Events in the School of Social Sciences
Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the School of Social Sciences.
Macro Seminar - Evi Pappa (Carlos III Madrid)
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The Erosion of the Right to Humanitarian Assistance
In this Guest Lecture, Professor Patrycja Grzebyk will guide us through the legal foundations of the right to humanitarian assistance and explore contemporary developments that place it under increasing strain. Patrycja Grzebyk is Associate Professor at the University of Warsaw; author of over 150 publications, including The Russian-Ukrainian..
‘Bringing Something New into Being: Joy and Natality in Anthropology’ - Social Anthropology Seminar Series
Joanna Cook (University College London) - ‘Bringing Something New into Being: Joy and Natality in Anthropology’
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
Andrew Parker University of Durham
SOCIAL STATISTICS SEMINAR SERIES
Please join us for the Social Statistics Seminar, we have coffee and cake. We are very pleased to welcome: András Vörös Associate Professor in Quantitative Methods, University of Birmingham Title: TBA Abstract: TBA
‘Squatting socialism: politicising shelter and its absence in a state 'without homelessness' - Social Anthropology Seminar Series
Madeleine Reeves (University of Oxford) - ‘Squatting socialism: politicising shelter and its absence in a state 'without homelessness'
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
Eleanor Power London School of Economics
Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: Evidence, Outcomes, and the Logic of Care in Youth Mental Health Services.
Randomised controlled trials are central to claims about effective mental health interventions, yet their assumptions rarely hold in youth mental health services, where interventions are not stable, mechanisms are not isolatable, and delivery is adapted contextually to each young person. Drawing on in depth case studies of three youth mental h..
Multispecies Deconstructions of the “Human" within International Human Rights Law
Critical multispecies studies reveal that the philosophical, social, and legal pedestal on which human subjects are placed within Western modernity rests on faulty foundations. This session offers a posthumanist deconstruction of the human (we are animals, our bodies contain multitudes of life-forms, we exist within and not apart from nature)..
‘Why Privacy is Powerful in Germany’ - Social Anthropology Seminar Series
Vita Peacock (King's College London) - ‘Why Privacy is Powerful in Germany’