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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 Rebecca Pearse and Thao Phan.
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Contact
- Rebecca Pearse and Thao Phan
Upcoming Events
Habit’s Pathways: Guiding Repetition, Governing Conduct, Contested Interruptions
Professor Tony Bennett
Drawing principally on the work of Michel Foucault, this paper considers how the relations between habit and repetition have been construed in the…
Love Across Class
Associate Professor Eve Vincent (Macquarie University) , Dr Rose Butler (Deakin University)
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…
Past Events
The Courage to Hear? Animal Advocacy, Foucault and Parrhēsia
Dr Dinesh Wadiwel
Abstract: A common tactic utilised by animal advocates involves the display of graphic footage or imagery (such as video footage from a…
“You are so negative!” How gender and intersectional justice are stymied by the code of civility
Dr Joyce Wu
This paper examines the challenges of gender mainstreaming within development institutions and research institutes, and how a code of appropriate…
How can sociological perspectives help chart us through the renewable energy transition in Australia?
Dr Hedda Ransan-Cooper
Given the recent announcements of job cuts across our sector, it feels jarring to be considering how best to grow a research theme (to date somewhat…