School of Social Sciences

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.…

Brownbag - Nicholas Gachet

13:00 25 September 2024
Title: Property with Different Rights: The Long-Run Effects of Ecuador's Agrarian Reform

Econometrics Seminar - Xavier d'Haultfoeuille (CREST)

12:00 - 13:00 26 September 2024
Title TBA

Mike Degani (Cambridge): Nun of the River: The material and spiritual economies of small hydropower in rural Tanzania

15:00 - 17:00 30 September 2024
This talk examines the significance of hydroelectric mini-grids owned and operated by Catholic sisterhoods in rural Tanzania, situating them within a broader context of energy transition…

Brownbag - Katsushi Imai

13:00 2 October 2024
Title: tbd

MET Seminar - Antonio Penta

17:00 - 18:00 2 October 2024
Title: Incentive Compatibility and Belief Restrictions (joint with Mariann Ollar) Abstract: We study a framework for robust mechanism design that can accommodate various degrees of…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 2 October 2024
Michael Heaney, University of Glasgow Theory and Possibilities in Social Network Analysis As social network analysis has grown in use over the past quarter century, it has become a…

Are Race and Religion on the 2024 US Election Ballot?

13:00 - 14:30 3 October 2024
Join us for a lunchtime discussion of race and religion in the 2024 US election campaign. Keith Magee, renowned intellectual, theologian and scholar will be in discussion with writer…

Econometrics Seminar - Pietro Emilio Spini (Bristol)

12:00 - 13:00 3 October 2024
Title TBA

Sandhya Fuchs (Bristol): Hate Crime Law as Meliorist Hope: Seeking justice for caste atrocities in Rajasthan

15:00 - 17:00 7 October 2024
Hate crime laws, which criminalise violent expressions of prejudice, have faced growing criticism. Scholars have argued that hate crime legislation relies on the collaboration of legal…

Book launch: 'Global Marxism' by Simin Fadaee

18:00 - 20:00 8 October 2024
In Global Marxism, Simin Fadaee argues that Marxism remains a living tradition and the cornerstone of revolutionary theory and practice in the Global South. She explores the lives,…

Macro Seminar - Anand Chopra (Liverpool)

16:00 - 17:00 8 October 2024
Title: The Equilibrium Impact of Agricultural Support Prices and Input Subsidies

MET Seminar - Kim-Sau Chung

17:00 - 18:00 8 October 2024
Title: Designing Open Source Licenses (joint with Melody Lo) Abstract: Open source licenses are noted for being self-referential. The two most popular licenses are GPL and BSD. GPL…

Book launch: 'Famillies' by Vanessa May

16:30 - 19:30 9 October 2024
Please join us for a book launch event to (belatedly) mark the publication of Vanessa May’s book Families (2023, Polity). The book offers a timely intervention into current debates…

Brownbag - Yu Wang (Cornell)

13:00 9 October 2024
Title: tbd

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 9 October 2024
Joshua Garland, Lund University Power and Politics in Coastal Climate Adaptation: Uncovering Networked Dynamics in East Anglia Sea level rise, coastal erosion and the effects of storm…

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