School of Social Sciences

Brownbag - Chi-Yang Tsou

13:00 - 14:00 1 November 2023
Title: Pollution Abatement Investment under Financial Frictions and Policy Uncertainty

15:30 - 16:30 1 November 2023
Dr Maxim Alyukov (Everhulme Early Career Fellow, SALC, The University of Manchester). 'It's Not That Simple, We Do Not Know The Whole Truth': Disinformation Discourse, Media Trust,…

Free culture and the city: hackers, commoners and neighbours in Madrid, 1997-2017

16:00 - 18:00 6 November 2023
Alberto Corsin Jimenez (Spanish National Research Council): Free culture and the city: hackers, commoners and neighbours in Madrid, 1997-2017. This talk introduces our recently published…

Macro Seminar - Iacopo Morchio (Bristol)

16:00 - 17:00 7 November 2023
Title: Policies for Early Childhood Skills Formation: Accounting for Parental Choices and Noncognitive Skills

What is good work and how do we get more of it?

14:00 - 16:00 7 November 2023
Exploring the Potential and Limits of the Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter This workshop will bring together workers, campaigners and people interested in promoting better…

Democracy & Elections Seminar

15:30 - 17:00 8 November 2023
Vittorio Merolla (University of Durham)

Global Political Economy Seminar

15:00 - 16:30 8 November 2023
Teaching Global Political Economy

MANCEPT Seminar

16:00 - 17:30 8 November 2023
Dr Matilda Carter (Glasgow University)

MET Seminar - Bernhard Kasberger (Konstanz)

17:00 - 18:00 8 November 2023
Title: The combinatorial multi-round auction (with Alex Teytelboym) Abstract: The Combinatorial Multi-Round Ascending Auction (CMRA) is a new auction format that has already been used…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 8 November 2023
Paola Zappa, University College London

Teaching GPE (Panel and Roundtable Discussion)

15:00 - 16:30 8 November 2023
Co-hosted with GPE research cluster Abstract: In collaboration with the Political Economy Center, this seminar builds on and furthers some of our conversations around teaching GPE,…

The Politics of Dignity: Existential Movements in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia

16:00 - 18:00 13 November 2023
Valentina Zagaria (University of Manchester): The Politics of Dignity: Existential Movements in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia. This paper seeks to approach dignity (karama) ethnographically…

Macro Seminar - Axel Gottfries (Edinburgh)

16:00 - 17:00 14 November 2023
Title: Dynamic Monopsony with Large Firms and an Application to Non-Competes

Brownbag - Tatiana Komarova

13:00 - 14:00 15 November 2023
Title: Some econometrics of the Gini coefficient

Comparative Politics Seminar

15:30 - 16:30 15 November 2023
Prof Cristina Leston-Bandeira

Critical Global Politics & Global Political Economy Seminar

14:00 - 16:00 15 November 2023
Kai Heron (Lancaster University) and Lisa Tilley (SOAS)

Global Drug Policy Reformer Ruth Dreifuss to Speak at Inaugural Criminology Lecture

10:30 15 November 2023
Renowned Swiss politician Ruth Dreifuss will deliver the inaugural Department of Criminology Annual Lecture at the University of Manchester on November 15th, 2023. Madame Dreifuss,…

MET Seminar - Antoine Loeper (Carlos III, Madrid)

17:00 - 18:00 15 November 2023
Title: Legislative priorities and the structure of government (joint with Wiola Dziuda) Abstract: Why do voters often elect governments in which several parties share power? To answer…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 15 November 2023
Dorotty Hoor, University College London

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 15 November 2023
Paola Zappa, UCL

The Long Term Implications of Co-Creation in Higher Education NEW DATE

17:00 - 18:30 15 November 2023
It is broadly accepted that co-creation activities with students can directly contribute to the development of the student co-creators' soft skills and establish a strong staff-student…

The War on Politics: Policing as the Generation of Disorder and the Already Existing Abolition

16:00 - 18:00 20 November 2023
Deniz Yonucu (Newcastle University): The War on Politics: Policing as the Generation of Disorder and the Already Existing Abolition. In this talk, based on my book Police, Provocation,…

Theodicy & Antitheodicy Workshop

20 November 2023
We would like to warmly invite you to the Theodicy & Antitheodicy workshop taking place at the University of Manchester, Monday, November 20, 2023. This event is generously funded by…

Macro Seminar - Lukas Mayr (Essex)

16:00 - 17:00 21 November 2023
Title: Taxing Capital in the Presence of Trickle-Down Effects

MET Seminar - Jack Fanning (Brown)

17:00 - 18:00 21 November 2023
Title: Reputation and competitive selection (joint with Joyee Deb) Abstract: We demonstrate how selection in competitive markets can severely impede reputational incentives. Reputational…

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