Events in the School of Social Sciences

Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the School of Social Sciences.

Gaudenz Metzger (University of Manchester). Life in Limbo: Hospice care, photography, and the performance of the everyday

15:00 - 17:00 24 November 2025

Modern Western societies have struggled to find appropriate ways of dealing with the existential situation of dying and death. Under the influence of biomedicine, rationalisation, and secularisation, death has increasingly been framed as a medical problem, stripping it of its social and spiritual dimensions. Frequently observed effects of the..

Brownbag - Yue (Joyce) Yu

13:00 - 14:00 26 November 2025

Title TBD

MET Seminar - Albin Erlanson (Essex)

17:00 - 18:00 26 November 2025

Title: TBA Contact: sophie.kreutzkamp@manchester.ac.uk

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series - Tobias Stark (Utrecht University) - Effects of Identity Signals on the Perception of 2nd Generation Immigrants’ Integration in Social Networks

16:00 - 17:30 26 November 2025

The majority of 2nd generation immigrants in Western Europe identify both with the ethnic group of their parents and with the national majority group. Yet their belonging to the national group is often not recognized. Descendants of immigrants are, for instance, labeled “Turks” or “Moroccans” instead of (also) “Dutch” or “German..

PhD work-in-progress seminar with Sam Toscano and Heather Urquhart

26 November 2025

PhD work-in-progress seminar with Sam Toscano and Heather Urquhart

'Theorising the future is the future of anthropology' debate

14:00 - 18:00 29 November 2025

The Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory debates the motion: 'Theorising the future is the future of anthropology'. Simon Visiting Professor, Ghassan Hage, and Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University, Rebecca Bryant, will be proposing the motion. Stef Jansen, Professor at the University of Sarajevo and Honorary Professo..

Ana Gutierrez Garza (University of St Andrews). Making it Through Activism: Precarious masculinities in Madrid

15:00 - 17:00 01 December 2025

Economic exclusion and poverty can create problematic masculinities as they challenge social structures of gender dominance, class mobility and social status. In this paper, I analyse the impact that precarity has on masculinities among housing activists involved in the Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (Platform of People Affected by Mo..

Econometrics Seminar - Daniel Lewis (UCL)

12:00 - 13:00 01 December 2025

Title TBA

MET Seminar - Spyros Galanis (Durham)

17:00 - 18:00 03 December 2025

Title: TBA Contact: sophie.kreutzkamp@manchester.ac.uk

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 03 December 2025

Federico Bianchi and Francesco Renzini, University of Milan