Events in the School of Social Sciences
Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the School of Social Sciences.
Econometrics Seminar - Rosnel Sessinou (Surrey)
Title TBA
Kwame Phillips (University of Southampton). The Multisensorial as Maroon
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
Title TBD
MET Seminar - Pawel Dziewulski (Sussex)
Title: TBA Contact: sophie.kreutzkamp@manchester.ac.uk
Mitchell centre Seminar Series
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
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)
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
"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
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..
Sarah O'Brien (University of Manchester). Landscapes, timelessness and ambivalence in the nuclearised peninsula of La Hague
Abstract to follow. Sarah O'Brien is a Research Associate (Mimesis in Action) in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester.