Events in the School of Social Sciences
Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the School of Social Sciences.
Publishing in Political Economy: Navigating the Inter-Disciplinary Landscape
This roundtable is primarily aimed at PhD students and ECRs at the University of Manchester who work on issues related to political economy across a range of disciplines and those who do inter-disciplinary research. It features speakers with experience editing journals and books in different areas, including development studies, environmental..
Social Statistics Seminars: Dr. Stephen Burgess (Cambridge)
Dr. Stephen Burgess (Cambridge) will be presenting some of his recent work. The even will be online.
Teenage Kicks: Girls growing up in Britain 1956-1974
Meg can’t wait to leave home. Cynthia misses her family back in the Caribbean. Pamela is pregnant and her mum wants the baby adopted. Andrea fancies girls. Life in 1960s Britain was changing fast but it wasn’t all miniskirts and pop music. This beautiful installation at Glasgow Women's Library, with illustrations by Candice Purwin in digi..
'Mystery in Everyday Life' James Hodgson
This seminar organised by the School of Sociology and Social Policy (SSSP) at The University of Leeds is given by James Hodgson (The University of Manchester) on the topic of 'mystery work' and mystery as a social phenomenon. See the link to SSSP for more details. Abstract: Mystery is everywhere in social life. Whether the mundane mysteries..
Brownbag - Usama Jamal
Title: Tackling Corporate Tax Avoidance: Evidence from Earnings Stripping Rules
Critical Global Politics Talk - Dr Amira Halperin
The Critical Global Politics Cluster will be hosting a talk by Dr Amira Halperin on the topic of ’The Palestinian Refugees- from Gaza & the West Bank to the UK - Past, Present and Future Perspectives’. It will be held on Wednesday 20th of March 3.00-4.00pm. Please see below for more information about this talk. This will be a hybrid event..
Econometrics Seminar - Melanie Schienle (KIT)
Title TBA
RESCHEULED - Malgorzata Stelmaszyk (University of Manchester)
This seminar will be rescheduled to next term (date TBC). Malgorzata Stelmaszyk: Living the dream: shamanic crossings and climate crisis among Nanai in the Siberian Far East This presentation is about the ways in which shamans undertake cosmo-political experiments as one of the strategies in navigating the current climatic crisis in the Amu..
PPE Annual Lecture - Professor Diane Coyle (Cambridge) on 'The Digital Economy and Productivity'
Diane Coyle is the Bennett Professor of Public Policy and Co-Director of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at the University of Cambridge. Her latest book - ‘Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be‘ - focuses on how economics needs to change to keep pace with the twenty-first century and the digital economy. The t..
Brownbag - Yizhou (Kyle) Kuang
Title: TBA