School of Social Sciences

Macro Seminar - Vincent Sterk (University College London)

16:00 - 17:00 11 November 2025
Title: The Macroeconomic and Welfare Effects of Energy Price Controls

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…

Brownbag - Itay Saporta Eksten

13:00 - 14:00 12 November 2025
Title TBD

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series - Joe Labianca (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) - Affect’s Role in Organizationally-Sponsored Networking

16:00 - 17:30 12 November 2025
Most organizational research on networking focuses on negative emotions toward it; but some people are comfortable with networking or even find it energizing. This mixed methods study…

Research Seminar, “Unions, Coops, and the Contradictions of Freedom” with John Las Heras (University of the Basque Country)

12 November 2025
“Unions, Coops, and the Contradictions of Freedom”, John Las Heras, University of the Basque Country

SOCIAL STATISTICS SEMINAR SERIES

14:00 - 15:30 14 November 2025
Please join us for the Social Statistics Seminar, we have coffee and cake. We are very pleased to welcome: Maciej Bersewicz Professor of Statistics, Pozna University of Economics…

Charlotte Al Khalili (University of Sussex). Scales of justice in post-Assad Syria

15:00 - 17:00 17 November 2025
This paper proposes an ethnographic exploration of post-Assad Syria that focuses on ideas and practices of justice in the aftermaths of mass atrocities. Based on fieldwork in the city…

Econometrics Seminar - Sami Stouli (Bristol)

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

Macro Seminar - Albert Jan Hummel (Groningen)

16:00 - 17:00 18 November 2025
Title: Optimal Climate Policy with Incomplete Markets

2025 Melland Schill Roundtable: ‘Who Governs When the World Is Falling Apart?’

17:00 - 18:30 19 November 2025
Global governance looks very different today than it did a few decades ago. Traditional diplomacy and international legal frameworks that once structured multilateralism are weakening,…

Brownbag - Lory Barile (Warwick)

13:00 - 14:00 19 November 2025
Title TBD

Green Transition: Environmental, Legal, Macro-Economic Governance

13:30 - 15:00 19 November 2025
Hosted by Climate and Justice Study Group, Initiative for Global Law and Political Economy (iGLPE), Law and Technology Initiative (LaTI), and Manchester International Law Centre (MILC).…

MET Seminar - Yuki Tamura (Ecole Polytechnique)

17:00 - 18:00 19 November 2025
Title: Equal Opportunity in School Choice Lotteries Author: Acelya Altunta¸William Phan & Yuki Tamura Abstract: In Berlin and North Carolina’s Wake County school districts, all…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series - Bernie Hogan (Oxford University) - Perspective Matters: Egocentric Networks and the Bundling/Grinding Problem in Sheaf Theory

16:00 - 17:30 19 November 2025
Consider a whole network, such as a classroom. Each student can create an egocentric network visually and in metric space through traditional methods. Yet the aggregation of these networks…

Call for Applications: ECR Workshop ‘Beyond the Core – Normative Orders Across Semi-Peripheries’ (with Prof George Galindo) | 20 Nov 2025

13:00 - 16:00 20 November 2025
The Manchester International Law Centre (MILC) and the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) are pleased to announce an interdisciplinary workshop for early-career…

Gaudenz Metzger (University of Manchester). Life in Limbo: Hospice care, photography, and the performance of the everyday

15:00 - 17:00 24 November 2025
Modern Western societies have struggled to find appropriate ways of dealing with the existential situation of dying and death. Under the influence of biomedicine, rationalisation, and…

Brownbag - Yue (Joyce) Yu

13:00 - 14:00 26 November 2025
Title TBD

MET Seminar - Albin Erlanson (Essex)

17:00 - 18:00 26 November 2025
Title: Optimal Allowance with Limited Auditing Capacity Authors: Thomas Brzustowski & Albin Erlanson Abstract: We analyze the mechanism-design problem of a principal allocating…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series - Tobias Stark (Utrecht University) - Effects of Identity Signals on the Perception of 2nd Generation Immigrants’ Integration in Social Networks

16:00 - 17:30 26 November 2025
The majority of 2nd generation immigrants in Western Europe identify both with the ethnic group of their parents and with the national majority group. Yet their belonging to the national…

PhD work-in-progress seminar with Sam Toscano and Heather Urquhart

26 November 2025
PhD work-in-progress seminar with Sam Toscano and Heather Urquhart

'Theorising the future is the future of anthropology' debate

14:00 - 18:00 29 November 2025
The Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory debates the motion: 'Theorising the future is the future of anthropology'. Simon Visiting Professor, Ghassan Hage, and Professor of Cultural…

Ana Gutierrez Garza (University of St Andrews). Making it Through Activism: Precarious masculinities in Madrid

15:00 - 17:00 1 December 2025
Economic exclusion and poverty can create problematic masculinities as they challenge social structures of gender dominance, class mobility and social status. In this paper, I analyse…

Econometrics Seminar - Daniel Lewis (UCL)

12:00 - 13:00 1 December 2025
Title TBA

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series - Federico Bianchi & Francesco Renzini (University of Milan) - Agent-Based Modelling for Social Network Research: Two Examples

16:00 - 17:30 3 December 2025
The seminar will be centred on Agent-Based Modelling (ABM) as a strategy for modelling social networks while avoiding some of the pitfalls of standard statistical models. Because of…

Mitchell Centre Workshop: Agent-Based Modelling with a Focus on Network Analysis

10:00 - 13:15 3 December 2025
The workshop starts with an introduction to agent-based modelling using Netlogo. It then focuses on ABM for social network data, touching upon the possibilities and limitations of ERGMs…

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