Events in the School of Social Sciences

Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the School of Social Sciences.

Early Career Researcher Masterclass on Social Reproduction 

11:00 - 13:00 09 October 2025

This ECR masterclass has three aims: (1) to reflect on our research as it relates to the broader landscape of social reproduction research and recent calls for its pluralization, (2) to network with colleagues involved in this research (including Hallsworth Visiting Professor Stefanie Wöhl, and (3) to share experiences and strategies for publ..

Econometrics Seminar - Rosnel Sessinou (Surrey)

12:00 - 13:00 13 October 2025

Title TBA

Kwame Phillips (University of Southampton). The Multisensorial as Maroon

15:00 - 17:00 13 October 2025

Collins, et al. (2017) invite anthropology into a renewed engagement with contemporary media ecologies and with the transformative potentialities of the multimodal. This position advocates for embracing the multicultural and polyvocal, and encourages academics to be imaginative, creative, boundary-pushing, and system-challenging. In this talk,..

Brownbag - Akos Valentinyi

13:00 - 14:00 15 October 2025

Title TBD

MET Seminar - Pawel Dziewulski (Sussex)

17:00 - 15 October 2025

Title: TBA Contact: sophie.kreutzkamp@manchester.ac.uk

Mitchell centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 15 October 2025

Laurence Mylène Brandenberger, University of Zurich

Seminar by Prof Stefanie Wöhl - Civil Society Challenges to Global Supply Chains: The EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive

15:00 - 16:30 15 October 2025

On October 15th, Stephanie Wöhl will be delivering a talk on "Civil Society Challenges to Global Supply Chains: The EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive". It is from 3-4:30pm in Booth Street East_G.04. Stefanie is usually based at the University of Vienna, but is joining us for the first part of the year as a Hallsworth Visit..

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 an Act of Resistance, Gary explores what has been termed as the ‘burden of representation’ and the pressures exerted upon the relatively small group of people f..

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 Analysis. Drowning in CSVs and tangled datasets? This workshop shows you how to tidy up, connect, and query your data with knowledge graphs. Learn how to or..

Social Reproduction and/as Infrastructure in Europe and Beyond

11:00 - 15:00 17 October 2025

Social Reproduction and/as Infrastructure in Europe and Beyond: A Joint Jean Monnet Centre and Political Economy Centre Workshop, with Hallsworth Visting Professor Stefanie Wöhl 17 October, 2025, 11am-3pm, University of Manchester The social sciences have seen an ‘infrastructural turn’ in re¬cent years, with Marxist and other critica..