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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
Religious exemptions as public pedagogies of homophobia
Professor Anna Hickey-Moody
The concept of public pedagogy (Sandlin et al. 2010) explores how societal norms are conveyed outside formal education. This framework helps to…
Young people, platform practices and dimensions of the ‘data gaze’
Associate Professors Steve Threadgold, Associate Professors Julia Coffey
Data is central to how we experience the social world, with the concept of the ‘data gaze’ helping to understand how everyday life is increasingly…
Novel climate interventions, coral reefs, and the social sciences
Professor Stewart Lockie
Escalating climate impacts are reflected in increased research and development efforts focused on the delivery of novel climate interventions. These…


