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Please join the PG Thursday on 11 June to hear from the co-convenors of TASA's Cultural Sociology Group. Carl Anacin, Don McArthur, and Taylor Richardson-Marlton are early career researchers who will share their reflections on the importance of cultural sociology in new research today, including the politics of narrative and meaning making.

The conversation will touch on the co-convenors personal experiences with art, reflexivity, community participation, personal narrative, and music, for the creation of their respective sociological perspectives and research outcomes. All three co-convenors have recently turned PhD research or Honours research into books and journal articles, and will share how their decisions evolved into further projects and finished works with respect to the lived experience and creative component of their projects.

This hopes to inspire other PG students to find avenues for communicating their research outputs, with a focus on the integration of personal experience to the creation of knowledge in sociology through the application of sociological concepts. This session will be of interest to students undertaking research in culture, meaning making, and discourse and with a view to generate knowledge of opportunities for social justice.

Event Details:
Date: Thursday 11th June 2026
Time: 12:30pm - 13:30pm (AEDT)
Format: Zoom Webinar
Webinar Cost: complimentary

Your Speakers 

 

Carl Anacin 
Carljohnson Anacin, PhD (Griffith University, Australia), is an academic at Griffith University and the University of Queensland in Australia. He received his PhD (cultural sociology) at Griffith University with a thesis on Filipino migrant musician identity, musicality and translocality. His research interests include music, migration, culture, media and interdisciplinary studies. Carl is also the 2025 Letty Katts Fellow at the State Library of Queensland and serves as Researcher at the Griffith Centre for Social & Cultural Research and the ANU Philippines Institute. He is a practising musician (Nicky Anacin), broadcaster (Radio 4EB), media correspondent (The Philippine Times), and cultural advocate. Carl’s recent publications include his monograph Transnational Labour Migration and Musical Performance: Filipino Musicians in Australia (Palgrave, 2026) and contributions in Rereading Musicians and their Audiences (Bloomsbury, 2025), Journal of Intercultural Studies (2025), Media Compass (Wiley, 2024), and The Qualitative Report (2024).

 

Don McArthur

Don McArthur is a researcher at Monash University. His current work focuses on the lived experience of Muslim, Jewish and Palestinian students facing Islamophobia, antisemitism and anti-Palestinian prejudice, avenues to build cohesion on campus in the face of these forms of discrimination, and related issues of academic freedom and free speech.He has a background working in the NGO sector, particularly Amnesty International where he was Human Rights Education Coordinator.The "Alexander-Smith tradition" of cultural sociology was the main theoretical framework for Don's PhD on how the Australian climate movement uses images, narratives and "political theatre" to make climate change visible and compelling and thus shift the "climate of opinion" and ultimately the "political climate". His work on these issues has been developed into a website, "Stories and Images": https://storiesandimages.net

Taylor Richardson-Marlton