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Sociological Impact in Extraordinary Times
The School of Sociology's Seminar Series engages diverse forms of presentation and topical discussion to contribute to contemporary academic and public debate. It aims to generate meaningful approaches to social problems and to inspire new ecologies of practice. While raising issues of contemporary and future relevance, the series is also attentive to our history. It aims to think through our debt to negated and appropriated ways of knowing and being, which have formed the conditions of social scientific knowledge.
With this in view, the series is broadly oriented to the theme of Decolonising. Throughout its diverse topics and modes of presentation, we aim to explore the ways in which habits of thought, language, culture and sociality are tied to the material work of colonisation and decolonisation.
Submissions
If you wish to have a paper considered for the series, please send a title, abstract, brief biography and preferred presentation date to Rebecca Pearse.
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Upcoming events
Together, Apart: Transnational Family Separation in the PALM Scheme
11am–12.30pm 6 May 2024
Speaker: Matt Withers (ANU Sociology) Matt Withers will present findings from his ANU Future Scheme project. It uses a combination of longitudinal family...Past events
Teaching in the climate crisis: Reflections from the humanities and social sciences
4 Mar 2024
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...Digital (in)justice?: Lay users and the technological transformation of the court system
26 Feb 2024
Abstract: England and Wales, like many other countries, are currently undergoing enormous technology-driven changes to their justice system. These changes,...Food System Transitions, Nutritional Insecurity and Oil Palm: Changing Landscapes of Social Reproduction in Sumatra's Plantation Belt
23 Oct 2023
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...[CANCELLED] Exploring the use of a relational paradigm for understanding human-wildlife coexistence on the peri urban fringe
16 Oct 2023
In recent decades human population expansion has led to significant overlaps between human and wildlife communities. Accordingly, understanding how humans and...Stolenwealth: Examining the expropriation of First Nations women’s unpaid care
9 Oct 2023
This article examines the intersections between coloniality and gender in the generation and maintenance of Australian wealth. Settler colonialism is ongoing...Nineteenth Century Life Science and the Professionalisation of Sociology
18 Sep 2023
If we examine the professionalisation of the social science disciplines during the Nineteenth Century, we see a leveraging of the more established and more...Welcoming the Foreigner: A Possibility of Multispecies Hospitality
28 Aug 2023
Building on a long-term ethnographic engagement with Pakistani pigeon flyers, in this talk, I discuss the arrival of European racing pigeons in Pakistan and...Intersex Narratives in the Global South: Departures from Medical Imperatives
14 Aug 2023
Emphasis on medicalisation of sex and gender in North America—inspired by John Money’s work with intersex and transgender patients in the 1950s—has influenced...The Relationships and Health of Non-migrating Partners of International Labour Migrant Men in Nepal
24 Jul 2023
Over half of all Nepali households have at least one family member currently abroad or living in Nepal as a returnee (IOM, 2018). Because of economic and...Bridging the Languages of the Biophysical and the Social in Expert Advice on Sustainability: Reflections on the International Resource Panel
15 May 2023
Across the environmental turn in the social sciences, many compelling arguments have been put forward on the need to understand and act on planetary crises in...
