School of Social Science Seminar Series

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	Is there a best home for social science research?
3 August	Dr Anna Karlström	Postdoctoral Research Fellow; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit. University of Queensland	Heritage conservation and indigeneity in Laos
10 August	Dr Mark Bahnisch	Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Medical Education Research and Scholarship, School of Medicine, The University of Queensland	‘Medical dominance’ and the continuing robustness of professional cultures in health care: Implications for modes of governance and temporalities of organisational change
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	Time to die? The terminal diagnosis in perspective
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	Asylum seekers and refugees in Malaysia: a fractured picture of hopes, dreams and realities
21 September	---	---	No seminar
28 September	Semester Break	---	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	Negotiating development in upland Laos
16 March	Lisa Newell	Associate Director for Archaeological and Heritage Management Solutions (AHMS) Sydney	World heritage sites in urban contexts – competing values and slow responses
23 March	Dr Douglas Baird	University of Liverpool United Kingdom	A tale of two villages: the spread of farming in central Anatolia. Excavations at Pınarbaşı and Boncuklu
30 March	Dr David Picard	New University of Lisbon, Portugal	Issues of Coastal Land Tenure in South Western Madagascar: Kinship, Oral History, Spirit Ownership, Fisheries, Global Nature Conservation, Land Speculation
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	Relationship dissolution and self-rated health: a longitudinal analysis of transitions from cohabitation and marriage in Australia and Switzerland
4 May	Dr Ron Brunton v. Dr Lee Sacket	Consultant Anthropologist, Honorary Associate Professor Anthropology, UQ School of Social Science	DEBATE: Are anthropologists being candid about Aboriginal cultural discontinuities in native title cases? *NOTE: This seminar will be held in Room 360, Physiol Lecture Theatre* *Building 63*.
11 May	A/Prof Debra McDougall	University of Western Australia	Saving states, saving souls: Australian interventions in Solomon Islands
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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