School of Social Sciences

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

Brownbag - Lory Barile (Warwick)

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

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 19 November 2025
Bernie Hogan, Oxford University

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

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 26 November 2025
Tobias Stark, University of Utrecht

'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

16:00 - 17:30 3 December 2025
Federico Bianchi and Francesco Renzini, University of Milan

Charis Boutieri (King's College London). Speaking Freedom: The Tunisian public sphere between revolution and democracy

15:00 - 17:00 8 December 2025
This talk will present my forthcoming book, which interrogates the historical formations and contemporary reconfigurations of the Tunisian public sphere. While profoundly delimited…

Macro Seminar - Hitoshi Tsujiyama (Surrey)

16:00 - 17:00 9 December 2025
Title: TBA

SOCIAL STATISTICS SEMINAR SERIES

14:00 - 15:30 9 December 2025
Please join us for the Social Statistics Seminar, we have coffee and cake. We are very pleased to welcome: José Manuel Aburto Brass Blacker Associate Professor in Demography, London…

Brownbag - Vasudha Wattal

13:00 - 14:00 10 December 2025
Title TBD

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

15:00 - 16:30 10 December 2025
Scott Duxbury, UNC Chapel Hill

Angela Giattino (University of Oxford). Identity Politics That Make You Laugh: On Shipilay, a new ‘eironym’ from Urban Peruvian Amazonia

15:00 - 17:00 15 December 2025
Ethnonyms are a serious matter. As historical, seemingly immutable markers of allegiance to an ethnicity which is often regarded as sacred, they carry profound significance. Yet, in…

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