Queer Youth Histories
Book launch
How has growing up LGBTIQA+ changed over time?What experiences are common across the generations, and what’s different? How do we learn about people’s diverse queer youth histories and what is gained by learning about them?Come to hear about different people’s experiences, celebrate the launch…
Adrian Mackenzie and Anna Munster Book Launch
Book launch
Join us for a special event celebrating the launch of two important new books by two leading Australian theorists of computational culture—Professor Adrian Mackenzie (ANU) and Professor Anna Munster (UNSW).The event kicks off with an in-conversation between the authors as they discuss the politics…
Everyday intoxications: A qualitative analysis of young people’s alcohol and other drug consumption
Lecture/seminar
This seminar will present research by Adrian Farrugia, Helen Keane, Mats Ekendahl and Mary Lou Rasmussen.Much sociological research on young people’s drug consumption seeks to push past the narrow public health focus on risk and harm by centring pleasure as a key dynamic shaping the motivations and…
Masculinity, migration and care: Men working in the adult social care sector in England
Lecture/seminar
Like many other countries, the adult social care sector in England relies on a predominantly female workforce, with men accounting for 21% of workers as of 2024. As a result, some commentators have suggested that recruiting more men could be one solution to the staffing crisis, which has long…
Natureculture: rethinking socio-ecological relations
Lecture/seminar
This Social Sciences Week public panel brings together a group of scholars and landscape practitioners whose work challenges the artificial distinctions often made between ‘nature’ and ‘culture’. Looking at a diversity of actors, from estrogens and wild animals to carbon credits and urban…
Urban ecology: Biodiversity at home, in the neighbourhood and community
Lecture/seminar
Urban ecology is often thought of as a human-nature relationship occurring in the urban setting: Mostly in city parks, botanic gardens and nature reserves, surrounded by a built environment. In this seminar, Dr Peerson will discuss other ways of viewing urban ecology. By considering diverse…
Love Across Class
Seminar
What does it mean to partner across class difference? Based on 38 in-depth interviews with people from a range of class and cultural backgrounds, the 2024 book Love Across Class brings to life the role of class in shaping people’s childhoods, as well as the adult lives cross-class couples have…