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The School of Sociology Seminar Series brings together social scientists to share their work and to critically discuss the pressing issues of our time. The School’s staff and students explore a broad range of cross-cutting interests, including embodiment and gender, technological change, the social dimensions of work and politics, global environmental change, and inequalities. We welcome speakers from across Australia and the world, aiming to foster meaningful dialogue and debate about documenting and addressing social problems while inspiring new forms of sociological practice.
The series also acknowledges our specific context within settler-colonial Australia, encouraging sociologists to present their work in ways that critically engage with the discipline’s history and future. As a community, we are committed to decolonising social theory, methods and practice and creating genuinely inclusive conditions for the production of social scientific knowledge and education.
Submissions
If you wish to have a paper considered for the series, please send a title, abstract, brief biography and preferred presentation date to Thao Phan.
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Contact
- Thao Phan
Past Events
Climate’s Computational Infrastructures
Prof Michael Richardson (UNSW) and Prof Adrian Mackenzie (ANU).
What roles do computational infrastructures and their embedded values, priorities, and assumptions play in making knowledge about planetary…
Venomous Property: therapeutic snakes, physician-naturalists, and the Oviperaio
Professor Dallas Rogers (University of Sydney)
This talk considers the seventeenth-century scholar and poet Francesco Redi’s (1626-1697) scientific experimentation with snakes in Italy.…
Making Do: Conservation ethics and ecological care in Australia
Dr Mardi Reardon-Smith (Monash University)
Cape York Peninsula in far north Queensland is a region renowned for its environmental and cultural values. Like other biodiverse regions in the…

