| The XX ISA World Congress of Sociology is being supported by the Melbourne Convention Bureau. | | | | Dear ~~first_name~~,
Hopefully you received our email yesterday calling for volunteers for the XX ISA World Congress of Sociology that is being held in Melbourne June 25th to July 1. It is a terrific and exciting opportunity to be among a huge gather of sociologists from around the world. There is complimentary registration for volunteers.
Note, the early bird registration deadline for the XX ISA World Congress of Sociology is March 22nd. Below is a video with TASA member Brady Robards and ISA President Sari Hanafi talking about the Congress.
We are delighted to announce that we have locked in another TASA Thursdays event - June 15th: The Voice. Speakers: Joann Schmider (Indigenous Portfolio Leader) and others TBC.
| | Members' Engaging Sociology | Barbalet, Jack (2023) Nation and State in Max Weber: Politics as Sociology. London: Routledge. |  | This book shows how Max Weber’s perceptions of the social and political world he inhabited in Wilhelmine Germany were characterized by a nationalist commitment which coloured practically every aspect of his thought, including his social scientific writings and the formulations they expound. Exploring the consequences of Weber’s ardent nationalism in a manner seldom acknowledged in existing scholarship, it considers the alignment of his commitment to liberalism and democracy with his devotion to the ideal of the German people as an ethno-racial community supported by a power-state, with the purpose of realizing the national interest of future generations of Germans. Through an analysis of a range of texts, the author contends that Weber’s liberalism is not based on universalistic principles and that Weber considered the liberty he espoused to play an important role in securing the position of a political elite trained in parliamentary institutions, which are used to shape the citizenry in the pursuit of a patriotic commitment to an expansionist, imperial state. It will therefore appeal to scholars with interests in the history of sociology and classical social theory. Read on... | | | Aslaksen, Erik (2023) The Evolution of Society: An Information-Processing Perspective. Springer | This book covers the work of Erik W. Aslaksen who continues to develop the view of society and its evolution published in earlier work – The Social Bond (Springer 2018), The Stability of Society (Springer 2020), and Measures of Social Evolution (Springer 2021), bringing together core material of that work with the results of recent investigations in order to present the evolution of society as an integrated and continuous story leading right up to the present time. A story of human action driven by our beliefs, desires, and an ideology arising out of our ability to transform and exploit our environment through the development and application of technology. The distinguishing feature of the work is the treatment of society as an information-processing system and applying the system methodology for handling complexity, as it is applied, e.g., in engineering. Read on...
| | | Call for reviewers: fellow member Erik Aslaksen believes that the material in his recently published book, The Evolution of Society (see above), would not be considered to be within the core of sociology by most TASA members, but he believes it treats aspects of many particular subjects, such as inequality and education, that would be of interest to a number of TASA members. It is for this reason that Erik is seeking a TASA member/s to review the book, putting the sociological aspects in the context of current practice. Erik can provide a copy of the book to reviewers. If you are interested in reviewing The Evolution of Society, please email Sally in TASA Admin.
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Sanders, T., du Plessis, C., Mullens, A. B., & Brömdal, A. (2023). Navigating Detransition Borders: An Exploration of Social Media Narratives. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 0(0), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-023-02556-z [OPEN ACCESS]
Pam Nilan, Josh Roose, Mario Peucker and Bryan S. Turner (2023) 'Young Masculinities and Right-Wing Populism in Australia'. Youth 3, 285–299. https://doi.org/10.3390/youth3010019 [OPEN ACCESS]
Fiona MacDonald, Chris Lanyon, Leah Munnery, Derm Ryan, Katherine Ellis, Sam Champion. 2023. Agents of change in bushfire recovery: Young people's acts of citizenship in a youth-focused, animal-welfare and environmental program, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.103551 [OPEN ACCESS]
Clark, K. A., Brömdal, A., Phillips, T., Sanders, T., Mullens, A. B., & Hughto, J. W. H. (2022). Developing the ‘‘Oppression-to-Incarceration Cycle’’ of Black American and First Nations Australian Trans Women: Applying the Intersectionality Research for Transgender Health Justice Framework. Journal of Correctional Health Care, 0(0), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1089/jchc.21.09.0084 [OPEN ACCESS]
Carniel, J., Hickey, A., Southey, K., Brömdal, A., Crowley-Cyr, L., Eacersall, D., Farmer, W., Gehrmann, R., Machin, T., & Pillay, Y. (2022). The ethics review and the humanities and social sciences: Disciplinary distinctions in ethics review processes. Research Ethics, 17470161221147202. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470161221147202 [OPEN ACCESS]
Carlin, Na’ama, Benjamin T. Jones, and Amanda Laugesen. 2022. ‘“Friendship, but Bloke-Ier”: Can Mateship Be Reimagined as an Inclusive Civic Ideal in Australia?’ Journal of Australian Studies 46 (2): 196–210. https://doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2021.1982750.
| 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.
| | Career Development Grant - 2023
| The annual TASA Career Development Grant seeks to support the career development activities of TASA members where these activities are not covered by other funding.
A total of $4,500 is available, with a maximum of $1,500 available per applicant.
Application deadline: 20th May. Read on...
| | Honours Awards - Call for nominations
| TASA's Honours/Masters Student Award is given annually to the best Honours/Masters student in Sociology in each Australian university. The Award is:
- Determined by the convenor (or equivalent) of the Sociology Honours/Masters program in each university
- Available to Honours/Master students who have a) completed a sociology major, and b) had their Honours/Masters thesis supervised and/or examined by a recognised sociologist in the current year
- In recognition of receiving the best overall mark in Honours/Masters for that year
| TASA Thursdays
We have several TASA Thursdays event lined up:
March 16th: Sport, Community and Social Inclusion. Speakers: Maia Tua-Davidson, Ramon Spaaij, Karen Block & Adele Pavlidis
April 20th: Live Music, Careers and a Rebounding Industry. Speakers: Catherine Strong, Fabian Cannizzo, Sam Whiting & Ben Green. You can register for the event here.
May 18th: Climate change and climate change activism. Speakers: Liv Hamilton, Rob Watts, Judith Bessant & Milo Kei
New: June 15th: The Voice. Speakers: Joann Schmider (Indigenous Portfolio Leader) and others TBC.
If you would like to be a presenter/panellist for one of our TASA Thursdays events, please contact Roger Wilkinson, our Digital Publications Editor.
| TASA Tea Time
Heidi Hetz, our Equity and Inclusion Portfolio Leader, is going to continue to host our TASA Tea Time sessions this year. The first one is scheduled for March 6th at 3:30pm AEDT. You can register for the session here.
| Professoriate Lecture
Curtin University, March 9th, 5:00pm - 7:00pm AWST
Speaker: fellow member Farida Fozdar 'A reluctant Professor - Incontinence, Australia Day car flags, redundancies, and Global Futures'
| Sociologists out West
Murdoch University, room: 513.2.005, 5:30pm AWST
7th March
Guest speakers: fellow member Dorinda t'Hart together with colleagues Jake Chaloner and Cheng Yen Loo
| TASA ISA 2023 Aligned Events | Healthy Societies 2023: Southern Perspectives
June 22nd, 2023, Sydney
Keynote: Professor Nelson Filice de Barros
For the full details, read on...
| Australian Welfare Reform: Crafting Out Alternative Futures
June 22nd, Melbourne
Keynote: Dr China Mills, a leading scholarly civil society advocate (University of London)
| Disrupted plans, digital modalities, and undecided futures
June 22nd, 2023, Melbourne
Plenary Speakers: Professor Crystal Abidin (Curtin University), Dr Joshua Kalemba (Flinders University), Dr Brendan Churchill (University of Melbourne), and Dr Jacqueline Menager (Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet).
| Transformative social science: a dialogue between evidence, policy and practice
June 23rd, 2023, Melbourne
Panellists: A/Prof Catherine Robinson, UTAS (sociologist), Anna Adcock (sociologist & Māori scholar), Research Fellow in the Centre for Women's Health Research, Victoria University of Wellington, Professor Jan Marie Fritz, University of Cincinnati (sociologist) & Dr Simone Casey, Senior Policy Advisor ACOSS (social policy)
For the full details, read on...
| Single parenting, co-parenting, and post-separation families: Challenges and opportunities in times of crisis
June 23rd, 2023, Melbourne
Keynotes: Dr Moeata Keil (University of Auckland), Professor Kathryn Edin (Princeton University), and Professor Kay Cook (Swinburne University).
For the full details, read on...
| ‘Mobile Transitions’: A Symposium on Global Youth, Transnational Mobilities and
Transitions to Adulthood
June 23rd, 2023, Melbourne
Keynote: Associate Professor Valentina Cuzzocrea (Università degli studi di Cagliari)
For the full details, Read on... | Amazon Effects & Logistical Labour: New markets, new technologies, new workplaces?
June 23rd, 2023, Melbourne
Keynote: Professor Valeria Pulignano
For the full details, read on...
| Working Together Ways Yarning Circle
June 23rd, 2023, Melbourne
Keynote: Carol Vale and Dr Penny Taylor
For the full details, read on...
| Decentering knowledge in researching migration from the Global South
June 24th, 2023, Melbourne
Keynote speakers: Xiaoying Qi, Associate Professor of Sociology, Australian Catholic University & Lan Anh Hoang, Associate Professor in Development Studies, the School of Social and Political Sciences, the University of Melbourne.
For the full details, read on...
| Place Economies
Date: TBC - Adelaide
Keynote: Professor Ian Woodward, Southern Denmark University
For further details, read on...
| Journal of Sociology - Volume: 59, Number: 1 (March 2023) has been published. You can access the Table of Contents here.
| Health Sociology Review
Call for papers: Global Healthcare Systems and Violence Against Women and Girls
Issue 2, 2024 | |
Worldwide, it is estimated that approximately 30% of women have experienced violence (WHO 2021a) and that the prevalence of violence against women and girls increases significantly once broader social inequities are taken into account such as Indigeneity, disability, race and ethnicity, 2SLGBTIQ+ status, and age (WHO 2021b). Interaction with the healthcare system can provide an opportunity for a coordinated response to be enacted that provides critical care to women (Fitts et al., 2022). While there have been decades of advocacy for action to address the rates of violence against women, the breadth of minority and marginalised women’s experiences of accessing healthcare following violence are only gradually becoming known.
Guest Editors: Michelle Fitts and Karen Soldatic
Submission deadline: TOMORROW March 3rd
| | | New: Research Fellow
Griffith University
This position is for an experienced Research Fellow, Grade 2 (0.6 FTE) to work with a team of scholars on a recently funded ARC Project, ‘Engaging Outsiders In Sport: Transforming Sport Event Legacy Planning’, which aims to investigate intersectional inequities in sport participation for girls, women and non-binary people in Queensland by working with them to envision legacies for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Research Fellow
Australian National University
Carry out independent and collaborative research on the governance of health, technoscience and well-being
| 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. | | | | Other Events, News & Opportunities | New: How can we redress and repair violence, abuse and neglect of people living with dementia in residential aged care?
Dementia Reparations Principles and project report
Australian focused launch, 13 March 2023 (AEST timezone)
Researchers Linda Steele (University of Technology Sydney) and Kate Swaffer (Dementia Alliance International) in conversation with: Yumi Lee (Older Women's Network of NSW), Bill Mitchell OAM LLD (Townsville Community Law), Theresa Flavin (dementia human rights activist and advocate). Read on....
International human rights focused launch, 23 March 2023 (EST and CET timezones)
Researchers Linda Steele (University of Technology Sydney) and Kate Swaffer (Dementia Alliance International) in conversation with: Professor Claudia Mahler (United Nations Independent Expert on the Enjoyment of all Human Rights by Older Person), Professor Israel Issi Doron (University of Haifa), Bethany Brown (International Disability Alliance). Read on...
Note: the reports will be publicly available on March 13 here.
| New: SHAPE Futures Network
Launched in September 2022, the SHAPE Futures is an early- and mid-career network for the disciplines of the humanities, creative arts and social sciences. Their purpose is to ensure the humanities, arts and social sciences thrive and excel in Australia, by fostering an inclusive and diverse community that supports, empowers and promotes Australian early and mid-career researchers, within and beyond academia.
They encourage those who might consider themselves to be early or mid-career researchers (typically up to 15 years post-PhD, excluding career interruptions) to join the Network; there is no cost to join. Their website provides information on ways that the network can support EMCRs, including advocacy, networking opportunities, and increased visibility of opportunities, resources, and avenues of support. A crucial part of their work is the EMCR cohort survey, which will help build our understanding of the needs of this diverse group, informing our strategies for representation, advocacy, opportunities and network-building. The survey closes in mid-March.
| Rosi Braidotti: Posthuman Feminism
5.30pm, Wednesday 8 March
The Capitol – 113 Swanston St, Melbourne
| Call for Papers - Journal
| China and Climate Change: Towards a Socially Inclusive and Just Transition
Social Inclusion
Social and Ecological Infrastructure for Recidivism Reduction
Social Inclusion
| Making Connections: Multiculturalism and Interculturalism in Australia Conference
March 9-10, 2023, Swinburne University of Technology
The conference will explore whether and how combining multicultural and intercultural approaches could enrich diversity policy
in Australia. The conference will focus on the role ‘intercultural cities’ could play in addressing rising diversity challenges.
For details, read on...
Connections, Collisions, Collapse
Gender, Sex and Sexualities Conference
15th-16th June, South Australia
The 2023 Gender, Sex and Sexualities Conference Committee is currently accepting abstract submissions for full-length, short and panel presentations, as well as proposals for visual artworks to be displayed. We are in the process of seeking permission from Kaurna Elders to host the conference at UniSA in the Bradley Forum. The event will be held on Thursday the 15th and Friday the 16th of June. With this year’s theme of Connections, Collisions, Collapse we hope to envision futures that deconstruct our current world from a variety of perspectives.
Submission deadline: March 13. Read on....
World Conference for Religious Dialogue and Cooperation
October 04-08, 2023 Struga, North Macedonia
World Convention
(In)Justice International
Finland March 28-31
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