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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
Urban ecology: Biodiversity at home, in the neighbourhood and community
Dr Anita Peerson (Visiting Fellow, ANU School of Sociology)
Urban ecology is often thought of as a human-nature relationship occurring in the urban setting: Mostly in city parks, botanic gardens and nature…
Masculinity, migration and care: Men working in the adult social care sector in England
Ella Monkcom (PhD candidate, University of Sheffield)
Like many other countries, the adult social care sector in England relies on a predominantly female workforce, with men accounting for 21% of workers…
Everyday intoxications: A qualitative analysis of young people’s alcohol and other drug consumption
Dr Adrian Farrugia (La Trobe University/School of Sociology Visiting Fellow)
This seminar will present research by Adrian Farrugia, Helen Keane, Mats Ekendahl and Mary Lou Rasmussen.Much sociological research on young people’s…
Past Events
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…
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…
Building information resilience through accessible communication practice: The case of migrants and people with disability in Australia
Dr Ashleigh Haw
During any crisis event, trustworthy communication is crucial for fostering safe and informed societies. During the Covid-19 pandemic, however,…