School of Social Sciences

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…

MET Seminar - Alkis Georgiadis-Harris (Warwick)

17:00 - 18:00 29 April 2026
Title: Perfect Secrecy in the Wild Authors: Costas Cavounidis, Massimiliano Furlan & Alkis Georgiadis-Harris Abstract: Alice wishes to reveal the state X to Bob, if he knows some…

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. Yannan He University of Manchester. Effects of Classroom Parental Networks on Students’ Academic Performance.

16:00 - 17:30 29 April 2026
Abstract: As suggested by social capital theories, parents could obtain resources from network ties that benefit themselves and their children. Parental networks are of particular importance.…

‘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: The Investment Channel of Monetary Policy: Disentangling Firm Heterogeneity

‘European versus American Values: International Law and Democratic Principles in the New Multipolar Disorder Era’

16:00 - 18:00 6 May 2026
About the talk: Prof. Alejandro del Valle-Gálvez will discuss the role and significance of European and American values in today’s multipolar world and their impact on systems of law,…

Gender Equality and Economic Growth: An Overlapping Generations Approach

17:00 - 19:00 7 May 2026
Join us as esteemed economist Pierre-Richard Agénor shared insights from his upcoming book ‘Gender Equality and Economic Growth: An Overlapping Generations Approach’, exploring the…

'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

Macro Seminar - Luisa Fuster (Carlos III University of Madrid)

15:00 - 16:00 14 May 2026
Title: Labour Market Polarization and Inequality: A Roy Model Perspective

Macro Seminar - Morten O. Ravn (University College London)

16:30 - 17:30 14 May 2026
Title: Antitrust, Market Power, and U.S. Macroeconomic Outcomes

Macro Seminar - Sujan Bandyopadhyay (University of Manchester)

14:00 - 15:00 14 May 2026
Title: Information Frictions, Skill Accumulation, and Labour Market Dynamics

Macro Seminar - Christian Siegel (University of Kent)

12:30 - 13:30 15 May 2026
Title: Does Automation Lower the Labour Share?

Macro Seminar - Elisa Guglielminetti (Bank of Italy)

11:30 - 12:30 15 May 2026
Title: The Innovation Race: Experimental Evidence on Advanced Technologies

Macro Seminar - Mariacristina De Nardi (University of Minnesota)

10:00 - 11:00 15 May 2026
Title: Why Do Households Save and Work?

Macro Seminar - Marko Irisarri (University of Manchester)

09:00 - 10:00 15 May 2026
Title: Entrepreneurship across Space: Capital Misallocation and Place-based Policies

Balancing Technology’s Benefits amid the Digital Addiction Debate

13:00 - 13:30 20 May 2026
How do we find the balance between what technology can provide us and the dangers of what has been called digital addiction? About the talk Digital addiction, including social media…

The 2026 Dorothy Emmet Public Lecture

16:00 - 18:00 21 May 2026
The 2026 Dorothy Emmet public lecture at the University of Manchester will be given by Professor Elisa Paganini (Università degli Studi di Milano) on Thursday 21st May from 4-6pm. The…

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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