School of Social Sciences

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…

Macro Seminar - Piotr Denderski (Leicester)

16:00 - 17:00 29 October 2024
Title: The Job ladder, Unemployment Risk, and Incomplete Markets

Jon Schubert (Basel): Authoritarian Planning: Speculation, spectral infrastructure, and extractivism in Angola

15:00 - 17:00 4 November 2024
In a moment of pervasive economic crisis, when any economic rationalities that may have justified investments in big infrastructure appear increasingly like pure fantasy, what visions…

Gardening with Dementia: The power of nature and the outdoors

10:00 - 16:00 5 November 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…

Macro Seminar - Alistair Macaulay (Surrey)

16:00 - 17:00 5 November 2024
Title: The Mis(Allocation) of Corporate News

New pioneers in digital platform businesses

12:00 - 14:00 5 November 2024
How do pioneering digital businesses overcome entry challenges and navigate market dynamics in an ecosystem dominated by large platform-based businesses? To explore this question,…

'A Letter to Chinatown' Documentary Film Screening

15:30 - 17:30 6 November 2024
Join us at HOME Manchester (Cinema 2) on Wednesday, 6 November at 3:30PM for a special viewing of this captivating documentary followed by a thought-provoking Q&A session with the filmmakers…

Brownbag - Yiming Liu (UMich, UCL)

13:00 6 November 2024
Title: tbd

Culture on the Periphery

17:30 - 19:30 6 November 2024
Culture on the Periphery: social and cultural infrastructure in left-behind places This event will be a 2-hour hybrid panel discussion featuring policy and sector stakeholders, including…

Cycle Smart, Live Smarter: Building Sustainable Cities on Two Wheels?

11:00 - 14:00 6 November 2024
Join us for a fun-filled day of cycling activities and bike-themed giveaways. Discover how cycling can transform our cities and lives. Learn about the benefits of cycling and bike-sharing…

Manchester Urban Ageing Film Screening

14:00 - 16:00 6 November 2024
Join us at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation on Wednesday, 6 November at 2:00 PM for an afternoon of films about life in Manchester as we age. The Manchester Urban Ageing…

MET Seminar - Simon Jantschgi

17:00 - 18:00 6 November 2024
Title: The Hidden Cost of Zero-Commission Abstract: This paper studies how transaction cost transparency influences incentives and welfare in two-sided markets. Hidden transaction…

Mitchell Centre Seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 6 November 2024
Elisa Bellotti & Tomas Diviak University of Manchester Gender inequalities: the role of social networks in gendered interactions and social structures. Gender inequalities are a worldwide…

Stitching for change: A cross stitch exhibition with conversations about drugs and drug policy

12:30 - 17:00 6 November 2024
Join us for a unique exhibition and interactive panel discussion that combines art, activism, and drug policy, aimed at 16-18 year old students and the wider general public. You'll…

Econometrics Seminar - Weiguang Liu (Cambridge, UCL)

12:00 - 13:00 7 November 2024
Title TBA

Global Marxism Panel Discussion (online)

18:00 7 November 2024
Event organised by Manchester University Press. Though his work has been both praised and criticized, Karl Marx is considered one of the most influential figures in the modern era.…

Sophie Woodward (Manchester): Imagination and Gifts: The lives and temporalities of dormant gifts

15:00 - 17:00 11 November 2024
Gifts that are hidden unwanted in a cupboard could be dismissed as a relationship that has gone wrong, or a lack of understanding of a recipient’s preferences. An implicit but key aspect…

Macro Seminar - David de la Croix (UC Louvain)

16:00 - 17:00 12 November 2024
Title: The Emergence of the Child Quantity-Quality Tradeoff - insights from early modern academics

Melland Schill Lecture 2024 - ''Deceiving the hopes of humanity'': Withdrawing from the United Nations

16:00 - 17:00 12 November 2024
The Manchester International Law Centre will host its 10-Year Anniversary Celebration in conjunction with its annual Melland Schill lecture. Professor Arnulf Becker Lorca (Chair in…

Social Statistics Seminar Series - Lorraine Dearden

14:00 - 15:30 12 November 2024
The impact of violence on partnered women’s labour market outcomes: evidence from Australia Longitudinal survey data measuring domestic violence (DV) is very rare which makes looking…

Brownbag - Ron Chan

13:00 13 November 2024
Title: tbd

Extreme Nationalism in Contemporary Norway: Ideologies, Mobilisation and Activism - Christopher Fardan

15:00 - 16:00 13 November 2024
Christopher Fardan, winner of the inaugural Manchester Jean Monnet Centre Doctoral Thesis Prize, shares his research on extreme nationalism in Norway. All welcome at this online lecture.…

MET Seminar - Arina Nikanrova

17:00 - 18:00 13 November 2024
Title: The Effect of Mergers on Innovation (joint with Kaustav Das and Tatiana Mayskaya) Abstract: We study the effect of a merger on R&D activity in a dynamic model with uncertainty…

Mitchell Centre Seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 13 November 2024
Andras Voros University of Birmingham

Psychedelics in Scotland: A film screening and panel discussion

14:00 - 16:00 13 November 2024
Join us for an enlightening film screening and panel talk on the healing benefits of psychedelic drugs. Part of the Criminology Department Racial and Social Justice Seminar Series.…

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