Past events

Macro Seminar - Vincent Sterk (University College London)

16:00 - 17:00 11 November 2025

Title: The Macroeconomic and Welfare Effects of Energy Price Controls

Megnaa Mehtta (University College London). Retreat or Remain? Notions of a full life and a slow death from Sundarbans’ eroding coastlines

15:00 - 17:00 10 November 2025

As sea level rise erode coastlines of the Sundarbans, “managed retreat”—a process of relocatin...

Building Futures, Thinking Long-Term: Insights on Collaborating with Those Impacted by Long-Term Imprisonment to Shape Policies That Affect Them

09:00 - 17:00 6 November 2025

The Prison Reform Trust (PRT) is an independent UK charity working to create a just, humane and effe...

Seminar by Ben Selwyn (Sussex), "Capitalist Value Chains: Labour Exploitation, Nature Destruction, Geopolitics"

14:00 - 15:30 5 November 2025

Please join us on Nov 5th for a book launch of Prof Ben Selwyn's book (co-authored with Christin Ber...

The Double Tax and Unsung Stories - Black Women’s Voices in Activism and Economics

15:00 - 17:00 30 October 2025

Join us for a compelling afternoon of insight and inspiration as we mark Black History Month with tw...

Professor Ghassan Hage book launch

16:00 - 18:00 30 October 2025

Join the Social Anthropology and Sociology departments to hear Simon Visiting Professor, Ghassan Hag...

Brownbag - Qiwei He (Edinburgh)

13:00 - 14:00 29 October 2025

Title TBD

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series - Lars Leszczensky (Goethe University Frankfurt) - Gendered Mechanisms of Social Segregation Among Muslim Youth

16:00 - 17:30 29 October 2025

This talk will present findings from an ongoing research project on why friendships between Muslim a...

MET Seminar - Pietro Dall'Ara (Naples)

17:00 - 18:00 29 October 2025

Title: Screening in digital monopolies Author: Pietro Dall'Ara Abstract: A defining feature of d...

Start or end of life? Advancing the Sociology of Life, Death & Bereavement

16:00 - 18:00 28 October 2025

Join us for the inaugural lecture of Professor Kate Reed, hosted by the University of Manchester's S...