School of Social Sciences

Brownbag - Akos Valentinyi

13:00 - 14:00 15 October 2025
Title TBD

MET Seminar - Pawel Dziewulski (Sussex)

17:00 15 October 2025
Title: TBA Contact: sophie.kreutzkamp@manchester.ac.uk

Mitchell centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 15 October 2025
Laurence Mylène Brandenberger, University of Zurich

Seminar by Prof Stefanie Wöhl - Civil Society Challenges to Global Supply Chains: The EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive

15:00 - 16:30 15 October 2025
On October 15th, Stephanie Wöhl will be delivering a talk on "Civil Society Challenges to Global Supply Chains: The EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive". It is from…

Pigeonholed: Creative Freedom as an Act of Resistance - Gary Younge (Faber Lecture)

19:00 - 20:30 16 October 2025
Award-winning author, broadcaster and Professor of Sociology at The University of Manchester, Gary Younge, delivers the inaugural Faber Lecture. In Pigeonholed: Creative Freedom as…

From Entities to Edges: A Practical Introduction to Knowledge Graphs

09:30 - 13:30 17 October 2025
"From Entities to Edges: A Practical Introduction to Knowledge Graphs" A workshop co-organised by The Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research and the Mitchell Centre for Social Network…

Social Reproduction and/as Infrastructure in Europe and Beyond

11:00 - 15:00 17 October 2025
Social Reproduction and/as Infrastructure in Europe and Beyond: A Joint Jean Monnet Centre and Political Economy Centre Workshop, with Hallsworth Visting Professor Stefanie Wöhl 17…

Sarah O'Brien (University of Manchester). Landscapes, timelessness and ambivalence in the nuclearised peninsula of La Hague

15:00 - 17:00 20 October 2025
Abstract to follow. Sarah O'Brien is a Research Associate (Mimesis in Action) in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester.

Macro Seminar - Christoph Albert (Collegio Carlo Alberto)

16:00 - 17:00 21 October 2025
Title: Immigrants, Imports, and Welfare: Evidence from Household Purchase Data

MET Seminar - Kfir Eliaz (Tel Aviv)

17:00 22 October 2025
Title: TBA Contact: sophie.kreutzkamp@manchester.ac.uk

Mitchell centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 22 October 2025
Nynke Niezink, Carnegie Melon University

Rosie Walters, Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Cardiff University - Girls, Power and International Development: Agency and Activism in the Global North and South

15:00 - 16:30 22 October 2025
On Oct 22nd, Rosie Walters, Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Cardiff University (https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/waltersr13) will be giving a talk to launch her new…

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 29 October 2025
Title: TBA Contact: sophie.kreutzkamp@manchester.ac.uk

Mitchell centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 29 October 2025
Lars Leszczensky, University Frankfurt am Main

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,…

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