Events in the School of Social Sciences
Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the School of Social Sciences.
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
Federico Bianchi and Francesco Renzini, University of Milan
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)
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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: TBA Abstract: TBA
Brownbag - Vasudha Wattal
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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..
Econometrics Seminar - Christophe Gaillac (Geneva)
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Brownbag - Chad Brown
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