Events in the School of Social Sciences

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

MET Seminar - Dimitri Migrow

17:00 - 18:00 13 November 2024

Speaker website: https://sites.google.com/site/dimitrimigrow/ Contact: david.delacretaz@manchester.ac.uk

Mitchell Centre Seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 13 November 2024

Andras Voros University of Birmingham

Psychedelics in Scotland: A film screening and panel discussion

14:00 - 16:00 13 November 2024

Join us for an enlightening film screening and panel talk on the healing benefits of psychedelic drugs. Part of the Criminology Department Racial and Social Justice Seminar Series. Psychedelics in Scotland is a film screening and panel discussion with Dr Anna Ross, University of Edinburgh; Fiona Gilbertson, Recovering Justice; Dr Jake Hawtho..

Econometrics Seminar - Patrik Guggenberger (PSU)

12:00 - 13:00 14 November 2024

Title TBA

Sami Hermez (Northwestern University, Qatar) and Sireen Sawalha: My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine

15:00 - 17:00 18 November 2024

In 1967, Sireen Sawalha's mother, with her young children, walked back to Palestine against the traffic of exile. The book My Brother, My Land is the story of Sireen's family in the decades that followed and their lives in the Palestinian village of Kufr Ra'i. From Sireen's early life growing up in the shadow of the '67 War and her family's wo..

Macro Seminar - Rhys M. Bidder (King's College London)

16:00 - 17:00 19 November 2024

Title: CBDC and banks: Disintermediating fast and slow

Brownbag - Usama Jamal

13:00 - 20 November 2024

Title: tbd

Mitchell Centre Seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 20 November 2024

Diana Bociga University of Manchester

Econometrics Seminar - Jörg Stoye (Cornell)

12:00 - 13:00 21 November 2024

Title: TBA

Andrea Pia (LSE): Corallers of Crises: Between the horror and glee of climate inaction

15:00 - 17:00 25 November 2024

In a recent statement, Scientists Rebellion, the international organization of environmental activists with a scientific background, posed the question: "What's the point of documenting in ever greater detail the catastrophe we face, if we're not willing to do anything about it?" Starting from this provocation, this paper investigates psycho-c..