Events in the School of Social Sciences
Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the School of Social Sciences.
Surplus Lives Under Racial Capitalism Book Launch (HYBRID)
Join us for the Political Economy Centre's hybrid book launch for Dr Barbora ?ernušáková's Surplus Lives Under Racial Capitalism. The book offers a powerful account of the relationship between political economy and anti-Roma racism in East Central Europe and will be of interest to anyone working on, or wanting to learn more about, racial c..
Soumhya Venkatesan (University of Manchester) "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..
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
Balazs Vedres Central European University
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..
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
Jana Diesner Technical University of Munich
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
Gabriel Marques Camargo (University of Manchester) Title TBC
Abstract TBC Gabriel Marques Camargo recently completed his PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester.
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
Chris McCarty University of Florida