Role-Taking in Everyday Life: Graduate Fellows Panel
Panel discussion
The Role-Taking Project (RTP) is an ongoing initiative for the systematic study of role-taking, or symbolically placing the self in another’s position. Supported by an ANU Futures Scheme grant and led by Dr. Jenny Davis (ANU Sociology) and Dr. Tony Love (University of Kentucky Sociology), a core…
Building Indigenous post-graduate pipelines: Some strategies for success
Seminar
Abstract The Universities Australia Indigenous Strategy 2017 - 2020 sets a broadly ambitious agenda for achievement in Indigenous Higher education. Aspirational targets for access, retention and success of undergraduate students were established, with concomitant institutional commitment. There is…
Workshop: Barriers to and Priorities for International Trade in Services
Workshop
This Jean Monnet workshop is supported by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. Intensive Workshop: Canberra, 24-26 July 2019 This Workshop brought together academics, policy-makers, trade negotiators, data specialists and trade consultants for an intensive discussion on some of the most…
Self-in-Self, Mind-in-Mind, Heart-in-Heart: The Role-Taking Project
Lecture
Role-taking refers to the process of symbolically placing the self in another’s position. The concept was introduced by George Herbert Mead in 1934 and is now foundational in the sociological canon. However, role-taking has received little systematic attention, instead persisting as axiomatic in…
Trans*: A Quick and Quirky History of Gender Variance
Lecture
In the last decade, public discussions of transgender issues have increased exponentially. However, with this increased visibility has come not just power, but regulation, both in favour of and against trans people. What was once regarded as an unusual or even unfortunate disorder has become an…
The Politics and Implications of Recent Life Writing
Workshop
Life-writing is a broad genre encompassing all manner of ‘ego documents’ including autobiography, diaries, journals, letters, memoirs, and oral testimony. It is not only an historical genre, but it is an increasingly interdisciplinary specialism. It is said to reflect extreme individualism of late…
Being with and Being for Animals: The status and role of method in contemporary sociological animal studies
Symposium
Being-With and Being-For Animals:The Status and Role of Method in Contemporary Sociological Animal Studies This symposium, jointly hosted by The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) and the School of Sociology at the Australian National University, will focus on examining the ways in which…