The Academy’s 50th Anniversary Symposium will explore the social future of Australia. With over 50 speakers, six presentation sessions, and three roundtable sessions, the Symposium will provide contemporary and provocative commentary on issues important to society as well as to each of our disciplines. Questions and comments from the online audience will be worked into the program. Topics include meaningful reconciliation with Indigenous Australia; international relationships in a rapidly changing world; education and health; productivity and innovation; equity and justice.
Read the proceedings of the Anniversary Symposium here: The Social Future of Australia
In this 50th Anniversary Year of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, there is no shortage of challenges to which the disciplines of the social sciences can and do contribute evidence and expertise.
International relationships, climate change, and the COVID-19 pandemic are major challenges, as are reconciliation with First Nation peoples, violence toward women, and changes in the way we work and interact with technology.
The research and policy contributions of the social sciences to these and other challenges are addressed in the 50thAnniversary Symposium, The Social Future of Australia. Also addressed are the challenges that our disciplines face in terms of the reception of social science evidence and expertise by government, the media, and the general public.
With six presentation sessions, three roundtable sessions, around 60 participants, the Symposium will focus on the ways forward for the challenges, the social sciences, and Australian society.
Professor Kevin McConkey AM FASSA
Chair, 50th Anniversary Symposium Committee
50th Anniversary Symposium Committee:
- Dr Dylan Lino
- Professor Deborah Lupton FASSA
- Professor John Maynard FASSA, FAHA
- Professor Kevin McConkey AM, FASSA
- Professor Sarah Pink FASSA
- Professor Mark Western FASSA
- Professor Sarah Wheeler FASSA
- Professor Hugh White AO, FASSA
- Professor Glenn Withers AO, FASSA
- Dr Chris Hatherly
- Ms Anna Dennis
Program
Day 1: 11am – 4.15pm AEDT Monday 22 November
Day 2: 9am – 4pm AEDT Tuesday 23 November
View the complete anniversary symposium program for detailed information about session times, topics and participants.