Events in the School of Social Sciences

Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the School of Social Sciences.

Megnaa Mehtta (University College London). Retreat or Remain? Notions of a full life and a slow death from Sundarbans’ eroding coastlines

15:00 - 17:00 10 November 2025

As sea level rise erode coastlines of the Sundarbans, “managed retreat”—a process of relocating people to supposedly safer areas—is put forth by policymakers globally, and in India, as an adaptation solution. Through long-term ethnographic research with residents of Sundarbans’ coastal communities, this paper examines their desires t..

Macro Seminar - Vincent Sterk (University College London)

16:00 - 17:00 11 November 2025

Title: TBA

Brownbag - Itay Saporta Eksten

13:00 - 14:00 12 November 2025

Title TBD

Mitchell centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 12 November 2025

Joe Labianca, University of Massachusetts

SOCIAL STATISTICS SEMINAR SERIES

14:00 - 15:30 14 November 2025

Please join us for the Social Statistics Seminar, we have coffee and cake. We are very pleased to welcome: Maciej Bersewicz Professor of Statistics, Pozna University of Economics and Business Title: Shadow Populations: Estimating Unauthorized Migration joint work with Brendan Georgeson (ONS), Peter Walsh (University of Oxford) and Aniela C..

Charlotte Al Khalili (University of Sussex). Scales of justice in post-Assad Syria

15:00 - 17:00 17 November 2025

This paper proposes an ethnographic exploration of post-Assad Syria that focuses on ideas and practices of justice in the aftermaths of mass atrocities. Based on fieldwork in the city of Daraa, it describes the different scales and registers of justice on which Syrian former detainees and families of disappeared and missing build their account..

Econometrics Seminar - Sami Stouli (Bristol)

12:00 - 13:00 17 November 2025

Title TBA

Macro Seminar - Albert Jan Hummel (Groningen)

16:00 - 17:00 18 November 2025

Title: Optimal Climate Policy with Incomplete Markets

Brownbag - Lory Barile (Warwick)

13:00 - 14:00 19 November 2025

Title TBD

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 19 November 2025

Bernie Hogan, Oxford University