Events in the School of Social Sciences
Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the School of Social Sciences.
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..
'Secured Transactions in Global Lawmaking' - Inaugural Lecture by Professor Orkun Akseli
Secured transactions law has been subjected to a close scrutiny over the last three decades by governments, academics, mandated international organs and international financial institutions. One of the main reasons for this special attention is the importance of the availability and the cost of credit for trade and economic development, and th..
Macro Seminar - Uwe Sunde (Munich)
Title: TBA
“Would They Defend Our Eastern Border?” State Allegiances as Potent Connections - Professor Sirpa Wrede
Morgan Centre and Department of Sociology seminar by Professor Sirpa Wrede Centre of Excellence for Research in Ageing and Care, University of Helsinki, Finland This paper considers the multifaceted nature of state allegiances amidst contemporary geopolitical tensions. It argues that conflicts and war revitalise the significance of state alle..
Brownbag - Guillaume Blanc
Title: Malthusian Migrations
CANCELLED - Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Seminar
CANCELLED - Mikaela Loach - "It’s Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World" Chair: Dr Adrienne Roberts (UoM Politics)
MET Seminar - Paola Manzini (Bristol)
Manchester Economic Theory (MET) schedule: http://daviddelacretaz.net/seminars/ Speaker website: https://seis.bristol.ac.uk/~bq21381/papers.html
Mitchell Centre Seminar series
Tomáš Lintner, Masaryk University
MANCEPT Seminar: Dr Jessica Isserow, “The Possibility of Redemption”
Dr Jessica Isserow, University of Leeds - “The Possibility of Redemption”
Manchester International Peace Lecture - “Societal Polarization and Academic Freedom in the Time of Symbolic Liberalism”
This year’s Manchester International Peace Lecture will be given by Professor Sari Hanafi and will be on the topic of “Societal Polarization and Academic Freedom in the Time of Symbolic Liberalism”. Professor Hanafi is Director of the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies and Chair of the Islamic Studies program at the American Univ..