School of Social Sciences

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…

Macro Seminar - Stephen Hansen (UCL)

16:00 - 17:00 10 October 2023
Title: National Accounts in a World of Naturally Occurring Data: A Proof of Concept for Consumption

Brownbag - Maria Plakhtieva

13:00 - 14:00 11 October 2023
Title: Measuring the gains of participation of compatible pairs in a Kidney Exchange Program

Democracy & Elections Seminar

15:30 - 17:00 11 October 2023
Elizabeth Simon (Queen Mary University of London)

Global Political Economy Seminar

15:00 - 16:30 11 October 2023
Sahil Dutta (City, University of London)

MET Seminar - Josue Ortega (Queen’s, Belfast)

17:00 - 18:00 11 October 2023
Title: The Limits of School Choice with consent (joint with Gabriel Ziegler) Abstract: The deferred acceptance (DA) algorithm is used all around the world to assign pupils to schools…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 11 October 2023
TBC

Language and normalised abnormalities in the world today - Professor Ngugi wa Thiong'o

18:00 - 20:00 12 October 2023
In this lecture, Professor Ngugi wa Thiong'o will address topics of coloniality and harms of imperialism/colonialisation. He will, in particular, focus on the lasting impact on colonialism…

Entitled to contraband: citizenship and sovereignty in an indigenous borderland (Venezuela-Guyana)

16:00 - 18:00 16 October 2023
Olivier Allard (EHESS): Entitled to contraband : citizenship and sovereignty in an indigenous borderland (Venezuela-Guyana). Illicit trade became pervasive in Venezuela in the late…

Macro Seminar - David Hemous (Zurich)

14:00 - 15:00 17 October 2023
Title: Trade, Innovation and Optimal Patent Protection

Brownbag - Xiaobing Wang

13:00 - 14:00 18 October 2023
Title: A Class of Prosperity Measures

Comparative Politics Seminar

15:30 - 16:30 18 October 2023
Dr Peg Murray-Evans (University of York) & Dr Peter O'Reilly (Liverpool John Moores University). Performing local vaccine production in Africa: from vaccine apartheid to biontainers.

MANCEPT Seminar

16:00 - 17:30 18 October 2023
Rufaida Al Hashmi (Nuffield College Oxford)

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 18 October 2023
Giulia Berlusconi, University of Surrey

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum