Past Events
2023
- Terrestrial Politics in Uncertain Times
25-27 October 2023
2020
- Contagion Design: Labour, Economy, Habits, Data
22 October - 12 November 2020
2019
- Automating Environments: A Discussion with Orit Halpern, Rodrigo Nunes and Susan Zieger
11 December 2019 - UNFCCC Official Side Event COP 25
3 December 2019 - Knowledge Culture Climate Action Symposium
2-3 December 2019 - TASA Conference 2019: Diversity & Urban Growth
25-28 November 2019 - Social Suffering in the Neoliberal Age: Classificatory Logic and Systems of Governance
17-19 July 2019 - Lithgow Just Transition Hub Workshop
23-24 May 2019 - Public Lecture: 'Are Filter Bubbles Real?'
22 May 2019 - Researching Post-Capitalist Possibilities PhD Summer School and Conference
16-18, 21-24 January 2019 - Seminar: Beyond technology: Museums as catalysts of connection through communication
14 February 2019 - Public Seminar: New materialism and the sociology of inequality: class, capital and capacities
25 February 2019
2018
- Environmental Humanities Lecture Series 2018
2018 - Book Launch: The Creativity Hoax: Precarious Work and the Gig Economy
31 October 2018 - Knowledge/Culture/Technology International Conference 2018
19-22 September 2018 - Book Launch: Principles of Transversality in Globalization and Education
12 September 2018 - Report Launch: A Study of War Affected Women With Disabilities in Sri Lanka(opens in a new window)(PDF,70KB)
24 July 2018 - Book launch: The World Cup Chronicles - 31 Days that Rocked Brazil(opens in a new window)
12 July 2018 - Gender and Automation
24 April 2018 - Modern Methodologies: Developments in Doing Sociological Research (opens in a new window)
15-16 February 2018 - The Cultural Politics of Digital Game-Making - seminar with Dr Alison Harvey
15 February 2018 - Strategies, Opportunities and Barriers: Mapping the New World of Work - An Australian Screen Industries Roundtable
8 February 2-18 - Researching Post-Capitalist Possibilities One Day Conference
25 January 2018 - Researching Post-Capitalist Possibilities PhD Summer School
18-20, 22-24 January 2018
2017
- Launch: The 2017 State of the World's Children Report – Children in A Digital World (opens in a new window)
12 December 2017 - Library as Infrastructure
11 December 2017 - International Conference on Diversity and Disability Inclusion in Muslim Societies: Experiences from Asia
21-22 November - Knowledge/Culture/Ecologies International Conference 2017
15-18 November - 2017 ICS Seminar Series
(weekly, Thursdays) - Automated Knowledge and Autonomous Publishing Infrastructures
2-3 November - Thinking in Common: Resilience
26 October - Thinking the Digital
8 September - Data Politics and Automated Aesthetics Workshop
25 August - When South is North: Contemporary Art and Culture in South Asia and Australia (opens in a new window)
16 August - 2016 Census Data Seminar
1 August - Ecocity World Summit
12-14 July - Recalibrating Culture: Production, Consumption, Policy Research Report Launch
10 June - Collecting, Ordering, Governing Book Launch
7 June - Conversations for a Future/City: Smart Cities Are a No-Brainer
1 June - Mapping Culture Report Launch and Panel Discussion
30 May - Conversations for a Future/City: Can We Afford Not to Build Liveable Cities?
25 May - Hacking Home
19 May - Conversations for a Future/City: Playground Politics and the Migrant Experience Today
18 May - Technology's Limits: Automation, Invention, Labour, and the Exhausted Environment
10 March - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Economic Development and Service Innovation Under Changing Welfare Regimes
1 March
2016
- Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference (including Research Student Pre-Conference)
13-17 December - Data Politics and Power
8 December - Digital Scholars, Legacy Institutions: The Changing Landscape of Scholarly Practice
7 December - Digital Life Research Program Hardware Workshop
6 December - Disability Inclusion in Islamic Education in Indonesia
17-18 November - The Time of Materials
11 November - Youth Mobilities and Immobilities in the Asia-Pacific Region (opens in a new window)
7-8 November - 2016 ICS Seminar Series
(weekly, Thursdays) - Housing and Schooling in Alice Springs: Lessons from Strengths-based Research
26 October - Cities in the Data Economy: What Are the New Rules of Engagement
26 October - 'Meshed': Democratising the Internet of Things
13 October - Australian Living Labs Innovation Network symposium
11 October - Curating Memories of Langtang
19 September - Data and Cultural Complexity Symposium
2 September - Engaging the City
30 August - 'Felons Are Also Our Families': Undocumented Youth Activists, Solidarity and Disavowed Citizenship in the USA
24 August - Living Digital Data
27 June - Antarctica in/and the Anthropocene
28 May - Desmond Tutu Reconciliation Fellowship Award
19 May - Cryptocurrencies Workshop
17 May - Planning and Housing Supply: What Are the Optimal Policy Settings for Delivering a Stable Supply of Affordable Homes?
16 March - Redefining and Re-imagining Urban Planning: Open and Evolvable Processes
9 March - Book launch: Sociologic
26 February
2015
- The 'Muslim Question' Citizenship and Racism in Australia
14-15 December - Asian Migration and Cultures of Education International Workshop
9-10 December - Australian Cultural Fields Research Workshop
7-9 December - Industry Workshop, Digital Life Research Program
8 December - 2015 ICS Seminar Series
(weekly, Thursdays) - Plastic Water book launch
25 November - Mobile Research / Researching Mobility Workshop
25 November - Sport, Nation and Cultural Citizenship: a Workshop
13 November - Digital Infrastructures and Economy International Symposium and Masterclasses
3-5 November - Cultural Intelligence for a Culturally Complex World Cross-Sector Symposium
4 November - Man, Human, Person: The Subject of Human Rights Workshop
28 October - Changing the World, One Angle Bracket and One License at a Time
20 October - Parramatta Now: This is Parramatta and InvisibleCity
6-8 October - Dominique Lestel workshop
8 October - Unstable Relations: Indigeneity and Environmentalism in Contemporary Australia workshop
28 September - Temporary Migrants in Australia: Work, Networks, Belonging and Agency
21 August 2015 - Challenging (and Maybe Transcending) Capitalism Through Real Utopias
30 July 2015 - Social Agency in a Globalising World: Where Now?
22 July 2015 - Gender and the Political book launch
17 April 2015 - Globalization, Modernity and Urban Change Conference
30-31 March 2015 - Sydney's Chinatown in the Asian Century
9 March 2015 - 'The Fictocritical? Theory/Method/Writing/Politics'
16 February 2015 - Digital Cities Seminar
13 January 2015
2014
- 2014 ICS Seminar Series
(weekly, Thursdays) - Lunchtime Seminar Series
(nine over the year) - New Spirits of Humanitarianism: Genealogies, Practices, Responses
11-12 December 2014 - Mapping the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
4 December 2014 - Sydney Seminar for Culture and Society 3: 'Being Creative/Resisting Islamophobia'
2 December 2014 - Digital Life Research Seminar
2 December 2014 - Rethinking Multicultural Education: Research, Policy, Practice Conference
27-28 November 2014 - Living in the City: Seminar II
10 November 2014 - Knowledge/Culture/Economy International Conference
3-5 November 2014 - Developing Large Grant Applications Workshop: Framing Coherence
23 September 2014 - Living in the City: Seminar I
22 September 2014 - Seminar: Geographies of the Crisis
26 August 2014 - Book Launch: Central Currents in Globalization
7 August 2014 - Humanities and Creative Arts, ARC Grants and Patterns of Success and Collaboration: An Interactive Discussion and Q&A Session
24 July - Cities, Mobile Subjects and Transformations in Citizenship in the Asia-Pacific workshop
16-17 April - Museums, Collecting, Agency: a symposium
April 1-2 2014 - Sydney Seminar for Culture and Society: 'Ethnographic Inquiry Today'
25 March 2014 - Knowledge Ecologies Workshop
March 26-27 2014 - Celebrating International Women's Day
8 March 2014
2013
- 11th Dangerous Consumptions Colloquium
12-13 December 2013 - ICS Seminar Series - Steve Woolgar and Anna Sparrman
5 December 2013 - Inaugural Sydney Seminar for Culture and Society
2 December 2013 - Knowledge, Culture, Piracy workshop
21 November 2013 - ICS Seminar Series - Brett Bowden; and Rodney Tiffen and David Rowe
21 November 2013 - Lunchtime Seminar Series - Feng Han and Helen Armstrong
5 November 2013 - ICS Seminar Series - Joseph Pugliese and Gabriela Coronado
31 October 2013 - Cultural Diplomacy: Beyond the National Interest? A symposium
17-18 October 2013 - Lunchtime Seminar Series - Kearrin Sims
1 October 2013 - ICS Seminar Series - Alastair Pennycook and Louise Crabtree
26 September 2013 - Australian Sociological Association (TASA) 50th Anniversary Public Lecture
12 September 2013 - Lunchtime Seminar Series - Jane Mills
3 September 2013 - ICS Seminar Series - Melinda Cooper and Tony Bennett
29 August 2013 - Transnationalism, Diaspora and Identity: Post-Conflict Refugee Heritage and Place Making in Western Sydney (jointly hosted with the School of Social Sciences and Psychology)
15 August 2013 - Lunchtime Seminar Series - David Villegas and Ingrid Matthews
6 August 2013 - ICS Seminar Series - Allen Chun
25 July 2013 - Joint Urban Research Centre and ICS Research Seminar
18 July 2013 - Lunchtime Seminar Series - Josh Entsminger
2 July 2013 - ICS Seminar Series - Paul Tabar and Jessica Whyte
27 June 2013 - Lunchtime Seminar Series - George (Kev) Christopher Dertadian
4 June 2013 - ICS Seminar Series - Jerry Watkins and Shanthi Robertson
30 May 2013 - Lunchtime Seminar Series - Jen Li
7 May 2013 - ICS Seminar Series - Megan Watkins and Elizabeth Strakosch
2 May 2013 - Terror's Territories Seminar - Dr Gilbert Caluya
30 April 2013 - Lunchtime Seminar Series - Enda Murray
12 April 2013 - ICS Seminar Series - Russell Hitchings, Juan Francisco Salazar
4 April 2013 - Where Is Home: Place, Belonging and Citizenship in the Asian Century
22-23 March 2013 - Communication and Sport: Nation, Globalisation, Gender
14 March 2013 - ICS Seminar Series - Bob Hodge, Michele Lancione
7 March 2013 - Lunchtime Seminar Series - Jens Kaae Fisker
5 March 2013
2012
- Knowledge Ecologies: Case Studies in Knowledge Brokering and Translation
28 November 2012 - Tracing the Dynamics of Air Conditioning: Transitions, Circulations and Social Practices
19 November 2012 - Challenging (the) Humanities - 43rd Annual Symposium of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (opens in a new window)
15-16 November 2012 - Tapping the Turn: Water's Social Dimensions Conference (opens in a new window)(co-sponsor)
15-16 November 2012 - Colonial Governmentalities workshop
31 October - 1 November 2012 - Antarctica Futures ARC Discovery workshop
25-26 October 2012 - Living the Olympics: Sociality, Citizenship, Control
11 September 2012 - Cultural Criminology - Transgression, Violence, Imagery
3 September 2012 - Digital Media Research Seminar
23 August 2012 - Cultural Pedagogies: An International Workshop
21-22 August 2012 - Governing City Futures Conference: Population, climate change and the future of the low density city
16-17 August 2012 - The Inaugural NSW Timor-Leste Forum: "Building Collaborative Partnerships for Timor-Leste"
14 July 2012 - Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) 19th Biennial Conference 2012
11-13 July 2012 - Classification, Convergence, Citizenship: Cultural Researchers in Media Policy Environments: A Workshop with Professor Terry Flew
21 June 2012 - "Step One to Fascism?" Reflections on the Content, Recommendations, Process and Reception of the Independent Inquiry into the Media and Media Regulation in Australia
24 April 2012 - Launch of the Institute for Culture and Society (see the 2012 News page)
13 April 2012 - Cities and Materialities workshop
11 April 2012 - Rethinking Multiculturalism / Reassessing Multicultural Education: Engaged Research, Affecting Practice
17 and 24 February 2012 - ICS Seminar Series and Lunchtime Seminar Series - throughout the year
2011
- Knowledge/Culture/Social Change International Conference
7-9 November 2011 - Media System, Political Context and Informed Citizenship Symposium (opens in a new window)(PDF, 231KB)
22 September 2011 - Rethinking Multiculturalism / Reassessing Multicultural Education International Symposium
30-31 August 2011 - Imagining Latin America in Australia: Migration, Culture and Multiculturalism Workshop
12-13 August 2011 - Antipodean Fields: Bourdieu and Southern Cultures Conference
8-10 June 2011 - Hot Science, Global Citizens: The Agency of the Museum Sector in Climate Change Interventions
5-6 May 2011 - Cross-Connections Fellowship Research Workshop 2: Building Collaborative Capacity in Urban Water: Challenges and Prospects
24-25 March 2011 - ICS Seminar Series and Lunchtime Seminar Series - throughout the year
2010
- The Next Generation of Cultural Research: Building New Cultural Intelligence for 21st Century Problems
20-21 September 2010