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Earlier this week we emailed you about our pending Annual General Meeting. If you would like something included on the agenda, or would like to submit an apology, please email the details to TASA Admin by Friday November 11, 2022.
We welcome you to join us for our TASA Thursdays postgraduate event, TODAY 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.
Next week, 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.
| This week we are profiling fellow member Tim Paul who joined TASA in August this year. Tim has worked as a consultant for over thirty years, the last ten of which as CEO of Org Change, a boutique management consultancy, of which he is the founder. Tim's career has been varied having worked in senior management positions in technology, fashion and finance before taking on roles in consulting. His work has taken him around the world. One of the benefits of consulting, as Tim sees it, has been the opportunity to live and work in Europe, the UK, the USA and Hong Kong in addition to doing assignments in many other locations.
Originally consulting in IT, Tim's work expanded into broader areas of management due to the realisation that many aspects of organisational change are catalysed through technology implementations. Through many projects, patterns emerged as to the strengths and weaknesses of project change, stimulating what Tim describes as a process of lifetime learning. At the tender age of forty three, Tim returned to academia to pursue a Masters at Curtin University and a Grad Cert at AGSM. On completion, he took on part-time lecturing at Curtin for a few years while continuing his consulting work in Australia.
His consulting continued to evolve, increasingly taking him into the boardrooms of Australian organisations to advise on strategy, mergers and acquisitions, technology, change, leadership and management. Finding that management theory did not always provide the insights necessary to deal with some of the pernicious issues these organisations faced, Tim expanded his purview, increasingly drawing from anthropology and sociology as questions of culture, in particular, arose.
This engagement with sociology eventually led Tim to the work of Jeffrey Alexander and the team at Yale's Centre for Cultural Sociology. It was as a consequence of exploring the work of academics associated with cultural sociology that Tim discovered several Australian fellows of the CCS program that in turn led him to TASA. Read on...
| | Members' Engaging Sociology | Jess Rodgers, Ryan Thorneycroft, Peta S. Cook, Elizabeth Humphrys, Nicole L. Asquith, Sally Anne Yaghi & Ashleigh Foulstone (2022) Ableism in higher education: the negation of crip temporalities within the neoliberal academy, Higher Education Research & Development,https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07294360.2022.2138277
Wade, M. (2022) ‘The giving layer of the internet’: A critical history of GoFundMe's reputation management, platform governance, and communication strategies in capturing peer-to-peer and charitable giving markets', Journal of Philanthropy and Marketing, https://doi.org/10.1002/nvsm.1777 [OPEN ACCESS]
la Fuente, E. de, Gibson, M., Walsh, M. J., & Szypielewicz, M. (2022). Introduction to thinking place: Materiality, atmospheres and spaces of belonging. Thesis Eleven. https://doi.org/10.1177/07255136221133168
Cantillon, Z., & Baker, S. (2022). Ketch Yorlye Daun Paradise: Sense of place, heritage and belonging in Norfolk Island’s Kingston and Arthur’s Vale Historic Area. Thesis Eleven. https://doi.org/10.1177/07255136221133185
| 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
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)
| New: Artificial Artificial Intelligence
Fellow member Ash Watson in conversation with Massimo Airoldi, author of Machine Habitus (2022) and the sociological short story Stealth Love (2019).
November 9, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm AEDT.
Probing the porous boundaries between machine realities and imagination, the series features leading scholars from the humanities and social sciences who are changing what – and how – we know about emerging technologies.
| 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.
| Conceptualising Youth Mobilities Amidst Social Challenges Workshop
28th November
Hybrid, Deakin Business Centre
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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
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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.
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You're invited to join a picnic to celebrate the holidays! The picnic will be on Thursday 15th December, from 4pm, at the James Mitchell Playground on the South Perth Foreshore. Friends and family are all welcome! Bring a plate to share 😊 | | | 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: Assistant Professor - Sociology of Religion
University of Toronto Scarborough
Application deadline: November 28. Read on...
New: Professor in Sociology
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Application deadline: November 30th. Read on...
New: Assistant Professor (2 posts) in the Department of Sociology
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Application deadline: November 30th. Read on...
New: Assistant Professor in Environmental Sociology/ Sociology of Health
York University
Application deadline: December 2nd. Read on...
Research Fellow
The Institute for Ethics and Society, the University Of Notre Dame
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
| | 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: Forms of Collective Engagement in Youth Transitions: A Global Perspective
A European Sociological Association RN30 Youth and Generation Seminar
A discussion about the co-edited book by Valentina Cuzzocrea, Ben Gook and Bjørn Schiermer
10th of November, 12 pm (CET Central European Time; 10 pm, AEDT Australian Eastern Time +11).
Speaker - Dr Valentina Cuzzocrea, University of Cagliari
Discussant - Assoc. Prof. Vincenzo Cicchelli, Université Paris Cité/Ceped
https://ucl.zoom.us/j/94479324411
Meeting ID: 944 7932 4411
Passcode: 144579
Abstract: The seminar discusses the core topics of the book Forms of collective engagements in youth transitions: a Global Perspective, co-edited by Valentina Cuzzocrea, Ben Gook and Bjørn Schiermer, and published by Brill, Youth in a Globalising world series, 2021.
The collection is devoted to investigating the collective dimension of being young and in transition. It begins with the assumption that youth transition research has lacked genuine interest in the multiplicity of concrete collective aspects of young people’s lives. The collection seeks, therefore, to ‘recollectivize’ transitions either by bringing to attention conceptual frameworks peripheral in youth studies (for instance, ‘assemblage’), or by re-reading in new ways standard concepts in youth studies (such as class or employment). The presentation will focus on empirical work and the global aspect of this theme. | 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...
| 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...
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