School of Social Sciences

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]’,…

MET Seminar - Julien Combe (Polytechnique, Paris)

17:00 - 18:00 28 February 2024
Title: Market Design for Distributional Objectives in (Re)assignment: An Application to Improve the Distribution of Teachers in Schools (joint with Umut Dur, Olivier Tercieux, Camille…

Mitchell Centre Seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 28 February 2024
Francisca Ortiz-Ruizx, Millennium Institute for Care Research (MICARE), Santiago

"Beyond Westminster: A second chamber for the whole country" - a talk by the Lord Speaker of the House of Lord - Lord McFall of Alcluith

17:30 - 18:30 29 February 2024
Join us for an exciting event where Lord McFall will discuss options for reform of Parliament’s Upper House, to enhance the effectiveness of its work of scrutiny and revision of legislation…

Book launch: Masking in the pandemic

17:00 - 20:00 29 February 2024
Join us to celebrate the launch of 'Masking in the Pandemic: Materiality, Interaction and Moral Practice', a new book exploring the sociology of face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic.…

MANCEPT Seminar: Robert Herissone-Kelly, “Agency and Authority: A Differentiated Model of Hermeneutical Power”

16:00 - 17:30 29 February 2024
Robert Herissone-Kelly, University of Manchester - “Agency and Authority: A Differentiated Model of Hermeneutical Power”

Researching life as politics: new approaches to theorising and methodology in social scientific research. Asef Bayat in conversation with Luke Yates

16:00 - 17:30 29 February 2024
This event is aimed at PhD students and early career researchers. This is a movements@manchester event, sponsored by the Department of Sociology and with support from the Morgan Centre…

Tom Cunningham (University of Edinburgh)

16:00 - 18:00 4 March 2024
Tom Cunningham: ‘Deaths of Despair’ in contemporary Britain, close-up: An ethnographic perspective from the margins, arguably. ?? In recent years economists and sociologists working…

Social Statistics Seminars: Prof. Patrick Sturgis (LSE)

14:00 - 15:30 5 March 2024
Professor Patrick Sturgis (LSE) will be presenting some of his recent work. The even will be online.

Contemporary Challenges to Social Movement Studies

14:00 6 March 2024
Simin Fadaee, department of Sociology at The University of Manchester, is part of this online roundtable "Contemporary Challenges to Social Movement Studies" Session organized by Social…

MET Seminar - Ángel Hernándo-Veciana (Carlos III, Madrid)

17:00 - 18:00 6 March 2024
Title: The Market for Lemons under Regularity Abstract: In this paper, we conduct an investigation on a competitive version of the market for lemons using the tools of mechanism design.…

Mitchell Centre Seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 6 March 2024
Susan O'Shea, Manchester Metropolitan University

MANCEPT Seminar: Dr Charlotte Unruh, ”Meaningful Work, Achievement, and Automation”

16:00 - 17:30 7 March 2024
Dr Charlotte Unruh, University of Bristol - ”Meaningful Work, Achievement, and Automation”

Exhibition launch: Teenage Kicks

14:00 - 16:00 8 March 2024
Join us at Glasgow Women's Library this International Women’s Day to celebrate the launch of our Teenage Kicks exhibition about eight girls growing up in the 1960s. Life in 1960s…

Teenage Kicks: Girls growing up in Britain 1956-1974

8 March - 18 May 2024
Meg can’t wait to leave home. Cynthia misses her family back in the Caribbean. Pamela is pregnant and her mum wants the baby adopted. Andrea fancies girls. Life in 1960s Britain was…

Econometrics Seminar - Raffaella Giacomini (FRB Chicago, UCL)

12:00 - 13:00 11 March 2024
Title: A Robust Method for Microforecasting and Estimation of Random Effects Authors: Raffaella Giacomini, Sokbae Lee, Silvia Sarpietro Abstract: We propose a method for forecasting…

Juli Perczel (University of Cambridge)

16:00 - 18:00 11 March 2024
Juli Perczel: Labouring for the dream of a circular world Despite the extreme academic suspicion of the informal economy concept in the social sciences, it continues to be used as…

Macro Seminar - Xavier Ragot (Sciences Po)

16:00 - 17:00 12 March 2024
Title: TBA

Brownbag - Vera Zabrodina (University of Basel)

13:00 - 14:00 13 March 2024
Title: Timing Moral Hazard under Deductibles in Health Insurance

Comparative Politics Seminar

15:30 13 March 2024
Dishil Shrimankar and Francisco Espinoza, University of Manchester

Data Science in Practice

14:00 - 15:00 13 March 2024
Sixth and last 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.…

Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Seminar

15:00 13 March 2024
Prof. Dejan Jovic, University of Zagreb – “The Balkans and the EU – prospects and controversies” Chair: EWC Time and location at University of Liverpool TBC

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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