Events in the School of Social Sciences
Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the School of Social Sciences.
Living and Dying: The Morgan Centre In Conversation Series
Michael Brennan, Laura Towers, Kate Reed and Kylie Baldwin will discuss Living and Dying, one of the Morgan Centre’s new research themes. Join us for the first event in the Morgan Centre In Conversation series. Kate Reed (University of Manchester), Kylie Baldwin (Loughborough University), Laura Towers (University of Manchester), and Michael..
Online Course in Social Network Analysis (Mitchell Centre)
The Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis at the University of Manchester is excited to introduce a new semester-long online course called the Mitchell Autumn School on Social Network Analysis, taught by the centre’s 8 academic members. Unlike short workshops, this semester-long format provides the depth and pace of a traditional acade..
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
Telmo Menezes CAMS (Centre d'analyse et de mathématique sociales) Interpretable by Design: Semantic Hypergraphs for Human-Centered Text Analysis Semantic Hypergraphs (SH) offer a knowledge representation formalism that naturally extends the idea of the Knowledge Graph with hyperedges, recursivity and a minimalist type system, becoming express..
Yael Navarro (University of Cambridge) "Fieldnotes, Library Scans and the Ethnographic Narrative After Catastrophe"
Abstract: In this seminar, I will give an account of my return to my field notebooks and library materials on Antakya, Turkey, after the city’s complete destruction with the earthquakes of 6 and 20 February, 2023. How do fieldnotes read after catastrophe? What temporal framework and narrative structure might one adopt when the context for on..
'The gender pay gap amongst high educated workers' - Arthur Lewis Lecture
Join us for the Annual Arthur Lewis Lecture as our guest speaker Dame Rachel Griffith, Professor of Economics, reflects on the gender pay gap, and why it is still so prevalent in highly skilled work. The extent to which males are paid more than females (the gender pay gap) has declined considerably over the past several decades, but much more..
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
Harald Waxenecker Masaryk University University of Groningen Relational Traces of Corruption: Persistence, Disruption, and Adaptation in Longitudinal Multilevel Networks
Morgan Centre special seminars: The ageing of family change - Torbjörn Bildtgård & A new gift for the barren ones: Examining the introduction of egg donation in Norway – Ingvill Stuvøy
Please join us for a special double seminar featuring two visiting researchers at the Morgan Centre for Research Into Everyday lives. Light refreshments will be available from 3pm. * The ageing of family change - Torbjörn Bildtgård What happens when family change grows old? This presentation brings together Swedish research on family relat..
Lewis Lab Seminar - Vigyan Ratnoo (Utrecht University)
Vigyan Ratnoo (Utrecht University) will present at the Arthur Lewis Lab Seminar.
Uneasy Streets: How Chinese Money Is Remaking Urban Britain - Caroline Knowles [Manchester/online]
This talk explores Chinese investment and its impact on British cities. Hosted by the Manchester China Institute and the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity, this event will be a book launch of Uneasy Streets: How Chinese Money Is Remaking Urban Britain by Caroline Knowles, with remarks by Amy Y. Zhang. The event will be followed by a recepti..
Ana Carolina Balthazar (UCL, London) "Shame, Anger, and the Emotional Logics of British Politics
Engaging critically with recent interdisciplinary arguments linking repressed economic shame to anger and resentment among right-wing voters, in this paper I draw on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Thanet, a seaside area in South East England that has witnessed the growth of right-wing sentiments, to ask whether what I call an "emotional l..