Past events

Macro Seminar - Calumn G. Hamilton (Groningen & Wageningen)

15:00 - 16:00 7 October 2025

Title: Foreign Aid and Structural Change

Declan Murray (University of Manchester) The Plastic Divide: Global environmentalism and the search for life in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

14:00 - 16:00 6 October 2025

On 1 June 2019 plastic bags were banned in Tanzania. The ban was driven by a global environmentalist...

Open Minds XVIII The Eighteenth Annual Philosophy Conference for Postgraduate Students in Philosophy

2 - 3 October 2025

We are delighted to announce the eighteenth annual Open Minds Conference for graduate students in ph...

Brownbag - Adam Sanjurjo (Boston College)

12:00 - 13:00 1 October 2025

Title TBD

Dangerous Writings -A Symposium on the Ethics, and Practicalities of Working with Risky Texts

08:30 - 17:00 30 September 2025

"Dangerous writings" have long served as both catalysts for transformation and sources of profound p...

Alistair Lomas (University of Manchester). Revolution, salvation, seaweed: Toward an anthropology of hype

14:00 - 16:00 29 September 2025

While undertaking research into seaweed cultivation on the west coast of Scotland in 2022-23, I stru...

M Summer. School: Statistical Network Modelling for Social Sciences

22 - 26 September 2025

This event forms a part of the M Summer. School 2025 from the Mitchell Centre This course offers an...

M Summer. School: Network Analysis for Social Sciences with R

15 - 19 September 2025

This event forms a part of the M Summer. School 2025 from the Mitchell Centre This course offers an...

M Summer. School: Introduction to Network Analysis for Social Sciences with UCINET

15 - 19 September 2025

This event forms a part of the M Summer. School 2025 from the Mitchell Centre This is a core introd...

'Bringing Criminological Theory to Life' Book Launch

13:30 - 16:30 11 September 2025

Join us for the launch of ‘Bringing Criminological Theory to Life’, a cutting-edge new book that...