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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
Exploring normative strain in Thailand: life crises as identified by 13 to 15 year-old young people in Pathum Thani province, northern Krungthep (Bangkok).
Professor Garry Fry
In developing a concept of normative strain, this paper presents the results of work undertaken in outer urban Pathum Thani province to the immediate…
How can we study secretive organisations? The Commission for International Justice and Accountability and the Politics of Methodology
Dr Michelle Burgis-Kasthala
The Commission for International Justice and Accountability (CIJA) established in 2011 through European state funds is a private, non-profit NGO…
In search of neoliberalism: confronting the enigma of neoliberal justice
Professor Pat O'Malley, ANU
The thesis of ‘neoliberal penality’ has been widely condemned, and the utility of ‘neoliberalism’ as a sociological category thereby challenged. In…