School of Social Sciences

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…

Econometrics Seminar - Jean-Pierre Florens (TSE)

12:00 - 13:00 10 October 2024
Title TBA

Malgorzata Stelmaszyk (Manchester): Living the Dream: Nanai shamanic experiments and porous engagements in the Siberian Far East

15:00 - 17:00 14 October 2024
This presentation is about the ways in which shamanic practice is engaged in navigating and responding to the current climatic and geopolitical crisis in Far East Siberia through proposing…

Macro Seminar - Tim Obermeier (Leicester)

16:00 - 17:00 15 October 2024
Title: Household Taxation, Work Hours Flexibility and Occupational Choice

Social Statistics Seminar Series - Andrew Bell

14:00 - 15:30 15 October 2024
Intersectional Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (MAIHDA) - what is it, and how can it be extended for longitudinal data? The intersectional…

Brownbag - Abhishek Chakravarty

13:00 16 October 2024
Title: tbd

Future Lives and Austerity - Austerity and Altered Life Courses online symposium

09:00 - 17:30 16 October 2024
The international online symposium has been designed in collaboration with brilliant partner organisations, institutions, and experts, and aims to amplify the experiences of young people…

Global Marxism book launch - Simin Fadaee in conversation with Kevin Gillan

18:30 - 20:00 16 October 2024
Join Blackwell's Bookshop Manchester, together with publishers Manchester University Press and movements@manchester ad they host the launch of Simin Fadaee's Global Marxism - a cutting-edge…

MET Seminar - Ani Guerdjikova

17:00 - 18:00 16 October 2024
Title: Do You Know What I mean? A Syntactic Representation for Differential Bounded Awareness (joint with JohnQuiggin) Abstract: This paper provides methodological foundations for…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 16 October 2024
Fanqi Zeng, University of Oxford Waves of cooperation in public goods games on networks Cooperation, as a reciprocal behaviour that brings benefits to others while costs to oneself,…

Dalia Iskander (UCL): Exteriorising (Hidden) Interiority and Interiorising (Unruly) Exteriority: Miniature dioramas of home and the uncertain terrain of empathetic imagination

15:00 - 17:00 21 October 2024
Based on ethnographic research conducted over the last two years in the UK, I describe the work of artists who craft tiny dioramas of the home. These ‘miniature narratives’ tell of…

Back to Black? Identity Politics in Treacherous Times

11:30 - 13:00 22 October 2024
Claire Alexander, Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, gives the second in a series of lectures organised by the journal, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and…

Gardening with Dementia: The power of nature and the outdoors

10:00 - 16:00 22 October 2024
Join us for a compelling photographic exhibition at the Royal Horticultural Society Bridgewater Garden in Worsley, Salford, celebrating the powerful connection between home and garden…

Intersected: Class, Gender and Queer Lives in Post-Reform China - Susanne Yuk Ping Choi

15:30 - 18:00 22 October 2024
Please join us for the Department of Sociology’s guest lecture, by Leverhulme Visiting Professor Susanne Yuk Ping Choi. The lecture will run 3:30-5pm, followed by a drinks reception…

Macro Seminar - Sophocles Mavroeidis (Oxford)

16:00 - 17:00 22 October 2024
Title: Endogenous Regime Switching

Are Friends Electric?

10:00 - 15:30 23 October 2024
In this interactive exhibition led by Dr. Scott Midson, visitors will explore the concept of friendship and whether robots can be friends. The exhibition covers themes like emotion,…

Data Treasure Hunt – Behind the scenes of where our everyday information comes from!

10:00 - 11:30 23 October 2024
As part of the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences, an event at Salford Museum & Art Gallery will explore the secrets behind everyday data. This 90-minute, in-person event includes a treasure…

MET Seminar - Aram Grigoryan

17:00 - 18:00 23 October 2024
Title: Robust Market Design under Opaque Announcements Authors: Aram Grigoryan & Markus Möller Abstract: We introduce a framework where the announcements of a clearinghouse about…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 23 October 2024
Robin Dunbar, University of Oxford The Fractal Structure of Social Networks Human egocentric social networks have a limiting size (around 150 alters) and a very distinctive fractal…

Social Media and Me: Exploring young people's digital worlds

10:00 - 11:30 23 October 2024
In a world where adults think they know what’s best, is banning social media the answer to improving everyone’s mental health? Do they really understand how young people use and experience…

Social Media: Lifting a lid on young people's digital worlds

12:00 - 13:00 23 October 2024
It's no secret that lots of people think social media is the reason young people are increasingly suffering from poor mental health, but what is the evidence really telling us? Join…

The American Elections: One Week to Go!

16:00 - 17:30 28 October 2024
Join us for an insightful online discussion on the upcoming American elections! Professor Angelia Wilson, Professor Rob Ford and Dr. David Stroup will delve into the latest numbers,…

Gardening with Dementia: The power of nature and the outdoors

10:00 - 16:00 29 October 2024
Join us for a compelling photographic exhibition at the Royal Horticultural Society Bridgewater Garden in Worsley, Salford, celebrating the powerful connection between home and garden…

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