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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
The Sovereign Individual reloaded: surfacing Thiel’s alt-canon
Prof Roger Burrows (Centre for Urban and Public Policy Research, Bristol University)
Peter Thiel’s ideological commitments, financial networks and political interventions reveal a deliberate effort to dismantle democratic governance…
Past Events
A Pilot Study of the Experience of Modern Academic Working Life: Productivity increase or unsustainable intensification of work?
Professor Michael Bittman, University of New England
This presentation introduces a new tool for studying the content and the experience of jobs. It relies on random time sampling and the data is…
Approaching Research on Lactation After Infant Loss with Heartfelt Positivity: Some Mindful Reflections
Dr Katherine Carroll
The heartfelt positivity methodology has been developed to focus on what is working well in society, to ensure stories of survival, value, and a…
Votes at 16: What can we learn from the Scottish independence referendum?
Dr Elizabeth Tait
In September 2014, 55% of the eligible electorate in Scotland voted in favour of remaining within the United Kingdom. The preceding referendum…
