 |  | | Dear ~~first_name~~,
Tere are two very important deadlines today and tomorrow:
- FINAL CALL - TASA 2022 early bird registrations close TODAY Thursday September 29th. If your submission was accepted then you need to register by September 29th to be included in the program. For registration details, read on...
- FINAL CALL - ISA World Congress of Sociology submission deadline is TOMORROW Friday September 30th. We strongly encourage you to submit as 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 for you to share your research among an international audience and there is a plethora of sessions (1000+) to choose from. Read on... Note, there are 5 different TASA bursaries available to help support members to attend ISA 2023 (for details, see further down the newsletter).
We hope you can join us for our next TASA Thursdays Postgraduate & Early Career Researcher session: How to Navigate Conferences: Effective Presentation Strategies hosted by Bernardo Dewey– 6th of October 12:30pm - 1:30pm AEST.
The week after, on October 13th, we have fellow member Elspeth McInnes booked in for our TASA Thursdays event on Developing Wellbeing Cultures in Schools. You can register for that event here.
| | TASA 2022- Call for Volunteers
| New: TASA members can apply to volunteer for our conference in November. We have slots available on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. For each day you are present for volunteering, you get a day's registration, gratis.
| TASA 2022 Conference program overview is now available. The deadline for author registrations is this Thursday 29th September 2022. Following this date, the detailed TASA program including author details and paper details will be finalised and made available by October 14, 2022. You can view an overview of the program below. For a more detailed version for each day, please click here. | | TASA 2022 Postgraduate Day - Call for Mentors
| This year's Postgraduate Day will include a Mentoring Session. The postgraduate sub-committee are looking for senior sociologists that would like to be part of the Mentoring Session that will take place during TASA 2022 on Tuesday 29th of November from 1.30pm to 2.30pm. The purpose of this session is for senior sociologists and postgraduate students to exchange and discuss some of the main challenges and opportunities that they face during their PhD journey. The mentors will offer advice, share knowledge, talk about their own past experience, and help the students come up with a ideas for moving forward. If you are interested in being a mentor, please email postgraduates@tasa.org.au and include MENTORING SESSION in the subject line.
| | Gary Bouma Memorial Workshop Program
| At the start of 2021, TASA introduced a new initiative, 'The Australian Sociological Association’s Workshop Program', which was subsequently renamed the Gary Bouma Memorial Workshop Program. While we appreciate the pandemic may continue to thwart scheduled events, we will continue to support and promote sociology where we can. Applications are currently open for 2 x $5,000 funded workshops to be held in 2023.
| TASA Funded ISA 2023 Bursaries
for Members
| Several TASA Bursaries are available to support TASA members' attendance at the ISA 2023 World Congress. They are:
The application deadline for all bursaries is January 16th, 2023.
| TASA Funded ISA 2023 Bursaries
for HDRs and ECRs from Category C & B Countries | | TASA’s 2023 ISA Bursary seeks to support the attendance of higher degree research students (HDR) and early career researchers (ECR) from Category B and Category C countries in the Asia-Pacific Region (see below) at the 2023 International Sociological Association (ISA) World Congress of Sociology in Melbourne, June 25 - July 1, 2023. | | Category B countries: China; Fiji; Malaysia; Maldives; Marshall Is.; Peru; Russian Fed.; Thailand; Tonga; Tuvalu.
Category C countries: Bangladesh; Cambodia; India; Indonesia; Kiribati; Korea, Dem. Rep; Lao PDR; Micronesia; Mongolia; Nepal; Pakistan; Papua New Guinea; Philippines; Samoa; Solomon Is.; Sri Lanka; Timor-Leste; Vanuatu; Vietnam.
We welcome and encourage you to share this opportunity amongst your relevant networks. The full details, and application form, are on TASAweb here. | | | ISA Research Committees
Call for Submissions | RC05: ‘Race, Racism and Anti-Racism in Australia: Knowledge for Action Beyond Epistemological Divisions’
Australia is a society structured by race/ism. Founded on the fiction of terra nullius, or no-one’s land, the First Nations of the land were dispossessed and denied personhood by settler colonists. Once Australia became a nation, it further entrenched racial hierarchy by limiting migration to Anglo-Celtic people through the Immigration Restriction Act 1901, colloquially known as the White Australia Policy. Racial hierarchies continue to structure Australian society yet race and racism are largely invisible in public discourse, and anti-racism is sparse.
| 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
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.
| Call for papers for a special joint session RC31 & RC34 on youth mobilities
ISA Session: Conceptualising Transnational Youth Mobilities and Transitions amidst Social
Challenges
International Sociological Association World Congress, Melbourne June 25 - July 1, 2023
Youth people aged between 18 - 30 represent the most mobile cohort across the globe. RC
31 (Migration) and RC 34 (Youth) are hosting a special joint session which invites papers that
examine transnational youth mobilities and transitions amidst the social challenges of our
contemporary world. Drawing on this year’s ISA Congress theme, we examine a range of
issues including if and how the global rise of authoritarianism, populism, xenophobia and
racism impacts young people’s mobility decisions and trajectories. What are the similarities
and differences in the experiences of young people on the move from the global north and
the global south? How has the recent pandemic impacted their mobility aspirations and
pathways? How does mobility shape new possibilities for adulthood in a changing world? In
exploring these and other questions, we welcome papers that feature the methodological
and conceptual developments needed to better understand this generation making a life on
the move.
Note: This is a special invited session and does not appear on the ISA Congress sessions page. If you would like to submit an abstract, please email your abstract directly to the session organisers by 28th September 2022. Abstracts are to be no more than 300 words. Please also include title, up to 4 keywords, author/s & institution/s, and email contact details. To submit an abstract or for further details, please contact Professor Loretta Baldassar: l.baldassar@ecu.edu.au Professor Anita Harris: anita.harris@deakin.edu.au | | Members' Engaging Sociology | Alexandra Coleman (2022) Class, Place, and Higher Education: Experiences of Homely Mobility. Bloomsbury |  | | Higher education is seen to be a means to “the” good life and is a dominant way societies distribute hope for social mobility. But does higher education deliver on its promise? This book attends to the hopes, experiences, and trajectories of working-class students and graduates from Western Sydney – an area that is imagined, from the outside, to be a place of lack and stagnation, the “other” Sydney. This book challenges the myth that participation in higher education necessarily leads to upward social mobility and traces how the rewards of higher education are unevenly distributed.
It considers how visions of a good life are class differentiated and makes an argument for the significance of place when examining experiences of higher education. Rather than focus on university as a means to becoming middle class, Class, Place, and Higher Education examines how university becomes a means to “a” good life, not “the” good life, a good life that is embedded in place, in working-class places like Western Sydney, and one that becomes more complex and ambivalent through the process of going to university. Read on... | | |
Corrinne T. Sullivan, Kim Spurway, Linda Briskman, John Leha, William Trewlynn & Karen Soldatic (2022) “She’s Always Been a Fighter for Me”: Indigenous Mothers as Advocates and Defenders of Their LGBTIQSB + Children, LGBTQ+ Family: An Interdisciplinary Journal, DOI: 10.1080/27703371.2022.2124212
Matthew Bunn, Penny Jane Burke & Steven Threadgold (2022) Classed trajectories in higher education and the graduate labour market: affective affinities in a ‘meritocracy’, British Journal of Sociology of Education, DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2022.2122936
Fomiatti, R., Farrugia, A., Fraser, S., Moore, D., Edwards, M., & Treloar, C. (2022). Post-crisis imaginaries in the time of direct-acting antiviral hepatitis C treatment. Time & Society, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X221128736
Orr, Will, Kathryn Henne, Ashlin Lee, Jenna Imad Harb, and Franz Carneiro Alphonso. 2022. Necrocapitalism in the Gig Economy: The Case of Platform Food Couriers in Australia. Antipode, online first. doi:10.1111/anti.12877 [OPEN ACCESS]
| 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.
| 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
Thanks to Heidi Hetz, our equity & inclusion portfolio leader, the next TASA Tea Time session will be held on next Wednesday October 5th 12:30pm - 1:30pm (Perth), 2:00pm - 3:00pm (SA/NT), 2:30pm - 3:30pm (Brisbane, Cairns) and 3:30pm - 4:30pm (Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Tasmania). To register for the event, click here.
| | The third event in the Sociology Out West 2022 Seminar Series will be held at ECU Joondalup on Thursday 20 October 5:30-7:00pm.
Join us for presentations from Dr Naomi Godden (ECU) and Dr Angela Leahy (Murdoch), please see the event flyer attached for abstracts and presenter bios.
The presentations and discussion will be followed by a self-funded dinner at a local restaurant. Details of where we will eat are still tbc, we'll let you know nearer the time.
This seminar will be held in blended mode so you can join us for the presentations (though sadly not the dinner!) no matter where you are based.
Meeting ID: 435 310 692 003
Passcode: MxVGjv
Join with a video conferencing device
Video Conference ID: 137 073 873 0
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2023 Social Sciences Week will be held from 4-10 September, 2023
| Gary Bouma TASA Workshop - Alone in a crisis: Reflections on recent personal, financial, and health shifts
Call for papers
Virtual 1-day workshop
2nd November 2022
Organiser: Lara McKenzie
‘Alone in a crisis’ is a full-day, virtual workshop presenting researcher findings and practitioner experiences on single and solo living people’s personal, financial, and heath-related experiences of recent crises, government pandemic measures and lockdowns, and the implications of any resulting shifts. It will bring together postgraduate, early career researcher, and senior academic sociologists, anthropologists, and social scientists, as well as practitioners and policy experts from across the world. Workshop participants will discuss the realities, consequences, and future needs of people living alone in times of crisis.
For the full event and submission details, read on... | Healthy Societies 2022: Infrastructures of Care - Foundations and Fractures
Free online event, Wednesday 16 November, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm AEDT
Speakers include fellow members Greg Marston, Barbara Barbosa Neeves, Karen Soldatic, Alan Petersen and Alex Broom
Profound social transformations are reshaping the ways we ‘care’ (or fail to care) for ourselves, each other, our environments and our societies. The very materialities, moralities and infrastructures of contemporary care are being radically reformed and, at times, called into question.
| 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
| Journal of Sociology - Volume: 58, Number: 2 (June 2022) has been published. You can access the Table of Contents here.
| Call for proposals for Special Issue by Guest Editors Issue 1, 2024
The incoming editors of HSR encourage sociologists to submit proposals to develop and edit special issues exploring new ideas and the cutting edge of their field of expertise. Particularly welcome are proposals for special issues with a focus on novel empirical domains, theoretical frameworks and/or methodologies in the sociology of health and illness (for example, the intersection of health sociology and climate change).
Expression of interest deadline: October 15. Read on...
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: Assistant/Associate Professor in Indigenous Policy and Politics
The University of British Columbia
New: Lecturer in Sociology
University of Canterbury
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Indigenous Environmental Studies
University of Sydney
Application deadline: TOMORROW September 30. Read on...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Climate Adaptation
University of Sydney
Application deadline: TOMORROW September 30. Read on...
Senior Research Fellow / Principal Research Fellow
Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Sociology
UNSW, Canberra
Application deadline: TOMORROW September 30. Read on...
Indigenous Postdoctoral Fellow
Australian National University
Application deadline: TOMORROW September 30. Read on...
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: TOMORROW September 30. 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.
| | | New: Drugs, Gender and Sexuality (DruGS) research program
The Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
Integrating community and family care for older people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds
The University of Queensland
Including the voices of children and young people in support services
Australian National University / Relationships Australia
This supplementary ‘top up’ scholarship is a terrific opportunity for a PhD candidate who wants to conduct research that will inform improvements in community services for Australian children, young people, and their families and/or carers.
Application deadline: 10 pm Monday 31st October. Read on...
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...
| | 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. | | | | Other Events, News & Opportunities | | New: Revitalising Universities in (Post-) COVID Times Symposium
5 November, Tokyo University, 10.30-18.30 Japan Standard Time (JST).
University of Tokyo, convened by Dr Naomi Berman.
In addition to keynote speaker award winning Professor Emeritus Raewyn Connell, the event will feature a thought-provoking range of presentations and roundtables exploring themes in relation to the social purpose of universities, academic identity, student experience (including grief), and resilience in the face of emergencies.
Program details are available here.
Registrations close 14 October. To register, click here.
The is a free hybrid event, so please share with your colleagues and networks. For questions or inquiries please contact Ahram Han at: ahramhan@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp.
| | | New: Environmental Destruction: The Effects of War, Pollution & Capital
Free, online workshop hosted by (In)justice International and Liverpool Hope University
Wed, 14 December 2022, 12:00 – 16:00 GMT
Abstract submission deadline: 23rd of November. Read on...
| 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.
Submission deadline: TOMORROW September 30. Read on...
| Conferences - Call for Papers
| International Interdisciplinary Conference: “The role of Technology in the Shaping of Society”
17th Annual Int. Conference of AIS-ALBSA and Int. Partners
2nd Annual Conference of School Leadership: “Leadership and management in Education” (CSL – AADF)
University Kadri Zeka of Gjilan, KOSOVO, 11-12 November 2022
Submission deadline: TOMORROW 30 September. Read on...
| Journals - Call for Papers |
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.
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...
| 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,
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