Events in the School of Social Sciences
Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the School of Social Sciences.
Malgorzata Stelmaszyk (Manchester): Living the Dream: Nanai shamanic experiments and porous engagements in the Siberian Far East
This presentation is about the ways in which shamanic practice is engaged in navigating and responding to the current climatic and geopolitical crisis in Far East Siberia through proposing experimental multiversal projects. It traces the manner in which a Nanai shaman brings together diverse techniques, such as shamanic dreams, storytelling, C..
Macro Seminar - Tim Obermeier (Leicester)
Title: Household Taxation, Work Hours Flexibility and Occupational Choice
Social Statistics Seminar Series - Andrew Bell
Intersectional Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (MAIHDA) - what is it, and how can it be extended for longitudinal data? The intersectional Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (MAIHDA) approach is gaining prominence in health sciences and beyond, as a robust qu..
Brownbag - Abhishek Chakravarty
Title: tbd
Extreme Nationalism in Contemporary Norway: Ideologies, Mobilisation and Activism - Christopher Fardan
Christopher Fardan, winner of the inaugural Manchester Jean Monnet Centre Doctoral Thesis Prize, shares his research on extreme nationalism in Norway. All welcome at this online lecture. Zoom Meeting ID : 927 8880 2209
Future Lives and Austerity - Austerity and Altered Life Courses online symposium
The international online symposium has been designed in collaboration with brilliant partner organisations, institutions, and experts, and aims to amplify the experiences of young people across Europe during (and after) times of austerity. There will be several hybrid hubs across Europe with collective screening of the event. We begin the day..
Global Marxism book launch - Simin Fadaee in conversation with Kevin Gillan
Join Blackwell's Bookshop Manchester, together with publishers Manchester University Press and movements@manchester ad they host the launch of Simin Fadaee's Global Marxism - a cutting-edge exploration of how Marx's ideas have been adopted and adapted by revolutionary thinkers in the Global South. Simin will be in conversation with Kevin Gilla..
MET Seminar - Ani Guerdjikova
Speaker website: https://sites.google.com/site/aniguerdjikova/home Contact: david.delacretaz@manchester.ac.uk
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
Fanqi Zeng, University of Oxford Waves of cooperation in public goods games on networks Cooperation, as a reciprocal behaviour that brings benefits to others while costs to oneself, is widespread in natural and social systems. In this work, we propose a general mathematical framework to investigate the dynamics of a typical public good game t..
Dalia Iskander (UCL): Exteriorising (Hidden) Interiority and Interiorising (Unruly) Exteriority: Miniature dioramas of home and the uncertain terrain of empathetic imagination
Based on ethnographic research conducted over the last two years in the UK, I describe the work of artists who craft tiny dioramas of the home. These ‘miniature narratives’ tell of both artist’s own histories and comparable wider human experiences that they feel compelled to share. In doing so, they externalise interiority, creating work..