Past events
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Canis Unfamiliaris: Species Stories and Species Categories
15:00 - 16:30 18 April 2024
Everywhere dogs are found, they are stitched into human hearts. But are humans stitched into dogs' hearts? Countless celebrations of 'the dog-human bond' suggest that they are. Yet 'the bond' does not always come easily to dogs. This paper seeks to denaturalise dogs' 'species story,’ that is, the scientific story that claims that being-with-humans...
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Teenage Kicks: Girls growing up in Britain 1956-1974
8 March - 18 May 2024
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 digital...
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Why Does Everything Have to Be About Race?
17:00 - 23 April 2024
Meet U.S. author Keith Boykin for a discussion and book signing for his new book, Why Does Everything Have to Be About Race? The most toxic racial arguments share one of five traits. They try to erase Black history, prioritize white victimhood, deny Black oppression, promote myths of Black inferiority, or rebrand racism as something else entirely....
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“Would They Defend Our Eastern Border?” State Allegiances as Potent Connections - Professor Sirpa Wrede
13:45 - 15:00 23 April 2024
Morgan Centre and Department of Sociology seminar by Professor Sirpa Wrede Centre of Excellence for Research in Ageing and Care, University of Helsinki, Finland This paper considers the multifaceted nature of state allegiances amidst contemporary geopolitical tensions. It argues that conflicts and war revitalise the significance of state allegiances,...
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Mitchell Centre Seminar series
16:00 - 17:30 24 April 2024
Tomáš Lintner, Masaryk University
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Class, Cultural Knowledge, and Barriers to Mobility - Visiting Leverhulme Professor Annette Lareau
14:30 - 17:30 29 April 2024
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 Visiting Leverhulme Professor Annette Lareau: Class, Cultural Knowledge, and Barriers to Mobility Professor Annette Lareau, University of Pennsylvania ...
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The City After Dark: Air Space Night Walk + Workshop
19:30 - 21:30 16 May 2024
“The city after dark is always in a process of becoming, arguably even more so than the city during the daytime, since boundaries of identity and place may appear more ambiguous and be less easy to perceive” (Dunn, 2022: 4) Creative Manchester and the Air Space research team invite you to join us for an evening with Nick Dunn, where we will...
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Moving out and moving on in the post-war decades: data and methods for researching young people's lives
10:00 - 16:00 17 May 2024
This free one-day workshop will bring together researchers interested in young people’s experiences of leaving home and striving for independence in the post-war decades. It will foreground methods and sources for researching seemingly mundane aspects of everyday life, such as living arrangements, relationships, leisure and travel. Call for...
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Thinking with Affinities: a Morgan Centre Conversation Event
11:00 - 16:00 22 May 2024
This event is inspired by ideas put forward in Jennifer Mason’s book Affinities: Potent Connections in Personal Life (2018). We want to create an occasion where people for whom some of the ideas in Affinities have resonance or have been stimulating can come together in conversation. The day will not be a conventional conference with formal papers...
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Let's Talk About Race with Gary Younge
12:00 - 23 May 2024
The Equality Diversity and Inclusion Directorate at The University of Manchester will be hosting a new instalment of the ‘Let’s Talk’ series entitled ‘Let’s Talk About Race’. Our guest speaker will be Gary Younge, an award-winning author, broadcaster and a Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester. Formerly a columnist...
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