Events in the School of Social Sciences
Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the School of Social Sciences.
Online Course in Social Network Analysis (Mitchell Centre)
The Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis at the University of Manchester is excited to introduce a new semester-long online course called the Mitchell Autumn School on Social Network Analysis, taught by the centre’s 8 academic members. Unlike short workshops, this semester-long format provides the depth and pace of a traditional acade..
Fiona Murphy (Dublin City University) "LATE WORK: Imagination, Form and the Creative Life of Anthropology"
What might it mean to think of anthropology through lateness, as a way of staying with forms of thought that remain difficult, unresolved, excessive, or somehow out of time with the conventions through which knowledge becomes recognisable? Taking Edward Said’s writing on late style as its point of departure, this lecture brings lateness into..
Brownbag Seminar: Antonio Nicolò
Title: It can’t happen here: Democratic Backsliding and the Complacency Trap Authors: Edoardo Grillo and Antonio Nicolò Abstract: We study how institutions and citizens interact to restrain the executive in a model of democratic backsliding. We show that this interaction can generate a complacency trap. When democratic institutions appear..
MET Seminar - En Hua Hu (Oxford)
Title: What makes a matching market congested Authors: Justin Hadad & En Hua Hu Abstract: We study a decentralized matching market where each applicant sends a fixed number of applications, and then firms make one offer. Our game emulates matching markets under time constraints: agents who are unmatched after the round remain unmatched. Cong..
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
Jana Diesner Technical University of Munich What we know and wrongly assume about the how and why of link formation in collaboration networks Large-scale bibliometric analyses allow us to validate classic theories of link formation in contemporary settings. I show how measurement choices can lead to erroneous theorizing about network formation..
Andrew Irving (University of Manchester) "Between Thought and Expression, Lies a Lifetime: The Inner Lifeworlds of Motor Neurone Disease"
Abstract: “Between thought and expression” sang Lou Reed “lies a lifetime”: a lyric that evokes the strange distance between people’s internalised realms of being and their public expression in the wider social world. Perhaps, nowhere is this disjuncture more apparent than in terms of Motor Neurone Disease (MND), a neurodegenerative..
MET Seminar - Tan Gan (LSE)
Title: Robust Delegation Authors: Ricardo Alonso, Tan Gan & Ju Hu Abstract: We study delegation rules by principals uninformed of the underlying state (external uncertainty) and the preferences of better-informed agents (internal uncertainty). Evaluating delegation sets with a max–min criterion, we show that optimal delegation sets are fle..
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
Neah Gondal Boston University Mapping Meaning Structures using Directed Network Graphs on Association Rules John Mohr (1998) persuasively argued that formal or structural meaning analysis involves three steps: (1) identifying elements of the cultural system, (2) conceptualizing and measuring relationships among those elements, and (3) represen..
Gabriel Marques Camargo (University of Manchester) "Mobile Quilombos: The Making of Black Territories in the White City"
Abstract: This paper examines the concept of “mobile quilombos” through an analysis of Afro-Brazilian religious occupations of public space, exploring how the circulation of axé produces forms of territory, embodiment, and collective life. I develop a framework linking axé, body-territory, and quilombo to examine how religious communitie..
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
Chris McCarty University of Florida Foundations of Personal Network Analysis and Recent Applications Personal network analysis, sometimes called egocentric network analysis, is a subfield of social network analysis focusing on a respondent (ego) and their network members (alters). With this approach the researcher uses the compositional and..