School of Social Sciences

Annual Harry Street Lecture 2026 with Attorney General Richard Hermer KC

17:00 - 19:00 23 March 2026
The School of Social Sciences and Department of Law are delighted to host the 2026 Annual Harry Street Lecture delivered by an alumnus of our school and leading figure in the legal…

Macro Seminar - Evi Pappa (Carlos III Madrid)

12:00 - 13:00 23 March 2026
Title: Pricing Dynamics Under Financial Stress

The Erosion of the Right to Humanitarian Assistance

13:00 - 15:00 23 March 2026
In this Guest Lecture, Professor Patrycja Grzebyk will guide us through the legal foundations of the right to humanitarian assistance and explore contemporary developments that place…

‘Bringing Something New into Being: Joy and Natality in Anthropology’ - Social Anthropology Seminar Series

15:00 - 17:00 23 March 2026
Joanna Cook (University College London) - ‘Bringing Something New into Being: Joy and Natality in Anthropology’

CLACS Film screening: 'Madan Saras'

17:00 - 18:30 25 March 2026
Film screening organised by the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, in affiliation with the SPLAS Cine-club and with the support of the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology.…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series. Andrew Parker University of Durham. It’s Not Me, It’s You: The Effect of Alter’s Brokerage Orientations on an Individual’s Leader Identity

16:00 - 17:30 25 March 2026
Understanding how individuals come to see themselves as leaders is critical for organizations. While prior research has primarily focused on individual characteristics and experiences…

Book Launch: Interrogating the Global Social Challenges

18:45 - 20:45 8 April 2026
Hot off the press for spring 2026, 'Interrogating the Global Social Challenges' presents wide-ranging expertise from sociologists on some of the most urgent issues of our time. This…

SOCIAL STATISTICS SEMINAR SERIES

14:00 - 15:30 14 April 2026
Please join us for the Social Statistics Seminar, we have coffee and cake. We are very pleased to welcome: András Vörös Associate Professor in Quantitative Methods, University of Birmingham Title: TBA Abstract: TBA

Advancing Racial Justice: Convention on the State of Data 2026

16 April 2026
The Race Equality Foundation, in partnership with the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) are hosting a landmark convention this April…

‘Squatting socialism: politicising shelter and its absence in a state 'without homelessness' - Social Anthropology Seminar Series

15:00 - 17:00 20 April 2026
Madeleine Reeves (University of Oxford) - ‘Squatting socialism: politicising shelter and its absence in a state 'without homelessness'

Relational understandings of life, relationships and moments that matter (Kaisa Kuurne and Sara Eldén)

13:00 - 15:00 21 April 2026
Light refreshments will be available from 1pm Kaisa Kuurne (University of Turku, Finland) and Sara Eldén (Malmö University, Sweden) In this joint Morgan Centre seminar, we consider…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 22 April 2026
Eleanor Power London School of Economics

Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: Evidence, Outcomes, and the Logic of Care in Youth Mental Health Services.

11:00 - 12:30 23 April 2026
Randomised controlled trials are central to claims about effective mental health interventions, yet their assumptions rarely hold in youth mental health services, where interventions…

Multispecies Deconstructions of the “Human" within International Human Rights Law

13:00 - 15:00 27 April 2026
Critical multispecies studies reveal that the philosophical, social, and legal pedestal on which human subjects are placed within Western modernity rests on faulty foundations. This…

‘Why Privacy is Powerful in Germany’ - Social Anthropology Seminar Series

15:00 - 17:00 27 April 2026
Vita Peacock (King's College London) - ‘Why Privacy is Powerful in Germany’

Christabel Pankhurst Lecture 2026: PUSHing for Justice: Women, Power and the Unfinished Fight for Equality

16:00 - 18:30 29 April 2026
Join us for the Annual Christabel Pankhurst Lecture as our guest speaker, trailblazing legal leader and equality advocate Dr I. Stephanie Boyce CBE FKC. reflects on what it truly means…

MILC Multi-Book Launch

12:00 - 13:30 29 April 2026
MILC is delighted to host a multi-book launch celebrating recent publications by our faculty. The event brings together important debates on regional trade in the Global South, the…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 29 April 2026
Yannan He University of Manchester

‘New and Old Seekers of Alien Minds: Religion, AI, and the Non-Human Other’ - Social Anthropology Seminar Series

15:00 - 17:00 4 May 2026
Beth Singler (University of Zurich) - ‘New and Old Seekers of Alien Minds: Religion, AI, and the Non-Human Other’

Macro Seminar - Davide Melcangi (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)

16:00 - 17:00 5 May 2026
Title: TBA

'Al-bostan: Gardens of connection and resistance in the Golan Heights’ - Social Anthropology Seminar Series

15:00 - 17:00 11 May 2026
Maria Kastrinou (Brunel University) - ‘Al-bostan: Gardens of connection and resistance in the Golan Heights’

SOCIAL STATISTICS SEMINAR SERIES

14:00 - 15:30 12 May 2026
Please join us for the Social Statistics Seminar , we have coffee and cake. We are very pleased to welcome: Amiya Bhatia Associate Professor, University of Oxford Title: TBA Abstract: TBA

Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: Getting Results Reports Right.

15:00 - 16:30 26 May 2026
Just how we phrase the results report of an empirical study matters because the form and content of the report suggests what can and cannot be done with the study results and what the…

Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: Simulating Expertise-Based Inference.

15:00 - 16:30 22 June 2026
The reliability of causal inference based on a physician’s expertise has been a matter of debate. In recent work, Tabatabaei Ghomi and Stegenga developed a model to simulate such inferences…

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