Events in the School of Social Sciences
Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the School of Social Sciences.
Soumhya Venkatesan (Manchester) and Adam Reed (St Andrews) "Democratic Epistemology, Anyone? Approaches to and Images of Knowledge as Radically Open to All Comers"
This paper, based on ethnographic fieldwork among British Spiritualists in Edinburgh by Adam Reed and pub philosophers in Liverpool by Soumhya Venkatesan, seeks to propose an anthropologically grounded social epistemology. We draw inspiration from philosopher Alvin Goldman’s argument that rather than the highly individualistic focus of tradi..
Brownbag Seminar: Pengguang Lu
Title: Heterogeneous Diagnostic Expectations and Wealth Inequality
Macro Seminar - Stephen Terry (University of Michigan)
Abstract: Idiosyncratic shocks shape firm decisions and the value functions they maximize. Using a comprehensive firm-level dataset, we document significant departures from the widely assumed Gaussian AR(1) stochastic process, including fat-tailed, leptokurtic revenue transitions and lower persistence in the tails. This discrepancy has two key..
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
Balazs Vedres Central European University Network tension and collaborative creativity
Online Course in Social Network Analysis (Mitchell Centre)
The Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis at the University of Manchester is excited to introduce a new semester-long online course called the Mitchell Autumn School on Social Network Analysis, taught by the centre’s 8 academic members. Unlike short workshops, this semester-long format provides the depth and pace of a traditional acade..
Fiona Murphy (Dublin City University) "LATE WORK: Imagination, Form and the Creative Life of Anthropology"
What might it mean to think of anthropology through lateness, as a way of staying with forms of thought that remain difficult, unresolved, excessive, or somehow out of time with the conventions through which knowledge becomes recognisable? Taking Edward Said’s writing on late style as its point of departure, this lecture brings lateness into..
Brownbag Seminar: Lucas Morissette
Title: TBD
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
Jana Diesner Technical University of Munich What we know and wrongly assume about the how and why of link formation in collaboration networks Large-scale bibliometric analyses allow us to validate classic theories of link formation in contemporary settings. I show how measurement choices can lead to erroneous theorizing about network formation..
Andrew Irving (University of Manchester) Title TBC
Abstract TBC Andrew Irving is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Manchester.
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
Neah Gondal Boston University Mapping Meaning Structures using Directed Network Graphs on Association Rules John Mohr (1998) persuasively argued that formal or structural meaning analysis involves three steps: (1) identifying elements of the cultural system, (2) conceptualizing and measuring relationships among those elements, and (3) represen..