Events in the School of Social Sciences
Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the School of Social Sciences.
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
Zsofia Boda University of Essex
“Can I steal your shade?’ On Fieldwork, Minor Gestures, and Associative Translations’ - Social Anthropology Seminar Series
Cristiana Giordano (UC Davis) - “Can I steal your shade?’ On Fieldwork, Minor Gestures, and Associative Translations’
Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: Evidence for mechanisms and the challenge of mechanism individuation
(Joint work with Till Grüne-Yanoff.) Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are widely used to inform policy decisions in the social and behavioral sciences. Yet both philosophers and scientists have raised doubts about the of effect-size evidence from RCTs when it comes to policy extrapolation. A common view is that such evidence should be comp..
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
Pietro Casari Scuola Normale Superiore Italy
Macro Seminar - Evi Pappa (Carlos III Madrid)
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‘Bringing Something New into Being: Joy and Natality in Anthropology’ - Social Anthropology Seminar Series
Joanna Cook (University College London) - ‘Bringing Something New into Being: Joy and Natality in Anthropology’
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
Andrew Parker University of Durham
SOCIAL STATISTICS SEMINAR SERIES
Please join us for the Social Statistics Seminar, we have coffee and cake. We are very pleased to welcome: András Vörös Associate Professor in Quantitative Methods, University of Birmingham Title: TBA Abstract: TBA
‘Squatting socialism: politicising shelter and its absence in a state 'without homelessness' - Social Anthropology Seminar Series
Madeleine Reeves (University of Oxford) - ‘Squatting socialism: politicising shelter and its absence in a state 'without homelessness'
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
Eleanor Power London School of Economics