School of Social Sciences

2025 Annual International Peace Lecture: The Continuous Struggle: Women’s Rights in the Last Four Decades and the Backlash Against Progress.

15:00 - 17:30 8 October 2025
Join us for the 40th Anniversary International Peace Lecture, hosted by the University of Manchester's Department of Politics. For forty years, this renowned series has brought together…

Brownbag - Keitaro Ninomiya (UIUC)

13:00 - 14:00 8 October 2025
Title TBD

MET Seminar - Marek Pycia (Zurich)

17:00 - 18:00 8 October 2025
Title: Cost over Content: Information Choice in Trade Authors: Kristof Madarasz & Marek Pycia Abstract: A privately-informed buyer takes an action that impacts the seller’s information.…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 8 October 2025
Karoly Takas, Linkoping University Are High-Performing Ethnic Roma Students Excluded from their Minority Peer Group? Friendship Relations, Ethnic Identification, and Labeling It is…

Politics - 2025 Annual Peace Lecture - The Continuous Struggle: Women’s Rights in the Last Four Decades and the Backlash Against Progress

Early Career Researcher Masterclass on Social Reproduction

11:00 - 13:00 9 October 2025
This ECR masterclass has three aims: (1) to reflect on our research as it relates to the broader landscape of social reproduction research and recent calls for its pluralization, (2)…

Econometrics Seminar - Rosnel Sessinou (Surrey)

12:00 - 13:00 13 October 2025
Title TBA

Kwame Phillips (University of Southampton). The Multisensorial as Maroon

15:00 - 17:00 13 October 2025
Collins, et al. (2017) invite anthropology into a renewed engagement with contemporary media ecologies and with the transformative potentialities of the multimodal. This position advocates…

Brownbag - Akos Valentinyi

13:00 - 14:00 15 October 2025
Title TBD

MET Seminar - Pawel Dziewulski (Sussex)

17:00 - 18:00 15 October 2025
Title: On pure altruism Authors: Pawel Dziewulski & ?ukasz Wo?ny Abstract: We revisit the notion of pure altruism and propose a general framework for studying altruistic behaviour…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series - Laurence Brandenberger (University of Zurich) - Chairs, Cliques, and Clout: Network Drivers in Parliamentary Collaboration

16:00 - 17:30 15 October 2025
How do members of parliament choose collaborators? Is it policy or people that tip the scales? This talk argues that the everyday social fabric of the chamber steers who works with…

Seminar by Prof Stefanie Wöhl - Civil Society Challenges to Global Supply Chains: The EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive

15:00 - 16:30 15 October 2025
On October 15th, Stephanie Wöhl will be delivering a talk on "Civil Society Challenges to Global Supply Chains: The EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive". It is from…

Pigeonholed: Creative Freedom as an Act of Resistance - Gary Younge (Faber Lecture)

19:00 - 20:30 16 October 2025
Award-winning author, broadcaster and Professor of Sociology at The University of Manchester, Gary Younge, delivers the inaugural Faber Lecture. In Pigeonholed: Creative Freedom as…

From Entities to Edges: A Practical Introduction to Knowledge Graphs

09:30 - 13:30 17 October 2025
"From Entities to Edges: A Practical Introduction to Knowledge Graphs" A workshop co-organised by The Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research and the Mitchell Centre for Social Network…

PhD work-in-progress seminar with Ujan Natik and Ish Tominey-Nevado

17 October 2025
PhD work-in-progress seminar with Ujan Natik and Ish Tominey-Nevado

Workshop: Social Reproduction and/as Infrastructure in Europe and Beyond

11:00 - 15:00 17 October 2025
Social Reproduction and/as Infrastructure in Europe and Beyond: A Joint Jean Monnet Centre and Political Economy Centre Workshop, with Hallsworth Visting Professor Stefanie Wöhl 17…

Sarah O'Brien (University of Manchester). Landscapes, timelessness and ambivalence in the nuclearised peninsula of La Hague

15:00 - 17:00 20 October 2025
Abstract to follow. Sarah O'Brien is a Research Associate (Mimesis in Action) in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester.

Macro Seminar - Christoph Albert (Collegio Carlo Alberto)

16:00 - 17:00 21 October 2025
Title: Immigrants, Imports, and Welfare: Evidence from Household Purchase Data

Book launch: Rosie Walters, Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Cardiff University - Girls, Power and International Development: Agency and Activism in the Global North and South

15:00 - 16:30 22 October 2025
On Oct 22nd, Rosie Walters, Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Cardiff University (https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/waltersr13) will be giving a talk to launch her new…

MET Seminar - Kfir Eliaz (Tel Aviv)

17:00 - 18:00 22 October 2025
Title: Wasonian Persuasion Authors: Kfir Eliaz & Ariel Rubinstein Abstract: A firm wishes to persuade a patient to take a drug by making either positive statements like “if you take…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series - Nynke Niezink (Carnegie Mellon University), Network Analysis in Statistics Education: Substantive and Methodological Results

16:00 - 17:30 22 October 2025
Progress on substantive research and methodological development often goes hand in hand. In this talk, I will illustrate this in the context of statistics education. While statistics…

Econometrics Seminar - Philipp Ketz (PSE)

12:00 - 13:00 27 October 2025
Title TBA

Emmanuelle Ricaud Oneto (CSGA, Dijon). "Our children? Sold to the State. They will come back in cans of tuna”: Analysis of a rumor on social policies in the Peruvian Amazon

15:00 - 17:00 27 October 2025
This presentation suggests taking seriously a rumor circulating among the Maijuna, a Western Tukanoan indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon, regarding social policies such as cash…

Start or end of life? Advancing the Sociology of Life, Death & Bereavement

16:00 - 18:00 28 October 2025
Join us for the inaugural lecture of Professor Kate Reed, hosted by the University of Manchester's School of Social Science and Department of Sociology. ‘Life’ and ‘death’ affects…

Brownbag - Qiwei He (Edinburgh)

13:00 - 14:00 29 October 2025
Title TBD

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