School of Social Sciences

17:00 - 18:00 20 November 2024
Title: Disclosure in insurance markets with limited screening (joint with Andriy Zapechelnyuk) Abstract: We investigate the impact of information disclosure, via a statistical instrument,…

Mitchell Centre Seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 20 November 2024
Diana Bociga University of Manchester Exploring the UK's anti-money laundering network: multiple relationships, structural patterns, and brokerage Roles The UK’s Anti-Money Laundering…

Econometrics Seminar - Jörg Stoye (Cornell)

12:00 - 13:00 21 November 2024
Title: TBA

Andrea Pia (LSE): Corallers of Crises: Between the horror and glee of climate inaction

15:00 - 17:00 25 November 2024
In a recent statement, Scientists Rebellion, the international organization of environmental activists with a scientific background, posed the question: "What's the point of documenting…

Macro Seminar - Remzi Kaygusuz (Durham/Sabanci)

16:00 - 17:00 26 November 2024
Title: A Different World: Drivers of Income Inequality 1980-2020

Social Statistics Seminar Series

14:00 - 15:30 26 November 2024
Friedrich Geiecke Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science, London School of Economics Conversations at Scale: Robust AI-led Interviews with a Simple Open-Source Platform…

Brownbag - Lucía Contreras

13:00 27 November 2024
Title: tbd

MET Seminar - Claudia Herresthal

17:00 - 18:00 27 November 2024
Title: Data linkage between Markets: Does the Emergence of an Informed Insurer Cause Consumer Harm? Abstract: A merger of two companies active in seemingly unrelated markets creates…

MET Seminar - Claudia Herresthal

17:00 - 18:00 27 November 2024
Speaker website: http://www.cherresthal.com/ Contact: david.delacretaz@manchester.ac.uk

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 27 November 2024
Cecilia Menenghini, University of Exeter A network approach to study organised crime movement across local communities This talk explores how social network analysis can be used to…

Global Social Challenges: A Roundtable Discussion

15:30 - 19:00 28 November 2024
Please join us for a roundtable discussion of some of the critical challenges facing the world today, from economic inequalities, over-consumption, migration, an ageing population,…

Bridget Bradley (St Andrews): Affect and Activism in the context of Ecological Anxiety: Towards a militant sentient anthropology

15:00 - 17:00 2 December 2024
Academic, public and political interest in eco-anxiety is steadily growing across the globe, and yet anthropology’s contribution to debates on the topic has been surprisingly slow.…

Macro Seminar - Annika Bacher (BI Norwegian)

16:00 - 17:00 3 December 2024
Title: Housing and Savings Behavior across Family Types

Brownbag - Imran Tahir (IFS)

13:00 4 December 2024
Title: tbd

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 4 December 2024
Roberta Bernardi, University of Bristol Who Says What: Identities and Natural Language Inference to Study the Spread of Health Misinformation on Social Media Health misinformation on…

Platform Politics: Luke Yates in conversation

18:30 - 20:30 4 December 2024
Join Luke Yates for the launch of his new book 'PLATFORM POLITICS: Corporate Power, Grassroots Movements and the Sharing Economy' at this event organised by Blackwell's bookshop. …

Brownbag - Lucas Morissette

13:00 11 December 2024
Title: tbd

Global Policy North Workshop

16 - 17 December 2024
GPN Workshops take place on a regular, termly basis. The workshop provides an opportunity for researchers to present research, discuss working papers, and offer an opportunity for feedback…

Shirin Rai - Depletion: The Human Costs of Caring

15:00 - 16:30 15 January 2025
Abstract. When thinking about the work of caring for others we often neglect the human cost born by those performing this care. Feminists have long talked about the ways in which unpaid…

Nikita Simpson (SOAS): How do we theorise ecological distress? A view from the Western Himalayas

15:00 - 17:00 27 January 2025
The Gaddi tribal community, who inhabit the foothills of India’s Dhaula Dhar range, have experienced a rapid shift in livelihood over the last century from agro-pastoralism to waged…

Aaron Benavav - Workshop - Unemployment, Underemployment, and Informality on the World Scale

10:00 - 12:00 29 January 2025
This workshop will engage with the complex dynamics of unemployment, underemployment, and informality from a global historical perspective. Starting with Charles Booth’s late 19th-century…

PEC Seminar with Aaron Benavav (University of Cornell) - The Impact of Generative AI on Employment: Hype, Reality, and the Future of Work

17:00 - 19:00 29 January 2025
This talk provides a critical analysis of the potential impact of generative AI technologies, such as ChatGPT, on the job market. While researchers and tech leaders have predicted that…

The Harry Street Lecture 2025: Access to Life-saving Medication for All?

17:30 - 20:00 29 January 2025
Access to Life-saving Medication for All? Positive Obligations, Corporations, and Fundamental Rights Join us for the 37th Annual Harry Street Lecture as our guest speaker, Professor…

Kevin Donovan (Edinburgh): The CEO’s Two Bodies: Corporate Personhood and the Corporate Persona in Kenya

15:00 - 17:00 3 February 2025
In July 2019, the CEO of Kenya’s largest company, Safaricom, died. This talk uses the funeral of Robert Collymore as a jumping off point to consider the curious personalisation of the…

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