School of Social Sciences

Moving out and moving on in the post-war decades: data and methods for researching young people's lives

10:00 - 16:00 17 May 2024
This free one-day workshop will bring together researchers interested in young people’s experiences of leaving home and striving for independence in the post-war decades. It will foreground…

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…

'Feminist Political Economy: A Global Perspective' Book launch

14:00 - 15:30 20 May 2024
With: Dr Sara Stevano, Senior Lecturer in Economies at SOAS, University of London. University of Manchester's Political Economy Centre is hosting Dr Stevano for the launch of her book…

Comparative Politics Seminar

15:30 22 May 2024
Paul Tobin and Daniel B. Machado, University of Manchester

Thinking with Affinities: a Morgan Centre Conversation Event

11:00 - 16:00 22 May 2024
This event is inspired by ideas put forward in Jennifer Mason’s book Affinities: Potent Connections in Personal Life (2018). We want to create an occasion where people for whom some…

Brownbag - Peter Murrell

13:00 - 14:00 29 May 2024
Title: Recombinant novelty in early-modern English caselaw

Comparative Politics Seminar

15:30 5 June 2024
Dr Vicente Valentim, University of Oxford

Teenage Kicks: Andrea's story

7 June - 31 August 2024
Teenage Kicks is an exhibition about what life was like for teenage girls in Britain in the 1960s. It is based on research from the Girlhood and Later Life project led by Professor…

Adventures in Multi-Species Ethnography 2024

10 - 12 June 2024
Join Maisie Tomlinson for this 3-day immersive, reflective workshop in multi-species methods in Manchester. How can we be more sensitive, imaginative, critical and ethical researchers…

PEC Seminar: Governing the Displaced - Dr Ali Bhagat

15:00 - 16:00 12 June 2024
On Wednesday 12th June at 3pm in Sam Alex A104, Dr Ali Bhagat will be presenting on his new book, Governing the Displaced: Race and Ambivalence in Global Capitalism. Book summary:…

First Manchester Workshop on Islamic Philosophy

27 - 28 June 2024
A two-day workshop exploring topics in Islamic Philosophy. This event is kindly funded by SoSS Small Grants 2023-2024. DAY I – 27 JUNE 2024 12:15 – 12:45 Opening – Lunch 12:45 –…

Social Norms and Oppressive Structures

12:00 4 - 14:00 5 July 2024
A public lecture by Mary Kate McGowan and a 2-day workshop seeking to establish the necessary ingredients for a logic of transformative social change. This event is kindly funded by…

AI Governance and Digital Security

10 July 2024
AI Governance and Digital Security University of Manchester & Indiana University in collaboration with The Manchester Business and Property Courts Forum 10 July 2024, Exchange…

POLYCRISIS, RESILIENCE, SUSTAINABILITY & SOCIAL REPRODUCTION

12 September 2024
Early Career Workshop for PGRs and ECRs interested in researching the POLYCRISIS, RESILIENCE, SUSTAINABILITY & SOCIAL REPRODUCTION. It is an online workshop, from 12-4:30. If you are…

Polycrisis, Resilience, Sustainability and Social Reproduction

13 September 2024
Mini-conference on 'Polycrisis, Resilience, Sustainability and Social Reproduction: Everyday political economies of (un)sustainable lives and futures in late neoliberalism'. This is…

Open Minds XVII

19 - 20 September 2024
We are happy to announce that the seventeenth edition of the graduate conference Open Minds organised by postgraduate Philosophy researchers at The University of Manchester will be…

Laurie Denyer Willis (Edinburgh): Instructing Settler Families in Canada: The Imperial Order Daughters of The Empire and the Toronto Preventorium as a eugenic experimental site

15:00 - 17:00 23 September 2024
Based on archival research and family-interviews, I consider the “Preventorium” as an early institution for making and instructing white settlers in Canada in the early to mid-1900s.…

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