About the series

The School of Social Science Seminar Series acts as a forum for visiting academic staff, postgraduate and undergraduate students to discuss research in the social sciences. It  is intended to offer a regular forum for discussion of a range of topics and themes, and we welcome anyone who might be interested in attending.

Schedule - 2013: Semester 2.

 1:00-2:00pm, Room 443, Level 4, Michie Building (09).

DATE SPEAKER TITLE
Friday 2 August Dr Victor Igreja, Sessional Lecturer, School of Social Science  TBA
Friday 9 August  TBA  TBA
Friday 16 August  Dr Kirsten McGavin  TBA
Friday 6 September  TBA  TBA
Friday 13 September  TBA  TBA
Friday 20 September  Dr Martha Macintyre, Hon. Principal Research Fellow, University of Melbourne  TBA
Friday 27 September  Dr Levent Atici, University of Las Vegas  TBA
Friday 11 October  TBA  TBA
Friday 18 October  TBA  TBA
Friday 25 October  TBA  TBA

 

 

Schedule - 2013: Semester 1.

 1:00-2:00pm, Room 443, Level 4, Michie Building (09).

DATE SPEAKER TITLE
8 March Prof. R. Crutchfield
Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington, Seattle
The Employment Crime Connection
15 March Seminar cancelled.  

22 March

Seminar cancelled.  
29 March Public Holiday No seminar
12 April Dr Diana Young
Museum Director & Senior Lecturer, School of Social Science, UQ
The More I look The More I See: Visual Anthropology, Digital Museums and Fieldwork
19 April Ms Peta Ashworth
Group Leader, Science into Society Group, CSIRO Earth Science & Resource Engineering and Adjunct A/Professor, School of Social Science, UQ
The emerging role for applied social sciences in the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
10 May Dr Kirsty Gillespie
Research Fellow, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining
Musical Landscapes of Lihir: Curator's Talk
CHANGE OF VENUE: Anthropology Museum, Level 1, Michie Building
17 May Professor Marshall Weisler
School of Social Science
 Sustainability in the most precarious of environments: human settlement of pacific atolls over two millennia
24 May Dr Kristen Lyons, Dr Peter Walters and Erin Riddell
School of Social Science
Cults, Charisma and Community Development: Governance of Plantation Forestry in the Solomon Islands
31 May Dr Ana Dragojlovic
Postdoctoral Fellow Anthropology, School of Social Science, UQ
Materialisation of Absence of Meditation of Emotional Suffering in Indo-Dutch Genealogy Work

 

 

Schedule - 2012: Semester 2.


All Seminars run on a Friday, between 1:00pm and 2:00pm and are held at:
Room 443, Level 4, Michie Building (#09), St Lucia Campus
 

Date

Presenter

University

Seminar

20 July

Prof Kathryn Edin

 Professor of Public Policy and Management,
Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

 Doing the Best I Can: Fatherhood in the Innercity

27 July Dr Mark Lynch  Director, Queensland Centre for Social Science Innovation

3 August

Dr Anna Karlström

 Postdoctoral Research Fellow; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit. University of Queensland

10 August

Dr Mark Bahnisch

 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Medical Education Research and Scholarship, School of Medicine, The University of Queensland

17 August

Assoc Prof Alex Broom  

 Associate Professor of Sociology and ARC Future Fellow at the School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, Australia
24 August Dr Annie Ross and Assoc Prof Kim Bryceson

Annie Ross is a Senior Lecturer in Anthroplogy at the School of Social Science, University of Queensland . 

Kim Bryceson is an Associate Professor in Agribusiness at the School of Agriculture and Food Science, University of Queensland.

Markets, Supply Chains, and Livelihoods Development in Tonga and Solomon Islands

31 August

Dr Mark Schubert and Ms Elaine Seeto

 Consultant Anthropologists / Social Scientists

 Projects and the People

7 September

Prof Keyan Tomaselli Director, Centre for Communication, Media and Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban

 Doing Research Amongst Indigenous Communities: Kalahari Capers

14 September

Dr Gerhard Hoffstaedter   Lecturer in Anthropology, School of Social Science

21 September

 

 

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 No seminar

 28 September

Semester Break

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 No seminar
5 October  ---   ---

 No seminar

12 October

Dr Lena Rodriguez

 Lecturer, School of Humanities & Social Sciences, University of Newcastle

 Is Genetic Labelling Around Obesity Contributing to Resistance and Fatalism in Polynesian Migrant Communities?

19 October

Dr Andrew Fairbairn

 Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, School of Social Science

 Feeding ancient Kaneş: Farming and trade at Middle Bronze Age Kaneş-Kültepe

 

 

Schedule - 2012:  Semester 1

All Seminars run on a Friday, between 1:00pm and 2:00pm and are held at:
Room 443, Level 4, Michie Building (#09), St Lucia Campus
 

Date

Presenter

University

Seminar

2 March

Dr Sally Babidge

School of Social Science
University of Queensland

‘Socios’: neoliberal subjectivity and morality in indigenous community-mining company relations, northern Chile

9 March Dr Sarinda Singh School of Social Science
University of Queensland

16 March

Lisa Newell

Associate Director for Archaeological and Heritage Management Solutions (AHMS) Sydney

23 March

Dr Douglas Baird

University of Liverpool
United Kingdom

30 March

Dr David Picard

New University of Lisbon, Portugal
6 April Public Holiday  

No seminar

13 April

Semester Break

 

No seminar

20 April

Prof Myrna Dawson

University of Guelph, Canada

Reducing death, changing systems or both? Understanding the role of domestic violence death review committees in violence prevention

27 April

Dr Belinda Hewitt

ISSR,
University of Queensland

4 May

 

 

Dr Ron Brunton


v.


Dr Lee Sacket

Consultant Anthropologist,





Honorary Associate Professor Anthropology, UQ School of Social Science
 
NOTE: This seminar will be held in Room 360, Physiol Lecture Theatre Building 63 

 11 May

A/Prof Debra McDougall


 

University of Western Australia

18 May Lindy Allen

Museum Victoria

Shifting traditional museum boundaries through collaborative projects with source communities

25 May

Dr Caragh Brosnan

University of Newcastle

Taking the ‘neuro’ out of the black box: exploring neuroscience, neuroethics and the brain in practice’

1 June

Prof Mark Finnane
   and

Prof Heather Douglas

Griffith University

TC Beirne School of Law, UQ

Sorcery and criminal justice in the settler-Indigenous encounter in Australia

*Abstracts for the current semester series will be provided as links above, where available.

Below are abstracts from previous seminars.

 

 

School of Social Science Seminar Series section

2011 John Western Memorial Lecture

2011 Seminar Series Video - Rebekah Levine Coley

Fathers Contributions to Child Functioning in Low-Income Families Friday 5 August 2011  

School of Social Science / ISSR Seminar Series Videos

Video recordings of School Semiar series presentations

2011 Seminar Series Video - David Trigger

Anthropology pure and profane: the politics of applied research in Aboriginal Australia Friday 12 August

2011 Seminar Series Video - Alex Broom

On euthanasia, resistance, and redemption: The moralities and politics of dying in an Australian hospice Associate Professor Alex Broom  

2011 Seminar Series Video - Emma Kowal

Equality and difference: The cultural politics of white anti-racism in Australia Friday 26 August

2011 Seminar Series Video - Gaby Ramia

Regulating International Education for Student Welfare: A Comparative Qualitative Analysis of Australia and New Zealand Wednesday 31 August

2011 Seminar Series Video - Ireland

Archaeology as Place Memory: comparing archaeological place-making in north eastern United States, Quebec and Australasia Friday 16 September with Dr Tracy Ireland

2011 Seminar Series Video - M. Adil Khan

2011 Seminar Series Video - Walters

Preserving the public realm in the city: a case study of West End in Brisbane Friday 7 October with Dr Peter Walters
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