Events in the School of Social Sciences
Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the School of Social Sciences.
Macro Seminar - Francesco Zanetti (Oxford)
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MILC Multi-Book Launch
MILC is delighted to host a multi-book launch celebrating recent publications by our faculty. The event brings together important debates on regional trade in the Global South, the function of secrets in international law, the influence of individuals in international courts, and the interplay between law and money. Join us for a collective co..
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
Yannan He University of Manchester
‘New and Old Seekers of Alien Minds: Religion, AI, and the Non-Human Other’ - Social Anthropology Seminar Series
Beth Singler (University of Zurich) - ‘New and Old Seekers of Alien Minds: Religion, AI, and the Non-Human Other’
Macro Seminar - Davide Melcangi (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
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'Al-bostan: Gardens of connection and resistance in the Golan Heights’ - Social Anthropology Seminar Series
Maria Kastrinou (Brunel University) - ‘Al-bostan: Gardens of connection and resistance in the Golan Heights’
SOCIAL STATISTICS SEMINAR SERIES
Please join us for the Social Statistics Seminar , we have coffee and cake. We are very pleased to welcome: Amiya Bhatia Associate Professor, University of Oxford Title: TBA Abstract: TBA
Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: Getting Results Reports Right.
Just how we phrase the results report of an empirical study matters because the form and content of the report suggests what can and cannot be done with the study results and what the study can and cannot provide evidence for. This fact about results reports should not be surprising since, as JL Austin taught, ‘We do things with words’. I..
Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: Simulating Expertise-Based Inference.
The reliability of causal inference based on a physician’s expertise has been a matter of debate. In recent work, Tabatabaei Ghomi and Stegenga developed a model to simulate such inferences in the context of medicine, evaluating a range of conditions under which a physician’s inferences about the effects of a drug are reliable or unreliabl..