Past events
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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series - Lars Leszczensky (Goethe University Frankfurt) - Gendered Mechanisms of Social Segregation Among Muslim Youth
16:00 - 17:30 29 October 2025
This talk will present findings from an ongoing research project on why friendships between Muslim and non-Muslim adolescents are relatively rare. The focus is on gender-specific processes of religious segregation within friendship networks. A key question is whether religious segregation stems from Muslims' in-group bias or non-Muslims' reluctance...
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On the Body Conference
10:00 - 16:00 7 November 2025
Part of our series of UK events led by members of our early career researcher network. Please contact the event organiser to confirm details. Interdisciplinary medical Humanities conference on race, racism, the body for early career researchers and postgraduate research students.
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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series - Joe Labianca (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) - Affect’s Role in Organizationally-Sponsored Networking
16:00 - 17:30 12 November 2025
Most organizational research on networking focuses on negative emotions toward it; but some people are comfortable with networking or even find it energizing. This mixed methods study draws upon the more comprehensive circumplex model of affect to investigate how positive and negative emotions experienced when engaging in networking behavior influence...
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Coconuts & CocoNOTS: Police Racism, Protest, and the Right to Satire
18:00 - 21:00 14 November 2025
Part of our series of UK events led by members of our early career researcher network. Please contact the event organiser to confirm details. Join us to explore how the policing of language is employed to silence Black and Brown activism by looking at Marieha Hussain's recent case. Who has the right to police your language? In a world where racism...
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Reflecting on Manchester Criminal Prosecutions: A panel event
17:00 - 19:00 17 November 2025
Participants Jade Akoum, sister of Yousef Makki, campaigner David Conn, The Guardian Professor Eithne Quinn, The University of Manchester Pete Weatherby KC, Garden Court North Dr Patrick Williams, Harm to Healing Coalition About the event This panel centres the experiences of Jade Akoum, the sister of Yousef...
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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series - Bernie Hogan (Oxford University) - Perspective Matters: Egocentric Networks and the Bundling/Grinding Problem in Sheaf Theory
16:00 - 17:30 19 November 2025
Consider a whole network, such as a classroom. Each student can create an egocentric network visually and in metric space through traditional methods. Yet the aggregation of these networks remains a nontrivial problem. The conventional solutions, often treated under the rubric “Cognitive Social Structures” does not sufficiently accommodate...
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Addressing racialised health inequalities in Sexual health care by using race as a marker of vulnerability to Trichomonas vaginalis infection – what could possibly go wrong? - Ulla McKnight
13:00 - 14:30 20 November 2025
In this CoDE lunchtime seminar, Dr Ulla McKnight (University of Sussex) shares her research. SUMMARY The seminar examines the controversial use of racialised categories as markers of vulnerability to Trichomonas vaginalis (T. vaginalis) infection, the most common non-viral sexually transmitted infection globally. Based on ethnographic observations...
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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series - Tobias Stark (Utrecht University) - Effects of Identity Signals on the Perception of 2nd Generation Immigrants’ Integration in Social Networks
16:00 - 17:30 26 November 2025
The majority of 2nd generation immigrants in Western Europe identify both with the ethnic group of their parents and with the national majority group. Yet their belonging to the national group is often not recognized. Descendants of immigrants are, for instance, labelled “Turks” or “Moroccans” instead of (also) “Dutch” or “German”....
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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series - Federico Bianchi & Francesco Renzini (University of Milan) - Agent-Based Modelling for Social Network Research: Two Examples
16:00 - 17:30 3 December 2025
The seminar will be centred on Agent-Based Modelling (ABM) as a strategy for modelling social networks while avoiding some of the pitfalls of standard statistical models. Because of its high flexibility, ABM allows researchers to model the formation of social ties and the influence that ties exert on individual attributes as the outcome of network...
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Mitchell Centre Workshop: Agent-Based Modelling with a Focus on Network Analysis
10:00 - 13:15 3 December 2025
The workshop starts with an introduction to agent-based modelling using Netlogo. It then focuses on ABM for social network data, touching upon the possibilities and limitations of ERGMs and SAOMs, as well as other approaches to use ABMs for social network data. The workshop ends with a discussion of future directions of SNA and ABM.
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