ANU Sociology Seminar Series: "Love Across Class" with A/Prof Eve Vincent and Dr Rose Butler, Monday 4 August, 12 - 1pm AEST
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Hi all, please join us for the next ANU Sociology Seminar Series talk:
Love Across Class
https://sociology.cass.anu.edu.au/events/love-across-class
Speaker: A/Prof Eve Vincent (Macquarie University) and Dr Rose Butler (Deakin University)
Date: Monday 4 August, 2025 AEST
Time: 12 – 1pm
Location: Room 4.69 RSSS Building and online
Join Zoom Meeting
https://anu.zoom.us/j/83075637846?pwd=bsG6QYhVh4nOGTtfJEVbjMfi5oyHlN.1&from=addon
Meeting ID: 830 7563 7846
Password: 225839
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Love Across Class
What does it mean to partner across class difference? Based on 38 in-depth interviews with people from a range of class and cultural backgrounds, our 2024 book, Love Across Class, brings to life the role of class in shaping people’s childhoods, as well as the adult lives cross-class couples have built together. In this presentation, Rose and Eve will explain the origins of this book, its focus on the lived and intimate effects of class in contemporary Australia, and highlight two key aspects. First, our research is a stimulus to rethinking the relationship between class and migration in Australia today, and to how we conceptualise social mobility. We explore interviewees’ own descriptions of the intergenerational transmission of class capital within their family, and the complexities of its subjective and affective inheritance under new conditions that come with migration. Second, our research revealed much about the various ways people relate to the idea of class and the consequences of using the word “class” explicitly. Some of our interviewees emphasised the emotional dimensions of class identification, and expressed relief, even catharsis, in narrating their experience in class terms. Other of our interviewees were uneasy with the notion of class: rather than a generative or affirming concept, to think in terms of class seemed to legitimate class inequalities. In this talk we explore this confusion and certain interviewees’ sense that class represents a betrayal of egalitarianism and character.
BIOS:
Eve Vincent is an associate professor of anthropology at Macquarie University. She is author of Who Cares? Life on Welfare in Australia (MUP, 2023) and “Against Native Title”: Conflict and Creativity in Outback Australia. (Aboriginal Studies Press, 2017).
Rose Butler is a senior lecturer in sociology at Deakin University. Her most recent book is Love Across Class (MUP, 2024) with Eve Vincent, and she’s currently leading a Special Issue on 'Class and Migration: Interrogating Class Across Borders' with Sylvia Ang and Christina Ho for the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
Love Across Class
https://sociology.cass.anu.edu.au/events/love-across-class
Speaker: A/Prof Eve Vincent (Macquarie University) and Dr Rose Butler (Deakin University)
Date: Monday 4 August, 2025 AEST
Time: 12 – 1pm
Location: Room 4.69 RSSS Building and online
Join Zoom Meeting
https://anu.zoom.us/j/83075637846?pwd=bsG6QYhVh4nOGTtfJEVbjMfi5oyHlN.1&from=addon
Meeting ID: 830 7563 7846
Password: 225839
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Love Across Class
What does it mean to partner across class difference? Based on 38 in-depth interviews with people from a range of class and cultural backgrounds, our 2024 book, Love Across Class, brings to life the role of class in shaping people’s childhoods, as well as the adult lives cross-class couples have built together. In this presentation, Rose and Eve will explain the origins of this book, its focus on the lived and intimate effects of class in contemporary Australia, and highlight two key aspects. First, our research is a stimulus to rethinking the relationship between class and migration in Australia today, and to how we conceptualise social mobility. We explore interviewees’ own descriptions of the intergenerational transmission of class capital within their family, and the complexities of its subjective and affective inheritance under new conditions that come with migration. Second, our research revealed much about the various ways people relate to the idea of class and the consequences of using the word “class” explicitly. Some of our interviewees emphasised the emotional dimensions of class identification, and expressed relief, even catharsis, in narrating their experience in class terms. Other of our interviewees were uneasy with the notion of class: rather than a generative or affirming concept, to think in terms of class seemed to legitimate class inequalities. In this talk we explore this confusion and certain interviewees’ sense that class represents a betrayal of egalitarianism and character.
BIOS:
Eve Vincent is an associate professor of anthropology at Macquarie University. She is author of Who Cares? Life on Welfare in Australia (MUP, 2023) and “Against Native Title”: Conflict and Creativity in Outback Australia. (Aboriginal Studies Press, 2017).
Rose Butler is a senior lecturer in sociology at Deakin University. Her most recent book is Love Across Class (MUP, 2024) with Eve Vincent, and she’s currently leading a Special Issue on 'Class and Migration: Interrogating Class Across Borders' with Sylvia Ang and Christina Ho for the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
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