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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
Teaching in the climate crisis: Reflections from the humanities and social sciences
Steph Houghton (Sociology, La Trobe University), Julia Dehm (Law, La Trobe University)
In 2022, a group of researchers and educators from the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at La Trobe University came together to explore our…
Digital (in)justice?: Lay users and the technological transformation of the court system
Dr Anna Tsalapatanis (University College London)
Abstract: England and Wales, like many other countries, are currently undergoing enormous technology-driven changes to their justice system. These…
Food System Transitions, Nutritional Insecurity and Oil Palm: Changing Landscapes of Social Reproduction in Sumatra's Plantation Belt
John McCarthy
In Southeast Asia, a plantation boom over recent decades has transformed landscapes and life-making on an immense scale, with some 16 million…


