Events in the School of Social Sciences
Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the School of Social Sciences.
Perveez Mody (Cambridge). Corrosive Kinship and Forms of Healing and Care: “Forced Marriage in the UK”
This paper begins with a difficult and troubling question. It concerns the distortions that arise from a temporal privileging of the UK’s Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007, designed as it is, to prevent a “forced marriage” in its run-up, rather than to offer redress where one has already taken place, often many years ago. In..
Macro Seminar - Isaac Baley Gaytan (Pompeu Fabra)
Title: TBA
Launch of the JUST Centre
Kicking off in March 2025, the JUST Centre will be a new powerhouse of social science research and action for accelerating a fair and equitable transformation into a low carbon society. The ESRC has invested £8.5 million over five years for this national Centre to develop new ways of generating evidence about what works where, why, and for wh..
MET Seminar - Jose Apesteguia
Title: The Rationalizability of survey responses Authors: Jose Apesteguia and Miguel A. Ballesteros Abstract: We propose the concept of survey rationalizability, that we base on classical item response theories in psychology. Survey rationalizability involves positioning survey questions on a common scale such that, in the case of attitude (..
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
Michael Genkin. University of Manchester.
Ida Danewid - 'A place where freedom means something': James Baldwin’s global maroon geographies
Our next Political Economy Centre seminar on 13 March (3-4:30) will feature, Ida Danewid, Associate Professor in Gender & Global Political Economy at Sussex. She will be presenting a paper entitled "'A place where freedom means something: James Baldwin’s global maroon geographies". The location is Sam Alex, A214.
Econometrics Seminar - Dimitris Korobilis (Glasgow)
Title TBA
Mateusz Laszczkowski (Manchester). 'Territorio is Where You Meet Others': Politics of Place in an Alpine Rebellion
This paper, drawing on a chapter from my upcoming book about the No TAV movement, fighting against the construction of high-speed railway through the Italian Alps, explores the concepts of 'territory' that emerge from that struggle. I describe various dimensions of 'territorialization from below': the daily functioning of presidi - sites that..
Macro Seminar - Morten Olsen (Copenhagen)
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Annual PPE Lecture - Professor Alex Voorhoeve (LSE) on 'Power, Privacy, and the Digital Pound'
We are pleased to announce the Annual PPE lecture for 2025. This is a lecture on interdisciplinary issues relating to philosophy, politics, and economics. Our speaker this year will be Professor Alex Voorhoeve, who will be discussing ‘Privacy, Power, and the Digital Pound.’ Professor Voorhoeve is based at the LSE, and works on the theory..