School of Social Sciences

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

MET Seminar - Spyros Galanis (Durham)

17:00 - 18:00 3 December 2025
Title: Information Aggregation with Costly Information Acquisition Authors: Spyros Galanis & Sergei Mikhalishchev Abstract: We study information aggregation in a dynamic trading…

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…

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: When Economic Shocks Reduce Divorce but Increase Intra-Household Inequality

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 - Scott Duxbury (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) - General Procedures for Micro-Macro Network Analysis

15:00 - 16:30 10 December 2025
How do interpersonal social interactions generate novel network structures? Historically researchers examined micro-macro linkages in social networks using simulation approaches, especially…

Research Seminar, “Theorizing the Conjuncture Through Gaza: Urban Destruction and the Intensification of Authoritarian Neoliberalism" with Aleksandra Piletic (UCL)

14:00 - 15:30 10 December 2025
Research Seminar, “Theorizing the Conjuncture Through Gaza: Urban Destruction and the Intensification of Authoritarian Neoliberalism" with Aleksandra Piletic (UCL), Simon 4.04

Diego Maria Malara (University of Glasgow) ‘On the Urbanity of Sacred Substance: Purity, Sin, and the Flow of Blessing in Addis Ababa’

15:00 - 17:00 15 December 2025
In Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, the Eucharist is regarded as an exceptionally pure substance, and governed by such stringent ritual proscriptions that only a very small number of…

Econometrics Seminar - Christophe Gaillac (Geneva)

12:00 - 13:00 15 December 2025
Title TBA

Brownbag - Chad Brown

13:00 - 14:00 17 December 2025
Title TBD

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series Martin Everett (Manchester) Assessing eigenvector type centrality for disconnected graphs.

16:00 - 17:30 4 February 2026
Eigenvector centrality (Bonacich 1972) is one of the most used centrality measures in social network analysis. When applied to disconnected graphs, it typically assigns non-zero values…

Hiroe Ishihara (University of Tokyo) "Reconstructing Relational Values: Constitutive Values, Norm Circles, and Cultural Assemblages"

16:00 - 18:00 5 February 2026
Abstract: Calls for transformative change in sustainability highlight the need to understand how environmental values are formed, sustained, and transformed. Yet, most frameworks still…

'Sovereignty by Design: Community Infrastructures in Remote Canada’ - Social Anthropology Seminar Series

15:00 - 17:00 9 February 2026
Philipp Budka (University of Vienna) - ‘Sovereignty by Design: Community Infrastructures in Remote Canada’

SOCIAL STATISTICS SEMINAR SERIES

14:00 - 15:30 10 February 2026
Please join us for the Social Statistics Seminar, we have coffee and cake. We are very pleased to welcome: Ridhi Kashyap Professor of Demography & Computational Social Science, University…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series. Kasimir Dederichs (University of Oxford) Join to connect? Voluntary involvement, social capital, and socioeconomic inequalities.

16:00 - 17:30 11 February 2026
Access to social capital is stratified by socioeconomic status and has been cross-sectionally linked to involvement in voluntary organizations. Yet, we know little about the origin…

Beyond Borders: Rethinking Migration and Citizenship - Bridget Anderson

15:30 - 17:00 12 February 2026
Please join us for the University of Manchester Sociology Annual Lecture 2026, followed by a drinks reception. About the lecture The University of Manchester Sociology Annual Lecture…

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