School of Social Sciences

Macro Seminar - Christian Stoltenberg (Amsterdam)

16:00 - 17:00 16 April 2024
Title: TBA

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…

Brownbag - Jason Sockin

13:00 - 14:00 17 April 2024
Title: Bring It On: Interview Difficulty and the Rejection of Job Offers

Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Seminar

15:00 - 16:00 17 April 2024
Dr Marc-William Palen, University of Exeter - "Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World" Chair: Dr Adrienne Roberts (UoM Politics)

MET Seminar - Christopher Sandmann (LSE)

17:00 - 18:00 17 April 2024
Title: Market Structure and Adverse Selection (joint with Dakang Huang) Abstract: This paper presents a unified perspective on multi-contracting in markets afflicted by adverse selection.…

Mitchell Centre Seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 17 April 2024
Eric Quintane, ESMT Berlin

Pax Economica: Left-Wing Versions of a Free Trade World

15:00 - 16:00 17 April 2024
Dr Marc-William Palen, Senior Lecturer, University of Exeter. A PEC Research Seminar, co-sponsored with the Manchester Jean Monnet Centre Today, free trade is often associated with…

Econometrics workshop on Advances in Microeconometrics

10:00 - 18:00 18 April 2024
The Econometrics group at the University of Manchester is happy to announce a workshop on Advances in Microeconometrics. The workshop takes place on Thursday the 18th of April 2024…

MANCEPT Seminar

16:00 - 17:30 18 April 2024
James Edwards, University of Manchester

'Secured Transactions in Global Lawmaking' - Inaugural Lecture by Professor Orkun Akseli

16:00 - 18:00 23 April 2024
Secured transactions law has been subjected to a close scrutiny over the last three decades by governments, academics, mandated international organs and international financial institutions.…

Macro Seminar - Uwe Sunde (Munich)

16:00 - 17:00 23 April 2024
Title: TBA

“Would They Defend Our Eastern Border?” State Allegiances as Potent Connections - Professor Sirpa Wrede

13:45 - 15:00 23 April 2024
Morgan Centre and Department of Sociology seminar by Professor Sirpa Wrede Centre of Excellence for Research in Ageing and Care, University of Helsinki, Finland This paper considers…

Brownbag - Guillaume Blanc

13:00 - 14:00 24 April 2024
Title: Malthusian Migrations

CANCELLED - Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Seminar

15:00 - 16:00 24 April 2024
CANCELLED - Mikaela Loach - "It’s Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World" Chair: Dr Adrienne Roberts (UoM Politics)

MET Seminar - Paola Manzini (Bristol)

17:00 - 18:00 24 April 2024
Title: Rationalising Choice via Opportunity Costs (with Marco Mariotti and Levent Ülkü) Abstract: Opportunity costs - the value of the best alternative forgone when you make a choice…

Mitchell Centre Seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 24 April 2024
Tomáš Lintner, Masaryk University

MANCEPT Seminar: Dr Jessica Isserow, “The Possibility of Redemption”

16:00 25 April 2024
Dr Jessica Isserow, University of Leeds - “The Possibility of Redemption”

Manchester International Peace Lecture - “Societal Polarization and Academic Freedom in the Time of Symbolic Liberalism”

16:00 - 17:30 25 April 2024
This year’s Manchester International Peace Lecture will be given by Professor Sari Hanafi and will be on the topic of “Societal Polarization and Academic Freedom in the Time of Symbolic…

Class, Cultural Knowledge, and Barriers to Mobility - Visiting Leverhulme Professor Annette Lareau

14:30 - 17:30 29 April 2024
Please join us for our very first University of Manchester Department of Sociology annual lecture, given in our 60th anniversary year. We are delighted that our inaugural lecture will…

"Managing the Wealth of Nations": PEC Research Seminar

15:00 - 16:30 30 April 2024
What a conceptual and ideas-based approach can tell us about capitalism and economic development, 15th-19th centuries?” Dr Philipp Rössner, Professor of Early Modern History, University…

Macro Seminar - Minchul Yum (Southampton)

16:00 - 17:00 30 April 2024
Title: TBA

Art Not Evidence: The misuse of rap in criminal trials

17:00 - 18:30 1 May 2024
Keir Monteith KC, in his inaugural lecture for the Law School at the University of Manchester, will review the increased criminalisation of rap music, including the use of lyrics and…

Brownbag - Xiaobing Wang

13:00 - 14:00 1 May 2024
Title: Family Labor Supply under Health Shocks

Comparative Politics Seminar

15:30 1 May 2024
Dr Javier Sajuria, Queen Mary University of London

MET Seminar - Francesco Giovannoni (Bristol)

17:00 - 18:00 1 May 2024
Title: Pricing Novel Goods Abstract: We study a buyer-seller problem of a novel good for which the seller does not yet know the production cost. A contract can be agreed upon at either…

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