Events in the School of Social Sciences
Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the School of Social Sciences.
MET Seminar - Kfir Eliaz (Tel Aviv)
Title: Wasonian Persuasion Authors: Kfir Eliaz & Ariel Rubinstein Abstract: A firm wishes to persuade a patient to take a drug by making either positive statements like “if you take our drug, you will be cured”, or negative statements like “anyone who was not cured did not take our drug”. Patients are neither Bayesian nor strategic:..
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series - Nynke Niezink (Carnegie Mellon University), Network Analysis in Statistics Education: Substantive and Methodological Results
Progress on substantive research and methodological development often goes hand in hand. In this talk, I will illustrate this in the context of statistics education. While statistics classes are getting larger and larger, feeling a sense of belonging remains fundamental to students’ academic success and well-being. Sense of belonging is inh..
Rosie Walters, Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Cardiff University - Girls, Power and International Development: Agency and Activism in the Global North and South
On Oct 22nd, Rosie Walters, Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Cardiff University (https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/waltersr13) will be giving a talk to launch her new book, Girls, Power and International Development: Agency and Activism in the Global North and South. It is from 3-4:30 in Booth Street East G.04.
Econometrics Seminar - Philipp Ketz (PSE)
Title TBA
Emmanuelle Ricaud Oneto (CSGA, Dijon). "Our children? Sold to the State. They will come back in cans of tuna”: Analysis of a rumor on social policies in the Peruvian Amazon
This presentation suggests taking seriously a rumor circulating among the Maijuna, a Western Tukanoan indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon, regarding social policies such as cash transfers, school food, and old age pensions implemented since 2012. Based on a long ethnographic investigation among the Maijuna, it examines how this rumor cons..
Start or end of life? Advancing the Sociology of Life, Death & Bereavement
Join us for the inaugural lecture of Professor Kate Reed, hosted by the University of Manchester's School of Social Science and Department of Sociology. ‘Life’ and ‘death’ affects us all. Drawing on groundbreaking research on reproductive loss, post-mortem and bereavement, Professor Reed will problematise the boundary between life an..
Brownbag - Qiwei He (Edinburgh)
Title TBD
MET Seminar - Pietro Dall'Ara (Naples)
Title: TBA Contact: sophie.kreutzkamp@manchester.ac.uk
Mitchell centre Seminar Series
Lars Leszczensky, University Frankfurt am Main
Professor Ghassan Hage book launch
Join the Social Anthropology and Sociology departments to hear Simon Visiting Professor, Ghassan Hage, present his new book: Pierre Bourdieu’s Political Economy of Being (Duke, October 2025). Following the book launch, there will be a drinks reception open to all attendees. This is a walk-in event and attendees do not need to sign up beforeh..