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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
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…
“I’m done:” poetic reflections on meaning-making, narrative, and stillness towards end of life for people with deteriorating heart failure
Caitlin Pilbeam
Dying with heart failure is a turbulent journey that unfolds potentially over years. However, making life ‘worth living’ in the face of dying is less…



