School of Social Sciences

Brownbag Seminar: Antonio Nicolò

13:00 7 October 2026
Title: It can’t happen here: Democratic Backsliding and the Complacency Trap Authors: Edoardo Grillo and Antonio Nicolò Abstract: We study how institutions and citizens interact to…

MET Seminar - En Hua Hu (Oxford)

17:00 - 18:00 7 October 2026
Title: What makes a matching market congested Authors: Justin Hadad & En Hua Hu Abstract: We study a decentralized matching market where each applicant sends a fixed number of applications,…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 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…

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…

Lewis Lab Seminar - David Chilosi (King's College London)

16:00 - 17:00 8 October 2026
We will be holding our first Lewis Lab Seminar of this semester on 8 October, from 4 to 5 pm at Sam Alex_A215. David Chilosi (KCL) will present ''Shifting margins of trade in the long…

Andrew Irving (University of Manchester) "Between Thought and Expression, Lies a Lifetime: The Inner Lifeworlds of Motor Neurone Disease"

15:00 - 17:00 12 October 2026
Abstract: “Between thought and expression” sang Lou Reed “lies a lifetime”: a lyric that evokes the strange distance between people’s internalised realms of being and their public expression…

MET Seminar - Tan Gan (LSE)

17:00 - 18:00 14 October 2026
Title: Robust Delegation Authors: Ricardo Alonso, Tan Gan & Ju Hu Abstract: We study delegation rules by principals uninformed of the underlying state (external uncertainty) and the…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

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

Lewis Lab Seminar - Christopher Meissner (UC Davis)

16:00 - 17:00 15 October 2026
Christopher Meissner (UC Davis) will present at the Arthur Lewis Lab Seminar.

Gabriel Marques Camargo (University of Manchester) "Mobile Quilombos: The Making of Black Territories in the White City"

15:00 - 17:00 19 October 2026
Abstract: This paper examines the concept of “mobile quilombos” through an analysis of Afro-Brazilian religious occupations of public space, exploring how the circulation of axé produces…

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) "Filmic Relationality: Towards an Ethnographic Ecocinema"

15:00 - 17:00 26 October 2026
Abstract: Rooted in ecocriticism and ecomedia studies, the field of ecocinema counts by now a significant volume of scholarship analysing works as diverse as Hollywood catastrophic…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

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

Dimitrios Theodossopoulos (University of Kent) "From Recognition to Misrecognition: Indigeneity, the AI Dialectic and the Anthropomorphic Temptation"

15:00 - 17:00 9 November 2026
Abstract: What happens when a social anthropologist conducts a sustained dialectical exchange with an AI system on a topic he knows intimately through decades of ethnographic fieldwork?…

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) "Fieldnotes, Library Scans and the Ethnographic Narrative After Catastrophe"

15:00 - 17:00 16 November 2026
Abstract: In this seminar, I will give an account of my return to my field notebooks and library materials on Antakya, Turkey, after the city’s complete destruction with the earthquakes…

'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

Lewis Lab Seminar - Vigyan Ratnoo (Utrecht University)

16:00 - 17:00 19 November 2026
Vigyan Ratnoo (Utrecht University) will present at the Arthur Lewis Lab Seminar.

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

Lewis Lab Seminar - Jane Humphries (University of Oxford)

16:00 - 17:00 3 December 2026
Jane Humphries (University of Oxford) will present at the Arthur Lewis Lab Seminar.

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…

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