Events in the School of Social Sciences
Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the School of Social Sciences.
Europe’s Age of Externalisation? Migration, External Cooperation, and Human Rights
European states are currently exploring a number of so-called ‘innovative solutions’ to address the irregular arrival of asylum seekers and migrants at their borders, often entailing the externalisation of asylum processing, returns or border control. Yet, available evidence shows that these policies routinely produce wide-ranging harmful..
‘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'
Relational understandings of life, relationships and moments that matter (Kaisa Kuurne and Sara Eldén)
Light refreshments will be available from 1pm Kaisa Kuurne (University of Turku, Finland) and Sara Eldén (Malmö University, Sweden) In this joint Morgan Centre seminar, we consider how relational life becomes visible through both disruption and continuity. We reflect on two pathways through which relations across the lifetime can be unders..
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series, Eleanor Power London School of Economics The Dynamics of Social and Economic Inequality in Cross-Cultural Perspective: the ENDOW and Rep2SI Projects
Understanding the drivers and dynamics of social and economic inequality is of core interest to social scientists, policy makers, and the public. I will introduce two projects that are part of an effort to bring new empirical data to facilitate that understanding. The ENDOW project (for Economic Networks and the Dynamics of Wealth inequality)..
Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: Evidence, Outcomes, and the Logic of Care in Youth Mental Health Services.
Randomised controlled trials are central to claims about effective mental health interventions, yet their assumptions rarely hold in youth mental health services, where interventions are not stable, mechanisms are not isolatable, and delivery is adapted contextually to each young person. Drawing on in depth case studies of three youth mental h..
‘The European Court of Justice: An Insider’s Perspective’
Prof. Alejandro del Valle-Gálvez will provide an insider’s perspective on the workings of the European Court of Justice (ECJ), drawing on his extensive experience within the EU legal system and his academic research on European law, migration, and human rights.
Multispecies Deconstructions of the ‘Human’ Within International Human Rights Law
Critical multispecies studies reveal that the philosophical, social, and legal pedestal on which human subjects are placed within Western modernity rests on faulty foundations. This session offers a posthumanist deconstruction of the human (we are animals, our bodies contain multitudes of life-forms, we exist within and not apart from nature)..
‘Why Privacy is Powerful in Germany’ - Social Anthropology Seminar Series
Vita Peacock (King's College London) - ‘Why Privacy is Powerful in Germany’
Christabel Pankhurst Lecture 2026: PUSHing for Justice: Women, Power and the Unfinished Fight for Equality
Join us for the Annual Christabel Pankhurst Lecture as our guest speaker, trailblazing legal leader and equality advocate Dr I. Stephanie Boyce CBE FKC. reflects on what it truly means to lead as a woman within systems that too often reward conformity and resist change. In “PUSHing for Justice: Women, Power and the Unfinished Fight for Equa..
MILC Multi-Book Launch
MILC is delighted to host a multi-book launch celebrating recent publications by our faculty. The event brings together important debates on regional trade in the Global South, the function of secrets in international law, the influence of individuals in international courts, and the interplay between law and money. Join us for a collective co..