 | The Gathering
This year, TASA’s annual event returns to our usual four-day conference format. As with last year, TASA 2024 will involve a mix of panel-based and general sessions and offer more sustainable and accessible participation through offline as well as online engagement.
Held, once again, in conjunction with the Council for the Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences Congress of HASS, TASA 2024 will kick-off with a full-day postgraduate event (Tuesday 26 November), followed by three further days (Wednesday 27 to Friday 29 November) involving panel-based sessions, general sessions relevant to TASA thematic groups, keynotes and plenaries, social events (including a dinner & award presentations) & TASA’s AGM and presidential address. A new feature for TASA's conference will be a series of in-person, career-stage workshops (held on Tuesday 26 & Friday 29 November).
The Theme – Living Now: Social Worlds, Political Landscapes
This year’s conference theme highlights the immediacy of contemporary social life – both offline and on – and the current intensity with which it is lived as political.
In a decade that has already been framed by pandemic, war and unprecedented natural disasters, living the present is to live an entwinement of the social and the political in ways that have rarely been so marked. Many sociologies can be usefully brought to bear in exploring this contemporary entwinement, especially in an Australia so deeply embroiled in discourses of climate, Indigeneity, gender, technology and religion. We thus invite the widest possible array of contributions to this conference and encourage an irreverence for the divisions between social, cultural and political analysis. We also encourage an interrogation of the politics of sociology itself. In doing so, we echo the long-recognised imperative to contest given sociological knowledges and methodologies and to learn from those – in our own country and beyond – who think and do social analysis differently.
It is in this spirit of both utilising and challenging sociology that we look forward to collectively exploring the social worlds and political landscapes of living now.
The submission deadline for Panel Proposals (and panel abstracts) is Monday May 13, 2024; and the deadline for abstract submission for General Abstracts closes on Monday 3 June 2024.
| | Fellow member Anthony K J Smith is a co guest editor on the latest Health Sociology Review Special Issue titled 'Matters of Time in Health & Illness. The special issue features the editorial and 7 excellent articles critically exploring sociological perspectives on temporality in health. | | | Harrison, Mia, Smith, Anthony K J & Adams, Sophie, 'Matters of time in health and illness', Health Sociology Review, Volume 33, Issue 1, 2024 pages 1-118
Six of the 7 articles, plus the editorial, are available in full. For details, Read on...
| The nomination deadline for the below 2024 TASA Awards is July 17th:
Note, applications for TASA2024 bursaries will open on Monday July 22nd and close on Monday August 19th.
| MusicLIVES Symposium, Brisbane, 26 June
The Sociology of Music thematic group invites TASA members to the MusicLIVES Symposium, at The Tivoli theatre in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, on Wednesday 26th June, 9am-5pm. MusicLIVES will showcase the work of SoM members and bring together academic, music industry and policy stakeholders, with focus sessions on ‘Sociology of music today’ and ‘Crisis and reinvention for live music in Australia’.
MusicLIVES is presented by the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University, with support from TASA thematic group event funding. Further details and registration on the SoM webpage (expand Members’ News).
| | | Lecturer in Social and Political Sciences (Indigenous Identified)
University of Technology Sydney, Broadway, Sydney NSW
With fellow member Elizabeth Humphrys
Application deadline: May 7. Read on...
Senior Principal Analyst, Student Equity
12-month fixed term appointment, Planning and Business Intelligence Unit
The University of Queensland
Application deadline: May 5. 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.
| | | PhD Scholarship - Music making in Australia
Applications are invited for enrolment in a scholarship-supported doctoral study associated with an Australian Research Council Discovery project that explores digital music making in regional Australia. The PhD project topic is deliberately open to allow candidates to develop their own specific ideas and interests drawing on their existing skills and experience, subject to negotiation with supervisors. However, in order to align with the overall project, topics that focus on areas such as the following are particularly welcome:
• Music making in regional Australia
• The intersections of grassroots music making and government policy and infrastructure in urban or regional settings
• Musicians’ utilisation of ‘maker spaces’
• Social inequalities in digital music making.
The successful applicant will supervised by three of the Chief Investigators on the ARC project (all TASA members), Associate Professor Catherine Strong (RMIT), Professor Andy Bennett (Griffith) and Dr Ben Green (Griffith).
Please contact Catherine Strong for more information (catherine.strong@rmit.edu.au)
| | 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. | | | | In case you are not aware, you can add job and scholarship opportunities to our publicly searchable Jobs & Scholarships Board via your TASA membership profile, see image below: | | Other Events, News & Opportunities | Sociology out West - Seminar
| WA sociologists sharing research and practice
TODAY May 2nd, Curtin University, 5:30pm - 7:15pm, AWST
Join fellow sociologists for some stimulating sociological discussion, with three guest speakers: Sophie Leipoldt, Jake Chaloner and Grace Cayley. For their first event of the year, they are showcasing the work of some of junior colleagues who have recently completed (or are soon to complete) their studies.
For full details, access the flyer here | National Library Fellowships
| National Library of Australia Fellowships
The National Library of Australia Fellowships program offers researchers an opportunity to undertake a 12-week residency at the Library. Applicants may work in any field or discipline where the Library's collections have appropriate depth and breadth to support the desired outcomes.
| Thinking with Drugs, Interventions in the social
International workshop, 22–23 July
Goldsmiths, University of London
Abstract submission deadline: 10th of May. Read on...
Conservative Public History
With speaker fellow member Neville Buch presenting on Buckley in Australia: Considering Local Social Discourses among the Australian States (1938-1987)
June 20, 10am - 6pm
| Call for Submissions - Journals
| New: New insights into global labour: movement strategy and mobilisation in the context of crisis
Social Movement Studies
This special issue would like to go beyond discussions of “old” and “new” movements, popular during the 1990s, and instead emphasise the usefulness of using social movement and collective action theories for analysing the development, strategies, and consequences of labour movements — in short, to bring the labour movement back to social movements studies.
Abstract proposal deadline: June 1, 2024. Read on...
Special Themed Collection: Gender and Work Emerging Issues
Economic and Labour Relations Review
The purpose of this call for papers is to assemble a stock take, assessing progress towards gender equality in work, paid and unpaid, formal and informal.
Special issue focussed on Culturally Responsive Qualitative Health Research
Qualitative Health Research
Anticipated publication of Special Issue: March 2025
Deadline for submissions: July 1. Read on....
| Social Science Methodology Conference
Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Incorporated
November 27-29, 2024, in-person at the University of Sydney
Abstract submission deadline: September 20
Epidemics and transmissible disease. Scourges throughout History.
The Tunisian-Mediterranean Association for Historical, Social and Economic Studies (TMA for HSES) and the Tunisian World Center for Studies, Research, and Development (TWC for SRD)
December 3, 4, 5 / 2024 (Beja - Tunisia).
| WA Migration and Mobilities Update conference
Edith Cowan University Mount Lawley campus, Perth WA.
Wednesday 25 September
Full program and registration details to follow.
Social Sciences Week 2024
9-15 September 2024
SSW2024 promises to be even more fun, insightful and intelligent than ever before. So mark your calendars, spread the word and get ready for a week of activities.
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