ANU Sociology Seminar: Dr Baptiste Brossard
Seminar
Representing a Shift in the Interaction Order: Dementia and Sociological Theory From the moment a person is suspected to be suffering from a “mental disorder” such as dementia, the interactions they encounter progressively change. The people they interact with do not believe them as much as before…
ANU Sociology Seminar: Professor Mary Lou Rasmussen
Seminar
Venue: Larry Saha Room (HA2175) Prophylactic sexuality education, “young people” and sexual futures Professor Mary Lou Rasmussen The principal focus of sexuality education continues to be prophylactic – designed to prevent harm or disease. Adults and young people associate sexuality education with…
ANU Sociology Seminar: Dr Jenny Davis
Seminar
A Theory of Affordances: From Requests to Refusals As a concept, affordance is integral to scholarly analysis across multiple fields—including media studies, science and technology studies, communication studies, ecological psychology, and design studies, among others. However, critics…
ANU Sociology Seminar: Dr Deirdre Howard-Wagner
Seminar
The invisible success of urban indigenous-driven community development: a sociological place-based case study of Aboriginal success in the Australian city of Newcastle Urban areas are where important contemporary achievements of indigenous peoples converge – the building of urban Indigenous…
ANU Sociology Seminar: Dr Timothy Graham
Seminar
The problem of representation in social network analysis, or: How I learned to stop worrying and embrace the hypergraph. Social network analysis (SNA) has emerged as a powerful and practical method for representing and analysing social phenomena, due at least partly to the increasing availability…
ANU Sociology Seminar: Dr Rebecca Pearse
Seminar
Conservative populism and the carbon price debate in Australia How do we explain the repeal of the emissions trading scheme (ETS) in Australia? This paper outlines a neo-Polanyian account of the role conservative counter movement figures have played in unravelling the case for carbon pricing. It…
RSSS Public Lecture - Professor Nikolas Rose
Lecture
The Urban Brain. Living in the neurosocial city. Professor Nikolas Rose In this talk Professor Rose will argue that we should rethink the experience of living in the city in the light of recent developments in the sciences of life. We now know a great deal about the corporeal and cerebral impacts…