School of Social Sciences

Econometrics Job Talk - Deborah Kim (Northwestern)

09:00 - 19:00 2 February 2024
Title: Testing Sign Agreement

Ghassan Hage (University of Melbourne)

16:00 - 18:00 5 February 2024
Ghassan Hage: Illusio: ethnographic deployment of a meta-theoretical category This presentation will explore the combination of philosophical and anthropological problematics underlying…

Annual Arthur Lewis Lecture - Trust in Government and Economic Performance

17:00 - 19:00 6 February 2024
Join us for Professor Sir Tim Besley's public lecture addressing how trust in the government is linked to economic performance. In this lecture, Professor Sir Tim Besley will explore…

Mitchell Centre Seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 7 February 2024
Filip Agneessens, University of Trento

RESCHEDULED - MANCEPT Seminar: Dr Merten Reglitz, “Public Broadcast and the Informational Environment of Democracies in the Age of Social Media”

16:00 - 17:30 8 February 2024
Due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been rescheduled to Thursday 9th May - Dr Merten Reglitz, University of Birmingham - “Public Broadcast and the Informational Environment…

Andrew Graan (University of Helsinki)

16:00 - 18:00 12 February 2024
Andrew Graan: A Groundwork for an Anthropology of Projects? We live in a world saturated by projects: research projects, reform projects, entrepreneurial projects, projects of technological…

Research with older ethnic minority people: paying attention to racism, not just ‘race’ (Dharmi Kapadia)

16:00 - 17:00 13 February 2024
Organised by the British Society of Gerontology (BSG) Early Careers Researcher Association. In this informal session aimed mainly at early career researchers, Dharmi Kapadia will discuss…

Beyond the Uniform: Black and Asian Experiences in the Criminal Justice System

16:00 - 18:00 14 February 2024
This third seminar in the Department of Criminology’s Racial and Social Justice Seminar Series examines Black and Asian professionals in the criminal justice system (CJS) and how institutional…

Brownbag - Leonidas Koutsougeras

13:00 - 14:00 14 February 2024
Title: Mediated Trade across Markets

Comparative Politics Seminar

15:30 14 February 2024
Dr Jessica Smith, University of Edinburgh

Data Science in Practice

14:00 - 15:30 14 February 2024
Fifth event in the Data Science in Practice Series, organised by the Department of Social Statistics for any student interested in the use of Data Science in commercial settings. …

Mitchell Centre Seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 14 February 2024
Tomas Diviak, University of Manchester

MANCEPT Seminar: Dr Shuk Ying Chan, “On Knowledge Appropriation and Intellectual Property”

16:00 - 17:30 15 February 2024
Dr Shuk Ying Chan, UCL - “On Knowledge Appropriation and Intellectual Property”

Marco Di Nunzio (University of Birmingham)

16:00 - 18:00 19 February 2024
Marco Di Nunzio: Epistemics of cluelessness and the politics of urban expertise Examining the long history of experts' engagements with the African continent and the Global South,…

Macro Seminar - Federica Romei (Oxford)

16:00 - 17:00 20 February 2024
Title: Inequality, Demand Composition, and the Transmission of Monetary Policy

Brownbag - Rachel Griffith

13:00 - 14:00 21 February 2024
Title: The Gender Pay Gap: Evidence from UK Universities

MET Seminar - Sarah Auster (Bonn)

17:00 - 18:00 21 February 2024
Title: Timing decisions under model uncertainty (joint with Christian Kellner, Southampton) Abstract: We study the effect of ambiguity on timing decisions. An agent faces a stopping…

Mitchell Centre Seminar series

16:00 21 February 2024
Alejandro Espinosa-Rada, ETH Zurich

Econometrics Seminar - Claudia Noack (University of Bonn)

12:00 - 13:00 26 February 2024
Title: Flexible Covariate Adjustments in Regression Discontinuity Designs joint with Christoph Rothe and Tomasz Olma Abstract: Empirical regression discontinuity (RD) studies often…

Kevin Yildirim (University of Cambridge)

16:00 - 18:00 26 February 2024
Kevin Yildrim: Evaluating profit: inter-ethnic tensions in Istanbul's waste import sector In this talk, I analyse inter-ethnic tensions among workers in a recycling depot in Istanbul…

Macro Seminar - Alexandre Kohlhas (Oxford)

16:00 - 17:00 27 February 2024
Title: Granular Sentiments

Brownbag - Nicolas Gachet

13:00 - 14:00 28 February 2024
Title: The pearls of land settlement policies and agrarian reform in Ecuador

Comparative Politics Seminar

15:30 28 February 2024
David Richards and Jack Newman, University of Manchester

How do revolutions change everyday lives and practices? Prof Asef Bayat

16:00 - 17:30 28 February 2024
Drawing on decades of research in the Middle East, Professor Bayat discusses the impacts of revolutionary activities on everyday life. Asef Bayat is Professor of Sociology and Catherine…

Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Seminar

15:00 - 16:00 28 February 2024
Dr Polly Pallister-Wilkins Uni of Amsterdam Dr Pallister-Wilkins will talk about her recently published book ‘Humanitarian Borders: Unequal Mobility and Saving Lives [versobooks.com]’,…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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