Teaching in the climate crisis: Reflections from the humanities and social sciences
Seminar
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 approaches and highlight possibilities for climate action in higher education classrooms. Our discussions looked at the unique challenges…
Digital (in)justice?: Lay users and the technological transformation of the court system
Seminar
Abstract: England and Wales, like many other countries, are currently undergoing enormous technology-driven changes to their justice system. These changes, propelled by a £1.3 billion reform package, the online experiences catalysed by the COVID-19 pandemic, and user expectations increasingly set…
The Road to Batemans Bay by Alastair Greig - Book Launch
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 launched by Associate Professor Ruth Morgan and Professor Nick Brown. The Road to Batemans Bay is the story of competing ventures…
Reproduction Now! Workshop
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 current moment. Today, we see increasing numbers of people making decisions to not have children, in part because of concerns related to…
Food System Transitions, Nutritional Insecurity and Oil Palm: Changing Landscapes of Social Reproduction in Sumatra's Plantation Belt
Seminar
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 under oil palm cultivation in Indonesia. In Sumatra, the historical origin of Indonesia's oil palm complex and where the societal…
[CANCELLED] Exploring the use of a relational paradigm for understanding human-wildlife coexistence on the peri urban fringe
Seminar
In recent decades human population expansion has led to significant overlaps between human and wildlife communities. Accordingly, understanding how humans and wildlife coexist in shared spaces is becoming increasingly important to achieving sustainable conservation outcomes. These studies are…
Stolenwealth: Examining the expropriation of First Nations women’s unpaid care
Seminar
This article examines the intersections between coloniality and gender in the generation and maintenance of Australian wealth. Settler colonialism is ongoing in Australia and is intricately linked to wealth accumulation –where First Nations people’s labour, land and lives have been, and continue to…