2024 UNSW Social Sciences Week
Reshaping an Uncertain World.
Social Sciences Week (9 – 15 September 2024) is an annual event that celebrates and showcases the diverse range of social sciences disciplines and research in Australia. It is an initiative of several Australian social science associations and coordinated by the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
The School of Social Sciences, UNSW is a supporter of Social Sciences Week. In 2024, the School’s theme is ‘Reshaping an Uncertain World’.
The theme explores how the social sciences are key to understanding humanity, society and the institutions which govern our daily lives.
With each passing year, we grapple with political, state, environmental, economic, and technological unrest. The social sciences are uniquely placed to offer an interdisciplinary and critical insight into social uncertainly and unrest and can offer a vision of what a reshaped world might look like.
In 2024, the School of Social Sciences is hosting several events, each dedicated to contemporary issues of our time. Learn about the proliferation and ubiquity of AI and what it means for the production of child sexual assault material, and about the global student solidarity movement and its implications for freedom to protest. Join the Annual Paul Burke Award Lecture given by Dr Lise Lafferty, which considers how the social science help inform hepatitis C elimination efforts in prison.
The School's flagship series Ask a Social Scientist returns with new conversations. We speak to different researchers about the big (and small) questions their work asks, the problems at the heart of their research, and how the social sciences can help reimagine and reshape the world today. Some of the themes the podcast explores are: the contemporary landscapes of gendered violence, homelessness and poverty, Palestine and global solidarity, art and abolition, and food security the role of Indigenous knowledge(s) in biodiversity conservation.
We invite you to join us for a week of insight. We hope the program will make you feel a new curiosity about the world, learn new ideas, feel surprised, and even delighted.
