Upcoming events
Unpacking Lived Experience: Theories, Methods, Knowledges
9 December 2024 | 10:00 | School of Law and Social Justice Building
What is lived experience? Despite becoming mainstreamed across social science as a way of making sense of how direct experience of a wide range of social issues – particularly associated with marginalisation and other manifestations of power and inequality – can lead to the production of important knowledge, there is not always deep engagement with the nuances and tensions implied by the category.
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Past event highlights
Trans Embodiment Technologies and Knowledge Production in Argentina
27 September 2024 | Nelson Yu Room, School of Law and Social Justice Building
Speaker: Dr Patricio Simonetto, University of Leeds
Unlike other countries where gender affirmation surgery access was restricted but still allowed under certain conditions, Argentina has prohibited any treatment that affected reproductive organs since 1967. Different legal codes have penalised people dressed as the “opposite sex” since the 1930s. This criminalisation has threatened trans people’s right to existence and made gender affirmation practices clandestine, expensive and dangerous. This presentation analyses how male and female trans people challenged state restrictions by producing knowledge and homemade technologies to affirm their gender. He explores the his-tory of a vast repertoire of medical and social practices, such as self-injected hormones or liquid industrial silicone. The presentation also explores how people have experimented with their bodies, performing them in living laboratories to affirm their gender beyond legal and medical control, and how this pushed them to precarious conditions. Finally, it addresses how activists have formulated an alternative body discourse that challenges the biotechnological promise of an alleged “correct body” as an undeniable trans future.
Destabilising Masculinism Book Launch and Panel
6 September 2024 | School of Law and Social Justice Building
This event launched the book Destabilising Masculinism: Men's Friendships and Social Change written by Dr Brittany Ralph, Lecturer in Sociology, Social Policy, and Criminology.
This book explores how two generations of relatively privileged Australian men have navigated the complex terrain of same-gender friendship across their lives, to offer both empirically unique and theoretically significant insights into the mechanics of social change in masculinities.
A Panel event followed on from the book launch to look at how can we make sense of the 'socio-positive' change documented in this book, given the increasing support for misogynist figures like Andrew Tate and the broader rise of far-right ideology in many parts of the world?
Panel members
- Professor Steven Roberts, Professor of Education and Social Justice, Monash University, Australia
- Dr Saba Hussain, Assistant Professor in Education and Social Justice, University of Birmingham
- Dr Craig Haslop, Senior Lecturer in Media Communication and Media, University of Liverpool
Using Imposter Methods
12 June 2024 | School of Law and Social Justice Building
What are imposter methods? This workshop explored how imposter methods – research techniques that attend to imposter positions as generative locations of knowledge production – can enable more survivable ways of knowing and being in academia. The aim of the workshop was to explore how thinking with imposter ‘syndrome’ can be a fruitful way to question who and what is welcomed into research, conditionally or tokenistically included, kept or forced out.
The Social Life of Creative Methods
11 June 2024 | School of Law and Social Justice Building
The Social Life of Creative Methods increased understanding of creative and artistic methods by showcasing the uses of collaborative film making practices as an innovative methodological approach for health and well-being research. Bringing together researchers in the social sciences, arts and humanities, artists and practitioners who deploy arts methods and filmmaking, the event outlined the use of creative methods and interdisciplinary methodologies for PGR’s and early career academics interested in, and engaged with, creative methods.
Culture is NOT an Industry
6 March 2024 | School of Law and Social Justice Building
Join Justin O’Connor, Professor of Cultural Economy at University of South Australia and Visiting Professor School of Cultural Management, Shanghai Jiaotong University, in conversation with Dr Peter Campbell, Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology.
Culture is at the heart to what it means to be human. But twenty-five years ago, the British government rebranded art and culture as 'creative industries', valued for their economic contribution, and set out to launch the UK as the creative workshop of a globalised world. Where does that leave art and culture now? Facing exhausted workers and a lack of funding and vision, culture finds itself in the grip of accountancy firms, creativity gurus and Ted Talkers. At a time of sweeping geo-political turmoil, culture has been de-politicised, its radical energies reduced to factors of industrial production.
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