Past events
18
Mar
2024
Technology and the Future of Work: A Sceptical View of the Impending Job Apocalypse
It seems that the emergence of each new technology sets off a new panic about an impending job apocalypse. The rapid disappearance of jobs is expected to...
12
Mar
2024
Masterclass: The changing landscape of academic publishing
You are invited to a special masterclass with Professor Jerry A. Jacobs, to reflect on the intersections of your research with the sociology of work and...
04
Mar
2024
Teaching in the climate crisis: Reflections from the humanities and social sciences
In 2022, a group of researchers and educators from the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at La Trobe University came together to explore our pedagogical...
26
Feb
2024
Digital (in)justice?: Lay users and the technological transformation of the court system
Abstract:
England and Wales, like many other countries, are currently undergoing enormous technology-driven changes to their justice system. These changes,...
19
Feb
2024
The Road to Batemans Bay by Alastair Greig - Book Launch
Join us for snacks and drinks in the RSSS Foyer as Emeritus Fellow Alastair Greig launches The Road to Batemans Bay (ANU Press, 2024). The book will be...
17
Nov
2023
Reproduction Now! Workshop
On Friday Nov 17th, Celia Roberts and Mary Lou Rasmussen (Sociology) will host a one-day interdisciplinary workshop to explore feminism and reproduction in the...
23
Oct
2023
Food System Transitions, Nutritional Insecurity and Oil Palm: Changing Landscapes of Social Reproduction in Sumatra's Plantation Belt
In Southeast Asia, a plantation boom over recent decades has transformed landscapes and life-making on an immense scale, with some 16 million hectares of land...