Events in the School of Social Sciences
Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the School of Social Sciences.
Brownbag - Yue (Joyce) Yu
Title TBD
MET Seminar - Albin Erlanson (Essex)
Title: TBA Contact: sophie.kreutzkamp@manchester.ac.uk
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
Tobias Stark, University of Utrecht
PhD work-in-progress seminar with Sam Toscano and Heather Urquhart
PhD work-in-progress seminar with Sam Toscano and Heather Urquhart
'Theorising the future is the future of anthropology' debate
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
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)
Title TBA
MET Seminar - Spyros Galanis (Durham)
Title: TBA Contact: sophie.kreutzkamp@manchester.ac.uk
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
Federico Bianchi and Francesco Renzini, University of Milan
Charis Boutieri (King's College London). Speaking Freedom: The Tunisian public sphere between revolution and democracy
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..