Events in the School of Social Sciences
Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the School of Social Sciences.
Call for Applications: ECR Workshop ‘Beyond the Core – Normative Orders Across Semi-Peripheries’ (with Prof George Galindo) | 20 Nov 2025
The Manchester International Law Centre (MILC) and the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) are pleased to announce an interdisciplinary workshop for early-career researchers (third-year PhD candidates, postdoctoral researchers, and Lecturers/Assistant Professors) across the social sciences and humanities. The workshop wil..
Gaudenz Metzger (University of Manchester). Life in Limbo: Hospice care, photography, and the performance of the everyday
Modern Western societies have struggled to find appropriate ways of dealing with the existential situation of dying and death. Under the influence of biomedicine, rationalisation, and secularisation, death has increasingly been framed as a medical problem, stripping it of its social and spiritual dimensions. Frequently observed effects of the..
Brownbag - Yue (Joyce) Yu
Title TBD
MET Seminar - Albin Erlanson (Essex)
Title: TBA Contact: sophie.kreutzkamp@manchester.ac.uk
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
Tobias Stark, University of Utrecht
PhD work-in-progress seminar with Sam Toscano and Heather Urquhart
PhD work-in-progress seminar with Sam Toscano and Heather Urquhart
'Theorising the future is the future of anthropology' debate
The Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory debates the motion: 'Theorising the future is the future of anthropology'. Simon Visiting Professor, Ghassan Hage, and Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University, Rebecca Bryant, will be proposing the motion. Stef Jansen, Professor at the University of Sarajevo and Honorary Professo..
Ana Gutierrez Garza (University of St Andrews). Making it Through Activism: Precarious masculinities in Madrid
Economic exclusion and poverty can create problematic masculinities as they challenge social structures of gender dominance, class mobility and social status. In this paper, I analyse the impact that precarity has on masculinities among housing activists involved in the Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (Platform of People Affected by Mo..
Econometrics Seminar - Daniel Lewis (UCL)
Title TBA
MET Seminar - Spyros Galanis (Durham)
Title: TBA Contact: sophie.kreutzkamp@manchester.ac.uk