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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
‘Performing’ Fathering while Homeless: Utilising a Critical Social Work Perspective
Mr Steven Roche, PhD Candidate, Monash University
This presentation links sociological perspectives of fatherhood and homelessness to qualitative research with fathers experiencing homelessness.…
A Pilot Study of the Experience of Modern Academic Working Life: Productivity increase or unsustainable intensification of work?
Professor Michael Bittman, University of New England
This presentation introduces a new tool for studying the content and the experience of jobs. It relies on random time sampling and the data is…
Approaching Research on Lactation After Infant Loss with Heartfelt Positivity: Some Mindful Reflections
Dr Katherine Carroll
The heartfelt positivity methodology has been developed to focus on what is working well in society, to ensure stories of survival, value, and a…