Thesis Eleven Annual Lecture – Relational sociology in action! How can Zelizer solve the climate crisis and what does that mean?

Thursday November 27, 2025
6:00-8:00pm, The Greek Centre, Melbourne.

You are warmly invited to the 2025 Thesis Eleven Annual Lecture. This year Professor Mark Davis (University of Leeds) joins us to discuss the essential role of sociology in responding to contemporary challenges during periods of crisis and transformation. This event is hosted by Thesis Eleven Journal and sponsored by the Greek Centre for Contemporary Culture.

Creative Destruction and Covid

by Peter Newman

Then we turned the corner of a new decade with raging bushfires in Australia, and the unleashing of a frightening new pandemic. Could this be the crisis that would creatively lead to a new green economy as I optimistically suggested and have written much about for most of this century?

Only a virus can save us?

by Michael Marder

The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 is an effect of definite (objective) causal chains. Nonetheless, the way it is called upon to serve as the blueprint for a transition to an ecologically sensitive life is spurious, purely accidental. Accidents may, of course, be of at least two types: random events that do not presuppose an actor at all and unforeseen effects of an action that is deliberate. How does SARS-CoV-2 fit within this scheme?