School of Social Sciences

‘“In the thick of it’: Releasing pressure in Santiago de Cuba’ - Social Anthropology Seminar Series

15:00 - 17:00 16 February 2026
Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier (University of Victoria) - ‘“In the thick of it’: Releasing pressure in Santiago de Cuba’

Macro Seminar - Hanbaek Lee (Cambridge)

16:00 - 17:00 17 February 2026
Title: Dancing on the Saddles: A Geometric Framework for Stochastic Equilibrium Dynamics

MET Seminar - Roberto Corrao (Stanford)

17:00 - 18:00 18 February 2026
Title: Resilience vs. Fragility: Global Properties of Economies with Endogenous Production Networks Authors: Simone Cerreia-Vioglio, Roberto Corrao, Joel Flynn, and Giacomo Lanzani…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series, Alessandro Lomi (University of Italian Switzerland, Lugano) Modeling Social Networks with Changeable Nodes

16:00 - 17:30 18 February 2026
One of the defining features of social networks is that their nodes—social agents—are not fixed entities but actively reconfigure their internal structure in response to changes in…

Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: Combining evidence for establishing causality.

15:00 - 16:30 23 February 2026
Medicine and health science relies on a variety of methods, but do they establish the same thing? It is not uncommon that the available evidence points in different directions with…

‘Fieldnotes, Library Scans and the Ethnographic Narrative After Catastrophe’ - Social Anthropology Seminar Series

15:00 - 17:00 23 February 2026
Yael Navaro (University of Cambridge) - ‘Fieldnotes, Library Scans and the Ethnographic Narrative After Catastrophe’

Macro Seminar - Santiago Garcia-Couto (Georgetown Qatar)

16:00 - 17:00 24 February 2026
Title: The Anatomy of the China Shock

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 25 February 2026
Bruce Cronin University of Greenwich

‘Against Capture: The Political Life of Creative Anthropology’ - Social Anthropology Seminar Series

15:00 - 17:00 2 March 2026
Fiona Murphy (Dublin City University) - ‘Against Capture: The Political Life of Creative Anthropology’

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 4 March 2026
Shan Shi University of Manchester

The New International Economic (Dis)order: On Law, Privatization and Power

04:00 - 17:00 4 March 2026
In 1976, Gillian White published her famous article ‘The New International Economic Order’ in the Virginia Journal of International Law, finding a ‘climate in which some genuine amelioration…

'Bioengineering Financial Futures: From Synthetic Biology to Synthetic Bonds’ - Social Anthropology Seminar Series

15:00 - 17:00 9 March 2026
Kath Weston (University of Virginia) - 'Bioengineering Financial Futures: From Synthetic Biology to Synthetic Bonds’

Macro Seminar - Johanna Wallenius (Stockholm)

16:00 - 17:00 10 March 2026
Title: Does Student Aid Improve Educational Mobility?

SOCIAL STATISTICS SEMINAR SERIES

14:00 - 15:30 10 March 2026
Please join us for the Social Statistics Seminar, we have coffee and cake. We are very pleased to welcome: Mónica Hernández Alava Professor in Health Econometrics, University of Sheffield Title: TBA Abstract: TBA

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 11 March 2026
Zsofia Boda University of Essex

“Can I steal your shade?’ On Fieldwork, Minor Gestures, and Associative Translations’ - Social Anthropology Seminar Series

15:00 - 17:00 16 March 2026
Cristiana Giordano (UC Davis) - “Can I steal your shade?’ On Fieldwork, Minor Gestures, and Associative Translations’

Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: Evidence for mechanisms and the challenge of mechanism individuation

15:00 - 16:30 17 March 2026
(Joint work with Till Grüne-Yanoff.) Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are widely used to inform policy decisions in the social and behavioral sciences. Yet both philosophers and…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 18 March 2026
Pietro Casari Scuola Normale Superiore Italy

Macro Seminar - Evi Pappa (Carlos III Madrid)

12:00 - 13:00 23 March 2026
Title: TBA

‘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’

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 25 March 2026
Andrew Parker University of Durham

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

‘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'

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…

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