Events in the School of Social Sciences
Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the School of Social Sciences.
Brownbag - Guillaume Blanc
Title: Malthusian Migrations
CANCELLED - Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Seminar
CANCELLED - Mikaela Loach - "It’s Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World" Chair: Dr Adrienne Roberts (UoM Politics)
MET Seminar - Paola Manzini (Bristol)
Title: Rationalising Choice via Opportunity Costs (with Marco Mariotti and Levent Ülkü) Abstract: Opportunity costs - the value of the best alternative forgone when you make a choice - have been described as “one of the bedrock concepts of economics” and “perhaps the most important concept in all of economics”. Ignoring opportunity..
Mitchell Centre Seminar series
Tomáš Lintner, Masaryk University
Teenage Kicks: Girls growing up in Britain 1956-1974
Meg can’t wait to leave home. Cynthia misses her family back in the Caribbean. Pamela is pregnant and her mum wants the baby adopted. Andrea fancies girls. Life in 1960s Britain was changing fast but it wasn’t all miniskirts and pop music. This beautiful installation at Glasgow Women's Library, with illustrations by Candice Purwin in digi..
MANCEPT Seminar: Dr Jessica Isserow, “The Possibility of Redemption”
Dr Jessica Isserow, University of Leeds - “The Possibility of Redemption”
Manchester International Peace Lecture - “Societal Polarization and Academic Freedom in the Time of Symbolic Liberalism”
This year’s Manchester International Peace Lecture will be given by Professor Sari Hanafi and will be on the topic of “Societal Polarization and Academic Freedom in the Time of Symbolic Liberalism”. Professor Hanafi is Director of the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies and Chair of the Islamic Studies program at the American Univ..
Class, Cultural Knowledge, and Barriers to Mobility - Professor Annette Lareau (UPenn)
Please join us for our very first University of Manchester Department of Sociology annual lecture, given in our 60th anniversary year. We are delighted that our inaugural lecture will be given by Professor Annette Lareau: Class, Cultural Knowledge, and Barriers to Mobility Professor Annette Lareau, University of Pennsylvania 2.30-4pm, Mond..
"Managing the Wealth of Nations": PEC Research Seminar
What a conceptual and ideas-based approach can tell us about capitalism and economic development, 15th-19th centuries?” Dr Philipp Rössner, Professor of Early Modern History, University of Manchester Abstract. Pre-classical economic thinkers have rarely been considered in our narratives on the origins of capitalism, industrialisation, and..
Macro Seminar - Minchul Yum (Southampton)
Title: TBA