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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
Novel climate interventions, coral reefs, and the social sciences
Professor Stewart Lockie
Escalating climate impacts are reflected in increased research and development efforts focused on the delivery of novel climate interventions. These…
But I've got other things to worry about right now...
Professor Roger Patulny
How information, political affiliation, and material concerns impact present and future concerns over climate change in Australia. Climate anxiety…
Turning to the Sensed Unconscious
Sarah Maslen
Abstract: As we live our daily lives, our senses generally seem something that we “have,” not something that we “do.” But people learn that they…



