School of Social Sciences

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…

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,…

Macro Seminar - Vincent Sterk (University College London)

16:00 - 17:00 11 November 2025
Title: TBA

Brownbag - Itay Saporta Eksten

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

Mitchell centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 12 November 2025
Joe Labianca, University of Massachusetts

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…

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