8-14 September 2025

Sign up
Sign up
Find an event

Events

Events Search and Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

Today

Latest Past Events

Marg Rogers: winner of the 2022 CHASS Distinctive Works Prize

Virtual

CHASS President in conversation with Marg Rogers, one of the 2022 CHASS Distinctive Works Prize winners: Dr Marg Rogers is a Senior Lecturer in the Early Childhood Education team within the School of Education at the University of New England. Marg researches marginalised voices within families and education especially in regional, rural and remote communities. Specifically, she researches ways to support the wellbeing of military, first responder and remote worker families and early childhood educators. Marg is a Postdoctoral Fellow within the Commonwealth Funded Manna Institute that builds place-based research capacity to improve mental health in regional, rural, and remote Australia. Building Research-based Co-designed and Co-created Supports to Improve the Wellbeing of Young Children from Service Families Australia has over 650,000 First Responders, plus volunteers attending to more extreme and frequent climate emergencies, terrorism, and health emergencies. Additionally, Australia has 60,000 full time Defence personnel and over 496,000 Veterans. The children of these service personnel are affected by the stressors of service family life, including frequent and prolonged parental deployments and frequent relocations. Additionally, the children can experience the secondary transfer of trauma if their parent has a service-related injury of mental health conditions. The literature reveals these children are […]

You, Me, and the Pale Blue Dot: Climate Politics in Australia and at the Global Level

Hybrid

Have you ever wondered what is the real connection between you – an individual – and global climate change? You are not alone. As students, educators, office managers, researchers, lab specialists, and other workers, it is common to be confused about often complicated climate-related policy language, science, geo-engineering, and various movements, even when we are committed to the green lifestyle and environmental values. If you often wonder what the connection is between the individual and global and how can we interpret and understand often convoluted climate-related language, science, and policy, join us for a roundtable on September 6th. We will discuss climate policymaking and politics in Australia and beyond and, more importantly, the panelists will share their personal experiences and reflections on the role of ordinary individuals and the global picture of climate change. In the indefinite universe, the “pale blue dot” might seem to be of no particular interest, but as Carl Sagan said: “for us, it is different; It is us. It is home.” Date: Wednesday 6 September Time: 11am-12pm Format: Hybrid Venue: Law Theatre G02 Panelists: Dr Dhanasree Jayaram, Manipal Department of Geopolitics and International Relations Saniya Karimova, UNSW Alumna, Master of Development Studies Dr Deborah Barros […]

Book Launch – A Theory of Housing Provision under Capitalism

HYBRID - Online and at RMIT Kaleide Theatre 360 Swanston Street, Lower Ground, Building 08, Melbourne

The Centre for Urban Research is pleased to host the launch of Mike Berry's new book A Theory of Housing Provision under Capitalism as part of Social Science Week 2023. The launch will feature a presentation by the author followed by a panel discussion with RMIT housing experts. About the book Housing is in the daily headlines as the governments struggle to respond to failures in rental and home ownership markets. The housing crisis has raised critical questions about the role of housing in capitalist societies. In his new book A Theory of Housing Provision under Capitalism, Professor Mike Berry offers the first coherent Marxist analysis of the central importance of housing in the social reproduction of capitalism as a whole. Berry argues that the circulation of capital and revenues though housing and the built environment helps explain how the capital-labour relation constrains housing outcomes while also being reproduced on an extended scale. He shows how housing is provided by the intervention of building, property and interest-bearing capital fractions; how the land question can be explained by a theory of urban land rent, drawing on Marx's categories of differential and monopoly rent; how housing is vital to the extended reproduction […]

Free