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..
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..
Lorenzo Ferrarini (University of Manchester) "Filmic Relationality: Towards an Ethnographic Ecocinema"
Abstract: Rooted in ecocriticism and ecomedia studies, the field of ecocinema counts by now a significant volume of scholarship analysing works as diverse as Hollywood catastrophic movies, environmentalist documentaries and experimental slow cinema. In this presentation I cross the main ideas from this literature with anthropology’s recent t..
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
Laura Koehly National Human Genome Research Institute
Dimitrios Theodossopoulos (University of Kent) "From Recognition to Misrecognition: Indigeneity, the AI Dialectic and the Anthropomorphic Temptation"
Abstract: What happens when a social anthropologist conducts a sustained dialectical exchange with an AI system on a topic he knows intimately through decades of ethnographic fieldwork? This paper presents an experiment in which I repeatedly challenge my AI interlocutor, Mirror-Mirror, to explain and justify its representations of Emberá indi..
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
Telmo Menezes CAMS (Centre d'analyse et de mathématique sociales) Interpretable by Design: Semantic Hypergraphs for Human-Centered Text Analysis Semantic Hypergraphs (SH) offer a knowledge representation formalism that naturally extends the idea of the Knowledge Graph with hyperedges, recursivity and a minimalist type system, becoming express..
Yael Navarro (University of Cambridge) "Fieldnotes, Library Scans and the Ethnographic Narrative After Catastrophe"
Abstract: In this seminar, I will give an account of my return to my field notebooks and library materials on Antakya, Turkey, after the city’s complete destruction with the earthquakes of 6 and 20 February, 2023. How do fieldnotes read after catastrophe? What temporal framework and narrative structure might one adopt when the context for on..
'The gender pay gap amongst high educated workers' - Arthur Lewis Lecture
Join us for the Annual Arthur Lewis Lecture as our guest speaker Dame Rachel Griffith, Professor of Economics, reflects on the gender pay gap, and why it is still so prevalent in highly skilled work. The extent to which males are paid more than females (the gender pay gap) has declined considerably over the past several decades, but much more..
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
Harald Waxenecker Masaryk University University of Groningen Relational Traces of Corruption: Persistence, Disruption, and Adaptation in Longitudinal Multilevel Networks