Past events
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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series - Scott Duxbury (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) - General Procedures for Micro-Macro Network Analysis
15:00 - 16:30 10 December 2025
How do interpersonal social interactions generate novel network structures? Historically researchers examined micro-macro linkages in social networks using simulation approaches, especially empirically calibrated agent-based models grounded in generative models for network structure. The research presentation will review recent developments in...
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I'm Just A Large Language Model, Please Excuse Me For Being Racist: Racial Inequalities Manifested In Generative Artificial Intelligence - Dhiraj Murthy
12:30 - 14:00 11 December 2025
-- Please note that the start time of this seminar has been changed to 12.30pm -- In this CoDE lunchtime seminar, Professor Dhiraj Murthy (University of Texas in Austin) shares his research. SUMMARY Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) platforms like ChatGPT and Gemini are being used throughout the world to generate text, images, music,...
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Student Voices in the Archives (The Rylands Lunchtime Seminar Series)
13:00 - 14:00 11 December 2025
The University of Manchester’s archives offer a rich resource for researching student life and the history of the institution more generally. In this seminar, Grant Collier (Curator for University Heritage) will introduce the range of materials available to researchers, highlighting the value of the archives for both historical and contemporary...
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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series Martin Everett (Manchester) Assessing eigenvector type centrality for disconnected graphs.
16:00 - 17:30 4 February 2026
Eigenvector centrality (Bonacich 1972) is one of the most used centrality measures in social network analysis. When applied to disconnected graphs, it typically assigns non-zero values only to nodes in the component with the largest eigenvalue, with all other nodes receiving zero. The usual solution is to calculate the dominant eigenvector for...
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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series. Kasimir Dederichs (University of Oxford) Join to connect? Voluntary involvement, social capital, and socioeconomic inequalities.
16:00 - 17:30 11 February 2026
Access to social capital is stratified by socioeconomic status and has been cross-sectionally linked to involvement in voluntary organizations. Yet, we know little about the origin and interplay of these empirical regularities. Regression analyses on German panel data (SC6-NEPS) reveal that people rich in social capital join organizations more...
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Beyond Borders: Rethinking Migration and Citizenship - Bridget Anderson
15:30 - 17:00 12 February 2026
Please join us for the University of Manchester Sociology Annual Lecture 2026, followed by a drinks reception. About the lecture The University of Manchester Sociology Annual Lecture brings a distinguished guest lecturer to Manchester to share their research. This year we are pleased to welcome Professor Bridget Anderson (University of Bristol). The...
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'Denaturalisation and Modernity: Drugs and Racial Capitalism' Anne Pollock [HYBRID]
13:00 - 14:30 19 February 2026
In this CoDE lunchtime seminar, Professor Anne Pollock (King's College London) shares her research. SUMMARY From the earliest days of European colonialism in the Americas and transatlantic slavery, psychoactive drugs, racial inequality, and the global political economic order have had intertwined histories. This paper draws on collaborative research...
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Knowing Yesterday, Shaping Tomorrow: The Lou Kushnick Memorial Lecture
16:00 - 17:00 12 March 2026
Professor Abdul Alkalimat inaugurates the new annual lecture series commemorating our founder Professor Lou Kushnick. The Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust, in partnership with the University of Manchester, is launching a new annual lecture in honour of our founder, Professor Lou Kushnick. Lou was a tireless advocate for anti?racist education...
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CoDE seminar: 'Sexual Violence in Racial Capitalism' - Alison Phipps
13:00 - 14:30 23 April 2026
In this CoDE lunchtime seminar, Professor Alison Phipps (York St John University) shares her research. SUMMARY What are the relationships between sexual violence, sexual fear, social control, and surplus value? What is the role of sexual violence as racial capitalist systems corral, mould, use, and discard the workers they require? Sexual violence...
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