School of Social Sciences

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…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 5 February 2025
Riccardo De Vita, Manchester Metropolitan. NETWORK RESILIENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION: AN ANALYSIS OF INTERNATIONAL BRANCH CAMPUSES International Branch Campuses (IBCs) are one of the most…

Omer Aijazi (Manchester). Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir

15:00 - 17:00 10 February 2025
Atmospheric Violence explores how people in the militarized, ecologically fragile borderlands of Kashmir attempt to flourish in an environment where violence is everywhere, or atmospheric.…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 12 February 2025
Filip Agneessens. University of Manchester. Mechanisms reinforcing and countering religious segregation in schools: Network processes involving friendship and dislike ties. In many…

Social Statistics Seminar Series - Matthew Wallace

14:00 - 15:30 12 February 2025
Please join us for the first Social Statistics Seminar of the year on Wednesday 12th February at 2pm. This seminar will be in person, so please join us for coffee and cake. Zoom link…

Christabel Pankhurst Lecture 2025: 'The Terrorism Nobody is Talking About'

17:00 - 19:30 13 February 2025
Join us for the Annual Christabel Pankhurst Lecture as our guest speaker, best-selling author and founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, Laura Bates reveals her two-year undercover…

Cecilia Vergnano (KU Leuven). Alpine Border Conflict: Migration and Social Polarization in the Everyday Life of Intra-EU Borders

15:00 - 17:00 17 February 2025
Since 2015, the reintroduction of (racialised) border controls within the supposedly border-free Schengen area and, in particular, at northern Italian borders – envisaged to contain…

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