School of Social Sciences

M Summer. School: Statistical Network Modelling for Social Sciences

22 - 26 September 2025
This event forms a part of the M Summer. School 2025 from the Mitchell Centre This course offers an in-depth overview of statistical models for social network analysis. The course…

Dangerous Writings -A Symposium on the Ethics, and Practicalities of Working with Risky Texts

09:30 - 18:00 30 September 2025
"Dangerous writings" have long served as both catalysts for transformation and sources of profound personal and collective risk. From incendiary manifestos to suppressed memoirs and…

Brownbag - Adam Sanjurjo (Boston College)

13:00 - 14:00 1 October 2025
Title TBD

Open Minds XVIII The Eighteenth Annual Philosophy Conference for Postgraduate Students in Philosophy

2 - 3 October 2025
We are delighted to announce the eighteenth annual Open Minds Conference for graduate students in philosophy. Open Minds is a two-day conference which offers graduate students working…

Macro Seminar - Calumn G. Hamilton (Groningen & Wageningen)

16:00 - 17:00 7 October 2025
Title: Foreign Aid and Structural Change

Brownbag - Keitaro Ninomiya (UIUC)

13:00 - 14:00 8 October 2025
Title TBD

Brownbag - Akos Valentinyi

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

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…