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The School of Sociology Seminar Series brings together social scientists to share their work and to critically discuss the pressing issues of our time. The School’s staff and students explore a broad range of cross-cutting interests, including embodiment and gender, technological change, the social dimensions of work and politics, global environmental change, and inequalities. We welcome speakers from across Australia and the world, aiming to foster meaningful dialogue and debate about documenting and addressing social problems while inspiring new forms of sociological practice.
The series also acknowledges our specific context within settler-colonial Australia, encouraging sociologists to present their work in ways that critically engage with the discipline’s history and future. As a community, we are committed to decolonising social theory, methods and practice and creating genuinely inclusive conditions for the production of social scientific knowledge and education.
Submissions
If you wish to have a paper considered for the series, please send a title, abstract, brief biography and preferred presentation date to Thao Phan.
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Contact
- Thao Phan
Past Events
From here to there and the in-between: Children’s transitions between homes after parental separation
Emeritus Professor Bruce Smyth (ANU)
Two potentially important aspects of post-separation parenting arrangements are the number and nature of children’s transitions between homes. Yet…
Bodies as Living Laboratories: Towards A Sociology of Experimentation
Associate Professor Elizabeth Stephens (UQ)
Experimentation has become one of the most dominant forms of knowledge production in use today, invoked by scientists, artists, activists, policy…
Human Instruments: Sensory Science and the Exclusions of Perceptibility
Dr Ella Butler (ANU)
In this paper, Dr Ella Butler analyses how perceptibility is organised as a social process in a scientific experimental setting. Specifically, she…


