Video: In Conversation with ICS's New Director

Professor Paul James commenced as ICS Director on 1 January, replacing Founding Director Professor Ien Ang as she stepped down from the position at the end of last year.

Professor James joined ICS as a member in 2014. His research focuses on three overlapping areas: globalisation and its impact upon social relations, from national community to local community; social change and the human condition, including the impact of modernisation on customary and traditional ways of being; and sustainability with an emphasis on sustainable urbanisation.

In the video below, we chat to Professor James about what motivates his research, the highlights of his career, and why the humanities and social sciences matter.

Visit Professor James' staff profile to learn more about his research and engagements.

8 May 2015

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The Institute for Culture and Society is located in Parramatta, “the place where the eel sets down” in Dharug language,
along the north bank of the Parramatta River. It sits on the traditional lands and waters of the Burramattagal people of the Dharug Nation,
who have been stewards and caretakers of these territories since time immemorial, in what today is referred to as Greater Western Sydney,
one of the most diverse cultural communities in the world and home to the largest number of Indigenous Australians in the country.
The Institute for Culture and Society acknowledges the Dharug, Eora, Dharawal (also referred to as Tharawal)
and Wiradjuri peoples as traditional custodians and Indigenous knowledge-holders, whose storytelling serve
as historical record, a form of teaching and learning, a way to care for Country,
and an expression of Indigenous culture and identity.