School of Social Sciences

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

Time and progress across postsocialist China’s northeastern borders

16:00 - 18:00 2 October 2023
Ed Pulford (University of Manchester): Time and progress across postsocialist China’s northeastern borders. Crossing borders between states often involves a sense of temporal shift,…

Macro Seminar - Ricardo Reis (LSE)

16:00 - 17:00 3 October 2023
Title: Monetarism and the exchange rate: lessons from CNH-CNY

Brownbag - Caitlin Brown

13:00 - 14:00 4 October 2023
Title: Improving Street Food Safety through Better Infrastructure and Training

MANCEPT Seminar

16:00 - 17:30 4 October 2023
Aurelia Bardon (Konstanz University)

MET Seminar - Artyom Jelnov (Ariel)

17:00 - 18:00 4 October 2023
Title: Lobbying under conflicting interests (joint with Doron Klunover) Abstract: A variation of a cheap talk game is considered in which the preferences of a special interest group…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 4 October 2023
Johan Koskinen, Stockholm University

Policing the Crisis Reloaded: Stop and Search, Gang Violence Matrix, and Structural Racism

16:00 - 18:00 4 October 2023
In the first event of the new Racial and Justice Seminar Series, Katrina Ffrench, founder and director of UNJUST, will talk about the organisation's campaign to fight racism and violence…

Reflecting on Environmental NGOs in Regulation

17:30 - 19:00 4 October 2023
An Inaugural Lecture by Professor Carolyn Abbot Environmental NGOs contribute to the regulatory space in a variety of ways. They can be involved in shaping the rules of regulation…

Dorothy Emmet Lecture 2023

16:00 - 18:00 5 October 2023
Our annual Dorothy Emmet Lecture will be hosting Professor Alison Stone. Taking place Thursday, the 5th of October from 4pm-6pm, we hope you can make it! This event is generously supported…

Tasty molds: brewing culinary cultures for contemporary Japan

16:00 - 18:00 9 October 2023
Alice Doublier (CNRS): Tasty molds: brewing culinary cultures for contemporary Japan. For about a decade now, a small group of Japanese soy sauce brewers have been working on the revitalisation…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum