (joint with Rebecca Lessem).

Brownbag - Anna Wilding

13:00 27 September 2023
Title: Person-centred treatment effects of job flexibility on health

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 27 September 2023
Elisa Bellotti, Tomas Diviak Dataset presentation for MSc Social Network Analysis postgraduate students

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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