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

Omer Aijazi (Manchester). Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir

15:00 - 17:00 10 February 2025

Atmospheric Violence explores how people in the militarized, ecologically fragile borderlands of Kashmir attempt to flourish in an environment where violence is everywhere, or atmospheric. Omer Aijazi takes us to remote mountainous valleys in the portion of Kashmir under Pakistan’s control, where life has been shaped by recurring environment..

Civic Engagement among Foreign-Born Older Adults in Europe

16:00 - 17:00 12 February 2025

Population ageing and the numerous crises faced by Western democratic states over recent decades are societal challenges demanding social scientists’ attention since they raise questions about how democracies facilitate their citizens’ civic engagement and support later-life active citizenship. Although awareness on the need for these topi..

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 12 February 2025

Filip Agneessens. University of Manchester. Mechanisms reinforcing and countering religious segregation in schools: Network processes involving friendship and dislike ties. In many social settings, subgroups emerge which are characterized by positive ties inside the subgroup and negative ties between these subgroups. In school settings, the..

Social Statistics Seminar Series - Matthew Wallace

14:00 - 15:30 12 February 2025

Please join us for the first Social Statistics Seminar of the year on Wednesday 12th February at 2pm. This seminar will be in person, so please join us for coffee and cake. Zoom link is also available. Matthew Wallace Reader in Social Inequality, University of Salford Title: International migration, mortality, and national life expectancy..

Christabel Pankhurst Lecture 2025: 'The Terrorism Nobody is Talking About'

17:00 - 19:30 13 February 2025

Join us for the Annual Christabel Pankhurst Lecture as our guest speaker, best-selling author and founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, Laura Bates reveals her two-year undercover research into radical online male communities. Drawing from her acclaimed book ‘Men Who Hate Women’ Laura will expose the hidden communities of incels, men..

Cecilia Vergnano (KU Leuven). Alpine Border Conflict: Migration and Social Polarization in the Everyday Life of Intra-EU Borders

15:00 - 17:00 17 February 2025

Since 2015, the reintroduction of (racialised) border controls within the supposedly border-free Schengen area and, in particular, at northern Italian borders – envisaged to contain asylum seekers’ so-called “secondary movements” within the EU – gave rise to uncountable migrants’ deaths at intra-EU borders (as well as unquantifiabl..

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 19 February 2025

Edmund Chattoe-Brown. University of Leicester.

Deana Jovanovic (Utrecht University). Staging the Promises: Everyday Future-Making in a Serbian Industrial Town

15:00 - 17:00 24 February 2025

This seminar explores the temporal, political and economic effects of theatrically performed promises of aspirational futures, staged in a Serbian industrial town. Based on a decade-long ethnographic fieldwork among the residents who navigated the remnants of Yugoslav prosperity and the struggles of post-socialist decline, the talk will delve..

Econometrics Seminar - Maximilian Kasy (Oxford)

12:00 - 13:00 24 February 2025

Title TBA

MET Seminar - Bettina Klaus

17:00 - 18:00 26 February 2025

Speaker website: https://www.bklaus.net/ Contact: david.delacretaz@manchester.ac.uk