Events in the School of Social Sciences
Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the School of Social Sciences.
'Sovereignty by Design: Community Infrastructures in Remote Canada’ - Social Anthropology Seminar Series
Philipp Budka (University of Vienna) - ‘Sovereignty by Design: Community Infrastructures in Remote Canada’
SOCIAL STATISTICS SEMINAR SERIES
Please join us for the Social Statistics Seminar, we have coffee and cake. We are very pleased to welcome: Ridhi Kashyap Professor of Demography & Computational Social Science, University of Oxford Title: TBA Abstract: TBA
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series. Kasimir Dederichs (University of Oxford) Join to connect? Voluntary involvement, social capital, and socioeconomic inequalities.
Access to social capital is stratified by socioeconomic status and has been cross-sectionally linked to involvement in voluntary organizations. Yet, we know little about the origin and interplay of these empirical regularities. Regression analyses on German panel data (SC6-NEPS) reveal that people rich in social capital join organizations m..
Beyond Borders: Rethinking Migration and Citizenship - Bridget Anderson
Please join us for the University of Manchester Sociology Annual Lecture 2026, followed by a drinks reception. About the lecture The University of Manchester Sociology Annual Lecture brings a distinguished guest lecturer to Manchester to share their research. This year we are pleased to welcome Professor Bridget Anderson (University of Bristo..
‘“In the thick of it’: Releasing pressure in Santiago de Cuba’ - Social Anthropology Seminar Series
Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier (University of Victoria) - ‘“In the thick of it’: Releasing pressure in Santiago de Cuba’
Macro Seminar - Hanbaek Lee (Cambridge)
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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
Alessandro Lomi Università della Svizzera, Italy
Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: Combining evidence for establishing causality.
Medicine and health science relies on a variety of methods, but do they establish the same thing? It is not uncommon that the available evidence points in different directions with respect to causality. In the standard evidence hierarchy, the priority in case of conflicting evidence is clear. In this presentation, I will argue that the differe..
‘Fieldnotes, Library Scans and the Ethnographic Narrative After Catastrophe’ - Social Anthropology Seminar Series
Yael Navaro (University of Cambridge) - ‘Fieldnotes, Library Scans and the Ethnographic Narrative After Catastrophe’
Macro Seminar - Santiago Garcia-Couto (Georgetown Qatar)
Title: The Anatomy of the China Shock