Bogans, larrikins, surfers and swagmen: Critical examinations of masculinity, whiteness, class, and identity in Australia
Seminar
Join Andrea Waling for 'Bogans, larrikins, surfers and swagmen: Critical examinations of masculinity, whiteness, class, and identity in Australia' This talk offers a historical and contemporary exploration of masculine tropes in Australian culture. While attention has been paid to Australian…
Melanin, geology, sculpture: Notes on form
Seminar
Join Ari Larissa Heinrich for 'Melanin, geology, sculpture: Notes on form' In this talk I’ll read from a work in progress called ‘Decolonial Melanin: Notes on a Pigment.’ The book is a hybrid literary-academic exploration of the social life of melanin, examined partly through the work of the…
Hopeful futures? Examining the role of hope in young women’s future-making
Seminar
Hopeful futures? Examining the role of hope in young women’s future-making Signe Ravn A significant body of research in the sociology of youth explores young people’s orientations to the future. Recently, scholars have emphasised that not only the past is closely tied to emotions, but that…
Summertime: Reflections on a vanishing future
Seminar
Summertime: Reflections on a Vanishing Future, a discussion with Professor Danielle Celermajer This special seminar is a conversation with Professor Danielle Celermajer, author of Summertime: Reflections on a Vanishing Future (Penguin, 2021). This remarkable book was written…
‘How are you feeling?’: Postgraduate researchers’ contested experiences of well-being and mental health in a British university
Seminar
Postgraduate research (PGR) students face unique well-being and mental health issues. Yet, universities in the United Kingdom are not adequately equipped to address them, tending instead to give disproportionate focus to the well-being and mental health of undergraduates. There is limited…
Boys and Feminism
Lecture
Contemporary media discourse suggests that feminists exclusively understand boys and the experience of boyhood through such frameworks as “patriarchal privilege” and “toxic masculinity”. This lecture considers some important cultural and intellectual problems arising from these dominant ideas about…
Researching Australian Boyhood
Panel discussion
This panel features four papers concerning histories, representations, and experiences of Australian boyhood. At its core is a strategic commitment to understanding boys, boyhood, and boys’ culture in ways that avoid negatively defining them as likely future social problems in the field of…