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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
Problematising Water: an experiment on the edges of interdisciplinarity
Dr Nicole Vitellone (University of Liverpool)
Problematising water: an experiment on the edges of interdisciplinarity is a manifestation of thinking with water across a range of disciplines…
The Sovereign Individual reloaded: surfacing Thiel’s alt-canon
Prof Roger Burrows (Centre for Urban and Public Policy Research, Bristol University)
Peter Thiel’s ideological commitments, financial networks and political interventions reveal a deliberate effort to dismantle democratic governance…
Everyday intoxications: A qualitative analysis of young people’s alcohol and other drug consumption
Dr Adrian Farrugia (La Trobe University/School of Sociology Visiting Fellow)
This seminar will present research by Adrian Farrugia, Helen Keane, Mats Ekendahl and Mary Lou Rasmussen.Much sociological research on young people’s…

