Seminar: Mapping the higher education curriculum and the significance of research
Seminar
Held in the Larry Saha Room, Haydon-Allen #2175, ANU. All welcome. Presented by Pamela Roberts, Senior Lecturer, CEDAM, Research School of Arts and Social Science Barnett & Coate (2005: 14) argue that curriculum is a "missing term" in higher education, which represents the lack of a…
Seminar: Sociology's contribution to explaining the Gulf of Mexico Oil spill disaster
Seminar
Larry Saha Room, HA2175, Haydon-Allen Building, ANU. Presented by Emeritus Professor Andrew Hopkins. Andrew Hopkins is working under contract to the US Chemical Safety Board inquiry into the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster. This is one of several inquires, and the most sociological in its…
Seminar: "Economic Categories in Neoliberal Society"
Seminar
Larry Saha Room, HA2175, Haydon-Allen Building. Presented by Associate Professor Kieran Healy (Duke University, USA), RSSS Visiting Fellow in Sociology. Paper by Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy Official and unofficial classes and categories of people give structure to social settings,…
"Banging On" - Political Particpation Workshop
Workshop
Haydon-Allen Building, Room 2175 (Larry Saha Room) ANU A workshop with the aim of exchanging of ideas. Your attendance is welcome. Any enquiries should be directed to Professor David Marsh at david.marsh@anu.edu.au Provisional program: sites/default/files/BANGING%20ON%20_2_.pdf
Seminar: Class in the Contemporary World: Can Bourdieu help us to understand contemporary patterns of inequality?
Seminar
Larry Saha Room, Haydon-Allen Building Room 2175. Presented by Prof David Marsh and Dr Dan Woodman, School of Sociology, RSSS. The concept if class is alive and well, at least in a sense. Class remains a central variable in much sociology. Yet how class is conceptualised for the contemporary…
Seminar: Investigating the Unique Nature of India’s Global Cut Flower Production Network
Seminar
Larry Saha Room - Haydon-Allen Building, Room 2175. Presented by Jasmine Glover, PhD Candidate. The global cut flower industry (CFI) is a classic example of the growth of an industry that has relied upon the cheaper labour and production costs of developing countries to produce high-input…
Seminar - Analysing Political Legitimacy: Foundations of Public Perceptions from a Needs-Based Perspective
Seminar
Larry Saha Room (Haydon-Allen 2175). Andrew James Klassen School of Political Science, Australian National University Analysing Political Legitimacy: Foundations of Public Perceptions from a Needs-Based Perspective Political legitimacy is fundamentally important but inherently problematic. …