School of Social Sciences

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

Mateusz Laszczkowski (Manchester). 'Territorio is Where You Meet Others': Politics of Place in an Alpine Rebellion

15:00 - 17:00 17 March 2025
This paper, drawing on a chapter from my upcoming book about the No TAV movement, fighting against the construction of high-speed railway through the Italian Alps, explores the concepts…

Macro Seminar - Morten Olsen (Copenhagen)

16:00 - 17:00 18 March 2025
Title: The Spillover Effects of Top Income Inequality

"The Moss Side "joint enterprise" case and miscarriage of justice concerns in the criminal trial system" - David Conn

15:00 - 16:00 19 March 2025
Refreshments will be provided. In 2017, 11 young black people were convicted of the killing of Abdul Hafidah, who was fatally stabbed by one of them. Seven were convicted of murder,…

Annual PPE Lecture - Professor Alex Voorhoeve (LSE) on 'Power, Privacy, and the Digital Pound'

15:00 - 16:30 19 March 2025
We are pleased to announce the Annual PPE lecture for 2025. This is a lecture on interdisciplinary issues relating to philosophy, politics, and economics. Our speaker this year will…

Creative Approaches to Qualitative Research - online taster session

12:30 - 13:30 19 March 2025
This session gives you a taster of the two-day summer school on creative approaches to qualitative research which is team taught by members of the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday…

MET Seminar - John Levy

17:00 - 18:00 19 March 2025
Title: Small Player Robustness Abstract: We introduce a concept of stability of a Nash equilibrium, or of a set of Nash equilibria, to the addition of small players, i.e., players…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series with CMI

16:00 - 17:30 19 March 2025
Juergen Lerner. University of Konstanz Relational hyperevent models for the coevolution of coauthoring and citation networks. The development of appropriate statistical models has…

Global Dignity And ‘Seeing Others’ - Professor Michèle Lamont

14:30 - 17:30 20 March 2025
In this lecture Michèle Lamont addresses the power of recognition for understanding and addressing the global contemporary crisis of inequality. Discussing the key ideas from her recent…

Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: The Example of Multi-method Large-N Qualitative analysis.

16:00 - 17:30 20 March 2025
Evidential Pluralism: The Example of Multi-method Large-N Qualitative analysis. In other work, we have explored methodological issues around a research approach we call Large-N Qualitative…

Jieun Kim (Leeds). Blood and Citizenship in a Fragmented Nation: Logics of Gift, Debt and Inheritance in South Korea

15:00 - 17:00 24 March 2025
Drawing on archival materials and interviews with donors, blood bank staff, and experts, this talk explores how the logics of gift, debt and inheritance shape the moral and affective…

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