Events in the School of Social Sciences
Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the School of Social Sciences.
Charlotte Al Khalili (University of Sussex). Scales of justice in post-Assad Syria
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)
Title TBA
Macro Seminar - Albert Jan Hummel (Groningen)
Title: Optimal Climate Policy with Incomplete Markets
2025 Melland Schill Roundtable: ‘Who Governs When the World Is Falling Apart?’
Global governance looks very different today than it did a few decades ago. Traditional diplomacy and international legal frameworks that once structured multilateralism are weakening, while political polarisation deepens and long-standing alliances fracture. The United Nations is steadily losing influence and funding. Corporate actors and eme..
Brownbag - Lory Barile (Warwick)
Title TBD
Green Transition: Environmental, Legal, Macro-Economic Governance
Hosted by Climate and Justice Study Group, Initiative for Global Law and Political Economy (iGLPE), Law and Technology Initiative (LaTI), and Manchester International Law Centre (MILC). The UK government’s desire for higher investment and greater technological innovation is severely curtailed by the current macroeconomic regime, which assig..
MET Seminar - Yuki Tamura (Ecole Polytechnique)
Title: Equal Opportunity in School Choice Lotteries Author: Acelya Altunta¸William Phan & Yuki Tamura Abstract: In Berlin and North Carolina’s Wake County school districts, all applying students are guaranteed a minimum chance of admission. This directly conflicts with the central property of respect for priorities in school choice. Our..
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
Bernie Hogan, Oxford University
Call for Applications: ECR Workshop ‘Beyond the Core – Normative Orders Across Semi-Peripheries’ (with Prof George Galindo) | 20 Nov 2025
The Manchester International Law Centre (MILC) and the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) are pleased to announce an interdisciplinary workshop for early-career researchers (third-year PhD candidates, postdoctoral researchers, and Lecturers/Assistant Professors) across the social sciences and humanities. The workshop wil..
Gaudenz Metzger (University of Manchester). Life in Limbo: Hospice care, photography, and the performance of the everyday
Modern Western societies have struggled to find appropriate ways of dealing with the existential situation of dying and death. Under the influence of biomedicine, rationalisation, and secularisation, death has increasingly been framed as a medical problem, stripping it of its social and spiritual dimensions. Frequently observed effects of the..