Events in the School of Social Sciences
Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the School of Social Sciences.
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..
Andrew Irving (University of Manchester) "Between Thought and Expression, Lies a Lifetime: The Inner Lifeworlds of Motor Neurone Disease"
Abstract: “Between thought and expression” sang Lou Reed “lies a lifetime”: a lyric that evokes the strange distance between people’s internalised realms of being and their public expression in the wider social world. Perhaps, nowhere is this disjuncture more apparent than in terms of Motor Neurone Disease (MND), a neurodegenerative..
Brownbag Seminar: Lucía Contreas
Title: Less Simple, Less Distortionary? Evidence from Costa Rica’s Corporate Tax Reform Authors: Lucía Contreas and Jonathan Garita Abstract: This paper studies how firms respond to a less distortionary but less simple tax schedule in a developing economy. We do so in the context of Costa Rica’s 2020 corporate income tax reform, which r..
MET Seminar - Tan Gan (LSE)
Title: Robust Delegation Authors: Ricardo Alonso, Tan Gan & Ju Hu Abstract: We study delegation rules by principals uninformed of the underlying state (external uncertainty) and the preferences of better-informed agents (internal uncertainty). Evaluating delegation sets with a max–min criterion, we show that optimal delegation sets are fle..
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
Neha 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..
Lewis Lab Seminar - Christopher Meissner (UC Davis)
Christopher Meissner (UC Davis) will present at the Arthur Lewis Lab Seminar.
Gabriel Marques Camargo (University of Manchester) "Mobile Quilombos: The Making of Black Territories in the White City"
Abstract: This paper examines the concept of “mobile quilombos” through an analysis of Afro-Brazilian religious occupations of public space, exploring how the circulation of axé produces forms of territory, embodiment, and collective life. I develop a framework linking axé, body-territory, and quilombo to examine how religious communitie..
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
Chris McCarty University of Florida Foundations of Personal Network Analysis and Recent Applications Personal network analysis, sometimes called egocentric network analysis, is a subfield of social network analysis focusing on a respondent (ego) and their network members (alters). With this approach the researcher uses the compositional and..
Lorenzo Ferrarini (University of Manchester) "Filmic Relationality: Towards an Ethnographic Ecocinema"
Abstract: Rooted in ecocriticism and ecomedia studies, the field of ecocinema counts by now a significant volume of scholarship analysing works as diverse as Hollywood catastrophic movies, environmentalist documentaries and experimental slow cinema. In this presentation I cross the main ideas from this literature with anthropology’s recent t..
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
Laura Koehly National Human Genome Research Institute