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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
Accounting for nonhuman material in health: The Wellbeing Machine
Speaker: Dr Kim McLeod (University of Tasmania) Location: Larry Saha Room (HA2175) Wellbeing and illbeing are generally seen as interior states of…
Similar Mechanisms? A Comparative Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Violence and Victimization
Speaker: A/Prof. Christopher Sullivan (University of Cincinnati) Location: Larry Saha Room (HA2175) This study analyses the extent to which there…
Who Riots and Why? The Influence of Gender and Peaceful Protest on Riot Involvement
Speaker: A/Prof. Lisa Broidy (Griffith University) Location: Larry Saha Room (HA2175) Why do individuals join riots and why is rioting so much more…
