School of Social Sciences

Surplus Lives Under Racial Capitalism Book Launch (HYBRID)

16:00 - 18:00 24 September 2026
Join us for the Political Economy Centre's hybrid book launch for Dr Barbora ?ernušáková's Surplus Lives Under Racial Capitalism. The book offers a powerful account of the relationship…

Soumhya Venkatesan (University of Manchester) "Democratic Epistemology, Anyone? Approaches to and Images of Knowledge as Radically Open to All Comers"

15:00 - 17:00 28 September 2026
This paper, based on ethnographic fieldwork among British Spiritualists in Edinburgh by Adam Reed and pub philosophers in Liverpool by Soumhya Venkatesan, seeks to propose an anthropologically…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 30 September 2026
Balazs Vedres Central European University Network tension and collaborative creativity

Online Course in Social Network Analysis (Mitchell Centre)

2 October - 11 December 2026
The Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis at the University of Manchester is excited to introduce a new semester-long online course called the Mitchell Autumn School on Social…

Fiona Murphy (Dublin City University) "LATE WORK: Imagination, Form and the Creative Life of Anthropology"

15:00 - 17:00 5 October 2026
What might it mean to think of anthropology through lateness, as a way of staying with forms of thought that remain difficult, unresolved, excessive, or somehow out of time with the…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 16:30 7 October 2026
Jana Diesner Technical University of Munich What we know and wrongly assume about the how and why of link formation in collaboration networks Large-scale bibliometric analyses allow…

Andrew Irving (University of Manchester) Title TBC

15:00 - 17:00 12 October 2026
Abstract TBC Andrew Irving is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Manchester.

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 14 October 2026
Neah Gondal Boston University Mapping Meaning Structures using Directed Network Graphs on Association Rules John Mohr (1998) persuasively argued that formal or structural meaning analysis…

Gabriel Marques Camargo (University of Manchester) Title TBC

15:00 - 17:00 19 October 2026
Abstract TBC Gabriel Marques Camargo recently completed his PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester.

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 21 October 2026
Chris McCarty University of Florida Foundations of Personal Network Analysis and Recent Applications Personal network analysis, sometimes called egocentric network analysis, is a subfield…

Lorenzo Ferrarini (University of Manchester) Title TBC

15:00 - 17:00 26 October 2026
Abstract TBC Lorenzo Ferrarini is Lecturer in Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester.

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 28 October 2026
Laura Koehly National Human Genome Research Institute

Dimitrios Theodossopoulos (University of Kent) Title TBC

15:00 - 17:00 9 November 2026
Abstract TBC Dimitrios Theodossopoulos is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Kent

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 11 November 2026
Telmo Menezes CAMS (Centre d'analyse et de mathématique sociales) Interpretable by Design: Semantic Hypergraphs for Human-Centered Text Analysis Semantic Hypergraphs (SH) offer a knowledge…

Yael Navarro (University of Cambridge) Title TBC

15:00 - 17:00 16 November 2026
Abstract TBC Yael Navarro is Professor of Social, Political and Psychological Anthropology at the University of Cambridge

'The gender pay gap amongst high educated workers' - Arthur Lewis Lecture

17:00 - 19:30 17 November 2026
Join us for the Annual Arthur Lewis Lecture as our guest speaker Dame Rachel Griffith, Professor of Economics, reflects on the gender pay gap, and why it is still so prevalent in highly…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

18 November 2026
Harald Waxenecker Masaryk University University of Groningen Relational Traces of Corruption: Persistence, Disruption, and Adaptation in Longitudinal Multilevel Networks

Ana Carolina Balthazar (UCL, London) "Shame, Anger, and the Emotional Logics of British Politics

15:00 - 17:00 23 November 2026
Engaging critically with recent interdisciplinary arguments linking repressed economic shame to anger and resentment among right-wing voters, in this paper I draw on long-term ethnographic…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 25 November 2026
Raina Brands UCL

Alex Ungprateeb Flynn (UCLA) "The Momentinho and the March: Temporalities of Struggle in Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement"

15:00 - 17:00 30 November 2026
Drawing on fifteen years of ethnographic fieldwork with Brazil's Landless Workers Movement (MST), this talk presents material from the recently published Pathways to Utopia (Indiana…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 2 December 2026
Tom Lintner University of Manchester

Laurie Denyer Willis (University of Edinburgh) "Wife-Work in an Evangelical Rio: Pleasure, Protection and the Minimally Safe Bedroom"

15:00 - 17:00 7 December 2026
This talk begins from an unlikely scene: a sex costume party hosted by an evangelical pastor in a woman’s home in Rio de Janeiro, where lingerie is prayed over as a tool of marital…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 9 December 2026
Mark Wittek CEU Network Ecologies of Cultural Production: Evidence from Jazz and Science Scholars have studied the social organization of scientific and cultural fields extensively…

Andrew Littlejohn (Leiden University) "Ecologizing Safety in Post-Tsunami Japan"

15:00 - 17:00 14 December 2026
As oceans rise worldwide, many governments are intensifying efforts to defend the towns and cities bordering them. Advocates of coastal infrastructure often argue that the best way…

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