Past events
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Mitchell Centre Seminar series
16:00 - 17:30 6 November 2024
Elisa Bellotti & Tomas Diviak University of Manchester Gender inequalities: the role of social networks in gendered interactions and social structures. Gender inequalities are a worldwide issue with considerable social and economic costs. Current policy interventions lack effectiveness, resulting in women still being underrepresented in some...
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Global Marxism Panel Discussion (online)
18:00 - 7 November 2024
Event organised by Manchester University Press. Though his work has been both praised and criticized, Karl Marx is considered one of the most influential figures in the modern era. But in the twenty-first century, the legacy of Marxism is now contested, with some seeing it as Eurocentric and irrelevant to the wider global struggle. In Global...
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Linden Archives Book Launch
18:00 - 20:30 7 November 2024
Following on from his first successful publication Out and About with Linden (a queer archive of the north) Stuart Linden Rhodes has produced a new larger edition photobook of the queer 1990’s titled simply Linden Archives. This book presents a collection of photographs of Pride events, Mr Gay UK contests alongside Club and Bar images from London,...
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Exhibition - Teenage Kicks: Girls growing up in Britain 1956-1974 – Andrea’s Story
13 November - 20 December 2024
This exhibition shares the stories of eight girls, who were teenagers and young women between 1956 and 1974, a time of huge social, economic and cultural change in Britain, based on the research of Professor Penny Tinkler. We will be showing the story of one girl, Andrea, in the Samuel Alexander Glass Corridor Exhibition Space in November and December...
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Extreme Nationalism in Contemporary Norway: Ideologies, Mobilisation and Activism - Christopher Fardan
15:00 - 16:00 13 November 2024
Christopher Fardan, winner of the inaugural Manchester Jean Monnet Centre Doctoral Thesis Prize, shares his research on extreme nationalism in Norway. All welcome at this online lecture. Zoom Meeting ID : 999 5068 0273
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Mitchell Centre Seminar series
16:00 - 17:30 13 November 2024
Andras Voros University of Birmingham
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Mitchell Centre Seminar series
16:00 - 17:30 20 November 2024
Diana Bociga University of Manchester Exploring the UK's anti-money laundering network: multiple relationships, structural patterns, and brokerage Roles The UK’s Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regime involves collaboration among national, regional, and local law enforcement agencies, regulators, and the private sector, forming networks to share...
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Global Social Challenges: A Roundtable Discussion
15:30 - 19:00 28 November 2024
Please join us for a roundtable discussion of some of the critical challenges facing the world today, from economic inequalities, over-consumption, migration, an ageing population, technology and work, gender, and pandemics. We will explore these issues - and more - and discuss how sociological perspectives can help us find a path through these...
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Platform Politics: Luke Yates in conversation
18:30 - 20:30 4 December 2024
Join Luke Yates for the launch of his new book 'PLATFORM POLITICS: Corporate Power, Grassroots Movements and the Sharing Economy' at this event organised by Blackwell's bookshop. The ‘sharing economy’, powered by companies like Airbnb, Uber and Deliveroo, promised to revolutionize the way we work and live. But what changes have come about,...
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Research Cafe: Sketching and Illustration as Research Tools
16:00 - 18:00 4 December 2024
Can sketching, graphics and illustration help us to think about research in new ways? How might they transform the ways we think about research data and outputs? Join us for a discussion on sketching, illustration and graphics as tools in academic research. We will invite a panel of artists and researchers to discuss their experiences in creating...
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