Events in the School of Social Sciences
Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the School of Social Sciences.
Seminar by Ben Selwyn (Sussex), "Capitalist Value Chains: Labour Exploitation, Nature Destruction, Geopolitics"
Please join us on Nov 5th for a book launch of Prof Ben Selwyn's book (co-authored with Christin Bernhold) Capitalist Value Chains: Labour Exploitation, Nature Destruction, Geopolitics (OUP, 2025). We will be in Sam Alex_A102 from 2-3:30pm. Ben will introduce the book and then we will have short comments from Perla Polanco Leal (UofM Politic..
Building Futures, Thinking Long-Term: Insights on Collaborating with Those Impacted by Long-Term Imprisonment to Shape Policies That Affect Them
The Prison Reform Trust (PRT) is an independent UK charity working to create a just, humane and effective penal system. Building Futures – PRT’s six-year programme funded by the National Lottery Community Fund – has explored the experiences of people serving long prison sentences. The programme defines its long-term cohort as men expecte..
Megnaa Mehtta (University College London). Retreat or Remain? Notions of a full life and a slow death from Sundarbans’ eroding coastlines
As sea level rise erode coastlines of the Sundarbans, “managed retreat”—a process of relocating people to supposedly safer areas—is put forth by policymakers globally, and in India, as an adaptation solution. Through long-term ethnographic research with residents of Sundarbans’ coastal communities, this paper examines their desires t..
Macro Seminar - Vincent Sterk (University College London)
Title: TBA
Roundtable: Free Trade Unravelling
Please join us for a roundtable discussing the ongoing unravelling of the free trade consensus in global trade politics and governance with Laura Macdonald (Carleton University), Shamel Azmeh (Global Development Institute), Ellie Gore (Politics), Adrienne Roberts (Political Economy Centre) and JMCE Board Member Diletta Pegoraro (AMBS) on 11th..
Brownbag - Itay Saporta Eksten
Title TBD
Mitchell centre Seminar Series
Joe Labianca, University of Massachusetts
SOCIAL STATISTICS SEMINAR SERIES
Please join us for the Social Statistics Seminar, we have coffee and cake. We are very pleased to welcome: Maciej Bersewicz Professor of Statistics, Pozna University of Economics and Business Title: Shadow Populations: Estimating Unauthorized Migration joint work with Brendan Georgeson (ONS), Peter Walsh (University of Oxford) and Aniela C..
Charlotte Al Khalili (University of Sussex). Scales of justice in post-Assad Syria
This paper proposes an ethnographic exploration of post-Assad Syria that focuses on ideas and practices of justice in the aftermaths of mass atrocities. Based on fieldwork in the city of Daraa, it describes the different scales and registers of justice on which Syrian former detainees and families of disappeared and missing build their account..
Econometrics Seminar - Sami Stouli (Bristol)
Title TBA