Upcoming Seminars - Spring session 2008

Seminar: Research Methodologies.

The Faculty research seminar for Wednesday, 29th October is on interdisciplinary (to lawyers) research methodologies. Three panellists will discuss their approaches to research in the humanities. The panellists are Susan Dodds, Mark McLelland and Sarah Sorial.

• Prof. Susan Dodds is Head of the School of English Literatures, Philosophy and Languages at UOW. Her research interests address issues in political and social philosophy, ethics and applied ethics.
• Dr Mark McLelland is a sociologist and cultural historian of Japan specialising in the history of sexuality, gender theory and new media. His recent publications have focused on the postwar history of Japanese queer cultures and the development of the Internet in Japan, especially the use of the Internet and other new media by minority communities in Japan and throughout Asia.
• Dr Sarah Sorial works primarily in the areas of philosophy of law, social and political philosophy, philosophy of feminism and phenomenology. Her current project is a philosophical examination of sedition as a category of speech act, and the problem of legal legitimacy and deliberative democracy in Habermas’ proceduralist model of law.

This is an opportunity to expand our understanding of the horizons of current legal research and to enjoy the usual lunch and juice.