Events in the School of Social Sciences
Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the School of Social Sciences.
MET Seminar - Spyros Galanis (Durham)
Title: Information Aggregation with Costly Information Acquisition Authors: Spyros Galanis & Sergei Mikhalishchev Abstract: We study information aggregation in a dynamic trading model with partially informed traders. Ostrovsky [2012] showed that ‘separable’ securities aggregate information in all equilibria, however, determining wheth..
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series - Federico Bianchi & Francesco Renzini (University of Milan) - Agent-Based Modelling for Social Network Research: Two Examples
The seminar will be centred on Agent-Based Modelling (ABM) as a strategy for modelling social networks while avoiding some of the pitfalls of standard statistical models. Because of its high flexibility, ABM allows researchers to model the formation of social ties and the influence that ties exert on individual attributes as the outcome of net..
WORKSHOP: Agent-Based Modelling with a Focus on Network Analysis (Mitchell Centre)
The workshop starts with an introduction to agent-based modelling using Netlogo. It then focuses on ABM for social network data, touching upon the possibilities and limitations of ERGMs and SAOMs, as well as other approaches to use ABMs for social network data. The workshop ends with a discussion of future directions of SNA and ABM.
Charis Boutieri (King's College London). Speaking Freedom: The Tunisian public sphere between revolution and democracy
This talk will present my forthcoming book, which interrogates the historical formations and contemporary reconfigurations of the Tunisian public sphere. While profoundly delimited under the French Protectorate (1861–1956), the nationalist single-party regime of Habib Bourguiba (1956–1987), and the authoritarian police state of Zine El Abi..
Macro Seminar - Hitoshi Tsujiyama (Surrey)
Title: When Economic Shocks Reduce Divorce but Increase Intra-Household Inequality
SOCIAL STATISTICS SEMINAR SERIES
Please join us for the Social Statistics Seminar, we have coffee and cake. We are very pleased to welcome: José Manuel Aburto Brass Blacker Associate Professor in Demography, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Title: Post-Pandemic Mortality and Parental Loss: Racial/Ethnic Inequalities in a Changing Health Landscape Abstract:..
Brownbag - Vasudha Wattal
Title TBD
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
Scott Duxbury, UNC Chapel Hill
Research Seminar, “Theorizing the Conjuncture Through Gaza: Urban Destruction and the Intensification of Authoritarian Neoliberalism" with Aleksandra Piletic (UCL)
Research Seminar, “Theorizing the Conjuncture Through Gaza: Urban Destruction and the Intensification of Authoritarian Neoliberalism" with Aleksandra Piletic (UCL), Simon 4.04
Diego Maria Malara (University of Glasgow) ‘On the Urbanity of Sacred Substance: Purity, Sin, and the Flow of Blessing in Addis Ababa’
In Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, the Eucharist is regarded as an exceptionally pure substance, and governed by such stringent ritual proscriptions that only a very small number of Christians partake of it regularly. In this presentation, I examine this phenomenon while also tracing the circulation and uses of another sacred substance—holy..