Name: Federico Varese
University of Oxford

Events this person is speaking at:

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

The fight against the mafia in Italy and the role of the anti-mafia legislation
Date: 16 November 2017, 17:00 - 18:30 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2017)
Speaker s: Franco La Torre, Federico Varese (University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

After Italy’s general election
Date: 7 March 2018, 17:15 - 19:00 (Wednesday, 8th week, Hilary 2018)
Speaker s: 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)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: The Old Library
Organisers: TBA
Host: Bill Emmott (Visiting Fellow at All Souls, author of “Good Italy, Bad Italy” (2012) and co-author of the documentary “Girlfriend in a Coma” (2013))

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

The resilience of the Russian mafia: An empirical study
Date: 18 November 2019, 12:15 - 14:00 (Monday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2019)
Speaker : Federico Varese (University of Oxford)
Venue: 42-43 Park End Street, 42-43 Park End Street OX1 1JD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre - Sandwich lunch 12:15; seminar starts at 12:45. Please note that entrance to the building is via Tidmarsh Lane
Organiser: Federico Varese (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

*Cancelled* A layperson's journey through matched comparisons and instrumental variables, aka the elusive quest for causality
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 23 October 2023, 12:45 - 14:00 (Monday, 3rd week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Federico Varese (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Department of Sociology, 42-43 Park End Street
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Events this person is hosting:

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

A New Life: Discussing life experiences in and out of the yakuza
Date: 2 November 2022, 10:00 - 11:30 (Wednesday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2022)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online or live in Japan
Organiser: Martina Baradel (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Martina Baradel (University of Oxford), Federico Varese (University of Oxford)

Events this person is organising:

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

Public trust in police: Collective efficacy and the importance of place
Date: 23 April 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 1st week, Trinity 2018)
Speaker : Ben Bradford (University College, London)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Lecture
Organiser: Federico Varese (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Elite education and social mobility
Date: 30 April 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 2nd week, Trinity 2018)
Speaker : Alice Sullivan (University College, London)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Federico Varese (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Corruption: measures and narratives
Date: 14 May 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 4th week, Trinity 2018)
Speaker : Lucio Picci (University of Bologna)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Federico Varese (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Cultural, Disruptive, and Organizational Sources of Movement Power
Date: 21 May 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 5th week, Trinity 2018)
Speaker : Kenneth Andrews (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Federico Varese (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Social Science Genetics and Fertility
Date: 4 June 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 7th week, Trinity 2018)
Speaker : Felix Tropf (University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Federico Varese (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

The Architecture of Genome Wide Association Studies
Date: 11 June 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 8th week, Trinity 2018)
Speaker : Charles Rahal (University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Federico Varese (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Delivering Little Boy: Captain Nolan, Technique, and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age
Date: 14 June 2018, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Trinity 2018)
Speaker : James Nolan (Williams College)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room D
Organiser: Federico Varese (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Changing families, changing time: marriage, parenthood, and gendered time allocation in Great Britain
Date: 14 October 2019, 12:15 - 14:00 (Monday, 1st week, Michaelmas 2019)
Speaker : Dr Muzhi Zhou (University of Oxford)
Venue: 42-43 Park End Street, 42-43 Park End Street OX1 1JD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre - Sandwich lunch 12:15; seminar starts at 12:45. Please note that entrance to the building is via Tidmarsh Lane
Organiser: Federico Varese (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Thoughts on Replication with a Case Study
Date: 21 October 2019, 12:15 - 14:00 (Monday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2019)
Speaker : Michael Biggs (St Cross College)
Venue: 42-43 Park End Street, 42-43 Park End Street OX1 1JD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre - Sandwich lunch 12:15; seminar starts at 12:45. Please note that entrance to the building is via Tidmarsh Lane
Organiser: Federico Varese (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Does Children's Education Affect Parental Health and Mortality? A Regression Discontinuity Approach with Linked Census Data from England and Wales
Date: 28 October 2019, 12:15 - 14:00 (Monday, 3rd week, Michaelmas 2019)
Speaker : Christiaan Monden (University of Oxford)
Venue: 42-43 Park End Street, 42-43 Park End Street OX1 1JD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre - Sandwich lunch 12:15; seminar starts at 12:45. Please note that entrance to the building is via Tidmarsh Lane
Organiser: Federico Varese (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Managing uncertainty in medicine quality in Sub-Saharan Africa
Date: 4 November 2019, 12:15 - 14:00 (Monday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2019)
Speaker : Heather Hamill (University of Oxford)
Venue: 42-43 Park End Street, 42-43 Park End Street OX1 1JD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre - Sandwich lunch 12:15; seminar starts at 12:45. Please note that entrance to the building is via Tidmarsh Lane
Organiser: Federico Varese (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Brexit and political polarisation in Britain
Date: 11 November 2019, 12:15 - 14:00 (Monday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2019)
Speaker : Stephen Fisher (Associate Professor of Political Sociology, Trinity College, Oxford)
Venue: 42-43 Park End Street, 42-43 Park End Street OX1 1JD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre - Sandwich lunch 12:15; seminar starts at 12:45. Please note that entrance to the building is via Tidmarsh Lane
Organiser: Federico Varese (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

The resilience of the Russian mafia: An empirical study
Date: 18 November 2019, 12:15 - 14:00 (Monday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2019)
Speaker : Federico Varese (University of Oxford)
Venue: 42-43 Park End Street, 42-43 Park End Street OX1 1JD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre - Sandwich lunch 12:15; seminar starts at 12:45. Please note that entrance to the building is via Tidmarsh Lane
Organiser: Federico Varese (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Accountability from below: Archimedes' lever and bringing justice for past corporate human rights abuses
Date: 25 November 2019, 12:15 - 14:00 (Monday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2019)
Speaker : Leigh Payne (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Venue: 42-43 Park End Street, 42-43 Park End Street OX1 1JD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre - Sandwich lunch 12:15; seminar starts at 12:45. Please note that entrance to the building is via Tidmarsh Lane
Organiser: Federico Varese (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Gendered Ideas of Family and the Care of 'Left-Behind' Children in Rural China
Date: 2 December 2019, 12:15 - 14:00 (Monday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2019)
Speaker : Rachel Murphy (St Antony's College)
Venue: 42-43 Park End Street, 42-43 Park End Street OX1 1JD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre - Sandwich lunch 12:15; seminar starts at 12:45. Please note that entrance to the building is via Tidmarsh Lane
Organiser: Federico Varese (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Don't Ask about The Pinkie! Doing Fieldwork with the Yakuza
Date: 1 May 2020, 15:00 - 16:00 (Friday, 1st week, Trinity 2020)
Speaker : Martina Baradel (Birbeck College)
Venue Details: Online Seminar
Organisers: Zora Hauser (University of Oxford), Federico Varese (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Don't Ask about The Pinkie! Doing Fieldwork with the Yakuza
Date: 1 May 2020, 15:00 - 16:00 (Friday, 1st week, Trinity 2020)
Speaker : Martina Baradel (Birbeck College)
Venue Details: Online Seminar
Organisers: Zora Hauser (University of Oxford), Federico Varese (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Cooperation and Distrust in Cybercriminal Networks – an Experimental Study of Marketplace Disruption.
Date: 8 May 2020, 15:00 - 16:00 (Friday, 2nd week, Trinity 2020)
Speaker : Lonie Sebagh (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online Seminar
Organisers: Zora Hauser (University of Oxford), Federico Varese (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

The Origins and Consequences of the Russian Mafia (vory-v-zakone)
Date: 15 May 2020, 15:00 - 16:00 (Friday, 3rd week, Trinity 2020)
Speaker : Jakub Lonsky (COMPAS, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online Seminar
Organisers: Zora Hauser (University of Oxford), Federico Varese (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Units and their State-endorsed Extra-Legality
Date: 29 May 2020, 15:00 - 16:00 (Friday, 5th week, Trinity 2020)
Speaker : Inna Rudolf (Department of War Studies, King’s College London)
Venue Details: Online Seminar
Organisers: Zora Hauser (University of Oxford), Federico Varese (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

The Globalisation and Transformations of Nigerian Cults’ Criminal Activities
Date: 5 June 2020, 15:00 - 16:00 (Friday, 6th week, Trinity 2020)
Speaker : Corentin Cohen (Centre de Recherches Internationales (CERI), Siences Po)
Venue Details: Online Seminar
Organisers: Zora Hauser (University of Oxford), Federico Varese (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA