Events in the School of Social Sciences
Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the School of Social Sciences.
SOCIAL STATISTICS SEMINAR SERIES
Please join us for the Social Statistics Seminar, we have coffee and cake. We are very pleased to welcome: Maciej Bersewicz Professor of Statistics, Pozna University of Economics and Business Title: Shadow Populations: Estimating Unauthorized Migration joint work with Brendan Georgeson (ONS), Peter Walsh (University of Oxford) and Aniela C..
Charlotte Al Khalili (University of Sussex). Scales of justice in post-Assad Syria
This paper proposes an ethnographic exploration of post-Assad Syria that focuses on ideas and practices of justice in the aftermaths of mass atrocities. Based on fieldwork in the city of Daraa, it describes the different scales and registers of justice on which Syrian former detainees and families of disappeared and missing build their account..
Econometrics Seminar - Sami Stouli (Bristol)
Title TBA
Macro Seminar - Albert Jan Hummel (Groningen)
Title: Optimal Climate Policy with Incomplete Markets
Brownbag - Lory Barile (Warwick)
Title TBD
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
Bernie Hogan, Oxford University
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
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
Tobias Stark, University of Utrecht