School of Social Sciences

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…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 19 February 2025
Edmund Chattoe-Brown. University of Leicester. Processes and Theories: Can Agent-Based Modelling Contribute to Our Understanding of Social Networks? Proverbially, to the person who…

Deana Jovanovic (Utrecht University). Staging the Promises: Everyday Future-Making in a Serbian Industrial Town

15:00 - 17:00 24 February 2025
This seminar explores the temporal, political and economic effects of theatrically performed promises of aspirational futures, staged in a Serbian industrial town. Based on a decade-long…

Econometrics Seminar - Maximilian Kasy (Oxford)

12:00 - 13:00 24 February 2025
Title TBA

MET Seminar - Bettina Klaus

17:00 - 18:00 26 February 2025
Title: Happy birthday TTC! A survey and some recent results Abstract: I present a survey talk commemorating more that 50 years of Gale's famous top trading cycles (TTC) algorithm.…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 26 February 2025
Milena Tsvetkova London School of Economics. Social networks affect redistribution decisions and polarization. Most people dislike inequality, yet large disparities in income and…

Still 'Nae Problem' Here?

16:30 - 20:30 27 February 2025
Join the Maryhill Integration Network for a public assembly on Scotland's denial of racism. Introduced by Gary Younge. With pre-discussion food and refreshments (4:30-5:30pm). What…

Emma Crewe (SOAS). Strategic Ignorance, Forgetting and Misrecognition in Parliaments

15:00 - 17:00 3 March 2025
Are parliaments past their heyday or have they never had one? Elected representatives claim to represent our interests, for which they need to know what we need or want, and knowledge…

Macro Seminar - Josef Sigurdsson (Stockholm)

16:00 - 17:00 4 March 2025
Title: It Runs in the Family: Occupational Choice and the Allocation of Talent

MET Seminar - Ran Shorrer

17:00 - 18:00 5 March 2025
Title: Algorithmic Collusion by Large Language Models Authors: Sara Fish, Yannai A. Gonczarowski, Ran I. Shorrer Abstract: The rise of algorithmic pricing raises concerns of algorithmic…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 5 March 2025
Nick Crossley University of Manchester. Dr Hoor is unwell and so this weeks seminar has been changed. Nick Crossley has kindly agreed to step in. The Social Structure of Punk in…

Building Resistance: empowerment, unity and representation

17:00 - 19:00 6 March 2025
Join us for a powerful evening of conversation & testimony as we bring together people from across Nottingham to discuss how we effectively organise to build positive change in the…

Perveez Mody (Cambridge). Corrosive Kinship and Forms of Healing and Care: “Forced Marriage in the UK”

15:00 - 17:00 10 March 2025
This paper begins with a difficult and troubling question. It concerns the distortions that arise from a temporal privileging of the UK’s Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007,…

Macro Seminar - Isaac Baley Gaytan (Pompeu Fabra)

16:00 - 17:00 11 March 2025
Title: Lumpy Forecasts

Launch of the JUST Centre

17:00 - 19:00 12 March 2025
Kicking off in March 2025, the JUST Centre will be a new powerhouse of social science research and action for accelerating a fair and equitable transformation into a low carbon society.…

MET Seminar - Jose Apesteguia

17:00 - 18:00 12 March 2025
Title: The Rationalizability of survey responses Authors: Jose Apesteguia and Miguel A. Ballester Abstract: We propose the concept of survey rationalizability, that we base on classical…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 12 March 2025
Michael Genkin. University of Manchester. Understanding Self-Starter Terrorism: A Network Mobilization Perspective Despite a steady increase of self-starter terrorist plots in…

Ida Danewid - 'A place where freedom means something': James Baldwin’s global maroon geographies

15:00 - 16:30 13 March 2025
Our next Political Economy Centre seminar on 13 March (3-4:30) will feature, Ida Danewid, Associate Professor in Gender & Global Political Economy at Sussex. She will be presenting…

Econometrics Seminar - Dimitris Korobilis (Glasgow)

12:00 - 13:00 17 March 2025
Title TBA

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