Past events
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Cultural dislocation and the politics of recognition - Gary Younge in conversation with Michèle Lamont
14:00 - 16:30 29 April 2025
Creative Manchester and the American Studies Department of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures are delighted to welcome Michèle Lamont, Leverhulme Visiting Professor, for an in-conversation event with Gary Younge, award-winning journalist and Professor of Sociology at The University of Manchester. During...
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MIOIR Seminar Series - Deploying AI in Organisations
28 April - 23 June 2025
Deploying AI in Organisations Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds the potential to revolutionise individual organisations and transform the way organisations across sectors — public, private, non-profit — work (together) to tackle grand societal challenges. Through real-world case studies, Professor...
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Introduction to copyright: Copyright and publishing
12:00 - 13:30 24 April 2025
This workshop is the first of two on ‘Introduction to copyright’. The first session focuses on copyright considerations in the context of publishing while the second session focuses on copyright issues in secondary data use. Copyright is an area of scholarly communications that affects every researcher...
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How to become a computational social scientist
09:00 - 10:30 16 April 2025
Scientific research and teaching are increasingly influenced by computational tools, methods and paradigms. The social sciences are no different, with many new forms of social data only available or practical through computational means (Kitchen, 2014). While social science research has always been...
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Digital Trust and Security Seminar Series: Prof Jakob Demant
13:00 - 15:00 10 April 2025
Join Prof Jakob Demant as he explores the rise of specialized platforms and online behaviors, driven primarily by young people using multiple platforms to separate their activities, with some parts intentionally hidden even in public spaces. This has led to the creation of distinct spaces for specific...
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