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2008 Events

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Master Classes

Professor Charles Lemert

Wesleyan University, USA
‘Death, Waste, and Time: Political Traction in the New Global Spaces’
12-15 and 19-21 May, 6-7:30pm, Crawford Room, State Library

Masterclass in Social Theory (SOCI9026) flyer

 

Professor Bryan Turner

National University of Singapore
‘Globalization and Social Theory: Rights, Cosmopolitanism, and the Public Sphere’
4, 6, 11, 13 March, 2-4pm, Function Centre, Humanities Road

Public Seminars

All seminars and student presentations are held in Social Sciences North building, room 241.

Dr. Marta Herrero
University of Plymouth, UK
‘National Art in the Auction Market: Culture, Place, and Art Value’
Thursday March 6, 4-5pm, SSN 241
Professor Bryan Turner
National University of Singapore
‘Human Rights and Warfare in the Twentieth Century: Structural Causes of the Transformation of Modern Societies’
Wednesday March 12, 4-5pm, SSN 241
Associate Professor Barbara Baird
Flinders University
‘Reproducing the White Nation’
Thursday March 27, 4-5pm, SSN 241
Professor Liz Stanley
University of Edinburgh, UK
‘To the Letter: Epistolarity and the Lost History of Biographical Sociology’
Thursday April 10, 4-5pm, SSN 241
Dr. Anthony Moran
La Trobe University, Melbourne
‘What Settler Australians Talk About when they Talk about Aborigines: Reflections on an In-Depth Interview Study’
Thursday May 1, 4-5pm, SSN 241
Dr. Constance Lever-Tracey
Flinders University
‘Climate Change - A Third Industrial Divide?’
Thursday May 29, 4-5pm, SSN 241
Assoc. Professor Douglas Ezzy
University of Tasmania, Hobart
‘A Sociology of Evil: The Holocaust and Global Warming’
Thursday June 12, 4-5pm, SSN 241

Past Events

'The Future of the World' public lecture

Photos taken at the public lecture 'The Future of the World' with speaker Professor Charles Lemert of Wesleyan University, USA. Held at the Hilton Hotel, Adelaide on the 14 March. This event was part of the 30th Anniversary Events for the Department of Sociology.

View or listen to 'The Future of the World' public lecture

Professor Charles Lemert
Professor Anthony Elliott
Professor Anthony Elliott, Vice-Chancellor Professor Anne Edwards and Professor Charles Lemert

Charles Lemert is Andrus Professor of Sociology at Wesleyan University, USA and Professor of the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. He is widely recognized as one of the leading social theorists in the world today and has books have been translated into various languages.

His recent books include: Durkheim’s Ghosts: Cultural Logics and Social Things (Cambridge University Press, 2006); Deadly Worlds: the Emotional Costs of Gobalization, with Anthony Elliott (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006); Postmodernism Is Not What You Think (2E, Paradigm Publishers, 2005); Sociology After the Crisis (Paradigm Publishers, 2004; 2e); Muhammad Ali: Trickster and the Culture of Irony (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2003); Dark Thoughts: Race and the Eclipse of Society (Routledge, 2002).

He is editor of the bestselling textbook Social Theory: The Multicultural and Classical Readings (Perseus/Basic Books, 2005, 3e).