Events in the School of Social Sciences
Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the School of Social Sciences.
Macro Seminar - Hanbaek Lee (Cambridge)
Title: Dancing on the Saddles: A Geometric Framework for Stochastic Equilibrium Dynamics
MET Seminar - Roberto Corrao (Stanford)
Title: Resilience vs. Fragility: Global Properties of Economies with Endogenous Production Networks Authors: Simone Cerreia-Vioglio, Roberto Corrao, Joel Flynn, and Giacomo Lanzani Abstract: We provide a global analysis of the canonical single-factor production network model with arbitrary constant returns to scale production technologie..
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series, Alessandro Lomi (University of Italian Switzerland, Lugano) Modeling Social Networks with Changeable Nodes
One of the defining features of social networks is that their nodes—social agents—are not fixed entities but actively reconfigure their internal structure in response to changes in their environment. When such reconfiguration occurs, widely held assumptions about mechanisms of network formation, such as homophily-based attachment, become d..
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
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
Bruce Cronin University of Greenwich
‘Against Capture: The Political Life of Creative Anthropology’ - Social Anthropology Seminar Series
Fiona Murphy (Dublin City University) - ‘Against Capture: The Political Life of Creative Anthropology’
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
Shan Shi University of Manchester
The New International Economic (Dis)order: On Law, Privatization and Power
In 1976, Gillian White published her famous article ‘The New International Economic Order’ in the Virginia Journal of International Law, finding a ‘climate in which some genuine amelioration is possible’. Fifty years later, the New International Economic Order (NIEO) has clearly not materialised. Quite the contrary is the case: The exe..