School of Social and Political Science

CRITIQUE-PTRG Seminar Emancipation and the Unjust Past

Pre-read, virtual seminar with Alasia Nuti (York University).

Computational Text Analysis

This asynchronous workshop will provide hands-on experience in the use of R for conducting computational text analyses.

The International Politics of the #MeToo Movement: Are They Now Merely Yesterday?

The Politics and International Relations’ Distinguished Scholar Series keynote. ’The International Politics of the #MeToo Movement: Are They Now Merely Yesterday?'

African Studies and the Digital Revolution: the Mediatization of Research Practice

Humanities and Arts-informed Research Methods in the Social Sciences

This workshop will introduce students to various theoretical foundations for this type of work and to specific issues that may arise through the use of humanities and arts-informed methods

The effects of terrorism on social and political view: a case study of the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing

Opaque on Purpose: Antiblackness & Ethnographic Refusal

Figures of Surplus: Waste, Informality, and Caste in Urban Pakistan

This talk tracts through spaces—jhuggīān (huts), junkyards, warehouses, furnaces, manufacturing plants—where waste materials are worked with and exchanged, being procured and transformed into resources to be used in remaking commodities.

Mixed Methods Research: Principles and Practices

This workshop will introduce you to the foundations of mixed methods approaches to research in the social and political sciences.

From Afrobeat to Afrobeats: an Inter-generational Debate on African Popular Music and its Reception in the Global North

The dissemination of digital media and technology has ensured that pop music today is increasingly produced electronically, in Africa as in the rest of the world. 

CRITIQUE Roundtable Civil Disobedience and Its Critics

A critical roundtable discussion on theories and practices of civil disobedience

What do policy makers do with anomalies in information? Explaining resilient, robust, agile and improvisatory styles in policymaking

On 24 March, we welcome Perri 6 (Queen Mary, University of London) to SKAPE as part of our annual seminar series.