Thursday 16 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The fight against the mafia in Italy and the role of the anti-mafia legislation
  Franco La Torre, Federico Varese (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 7 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - After Italy’s general election
  Giovanni Capoccia (University of Oxford), Annalisa Piras (filmmaker and journalist, co-author and director, “Girlfriend in a Coma”), Dr Andrea Ruggeri (University of Oxford), Federico Varese (University of Oxford)

Monday 18 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - The resilience of the Russian mafia: An empirical study
  Federico Varese (University of Oxford)
  Department of Sociology Events

Monday 23 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - *Cancelled* A layperson's journey through matched comparisons and instrumental variables, aka the elusive quest for causality
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Federico Varese (University of Oxford)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 2 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - A New Life: Discussing life experiences in and out of the yakuza
  Various Speakers

Monday 23 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Public trust in police: Collective efficacy and the importance of place
  Ben Bradford (University College, London)

Monday 30 April 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Elite education and social mobility
  Alice Sullivan (University College, London)

Monday 14 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Corruption: measures and narratives
  Lucio Picci (University of Bologna)

Monday 21 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Cultural, Disruptive, and Organizational Sources of Movement Power
  Kenneth Andrews (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Monday 4 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Social Science Genetics and Fertility
  Felix Tropf (University of Oxford)

Monday 11 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - The Architecture of Genome Wide Association Studies
  Charles Rahal (University of Oxford)

Thursday 14 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Delivering Little Boy: Captain Nolan, Technique, and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age
  James Nolan (Williams College)

Monday 14 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - Changing families, changing time: marriage, parenthood, and gendered time allocation in Great Britain
  Dr Muzhi Zhou (University of Oxford)

Monday 21 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - Thoughts on Replication with a Case Study
  Michael Biggs (St Cross College)
  Department of Sociology Events

Monday 28 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - Does Children's Education Affect Parental Health and Mortality? A Regression Discontinuity Approach with Linked Census Data from England and Wales
  Christiaan Monden (University of Oxford)
  Department of Sociology Events

Monday 4 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - Managing uncertainty in medicine quality in Sub-Saharan Africa
  Heather Hamill (University of Oxford)
  Department of Sociology Events

Monday 11 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - Brexit and political polarisation in Britain
  Stephen Fisher (Associate Professor of Political Sociology, Trinity College, Oxford)
  Department of Sociology Events

Monday 18 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - The resilience of the Russian mafia: An empirical study
  Federico Varese (University of Oxford)
  Department of Sociology Events

Monday 25 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - Accountability from below: Archimedes' lever and bringing justice for past corporate human rights abuses
  Leigh Payne (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
  Department of Sociology Events

Monday 2 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - Gendered Ideas of Family and the Care of 'Left-Behind' Children in Rural China
  Rachel Murphy (St Antony's College)
  Department of Sociology Events

Friday 1 May 2020 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Don't Ask about The Pinkie! Doing Fieldwork with the Yakuza
  Martina Baradel (Birbeck College)
  Extra-Legal Governance Seminar
• 15:00 - Don't Ask about The Pinkie! Doing Fieldwork with the Yakuza
  Martina Baradel (Birbeck College)

Friday 8 May 2020 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Cooperation and Distrust in Cybercriminal Networks – an Experimental Study of Marketplace Disruption.
  This seminar will take place online.
  Lonie Sebagh (University of Oxford)
  Extra-Legal Governance Seminar

Friday 15 May 2020 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - The Origins and Consequences of the Russian Mafia (vory-v-zakone)
  This seminar will take place online.
  Jakub Lonsky (COMPAS, University of Oxford)
  Extra-Legal Governance Seminar

Friday 29 May 2020 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Units and their State-endorsed Extra-Legality
  This seminar will take place online.
  Inna Rudolf (Department of War Studies, King’s College London)
  Extra-Legal Governance Seminar

Friday 5 June 2020 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - The Globalisation and Transformations of Nigerian Cults’ Criminal Activities
  This seminar will take place online.
  Corentin Cohen (Centre de Recherches Internationales (CERI), Siences Po)
  Extra-Legal Governance Seminar