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
Angela Giattino (University of Oxford). Identity Politics That Make You Laugh: On Shipilay, a new ‘eironym’ from Urban Peruvian Amazonia
Ethnonyms are a serious matter. As historical, seemingly immutable markers of allegiance to an ethnicity which is often regarded as sacred, they carry profound significance. Yet, in contemporary urban Peruvian Amazonia, young and educated members of the Indigenous ethnic group known as Shipibo have coined a humorous ethnonym —Shipilay— to..
Econometrics Seminar - Christophe Gaillac (Geneva)
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Brownbag - Chad Brown
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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: Ridhi Kashyap Professor of Demography & Computational Social Science, University of Oxford Title: TBA Abstract: TBA