Events
Seminars, conferences and workshops
Details of any School events for PGRs held throughout the year can be found on the Doctoral Academy online noticeboard.
What's on in the School of Social Sciences
Sandhya Fuchs (Bristol): Hate Crime Law as Meliorist Hope: Seeking justice for caste atrocities in Rajasthan
Hate crime laws, which criminalise violent expressions of prejudice, have faced growing criticism. Scholars have argued that hate crime legislation relies on the collaboration of legal institutions that are themselves shaped by histories of prejudice and fail to bring justice to survivors of identity-based violence. But what does it mean for a..
Book launch: 'Global Marxism' by Simin Fadaee
In Global Marxism, Simin Fadaee argues that Marxism remains a living tradition and the cornerstone of revolutionary theory and practice in the Global South. She explores the lives, ideas and legacies of a group of revolutionaries who played an exceptional role in contributing to counter-hegemonic change. Figures such as Ho Chi Minh, Kwame Nkru..
Macro Seminar - Anand Chopra (Liverpool)
Title: The Equilibrium Impact of Agricultural Support Prices and Input Subsidies
MET Seminar - Kim-Sau Chung
Speaker website: https://scholars.hkbu.edu.hk/en/persons/KSCHUNG Contact: david.delacretaz@manchester.ac.uk
Book launch: 'Famillies' by Vanessa May
Please join us for a book launch event to (belatedly) mark the publication of Vanessa May’s book Families (2023, Polity). The book offers a timely intervention into current debates within family studies, discussing the shape of mainstream family studies today, and suggesting avenues of investigation that deserve further attention. Alongside..
Brownbag - Yu Wang (Cornell)
Title: tbd
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
Joshua Garland, Lund University Power and Politics in Coastal Climate Adaptation: Uncovering Networked Dynamics in East Anglia Sea level rise, coastal erosion and the effects of storm surge are some of the challenges faced by coastal communities that are projected to be exacerbated by climate change. This remains true in high-income countries..
Econometrics Seminar - Jean-Pierre Florens (TSE)
Title TBA
Malgorzata Stelmaszyk (Manchester): Living the Dream: Nanai shamanic experiments and porous engagements in the Siberian Far East
This presentation is about the ways in which shamanic practice is engaged in navigating and responding to the current climatic and geopolitical crisis in Far East Siberia through proposing experimental multiversal projects. It traces the manner in which a Nanai shaman brings together diverse techniques, such as shamanic dreams, storytelling, C..
Macro Seminar - Tim Obermeier (Leicester)
Title: TBA