Boys and Feminism
Lecture
Contemporary media discourse suggests that feminists exclusively understand boys and the experience of boyhood through such frameworks as “patriarchal privilege” and “toxic masculinity”. This lecture considers some important cultural and intellectual problems arising from these dominant ideas about…
Researching Australian Boyhood
Panel discussion
This panel features four papers concerning histories, representations, and experiences of Australian boyhood. At its core is a strategic commitment to understanding boys, boyhood, and boys’ culture in ways that avoid negatively defining them as likely future social problems in the field of…
Reading group invitation – Summertime: Reflections on a Vanishing Future (Celemajer, 2021)
Other
April reading group invitation – Summertime: Reflections on a Vanishing Future (Celemajer, 2021) 9-10.30am Wednesday 28th April and 10th May. In preparation for a special sociology seminar with Professor Daniella Celemajer to discuss her new book Summertime…
Communicating whose science? Anti-racist scholarship in science communication
Seminar
Communicating whose science? Anti-racist scholarship in science communication Recent years have seen a flurry of published research on equity, diversity and inclusion in the science communication discipline. Among other things, that scholarship has revealed profound cultures of exclusion in…
The three discourses of religious freedom in Australian public life
Seminar
Three discourses of religious freedom in Australian public life The issue of religious freedom burst into Australian public discourse during the lead-up to marriage equality – or so it seemed when, for more than two years after the announcement in 2017 of a voluntary postal survey on same-sex…
Sociology PhD, IIsabel Mudford to join Dr Clara Tuck Meng Soo in conversation tonight at Kambri
Seminar
LEADERSHIP FOR CHANGE: A LIFETIME OF LOOKING AFTER THE NEEDS OF THE MARGINALISED WITH DR CLARA TUCK MENG SOO AND ISABEL MUDFORD You might recognise Dr Clara Tuck Meng Soo from when she was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2015 Queen’s Birthday Honours List, which she gave back in…
Trans photography in German sexology and Weimar sexual subcultures
Seminar
Trans photography in German sexology and Weimar sexual subcultures Scholars have identified the central importance of patient case histories in the professionalization of medicine in modernity, but directed relatively little attention towards the role of visual technologies, whether in shaping…