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The Institute for Culture and Society hosts a range of events throughout the year from international conferences to seminars, workshops and book launches.
Upcoming Events
ICS Seminar Series 2019
The ICS Seminar Series presents an exciting breadth of social and cultural research from the Institute’s renowned staff and doctoral candidates as well as a range of national and international visiting scholars. Our first Seminar for 2019 will be held on Thursday the 7th of March. ICS and the Whitlam Institute will host the Seminar Uluru Statement ‘From the Heart’: Are We Listening?
Find out more about the ICS Seminar Series.
Seminar: Beyond technology: Museums as catalysts of connection through communication 14 February 2019
Museums have always been points of connection across time, locations, content formations and communities. How do digital infrastructures, technologies and media impact museums’ options of making connections? Kirsten Drotner, Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Southern Denmark and founding director of two R&D programmes, DREAM and Our Museum, presents answers, offers practical examples of how to make new connections, and discusses some of the obstacles. Find out more about the Seminar
Public Seminar: New materialism and the sociology of inequality: class, capital and capacities.
A public seminar on new materialism and the sociology of inequality presented by Peta Hinton and Nick J. Fox.
Find out more about the seminar.
TASA Conference 2019: Diversity & Urban Growth
25-28 November 2019
Western Sydney University (WSU) is pleased to host the 2019 Australian Sociological Association Conference, a return to Sydney for the first time since 2010. WSU’s School of Social Sciences and Psychology and Institute of Culture and Society will hold the conference in Greater Western Sydney (GWS) at our new Parramatta City campus and at other sites nearby.
Find out more about the TASA Conference 2019: Diversity & Urban Growth(opens in a new window)
Past Events
A full list of past events is available on the Past Events page.
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Asian Studies Association of Australia 19th Biennial Conference
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Professor Katherine Gibson presenting at the Knowledge/Culture/Economy Conference
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Professor Peter Shergold, University Chancellor, presenting at the launch of the Institute for Culture and Society
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Professor Ien Ang, presenting at the launch of the Institute for Culture and Society
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Associate Professor Amanda Third and Dr Philippa Collin presenting at the launch of the Institute for Culture and Society
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Professor Tony Bennett presenting at the Mapping the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Research Week event
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Musicians playing at Parramatta Now event
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Parramatta Town Hall during the Parramatta Now event
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Julie McCrossin engages audience members during the Parramatta Now event
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Julie McCrossin engages audience members during the Parramatta Now event
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Professor Gay Hawkins and fellow panellists during the Parramatta Now event
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The Explore: West exhibition on display during the Parramatta Now event
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Professor Greg Noble and Tim Soutphommasane, Race Discrimination Commissioner, at the Rethinking Multicultural Education: Research, Policy, Practice Conference
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Associate Professor Megan Watkins presenting at the Rethinking Multicultural Education: Research, Policy, Practice Conference
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Books on display at the Rethinking Multicultural Education: Research, Policy, Practice Conference
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Rethinking Multicultural Education: Research, Policy, Practice Conference
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Keith Parry and Professor David Rowe presenting at the This Sporting Life Research Week event
Significant past events include
- Knowledge/Culture/Technology International Conference, September 2018
- International Conference on Diversity and Disability Inclusion in Muslim Societies: Experiences from Asia, November 2017
- Knowledge/Culture/Ecologies International Conference, November 2017
- Ecocity World Summit, July 2017
- Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference and Research Student Pre-Conference, December 2016
- The 'Muslim Question': Citizenship and Racism in Australia, December 2015
- Globalization, Modernity and Urban Change Conference, March 2015
- Rethinking Multicultural Education: Research, Policy, Practice Conference, November 2014
- Knowledge/Culture/Economy International Conference, November 2014
- The Governing City Futures Conference: Population, Climate Change and the Future of the Low Density City, August 2012
- Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) 19th Biennial Conference 2012, July 2012
- Knowledge/Culture/Social Change International Conference, November 2011
