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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
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…
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…
Past Events
Intersex Narratives in the Global South: Departures from Medical Imperatives
Arpita Das
Emphasis on medicalisation of sex and gender in North America—inspired by John Money’s work with intersex and transgender patients in the 1950s—has…
The Relationships and Health of Non-migrating Partners of International Labour Migrant Men in Nepal
Shraddha Manandhar
Over half of all Nepali households have at least one family member currently abroad or living in Nepal as a returnee (IOM, 2018). Because of economic…
Bridging the Languages of the Biophysical and the Social in Expert Advice on Sustainability: Reflections on the International Resource Panel
Sujatha Raman
Across the environmental turn in the social sciences, many compelling arguments have been put forward on the need to understand and act on planetary…