Events in the School of Social Sciences
Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the School of Social Sciences.
“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 behavioural 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 com..
MET Seminar - Ina Taneva (Edinburgh)
Title: Strategic Ignorance and Information Design Authors: Ina Taneva & Thomas Wiseman Abstract: We study information design in strategic settings when agents can publicly refuse to view their private signals. Ignoring the constraints that agents must be willing to view their signals may lead to substantial divergence between the designerâ..
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series. Pietro Casari Scuola Normale Superiore Italy. Events, Networks, and Collective Action Processes
The recent interest in events as an object of study has been accompanied by numerous attempts to develop a conceptual framework for their interpretation. I argue that adopting a processual-relational approach, both ontologically and epistemologically, can better frame the constitutive role of events in collective action processes. To this end,..
Macro Seminar - Evi Pappa (Carlos III Madrid)
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The Erosion of the Right to Humanitarian Assistance
In this Guest Lecture, Professor Patrycja Grzebyk will guide us through the legal foundations of the right to humanitarian assistance and explore contemporary developments that place it under increasing strain. Patrycja Grzebyk is Associate Professor at the University of Warsaw; author of over 150 publications, including The Russian-Ukrainian..
‘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’
Film screening: 'Madan Saras'
Film screening organised by the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, with support from the SPLAS Cine-club. Wed 25 March, 17:00, Samuel Alexander Theatre. 'Madan Saras' is a documentary film directed by Etant Dupain and produced by Lu Childs (Street Team Productions). Synopsis: The..
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