 | | Dear ~~first_name~~,
Our next TASA Thursdays postgraduate event is very timely! Join us next week, Thursday November 3rd, 12:30pm - 1:30pm AEDT, to learn about How to Navigate Conferences: Effective Presentation Strategies. The event will be hosted by fellow member Bernardo Dewey– . Via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83087225528?pwd=cFhOU0lrL254K1ZHd2ZPTHNoVkIyUT09 Meeting ID: 830 8722 5528 Passcode: 032559.
After next week's postgraduate event, we have two more TASA Thursdays to finish off the year with. Three thematic groups are collaborating for our November 10th TASA Thursdays event (12:30pm - 1:30pm AEDT). Ann Lawless, Zoei Sutton & John McGuire,
representatives from the Social Stratification, Sociology and Activism and the Sociology and Animals thematic groups, will come together to discuss Fickle Futures launch: the 'New' Homelessness. You can register for the event here.
Our final 2022 TASA Thursdays event will be held on November 17th, 12:30pm - 1:30pm AEDT. Fellow member Joshua Thorburn will be presenting on Exploring How Incels Perform Gender. You can register for the event here.
| We extend our warm congratulations to fellow member Kieran Hegarty (RMIT University) who has been awarded the Internet Histories Early Career Researcher Award 2022 for his journal article “The invention of the archived web: tracing the influence of library frameworks on web archiving infrastructure”. The award was judged by an international panel of experts comprising Janet Abbate, Kevin Driscoll, Greg Elmer, Benjamin Thierry and Jane Winters. Kieran's article, which draws on ethnographic and archival research at the National Library of Australia, is now available open-access for one year through Internet Histories: https://doi.org/10.1080/24701475.2022.2103988.
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We also extend our warm congratulations to fellow member Claire Moran (Monash University) whose thesis was recently officially conferred. Claire's supervisors were Associate Professor Brady Robards, Associate Professor Helen Forbes-Mewett and Dr Virginia Mapedzahama. You can view the celebratory tweet here. | | |
The conference program is now available in Pdf and Excel formats. In other conference news, we are excited to share that our Women's Breakfast speaker will be fellow member Carol Vale, a Dunghutti woman from Armidale, NSW.
| A big thank you to the below who will be our TASA 2022 volunteers:
- Evan Willis
- Ricki Spencer
- Madonna Boman
- Caitlin Learmonth
- Alice R Wighton
- Faiza Yasmeen
- Alice Campbell
- Dominica Meade
- Michelle Walter
- Kehla Lippi
- Linda Marsden
- Kieran Hegarty
| | Members' Engaging Sociology | Jeremy CA Smith American Imaginaries: Nations, Societies and Capitalism, London Rowman and Littlefield, 2022. |  | American Imaginaries examines the diverse societies and nations of the Western hemisphere as they have emerged across the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Exploring cities, capitalism, nations, nationalism, and politics from both comparative and transnational perspectives, the book develops a unique approach based on the paradigms of civilizational analysis and social imaginaries. In addition to providing a fresh perspective on the Americas, American Imaginaries gives proper analysis of multinational and intra-national regions and, crucially, the civilizational force of resurgent indigenous nations. The book also covers regions often underemphasized in histories of the hemisphere, such as Central America and the Caribbean.
The book will appeal to scholars and students of history, Atlantic studies, comparative and historical sociology, and social theory. In addition, it will gain audiences amongst academics and graduate students who follow debates about modernity, civilizations, historical constellations, and social imaginaries. Read on... | | | |
Kieran Hegarty. (2022) “Representing Biases, Inequalities and Silences in National Web Archives: Social, Material and Technical Dimensions”, Archives & Manuscripts, 50(1), pp. 31-45. doi: https://doi.org/10.37683/asa.v50.10209 [open access].
Maslen, Sarah, Hayes, Jan. “It’s the Seeing and Feeling”: How Embodied and Conceptual Knowledges Relate in Pipeline Engineering Work. Qualitative Sociolology (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-022-09520-8 [open access]
Burns, E. A. (2022). Teacher as learner: Using sea-level rise to communicate the seriousness of climate change. Scope Contemporary Research Topics (Learning & Teaching), 11, 84-92. https://doi.org/10.34074/scop.4011001
Nguyen-Trung, K. (2022). “Khi mô về?” (When will you go home?) Evocative Autoethnography on Death, Impermanence, and Time-Space Extension. The Qualitative Report, 27(10), 2174-2184. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2022.5590
| 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.
| | Ash Watson, Meg Rose, Deborah Lupton, Jacinthe Flore,& Emma Quilty (2022) Re-imagining care through arts-based methods. Analysis & Policy Observatory, October 25. | 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 Monday November 7th. You can register for the event here.
Event times:
4:00pm - 5:00pm (AWST Perth)
6:00pm - 7:00pm (Brisbane, Cairns)
6:30pm - 7:30pm (SA/NT)
7:00pm - 8:00pm (AEDT Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Tasmania)
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Remembering Stephen Castles
Part of TASA 2022
Thursday December 1st, 2:30pm - 3:00pm
Hybrid, University of Melbourne and via Zoom.
This is a free event.
| | | 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.
| Cultures of Wellbeing Symposium
A Cultural Sociology Thematic Group Event
10am-3pm, Wednesday, 23 November
Online and in-person, Deakin Downtown, Deakin University
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Speakers: Benjamin Manning, Vanessa Bowden, Rebecca Pearse, Craig Browne, Malcolm Alexander, Bryan Turner, Jack Barbalet Catherine Hastings, & Alonso Casanueva Baptista
Melbourne, Monday 28 November 8:30 am – 5:00 pm AEDT
For the full program, and the abstracts, click here.
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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
Bursaries available
| | | 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 ABSTRACTS
Journal of Sociology Special Issue
Decolonising Truth Globally: Challenges and Possibilities
Guest Editors: Yin Paradies, Vanessa Barolsky and Laura Rodriguez Castro
(Scheduled for publication in 2024)
| This special issue builds on a sustained engagement with the call for truth-telling in Australia during a seminar series run by the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation and the Institute of Postcolonial Studies between 2020 and 2022 entitled ‘Decolonising Truth Globally’, which included critical discussions on truth-telling in Australia, Canada, Colombia, Timor Leste, and the Solomon Islands. The special issue will draw and expand on these international dialogues to ask: What might ‘decolonising’ truth-telling mean and how could it be practised?
Abstract submission deadline: TOMORROW October 28. 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.
| Research Fellow
The Institute for Ethics and Society, the University Of Notre Dame
Tenure-Track Faculty at Center for Survey Research, Academia Sinica,
Taipei, Taiwan
The Center for Survey Research, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences (RCHSS) in Academia Sinica, Taiwan is looking for motivated candidates specializing in computational social science, text mining, social network analysis, and data science
Research Officer
Western Sydney University (WSU)
The School of Social Sciences is seeking a motivated Research Officer to support the two WSU based Chief Investigators on the research project ‘Interventions for young men and boys using IPV (Intimate Partner Violence) in early relations: Analysing identification, referral and practices, and investigating motivating and protective factors for targeted intervention’.
Assistant/Associate Professor in Indigenous Policy and Politics
The University of British Columbia
| 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.
| | | Pandemic parenting: Investigating reproductive, maternal and infant health care during the COVID-19 pandemic
University of Tasmania, with fellow member Jennifer Ayton as supervisor
The positions will remain open until filled. For details, read on...
Fit for purpose medical professionals - Fit for purpose: Investigating the teaching and learning of social accountability medical humanities informed curricula for Tasmanian medical students
University of Tasmania, with fellow member Jennifer Ayton as supervisor
The positions will remain open until filled. For details, read on...
Micro-biopolitics and the deep relationality of (self)care: Examining the politics and practices of care for the self and for others
University of Sydney, with supervisor Katherine Kenny
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...
| | 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: Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts for People and Environment (SHAPE)
SHAPE is a new organisation set up to specially to advocate for early and mid-career researchers (EMCRs) in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. SHAPE's goal is to act as a voice for EMCRs, to build a network among the cohort, and to foster opportunities for scholars, thereby strengthening the humanities and social sciences in Australia.
| New: Advancing the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda in the Indo-Pacific
Monday 31 October, 10:00 am – 1:30 pm AEDT
Location TBA
| New: Sexualities and Genders Research
Wednesday 2 November, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm AEDT
Hybrid event - Level 9, Liverpool Campus
Researchers (staff and HDR students) from across Western Sydney University will be ‘speed presenting’ a project in the area of Genders and Sexualities. This fun, engaging format offers a peak into the vast range of cutting edge, applied, and community engaged research that our members are undertaking. There will be prizes for presenters across different categories, including audience choice, research partner choice, and best images on slide.This event will be of interest to anybody involved in issues around sexualities and genders, including our community research partners, external organisations, community members, diversity and inclusion practitioners and of course other academics and students.
| New: Left-Right, or Left Right Out? Knowledge Economies, Social Inequalities, Education and Authoritarian Populism
Professor Susan L. Robertson (Monash University).
Wednesday 30th November, 5:00pm-6:30pm, All welcome, drinks to follow the lecture
For details, and to register, read on...
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Round Table Consultation Event - Understanding domestic violence and religion: Exploring how faith-based organisations can be part of the solution
A national gathering to share information about initiatives & research demonstrating how churches & faith communities in Australia are working to prevent & respond to domestic & family violence.
Online or in-person (Melbourne), TOMORROW Friday 28 October
| | | Injustice in a World of Uncertainty
International Convention in South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences, Mikkeli, Finland
28th-31st March, 2023
Abstract submission deadline: December 1st. Read on...
| | 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 EXTENDED to TOMORROW 28 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. | | | Environmental Destruction: The Oppressive Effects of War, Pollution, Capital and Climate Change
Free, online, December 14, 12:00 – 16:00 GMT
Abstract submission deadline: 23rd of November. Read on...
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...
| Journals - Call for Papers | 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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