Events
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Digital Trust and Security Webinar: Dr Zhipeng Wang & Dr Joseph Lee Nazzini
12:00 - 13:00 4 February 2026
Learn how blockchain “digital communities” can be exploited—and how to prevent it. Talk Title: DAO Governance Takeover Attack on the blockchain: Code as Law, Cybersecurity and Governance [Online Webinar] In this talk, Dr Zhipeng Wang and Dr Joseph Lee Nazzini analyse the DAO governance takeover attack as a major governance-level cybersecurity...
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The Politics of Feeling: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism
14:00 - 15:30 4 February 2026
UoM Geography & the Humanitarian & Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) will host two leading scholars to discuss their new book - The Politics of Feeling: Populism, Progressive, Liberalism. --- In The Politics of Feeling, Ben Anderson and Anna Secor argue that politics has become a matter of political feelings in an age of uncertainty. The uncertainties...
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Linguistics and English Language Seminar: The Optimal Assignment Principle
13:00 - 15:00 5 February 2026
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Quantitative, Mathematical and Computational Linguistics Research Group The idea that languages are shaped by a constellation optimization principles is receiving increasing attention. However, some skepticism remains due to unrealistic assumptions or the apparent lack of precision or...
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Computational social science drop-in
13:00 - 14:00 10 February 2026
Do you find yourself: - stuck on a project with no one to ask about it? - not sure what to learn next? - the only person in your team using computational methods? - wanting to meet other computational social scientists? - interested to learn or teach some data skills with like-minded individuals? Join our free UK Data Service data drop-in where...
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SOCIAL STATISTICS SEMINAR SERIES
14:00 - 15:30 10 February 2026
Please join us for the Social Statistics Seminar, we have coffee and cake. We are very pleased to welcome: Ridhi Kashyap Professor of Demography & Computational Social Science, University of Oxford Title: TBA Abstract: TBA
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