Events in the School of Social Sciences
Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the School of Social Sciences.
Megnaa Mehtta (University College London). Retreat or Remain? Notions of a full life and a slow death from Sundarbans’ eroding coastlines
As sea level rise erode coastlines of the Sundarbans, “managed retreat”—a process of relocating people to supposedly safer areas—is put forth by policymakers globally, and in India, as an adaptation solution. Through long-term ethnographic research with residents of Sundarbans’ coastal communities, this paper examines their desires t..
Macro Seminar - Vincent Sterk (University College London)
Title: The Macroeconomic and Welfare Effects of Energy Price Controls
Roundtable: Free Trade Unravelling
Please join us for a roundtable discussing the ongoing unravelling of the free trade consensus in global trade politics and governance with Laura Macdonald (Carleton University), Shamel Azmeh (Global Development Institute), Ellie Gore (Politics), Adrienne Roberts (Political Economy Centre) and JMCE Board Member Diletta Pegoraro (AMBS) on 11th..
Brownbag - Itay Saporta Eksten
Title TBD
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series - Joe Labianca (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) - Affect’s Role in Organizationally-Sponsored Networking
Most organizational research on networking focuses on negative emotions toward it; but some people are comfortable with networking or even find it energizing. This mixed methods study draws upon the more comprehensive circumplex model of affect to investigate how positive and negative emotions experienced when engaging in networking behavior i..
Research Seminar, “Unions, Coops, and the Contradictions of Freedom” with John Las Heras (University of the Basque Country)
“Unions, Coops, and the Contradictions of Freedom”, John Las Heras, University of the Basque Country
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