Events in the School of Social Sciences
Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the School of Social Sciences.
‘“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)
Title: Dancing on the Saddles: A Geometric Framework for Stochastic Equilibrium Dynamics
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
'Bioengineering Financial Futures: From Synthetic Biology to Synthetic Bonds’ - Social Anthropology Seminar Series
Kath Weston (University of Virginia) - 'Bioengineering Financial Futures: From Synthetic Biology to Synthetic Bonds’