Events in the School of Social Sciences

Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the School of Social Sciences.

'Theorising the future is the future of anthropology' debate

14:00 - 18:00 29 November 2025

The Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory debates the motion: 'Theorising the future is the future of anthropology'. Simon Visiting Professor, Ghassan Hage, and Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University, Rebecca Bryant, will be proposing the motion. Stef Jansen, Professor at the University of Sarajevo and Honorary Professo..

Ana Gutierrez Garza (University of St Andrews). Making it Through Activism: Precarious masculinities in Madrid

15:00 - 17:00 01 December 2025

Economic exclusion and poverty can create problematic masculinities as they challenge social structures of gender dominance, class mobility and social status. In this paper, I analyse the impact that precarity has on masculinities among housing activists involved in the Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (Platform of People Affected by Mo..

Econometrics Seminar - Daniel Lewis (UCL)

12:00 - 13:00 01 December 2025

Title TBA

MET Seminar - Spyros Galanis (Durham)

17:00 - 18:00 03 December 2025

Title: TBA Contact: sophie.kreutzkamp@manchester.ac.uk

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 03 December 2025

Federico Bianchi and Francesco Renzini, University of Milan

Charis Boutieri (King's College London). Speaking Freedom: The Tunisian public sphere between revolution and democracy

15:00 - 17:00 08 December 2025

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)

16:00 - 17:00 09 December 2025

Title: TBA

SOCIAL STATISTICS SEMINAR SERIES

14:00 - 15:30 09 December 2025

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

13:00 - 14:00 10 December 2025

Title TBD

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

15:00 - 16:30 10 December 2025

Scott Duxbury, UNC Chapel Hill