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Social Sciences Week
9 - 15 September 2024
The University of Sydney is a proud Silver Sponsor of Social Sciences Week. A vibrant week's celebration delving into diverse social science topics, featuring groundbreaking research and unique opportunities to engage with leading experts through inspiring events and discussions.
Upcoming events
Held on Monday 9 September, 2024.
A public seminar hosted by a panel of experts to consider the complex and dynamic relationship between care and harm in international migration.
Speakers:
- Associate Professor Valerie Francisco-Menchavez, San Francisco State University
- Dr Sherene Idriss, Western Sydney University
- Associate Professor Sukhmani Khorana, University of NSW
- Dr Michelle Peterie, University of Sydney
- Professor Marie Segrave, University of Melbourne
- Dr Matt Withers, Australian National University
- (Chair) Dr Leah Williams Veazey, University of Sydney
Held on Tuesday 10 September, 2024.
A discussion hosted by active researchers and passionately committed teaching academics from the School of Social and Political Sciences reflect on the ‘teaching-research nexus’.
Speakers:
- Professor Gaby Ramia (Chair), Deputy Head of School (Research)
- Associate Professor Susan Banki, Sociology and Criminology
- Dr Minglu Chen, Government and International Relations
- Professor Alex Lefebvre, Philosophy; Government and International Relations
- Dr Eyal Mayroz, Sociology and Criminology
- Professor Brendon O’Connor, US Studies; Government and International Relations
- Dr Chris Pepin-Neff, Government and International Relations
- Professor Sarah Phillips, International Security; Government and International Relations
Held on Wednesday 11 September, 2024.
A discussion questioning what it means to live in and be governed by a technologically driven society.
Speakers:
- Dr Lisa Yin Han, Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Pitzer College
- Dr Henrietta Byrne, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, University of Sydney
- Dr Kevin Witzenberger, research fellow at Queensland University of Technology
Discussants:
- Dr Roberta Pala and Dr Jianni Tien, Postdoctoral Research Fellows in the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies at The University of Sydney
Held on Thursday 12 September, 2024.
A presentation addressing how archives can be rich sites for ethnography and how anthropologists can engage with colonial archival collections without upholding their epistemic power.
Speaker: Henrietta Byrne, University of Sydney
Held on Thursday 12 September, 2024.
For the 17th Annual E.L. 'Ted' Wheelwright Lecture, Associate Professor Ntina Tzouvala, from the ANU College of Law, will explore how the US Dollar underpins the political-economic power of the United States and allows it to make the rules of global capitalism.
Held on Friday 13 September, 2024.
A panel from the University of Sydney discusses the perceived conflict between economic and environmental goals, the potential for businesses to drive decarbonization, and the political and ideological barriers to change.
Speakers:
- John Mikler (Chair) and Imogen Ryan: 'Gaslighting Australia: The Instrumental Power of Australia’s Mining and Energy Industries'.
- Anja Bless: 'Markets for ecosystem services: The commodification of human-nature relations in the regenerative agriculture movement'.
- Phillip Lawrence: 'The 1862 Companies Act, Mary Shelley was right!'
- Lee White: 'Geographies of regulatory disparity underlying Australia’s energy transition'.