| Dear ~~first_name~~,
If you missed last week's TASA Thursdays event with fellow members Sonia Martin (RMIT) & Simone Casey (ACOSS and RMIT), who discussed Stigma and Welfare: Revolting subjects, reclassification and resistance, you can catch up on the recording here.
Our next TASA Thursdays event is being hosted by Richa George and Dorinda 't Hart with members Simon Copland, Clare Southerton and Brady Robards chatting about Using digital methods meaningfully in sociological enquiry. September 1st, 12:30pm - 1:30pm AEST. You can register for the event here.
| | Vale Professor Stephen Castles, 1944-2022: The end of an age of migration
|  | From right to left, the above photo was taken at the 2013 conference, Stephen Castles, Brad West and Ellie Vasta
The below was written on behalf of the Migration, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism Thematic Group:
What makes an ideal keynote speaker? Someone who gives a fantastic address that offers the audience an overview of their work linked to the conference theme, something up to the minute, something new, something engaging, something a little edgy, a bird’s eye view of the issues at hand, without unnecessary jargon, but demonstrating keen insights, humour, passion and compassion. Someone who leaves the audience inspired, and a little star struck. But more than that, they should be present, engage with other presentations, ask gentle supportive questions, speak equally to high flyers and lowly PhD students, join in the social events, and share their wisdom with modesty … basically they should be Stephen Castles at every conference we have ever had the pleasure of seeing him at.
So to talk of deep sadness and regret at the passing of Professor Stephen Castles seem like mere platitudes. We have lost a pillar of the Australian sociological community, and of the Migration, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism thematic group in particular, a truly global scholar, in both senses of the word.
His reach was broad. Originally trained in sociology, Stephen’s exceptional vision and rigorous scholarship transformed ideas across disciplines as diverse as economics and geography, political science and cultural studies, history, anthropology and international affairs. The author of over 350 books, papers and chapters in a career that spanned over five decades, Stephen’s work defined a field of scholarly endeavour, encompassing international migration dynamics, governance and policy, multiculturalism, diversity and plurality, migration and development. Read on...
| Registration: Please note that early bird registration ends on September 29th. To be included in our TASA 2022 program, you will need to be registered by September 29th.
Accommodation: As you have hopefully read and heard, TASA 2022 is a part of the Congress of HASS, which is being hosted by The Council for Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS). CHASS have secured some hotel blocks for the event and you can book those via their accommodation portal here.
Childcare: TASA conferences are child friendly, and child/ren are welcome to attend for free
- if your would like your child/ren or guardian/s to have name badges or a lunch pack (for a day or full conference), please contact TASA Admin (these will be provided free by TASA)
- parent/family room and a lactation room will be available
For childcare centre information and other child minding services close to the University of Melbourne, please see our spreadsheet on TASA 2022 Childcare Options.
| Writing and Pitching Masterclass with The Conversation | TASA’s Masterclass with The Conversation seeks to support the professional development of TASA members with regard to disseminating research findings to the public via engagement with The Conversation. The grant is targeted at TASA members who have limited or no access to funding for professional development activities and who have limited or no experience writing for The Conversation.
| Call out for ISA 2023 Aligned Thematic Events
| TASA is now inviting applications for Thematic Events for 2023 to be aligned with the International Sociological Association (ISA) World Congress of Sociology in Melbourne (25 June – 1 July 2023).
Given the importance of supporting the ISA and allied events, TASA will be providing additional funding for individual thematic events in 2023 and will be accepting applications from thematic groups and general TASA members.
The ISA Aligned Thematic Events scheme allows for groups of TASA members to apply for up to $3,000 for activities that support a thematic area and are aligned with any of the ISA Thematic, Working or Research groups. Note, you do not have to be an ISA member or registered for ISA 2023 in order to apply for the funding.
| TASA Funded ISA 2023 Bursaries | Watch this space! for details about TASA funded ISA 2023 bursaries. There will be bursaries for TASA members as well as non-members from sister sociological associations in the Asia-Pacific Region. The details will be available in next week's newsletter.
| We strongly encourage you to submit an abstract for ISA 2023. It will likely be decades before the World Congress of Sociology will be this close to home again! It's a perfect, and rare, opportunity to share your research among an international audience and there is a plethora of sessions (1000+) to choose from.
| Renewed call for an Indigenous Portfolio Leader | Due to a job role change, our recently elected Indigenous Portfolio Leader is no longer able to take on the role. Consequently, we are reopening nominations for that portfolio. If you are interested in nominating for the Indigenous Portfolio Leader, and you would like more information, we encourage you to contact Alphia Possamai-Inesedy, TASA President or Sally Daly in TASA Admin. Note, this new portfolio represents the interests of Indigenous sociologists, and sociologists doing Indigenous research, on TASA’s Executive. It is the intention of the Executive that this portfolio, in its inaugural phase, be left open for the portfolio leader to develop.
To nominate, please ensure your Candidate and Nominator forms are submitted to TASA Admin by midday, Monday September 5th.
| | Members' Engaging Sociology | If you are hosting a Social Sciences Week event this year, please email the details to TASA Admin so that we can assist with promoting your event.
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Kerryn Drysdale, Asha Persson, Anthony K. J. Smith, Jack Wallace, kylie valentine, Rebecca M. Gray, Joanne Bryant, Myra Hamilton & Christy E. Newman (2022) Professional perspectives on serodiscordant family service provision in the context of blood-borne viruses, Health Sociology Review, DOI: 10.1080/14461242.2022.2110922.
MacGibbon J, Bavinton B R, Drysdale K, Murphy D, Broady TR, Kolstee J, Molyneux A, Power C, Paynter H, de Wit J and Holt M (2022). “Explicit relationship agreements and HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis use by gay and bisexual men in relationships”. Archives of Sexual Behavior. Published Online First: 9 August https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-022-02382-9 [FULL ACCESS]
kylie valentine, Anthony K J Smith, Asha Persson, Rebecca M Gray, Joanne Bryant, Myra Hamilton, Jack Wallace, Kerryn Drysdale, & Christy E. Newman (2022). “The freighted social histories of HIV and hepatitis C: exploring service providers’ perspectives on stigma in the current epidemics”, Medical Humanities Published Online First: 16 June 2022. doi: 10.1136/medhum-2022-012382
Smith, L., Chesher, I., Fredriksen Goldsen, K., Ward, R., Phillipson, L, Newman, C.E., Delhomme, F. (2022) Investigating the lived experience of LGBT+ people with dementia and their care partners: A Scoping Review. Published online in Ageing and Society on 30 May 2022. https://www.doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X22000538 [FULL ACCESS]
| Nicholas, L., Chandra, S., Hanckel, B., Ullman, J., & Ferfolja, T. (2022). Gender Equity in the Workplace: Intersectional and Gender & Sexuality Diverse Approaches. https://doi.org/10.26183/g9h9-dm27
Ritter, A, Drysdale, K, Katz, I, de Leeuw, E, & Bates, S (2022), How do services evolve in a world of virtual, physical and hybrid service delivery: Final Report, Social Policy Research Centre. https://anzsog.edu.au/app/uploads/2022/07/ANZSOG-Hybrid-PBI_final-report_RI.pdf
| For tips from fellow members on getting published in The Conversation (TC), click here. For some members' articles published in TC between 2013 & 2019, click here. To find out what can happen after publishing in TC, click here.
| | Simon Prideaux (2022) (In)justice International. August/September 2022.
| TASA Thursdays
For a full list of our TASA Thursdays events for 2022, as well as the registration links, please visit TASAweb here.
| TASA Tea Time
A Social Sciences Week catch-up!
| Climate Exodus: hope, refusals and acts of defiance during uneasy times
A Social Sciences Week seminar that explores localised responses to climate change and ruin, with a screening of David Baute's award winning film, Climate Exodus
Monday 5 September, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm AEST
A hybrid event: The University of Newcastle and on Zoom with fellow member Milo Kei as one of the speakers.
For full details, the zoom link, in-person address and registration button read on...
| A New Education World: A TASA & AARE Sociology of Education Symposium
Wednesday 7 September, 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm AEST
Hybrid - in-person venue Carlton, Melbourne
The event will showcase sociology's contribution to our collective thinking about the possibilities of education
For full details, the zoom link, in-person address and registration button read on...,
| Vulnerable bodies and the un/making of wellbeing
A Social Sciences Week event by The Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, TASA and the School of Social Sciences
Online, Thursday 8 September, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm AEST
Introduction: Katherine Kenny
Speakers: Alex Broom, Dinesh Wadiwel, Julia Cook, Michelle Peterie, Malini Sur & Blanche Verlie
| Working on the Margins: Lived Experiences, Career Trajectories and Prospect
A Social Sciences Week event by Faculty of Arts, the University of Melbourne
Online, Thursday 8 September, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm AEST
Moderator: Dan Woodman
Speakers: Irma Mooi-Reci, Signe Ravn, & Megan Sharp
| New: Digitised and Datafied Animals: Emerging Technologies and Human-Animal Entanglements
Online, Wednesday 5th October, 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm AEDT
Speakers include: Deborah Lupton and Megan Rose
| Cultures of Wellbeing Symposium
A Cultural Sociology Thematic Group Event
10am-3pm, Wednesday, 23 November
Deakin Downtown, Deakin University
Abstract submission deadline: August 31. Read on...
| Youth and money matters: Precarity, wellbeing and digital media
A Sociology of Youth Thematic Group symposium
Keynote - Professor Lisa Adkins, FASS, University of Sydney
Panellists: A/Prof Steven Threadgold, Dr Julia Coffey, Dr Benjamin Hanckel and Dr Natalie Hendry
Monday 28 November 9am-4pm
| Conceptualising Youth Mobilities Amidst Social Challenges Workshop
28th November
Hybrid, Deakin Business Centre
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Deadlines for our TASA hosted ISA 2023 XX World Congress are now available here. For quick reference, the abstract submission deadline is September 30.
| RC44 Research Committee on Labour Movements is encouraging academics and practitioners, including and especially early-career researchers, to submit abstracts for RC44 sessions at the ISA World Congress of Sociology in Melbourne, 2023. RC44 is holding sessions on multiple topics. If you want to give a paper that does not fit into one of these sessions, you can apply to join one of our two roundtables, each of which accommodates up to 25 papers. Please be aware that due to the nature of the roundtable sessions, only in-person contributions can be considered.
| Where Next for Sociological Alcohol Research?
RC15 Sociology of Health (host committee)
Call for submissions
Sociological research into alcohol use has burgeoned over the past few decades. During this period, young people in many high income countries have, on average, begun drinking less than previous generations. This encourages us to look to new populations at risk from heavy drinking. From an earlier focus on carnivalesque drinking by young people in the night time economy, we are seeing an emerging interest in more mundane drinking practices such as home alcohol consumption and drinking in middle age.
| Journal of Sociology - Volume: 58, Number: 2 (June 2022) has been published. You can access the Table of Contents here.
| Yuwinbir – this way! Going beyond meeting points between Indigenous knowledges and health sociology
Health Sociology Review special issue Volume 31, Issue 2 (2022)
Guest edited by Megan Williams and Demelza Marlin.
All articles are on OPEN ACCESS for 90 days here.
| New: Researchers at Western Sydney University are looking for a qualitative interviewer to undertake interviews with people with serious mental illness (e.g. schizophrenia, depression, suicide) who have completed a brief group treatment during their hospital stay. The work will involve approx. 40 hours across 3-4 months, commencing in September, and include the following tasks:
- Attend the group to meet potential participants
- Conduct face-to-face interviews at the University or Campbelltown Hospital
- Organise transcription of recorded interviews
- De-identify transcripts
- Attend meetings with the research team
If you are interested, please send your CV to L.Mogensen@westernsydney.edu.au outlining your qualitative interviewing experience and your skills in working with people with SMI.
The Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Visiting Professor of Australian Studies
The Committee on Australian Studies at Harvard University seeks to appoint a distinguished scholar to the Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Visiting Professor of Australian Studies for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Professor of Sociology
Uppsala University, Sweden
Application deadline: September 30. Read on...
Post-doctoral Fellow
University of Lethbridge, Canada
Application deadline: September 1. Read on...
| The Jobs Board enables you to view current employment opportunities. As a member, you can post opportunities to the Jobs Board directly from within your membership profile screen.
| | | | The Scholarships Board enables you to view available scholarships that our members have posted. Like the Jobs Board, as a member, you can post scholarship opportunities directly from within your membership profile screen. | | | Multicultural Education Aides Supporting Students from Refugee Backgrounds
This PhD scholarship is offered by the Melbourne Social Equity Institute in partnership with Foundation House University of Melbourne
Application Deadline: Monday 3 October. Read on...
| | Other Events, News & Opportunities | ARDC/CADRE Sharing Sensitive Data Training
| New: Are you a social science researcher interested in accessing or sharing sensitive qualitative datasets and helping shape research ethics training and access to research data?
SOCEY (Studies of Childhood, Education & Youth) at University of Melbourne, together with CADRE (Coordinated Access for Data, Research and Environments), is recruiting a small number of volunteers for a workshop on a framework and platform under development to facilitate access to sensitive research data, part of a multi-institutional national infrastructure project.
You will learn about the project, the 'Five Safes' framework and how it provides a schema for researchers to interact with sensitive datasets through CADRE.
In-person and hybrid event with limited numbers: 6 September, ANU, Canberra + 28 September, University of Melbourne, Parkville.
For further details and booking information, read on... | Re listed: War, Economic Strife and the Long-Lasting Intersectional Effects on Refugees, Minorities, Disabled People and the Global Environment
Free online postgraduate workshop
Presenters can approach the issues from whichever intersectional preference they choose.
Hosted by (In) Justice International and TASA
September 14th, 9:00pm to September 15th 12:50am AEST
Abstract submission deadline extended: August 30. Read on...
To register, click here. | Zine - call for submissions
| Zine #12
So Fi Zine is a sociological fiction zine for arts-based research, creative sociology, and art inspired by social science. The zine publishes short fiction, poetry, and visual art in various forms.
| Explaining Mental Illness: Sociological Perspectives, by Baptiste Brossard (University of York) and Amy Chandler (University of Edinburgh), published by Bristol University Press.
Online, 30 August, 5pm (AEST)
Baptiste and Amy will be joined by panellists Roberto McLeay (University of Auckland), Rebecca Olson (University of Queensland) and Emma Tseris (University of Sydney).
The seminar is part of the 2022 Social Production of Mental Health seminar series co-hosted by Natalie Hendry (Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne) and Effie Karageorgos (School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Science, University of Newcastle) with support of the Future of Madness Network, University of Newcastle.
For details, and to register, read on...
| Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli Fellowship for Writers
This Fellowship is currently available to mid-career writers with active participation and engagement in social justice issues; who are under the age of 40; and who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, LGBTQIA+, living with a disability, or culturally and linguistically diverse.
| Call for Papers - Journal
| Media International Australia feature section on the topic of "Telecommunications Revolution? Enduring problems and possible futures".
Scholars whose research focuses on changes happening across the telecommunications landscape (particularly in the Asia-Pacific region) are encouraged to submit a proposal for the section.
Submission deadline: 3 October.
More information is available here.
| Childhood, Youth and Activism: Global Perspectives on Demands for Rights and Justice from Young People and their Advocates
Chapter proposals for the forthcoming book in the Sociology Studies of Children and Youth series.
Guest edited by Katie Wright and Julie McLeod.
Long abstracts due 10 September 2022 with chapters due 10 January 2023.
The full CFP can be found here. Details on the book series can be found here.
| Round Table Consultation Event - Understanding domestic violence and religion: Exploring how faith-based organisations can be part of the solution
This event is a national gathering to share information about initiatives and research demonstrating how churches and faith communities in Australia are working to prevent and respond to domestic and family violence.
Online or in-person (Melbourne), Friday 28 October,
| New: Resisting a “Smartness” That Is All Over the Place: Technology as a Marker of In/Ex/Seclusion
Social Inclusion
Abstract submission deadline: September 15. Read on...
Sociology and Space
Invitation for authors’ contributions to the journal’s special issue triggered by the war in Ukraine
Abstract submission deadline: September 1. Read on...
Visioni LatinoAmericane
Latin America between socio-environmental, health and conflict emergencies. Risks, strategic and geopolitical choices,
socio-economic repercussions, shortage of raw materials and food. Reality and perspectives
Adult Migrants’ Language Learning, Labour Market, and Social Inclusion
Special Issue, Social Inclusion
Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion
Change and Its Discontents: Religious Organizations and Religious Life in Central and Eastern Europe
Volume 15 (Forthcoming 2024)
Edited by Olga Breskaya, University of Padova, and Siniša Zrinščak, University of Zagreb
Disabled People and the Intersectional Nature of Social Inclusion
Social Inclusion, Volume 11, Issue 4
Abstract submission deadline: November 30. Read on...
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