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Seminars & events

Details of the Institute's upcoming seminars and events can be found below.

Other organisations are encouraged to submit information about events currently being organised, so that we may publicise them on this page and in our journal, Current Issues in Criminal Justice. If you would like to be included on our mailing list for seminar information please your details to us.

Towards Restorative Justice: The Challenges, Promises & Processes of a New Paradigm

A conference on language, law and social justice co-presented by the Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association and the Sydney Institute of Criminology.

Confirmed keynote presenters:

  • John Braithwaite (ARC Federation Fellow, Australian National University)
  • Diana Eades (Honorary Research Fellow, School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences, University of New England)
  • The Hon Peter Gray (Judge, Federal Court of Australia)
  • Frances Rock (Cardiff University, School of English communication and Philosophy)
  • Julie Stubbs (Professor of Criminology, University of Sydney)

7th - 9th December 2009
Sydney Law School, University of Sydney

Paper proposals are now being called for. Deadline for submission of abstracts: 14th August 2009. To register or get more information see the conference website.

Professor John Pratt, School of Social and Cultural Studies, University of Wellington

There are striking differences between both the rates of imprisonment and prison conditions in Anglophone (specifically England, Australia, New Zealand) and Scandinavian societies. It will be argued that the reasons for these differences lie in long standing cultural values, based around division and exclusion in the former, inclusion and solidarity in the latter. These then came to be institutionalised in their respective models of welfare state.

About the speaker:
John Pratt is Professor of Criminology and James Cook Research Fellow in Social Science at the Institute of Criminology, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand. He has published extensively in the area of the history and sociology of punishment, including Punishment and Civilization (2002) and Penal Populism (2007). In 2009 he was awarded the Radzinowitz Memorial Prize for his two part article on Scandinavian Exceptionalism that was published in the British Journal of Criminology in 2008. He is currently working on a comparative research project on Anglophone and Scandinavian penal and prison policy.

Date: Thursday 19 November 2009
Time: 6pm for drinks and finger food. Seminar will commence at 6.30pm
Location: Common room, Level 4, New Law School Building, Eastern Avenue, The University of Sydney NSW 2006
RSVP:
Please email R.Miller@usyd.edu.au to RSVP. Please note I will be out of the office until 17/11/09 but all registrations will be processed.

For further information about this seminar please contact the Director of the Institute of Criminology Dr. Murray Lee.

Sponsorship opportunities

The Sydney Institute of Criminology offers Seminar and Conference sponsorship opportunities to organisations.

Private and public organisations are invited to support debate and education and to receive exposure across the criminal justice sector. Download more information about options and packages.

For all information about seminars at the Institute please contact Rachel Miller on 02 9351 0239 or .