School of Social Sciences

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…

Mitchell Centre Workshop: 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

MET Seminar - Pietro Dall'Ara (Naples)

17:00 - 18:00 29 October 2025
Title: Screening in digital monopolies Author: Pietro Dall'Ara Abstract: A defining feature of digital goods is that damaging and replication are costless: once a high-quality good…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series - Lars Leszczensky (Goethe University Frankfurt) - Gendered Mechanisms of Social Segregation Among Muslim Youth

16:00 - 17:30 29 October 2025
This talk will present findings from an ongoing research project on why friendships between Muslim and non-Muslim adolescents are relatively rare. The focus is on gender-specific processes…

Professor Ghassan Hage book launch

16:00 - 18:00 30 October 2025
Join the Social Anthropology and Sociology departments to hear Simon Visiting Professor, Ghassan Hage, present his new book: Pierre Bourdieu’s Political Economy of Being (Duke, October…

The Double Tax and Unsung Stories - Black Women’s Voices in Activism and Economics

15:00 - 17:00 30 October 2025
Join us for a compelling afternoon of insight and inspiration as we mark Black History Month with two powerful voices in Black women’s activism and economic justice. We’re thrilled…

Seminar by Ben Selwyn (Sussex), "Capitalist Value Chains: Labour Exploitation, Nature Destruction, Geopolitics"

14:00 - 15:30 5 November 2025
Please join us on Nov 5th for a book launch of Prof Ben Selwyn's book (co-authored with Christin Bernhold) Capitalist Value Chains: Labour Exploitation, Nature Destruction, Geopolitics…

Building Futures, Thinking Long-Term: Insights on Collaborating with Those Impacted by Long-Term Imprisonment to Shape Policies That Affect Them

09:00 - 17:00 6 November 2025
The Prison Reform Trust (PRT) is an independent UK charity working to create a just, humane and effective penal system. Building Futures – PRT’s six-year programme funded by the National…

Megnaa Mehtta (University College London). Retreat or Remain? Notions of a full life and a slow death from Sundarbans’ eroding coastlines

15:00 - 17:00 10 November 2025
As sea level rise erode coastlines of the Sundarbans, “managed retreat”—a process of relocating people to supposedly safer areas—is put forth by policymakers globally, and in India,…

Roundtable: Free Trade Unravelling

13:30 - 15:00 11 November 2025
Please join us for a roundtable discussing the ongoing unravelling of the free trade consensus in global trade politics and governance with Laura Macdonald (Carleton University), Shamel…

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