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CCSR and Social Statistics

Peopling Immigration Control: Geographies of Governing and Activism in the British Asylum System

This presentation begins to explore immigration decision makers’ stories. Drawing upon two research projects, it shows how their working practices and environments produce decision makers who are systematically pre-disposed towards exclusionary uses of their discretionary authority. It therefore lays bare both the agency of immigration decision makers and the geographies that seek to constrain and steer that agency. It also sets out the implications of this struggle for activists in the forced migration arena.

Date: 28/05/2012

Time: 1-2

Venue: Room 1.69/1.70, Humanities Bridgeford Street Building

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Sociology and Morgan Centre

Methods in Dialogue-Researching imagined futures

Our three speakers will introduce the different methodological approaches they have taken to researching imagined futures. This is followed by by discussion and debate from participants, exploring the distinctive research questions, practices, insights and types of knowledge claim that different methodological approaches to researching a topic can offer.

Date: 30/05/2012

Time: 3pm

Venue: Lecture theatre G7, Humanities Bridgeford St building

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Social Anthropology

Showcase for Postgraduates in Social Anthropology

This version of the annual Showcase event for postgraduate students in Social Anthropology at Manchester brings together for the first time social anthropology students from the universities of Manchester, Liverpool and Lancaster. It is the inaugural event of the Social Anthropology Pathway of the ESRC North West Doctoral Training Centre. Attendance is free but advance registration is required to camilla.lewis@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk.

Date: 31/05/2012

Time: 9.30 - 6.00

Venue: Board Room, Arthur Lewis Building

Sociology

Sociology seminar

Date: 13/06/2012

Time: 2-3pm

Venue: G.035/36, Arthur Lewis Building

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Philosophy

Open Minds VII

We are pleased to announce our seventh annual graduate conference. Following on from the success of Open Minds I - VI, the conference is intended to provide a supportive and stimulating environment for postgraduate students, and those recently awarded their PhD, to share and discuss their work.

Date: 26/06/2012

Venue: University of Manchester

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Politics

Brave New World 2012

The Sixteenth Annual Postgraduate Conference organised under the auspices of the Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT). Guest speakers this year are:

  • Richard Arneson (University of California, San Diego)
  • Charles Larmore (Brown University)

Date: 27/06/2012

Date To: 28/06/2012

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Philosophy

Collective Intentionality VIII

Speakers include: Michael Tomasello (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig), Michael Bratman (Stanford), Margaret Gilbert (UC Irvine), Elisabeth Pacherie (Jean Nicod), Raimo Tuomela (Helsinki), A. J. Julius (UCLA), Nick Bardsley (Reading), Stephen Butterfill (Warwick), Guenther Knoblich (CEU, Budapest), Alex Oliver (Cambridge), Kirk Ludwig (Indiana), Hans Bernhard Schmid (Vienna), Thomas Smith (Manchester), Kit Fine (NYU), Pierre Jacob (Institut Jean Nicod), Joel Smith (Manchester).

Date: 28/08/2012

Date To: 31/08/2012

Venue: Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama, University of Manchester

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Philosophy

The Foundations of Ontology

Date: 10/09/2012

Venue: University of Manchester

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Philosophy

Emotion and expression workshop

Date: 13/09/2012

Venue: Room 2.016/2.017, Arthur Lewis Building, University of Manchester

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Philosophy

Celebrating the work of Peter Goldie

This international conference celebrates the wide-ranging and influential work of Peter Goldie, Samuel Hall Professor of Philosophy at the University of Manchester from 2005 until his death in 2011.

Date: 14/09/2012

Date To: 15/09/2012

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