School of Social and Political Science

Kinship, ancestors, and lines: moving meanings, positions, and memories

Juliana Caruso will give a Kinship: More or Less seminar on genealogies, memories, and the Li-Fraumeni syndrome in Brazil.

What’s race got to do with it? Critical reflections on researching and teaching social policy

Roundtable chaired by Professor Nasar Meer featuring Professor Fiona Williams, Professor Michaela Benson, Dr. Nadya Ali, and Dr. Hakan Seckinelgin. This event is supported by the Social Policy Association, Alwaleed Centre, and RACE.ED at the University of Edinburgh.

Politics in Contested Times - Regime of Torture: Guantánamo Bay

Professor Ruth Blakeley, Chair in Politics and International Relations and Faculty Director of Research and Innovation for the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Sheffield, visits the University of Edinburgh to discuss Guantánamo Bay’s ongoing detention and prosecutions of the CIA’s Rendition, Detention, and Interrogation of prisoners.

A step too far? Exploring employer perspectives on conditional in-work benefits

Recent welfare reforms in the United Kingdom have redrawn the parameters of active labour market policy (ALMP).

Publishing in Peer-Reviewed Journals

In this online workshop, experienced editors of journals in the social sciences will talk us through the publication process and the dos and dont's of peer review.

Africa’s Future Politics: Mobile Space-Time, Urban Epistemics, and Scales of Solidarity

This is CAS 6th seminar in their Seminar Series of 2023-2024

Migrancy, Resource Contestation and Citizenship Claims in Uganda’s Oil Region

The Centre of African Studies (CAS) in partnership with the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) and the School of History, Classics and Archaeology (HCA) are delighted to invite you to the following seminar presented by Dr Nicholas Tunanukye from Makarere University (Uganda).

‘Salir Adelante’: Transitional Justice, Gender and Citizenship in Colombia

Navigating Local Transitional Justice: Agency at Work in Post-conflict Sierra Leone (CAS Book Launch)

This is CAS 5th seminar in their Seminar Series 2023/2024

The policy nexus of European Energy Efficiency in building and social policy

European Social Policy by stealth or a marketing trick of central regulations?

The Fight for Democracy: Journey of a Political Activist Witnessing the Fall of Hong Kong

Journey of a Political Activist Witnessing the Fall of Hong Kong

Settler Socialism, Social Parasitism: Labor, Addiction, and (Dis)incorporation in Kyrgyzstan

Drawing on ethnographic research in southern Kyrgyzstan, my talk delves into the lives and worlds of chronically homeless and unemployed populations struggling with opioid and alcohol addiction whose families had been displaced from their homelands and resettled in Central Asia by the Soviet state.