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This week brings a series of exciting opportunities to engage with colleagues and celebrate scholarship in action.
To begin, TASA member David Rowe has organised a pop-up event marking the 25th anniversary of Cathy Freeman’s Olympic victory on 25 September 2000. Details are available below, and all are warmly invited to attend. This event is TODAY.
Later in the week, TASA members Rose Butler and Makiko Nishitani, will host a public forum to present their project 'Supporting Young People from Migrant Families in Sunraysia'. This promises to be a stimulating discussion that highlights the important role sociological research plays in community engagement. Details below.
For members of the MEM Thematic Group, a friendly last-minute reminder that contributions for the upcoming MEM Newsletter are due by tomorrow, Friday September 26. Please ensure you send through any material you would like included. Details below in Thematic Groups section.
On Thematic Groups, TASA welcomes Giselle Newton to the TASA Executive as interim portfolio leader for Public Sociology. TASA acknowledges Sophie Hickey for her years of service in the position.
We also extend a very warm welcome to our newest TASA members, Carla Dryden and Yasmin Johnson. We hope you quickly feel at home within our vibrant scholarly community and enjoy the many opportunities that TASA offers.
Finally, don’t forget that today is TASA Thursdays Webinar. We are delighted to welcome Dr Sylvia Ang, winner of the TASA 2024 Award, who will be presenting 'Decentring migration scholars, centring paradoxes: Autoethnography as resistance'.
| It Was 25 Years Ago Today: Revisiting Cathy Freeman’s Sydney 2000 Olympics Victory
|  | | Western Sydney University’s World Leisure Centre of Excellence and Institute for Culture and Society present:
It Was 25 Years Ago Today: Revisiting Cathy Freeman’s Sydney 2000 Olympics Victory
Reflections on the 25th anniversary of the Sydney 2000 Olympics and Paralympics persistently celebrate the ‘Cathy Freeman final’. Then and now, this First Nations woman’s victory in the 400 metres final on the 25th September, reinforced by her lighting the Cauldron at the Opening Ceremony, was widely interpreted as a significant symbolic landmark in the nation’s reconciliation with its Indigenous peoples. What conclusions can now be drawn regarding the social, cultural, political and sporting importance of this spectacular, globally mediated moment?
This ‘pop up’ event consists of brief commentaries by an invited panel as a prelude to an interactive audience session.
Attendance is free and light refreshments provided.
Time: 4-6pm, TODAY Thursday 25th September, 2025
Place: One Parramatta Square, PC-01.6.53 (LS), Parramatta City Campus
RSVP: Please email d.rowe@westernsydney.edu.au if you’d like to attend.
| | Decentring migration scholars, centring paradoxes: Autoethnography as resistance.
Join Dr Sylvia Ang (Monash University) as she explores how paradox-embracing autoethnography—by foregrounding migrant positionality and emotional narrative—challenges colonial binaries and offers a decolonial pathway toward wholeness.
Event Details:
Date: TODAY Thursday 25 September 2025,
Time: 12:30 PM–1:30 PM (AEDT)
Format: Zoom
Cost: Free
| | | Upcoming public forum in Mildura
Youth Futures: Supporting Young People from Migrant Families in Sunraysia
Wednesday, October 1 · 5 - 6:30pm AEST
Brian Grogan Lecture Theatre
1131-1235 Benetook Avenue Mildura, VIC 3500
This forum marks the end of two research projects in the Mildura region funded by the Scanlon Foundation and the Australian Research Council, and led by Dr Makiko Nishitani (La Trobe) and Dr Rose Butler (Deakin). This research has been conducted with the support of the Sunraysia Mallee Ethnic Communities Council, Swan Hill Rural City Council and the SuniTAFE Skills & Jobs Centre. Key support was provided by community members Dean Wickham and Jessica Kei. Approximately 60 young people participated in these projects and provided rich insight into their lives, communities and how to better support their futures in the region. This forum hears from participants themselves and is an opportunity to report back on research findings, thank our contributors and showcase the voices and important work of young people from migrant families who are building strong rural futures. This is a free event and will involve short presentations, a panel discussion and Q&A. Further details and registration below.
For questions please contact: rose.butler@deakin.edu.au
| | TASA 2025 Conference Program is now live!
This year, we’re excited to launch our new interactive online program, making it easier than ever to plan your conference experience.
Search by day, track, thematic group, workshop, social function, or keynote, and even download a personalised program containing only the sessions you wish to attend.
Start exploring here:
| | | ATTENTION: MEM Thematic Group members
Just a quick reminder for MEM Thematic Group members that the deadline for members to send through content for inclusion in the next MEM newsletter is this Friday 26th September. Please send all material to: leah.williamsveazey@sydney.edu.au
| Co-convenors of ‘The Sociology of Emotion and Affect thematic group, Dr Belinda Johnson and Dr Tamara Borovica, are proud to promote:
"Bare" by Dancekin, a show in the Melbourne Fringe Festival (Sept 30-Oct 3)
In 2024, TASA members Dr Belinda Johnson and Dr Tamara Borovica from RMIT University carried out research with industry partner Mx Tristan Sinclair on dance and Down syndrome for social change. The research lead to the formation of a small integrated dance company, Dancekin, for dancers with and without Down syndrome. The company's approach is informed by the findings of the research which centred on expansive collaboration, equity and creative opportunities. Dancekin are performing a new work over 4 nights at the Melbourne Fringe Festival, an event that is a standalone creative work as well as community-based research impact.
Check the link: Melbourne Fringe Festival - Bare
| | | | Non‑religion, Spirituality & Secularism in Public
Hosted by TASA’s Sociology of Religion Thematic Group, this one-day symposium explores Australia’s rising 'nones' (38.9% of the population in 2021) through morning paper presentations, an ECR panel, a workshop on research tools and methods, and an afternoon roundtable and future-focused discussion. Registration is now open—join the conversation shaping the public significance of non‑religiosity.
Event Details
Date: Friday 3 October 2025
Time: 8:45 AM–5:00 PM
Location: The University of Sydney
Cost: TASA Members $35 | Non Members $35
| | | The Urban Sociology Thematic Group invites scholars, practitioners, and students to join us on Wednesday, 9 October at The University of Sydney for an engaging symposium exploring the theme Knowing the City – Movements, Epistemologies, and Visions.
Event Details
Date: 9th October
Time: 9:00am - 5:00pm (AEDT)
Location: University of Sydney
Cost: In-person $30 | Online $20
| | | | Researching Migration Studies: A Symposium on Methodologies
This one‑day hybrid symposium will examine methodological innovation and reflexivity in migration research. Tackle complex lived experiences, systemic barriers, ethics, and the digital turn through digital ethnography and platform studies. This mentoring‑focused event invites early‑career researchers and PhD students to submit expressions of interest and attend.
Event Details
Date: Friday 21 November 2025
Time: 9:30am - 5:00pm
Location: Monash University City Campus
Cost: TASA Member In-person - $40 | TASA Member PG, Casual, unwaged In-person- $15 | Non Member In-person $40 | Online - Complimentary
| | | Eileen Yuk-ha Tsang (2025). Unlocking the Red Closet: Gay Male Sex Workers in China New York University Press, (published 28 July 2025). ISBN: 9781479821174
| Debela, S., McShane, S., Carpenter, L. et al. (2025). Have We Been Measuring Migrant Wellbeing all Wrong? Conceptualizing Migrant Wellbeing: A Systematic Review. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-025-01773-z
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Williamson, R., Roberts, C., Allen, L., & Lou Rasmussen, M. (2025). Pregnancy, placentas and smoke exposure: multiple understandings of pregnant embodiment during the 2019–2020 Australian bushfires. Health Sociology Review, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2025.2554072 (Open Access)
Williamson, R., Roberts, C., Valentine, K., Leach Scully, J., Mills, C., & Boyle, J. (2025). Translating epigenetics into antenatal care in Australia: communicating risk and intergenerational health in practice. Health, Risk & Society, 1-17.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13698575.2025.2551975 (Open Access)
Leslie, R., Oberg, G., Townley, C., Westphal, T., Rogers, L., & Brömdal, A. (2025). “School can’t: a conceptual framework for reframing school refusal and recognising school related stress/distress.” British Journal of Sociology of Education, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2025.2552132 (Open Access)
Cho, Hyein, Noh, Jae-Eun & Papoutsis, Liana. (2025). Navigating faith and gender-based violence: The role of faith communities in addressing family violence in a migrant context, Journal of Gender Studies, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2025.2549065 (Open Access)
Cubitt, Sean, Cristóbal Escobar, and Ben Gook (2025). “Active Noise Control: Cybernetics, Information Theory, and the Financialization of Randomness.” Philosophy, Politics and Critique 2, 2, 184–204. https://doi.org/10.3366/ppc.2025.0077 (Open Access)
Tran, T. (2025). On and beyond the Creative City: performative narratives, policy translation, and frontiers of ‘splashing’ acts. City, Culture and Society, 42, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877916625000323
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Browne, Josephine (2025). 'Dystopian Fiction, Postcolonialism and Non-human Biography: sociological speculatives and crisis complexity,' The Sociological Review, https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261251364696 (Open Access)
Choo, B. (2025). ‘A fair go’? Critiquing the Australian narrative of egalitarianism from the disability-migration intersection. Communication Research and Practice, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/22041451.2025.2545087 (Open Access)
Faiza Yasmeen, Alan Petersen and Helen Forbes-Mewett (2025). Social Integration in the Workplace: Barriers and Challenges of Pakistani Migrant Women in Australia. Journal of Intercultural Studies, accepted September 2025. (no DOI available).
Mandy McKenzie, Carolina Navarro Medel, Ly Thi Tran, Helen Forbes-Mewett, Adele Murdolo & Laura Tarz (2025). A Shattered Dream: Women International Students’ Experiences of Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence in Australia. Journal of Family Violence https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10896-025-00938-6 (Open Access)
B. A. Lohmeyer & The South Australian Youth Forum (2025). Affective economies of loneliness in school: Bullying, violence, and undesirable social connections’, Critical Studies in Education, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2025.2555310 (Open Access)
| Henne, K., and Ventresca, M. (2025) Traumatic brain injury is much bigger than a sports “concussion crisis”. UC Press Blog, 24 September. Link here
| Employment, Precarity and Workforce Australia with Tin Ablaza - Making and Breaking Social Policy. Link here
Henne, K., and Ventresca, M. (2025) Concussion and the intersection of gender, culture, and biopsychosocial perspectives. Headfirst: A Concussion Podcast, 16 September.
| | Calling for Career Stage Group Members
| We invite you to join either the Student, Early Career or Senior Career Stage Group
You can join a career stage group anytime by logging into your TASA membership profile, navigating to the More Member Options box > clicking/tapping on TASA Groups > Add TASA Groups > scroll to the bottom of the group menu list and click on your choice of Career Stage Group. If you need help, we’ve put together some handy pictorial instructions to guide you through the process that are available here. You can also reach out to Ali Smith, TASA's Membership Director, for assistance (membership@tasa.org.au).
| The Project: Building social and policy support for upcycling and the circular economy ecosystem
Monash University is seeking a level B Research Fellow (0.8FTE) to join the ARC Research Hub for Value-Added Processing of Underutilised Carbon Waste. This role will contribute to the project “Building social and policy support for upcycling and the circular economy ecosystem” The sub-projects are ‘Building public trust in upcycling’ and ‘Designing upcycling business ecosystems’.
You will conduct independent and collaborative research with Professor Jo Lindsay and Associate Professor Martin Geissdoerfer, including a literature review, co-design workshops with Hub partners, and qualitative case studies. The role also involves drafting conference papers, journal articles and policy briefs, and developing resources for a public-facing website to build understanding of upcycling.
This position offers the opportunity to advance research that connects social science, sustainability and policy, shaping the future of the circular economy.
The link to apply is here.
Applications due by TODAY September 25 | Research Fellow (Level B, up to three years)
School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet)
The Australian National University
The Position
The Research Fellow will contribute to RegNet’s teaching efforts, particularly at postgraduate, professional training and higher degree by research (HDR) levels, and carry out activities to develop their scholarly, research and/or professional track record. Early career scholars working on the following topics are particularly welcome to apply: concerns related to complexity and uncertainty in governance, contemporary regulatory governance and the governance of innovation and risk.
Application deadline: November 3 2025 - 23:55 AEDT
For information: click here | Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Sociology of Gender
Department of Sociology, University of California Davis
The Department of Sociology at the University of California, Davis, invites applicants for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level for scholars conducting theoretically driven, empirical research in the sociology of gender. The expected total salary is $109,300-$128,000, commensurate with experience.
We especially encourage applications from individuals who take gender and/or sexuality as central categories of intersectional analysis, and whose research contributes to one or more of the department’s existing strengths, including race/ethnicity, immigration, education, culture, political sociology, and crime and law. We expect the successful candidate to be active in the discipline, value methodological pluralism, and to teach undergraduate and graduate courses on gender, sexuality and topics related to their research. The successful candidate may also be interested in the many opportunities for cross-disciplinary research and mentoring through the Designated Emphasis in Feminist Theory & Research, the Designated Emphasis in Computational Social Sciences, the Feminist Research Institute, DataLab, Center for Poverty and Inequality Research, and other campus programs and research centers.
We seek a scholar with a strong commitment to quality teaching and mentorship. Teaching duties include four (quarter-system) courses per academic year at the introductory, advanced undergraduate, and graduate levels. Supervision of graduate students, student advising, curricular development, and performance of university service are expected of the successful candidate.
We expect the scholar to be active in the discipline of sociology and to contribute to campus efforts to diversify the university community, consonant with the population of the state of California. We especially welcome applicants whose research, teaching, service and/or community outreach demonstrates their commitment to the inclusion and academic success of under-represented and/or non-majority individuals into their respective areas of specialization.
Applications must be submitted through the online application portal found at: https://recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07293. Applicants should submit the following required documents: (1) curriculum vitae; (2) a research statement describing their current research and future research goals, including a brief statement identifying the one article/manuscript that best represents their research approach and describing its contributions to the field, as well as a description of the specific contributions the applicant made to any coauthored articles/manuscripts submitted; (3) a teaching statement describing their experience, pedagogical approach, and practices related to effective teaching; (4) up to three articles/manuscripts that present their scholarship; and (5) three letters of reference. For full consideration, all application materials, including letters of reference, must be submitted by October 6, 2025. The position will remain open until filled.
Visit this site for full details about the position and application requirements: https://recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07293 | Research Specialist Position at Academia Sinica (Taiwan)
The Center for Survey Research, Academia Sinica (Taiwan) invites applications for a full-time position at the rank of Assistant Research Specialist or above. The position focuses on computational social science and survey methodology, including:
· Analysis of online public opinion
· Application of big data & AI methods (e.g., NLP, CV, LMMs)
· Development of computational systems for knowledge sharing
Project/team leadership
Minimum qualifications: Master’s degree or above in relevant fields (Information/Data/Social Science, Statistics, etc.); experience with AI methods and data infrastructure; research promise and strong communication skills.
Application deadline: October 31, 2025 (Taipei time)
Details: https://survey.sinica.edu.tw/?p=19950&lang=en
Contact: Ms. Wen-Hsin Wang — wangwh@gate.sinica.edu.tw; +886-2-2787-1828 | | Other Events, News & Opportunities | | Australian Social Cohesion Summit 2025
Thursday 16 October
Monash College City Campus
750 Collins St, Docklands VIC 3008
Event description
The Australian Social Cohesion Summit 2025, hosted by the Scanlon Foundation Research Institute (SFRI), is a landmark biennial event set to take place in Melbourne, to bring a range of participants from across Australia together. Positioned as a key platform for addressing one of Australia’s most pressing challenges—maintaining and strengthening social cohesion—this summit will move beyond data presentation to actively drive dialogue, collaboration, and practical solutions. Through interactive discussions, and scenario-based activities, participants will gain actionable strategies to address social cohesion challenges at both local and national levels.
For Registration inquiries,
ahancocks@scanloninstitute.org.au
For a summary of some of the Scanlon Foundation Research Institute’s work on social cohesion in Australia click this link. | | | Towards Development of Mediatization Research IX:
Youth, Sports, and Media
Online 5 December 2025
Continuing our series of research meetings focused on specific issues in mediatization research — chaired in past years by eminent experts such as Göran Bolin (2017), Johan Fornäs (2018), Andreas Hepp (2019), Mark Deuze (2020), André Jansson (2021), Andrew Hoskins (2022), Kirsten Frandsen (2023), and Carlos A. Scolari (2024) — this year’s workshop will be held online on 5 December 2025.
It will be led by Michael Skey from Loughborough University.
The title of this year’s edition is: Youth, Sports, and Media.
We invite researchers who wish to discuss their current projects within a focused and closed group of media scholars, under the guidance of an expert.
Important dates:
27 October 2025 – Submission of abstracts
5 December 2025 – Closed online workshop
Details and registration here:
For any substantive questions about the workshop, please contact:
Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin
katarzyna.kopecka-piech@umcs.pl
|  | | Reimagining Boyhood: Addressing the wellbeing of boys and young men through education
Wednesday, 21 January | 8.30am-4pm (AEST)
Venue: The University of Queensland, St Lucia campus.
This landmark event brings together leading international voices, cutting-edge research, and the shared commitment of schools and educators to shape the future of boys’ education. The conference explores identity, wellbeing, belonging, and learning in boyhood. With keynote speakers, expert panels, and interactive workshops, this full-day program offers evidence-based insights and practical strategies that educators can apply directly. It’s the most relevant conference in Australia on this vital topic, equipping you to rethink how young men engage with education, community, and society.
Key Speakers
Amanda Keddie (Deakin University)
John Oliffe (University of British Columbia)
James A. Smith (Flinders University)
Laura Scholes (Australian Catholic University)
Garth Stahl (University of Queensland)
For information and registration see LINK
| The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS)
| Prizes
2025 marked the twelfth year of the annual CHASS Australia Prizes. The Australia Prizes honour distinguished achievements by Australians working, studying, or training in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) sector, including academics, researchers, practitioners, philanthropists, policy makers, and students.
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CHASS Future Leaders Writing Prize
$2000 Prize Money
This prize is awarded to a future leader for a piece of written work (e.g., essay, scholarly article, media article, book chapter) from the perspective of the Humanities, Arts or Social Sciences.
Self-nominations are welcome. Applications must be sole-authored, written in English, and should deepen our understanding of aspects of Australian society and culture. Nominees must not have reached 35 years of age before the nomination cut-off date of 31 December the previous year, and be citizens or permanent residents of Australia. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
The written work may be published or unpublished and must not exceed 12,000 words.
Submission deadline extended to October 6th, 2025.
For information click here.
For submission form click here.
| | |  | | CHASS Prize for Distinctive Work in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
$2000 prize money
This prize is for a performance, exhibition, research project or a specific advance in policy development in any HASS field. Performances or exhibitions must have been open to the public between 1 January and 31 December in the previous year. Policy work and research may have commenced earlier, but must have been completed during the previous year.
Self-nominations are welcome. Nominees should provide sufficient evidence to allow judges to assess the impact of the performance, exhibition, project or policy. The nature of this evidence is up to the nominator (e.g., critical reviews, impact assessments, spin-offs, new policies).
Performances, exhibitions or policy work may have taken place abroad, but nominees must be citizens or permanent residents of Australia, and the work must have some relevance to Australian life. All materials submitted must be in English. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
Submission deadline extended to 6th October, 2025.
For information click here.
For submission form click here
| | | | | | CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
CHASS BOARD
November 2025 - November 2027
The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) represents many member organisations in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS), speaking for approximately 20,000 people in the sector. Our work is overseen by the CHASS Board. The current Board will finish its term at our Annual General Meeting this November. We are now calling for nominations to join the CHASS Board for the coming two-year term, through to the 2027 Annual General Meeting in November that year. Serving on the CHASS Board is a chance to advocate for and build networks across the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.
We are taking nominations for general membership of the Board, and for the role of President. The Board will assign portfolios to general members after the election.
The short Nomination form must be signed by an authorised signatory of a current CHASS Member Organisation and be endorsed by the candidate. An election will be held where the number of nominations exceeds the positions available.
Please email the completed and signed form to Sally Daly, CHASS Executive Officer by midday (AEST) Monday October 6th, 2025 at: membership@chass.org.au
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| Newcastle Youth Studies Online Seminar Series
The Newcastle Youth Studies Centre is a collaborative group of researchers who work with young people to understand their lives, and the social, cultural, and economic forces they are living in. They have the following online seminars scheduled:
- The Materialities of Inequality: Mould, Acid and Glitter (October 8)
- The False Divide between Nature and Culture (November 5)
- ‘Your mum didn’t take selfies’: Youth and image cultures on social media (November 19)
For the details of each event, and to register, read on...
| Special Issues - call for proposals
| Special Issues - call for submissions
| New: Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion
The aim of this volume is to engage scholars in an exercise of sociological imagination. What forms might religion assume by the year 2050? How might society itself be reconfigured? Can we envisage the faces of religion in society that will be quite different from what we know today? And crucially, is sociology able to grasp the key processes currently underway that may shape tomorrow’s religious-social landscape?
Proposal submission deadline: September 30. Read on ...
The Normative Turn in Sociology. Opening the Black Box
Sociology’s special issue hopes to lay the groundwork for a sociology of normativity; that is, a form of sociology (be it “critical” or otherwise) which is expressly normative. Editors are looking for contributions, theoretical and/or empirical, that engage with the question of normativity in sociology.
Paper submission deadline: 22 January 2026. Read on...
Earning while Learning: Experiences, patterns and the political economy of working students
Work, Employment and Society’s new special issue aims to interrogate and fundamentally reconceptualize the relationship between earning and learning, bringing together different disciplinary approaches to interrogate student work and the global political economy that shapes it. Paper submission deadline: 27 February 2026. Read on...
New: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
The guest editors of this journal are seeking submissions for the forthcoming edition ‘Reframing artificial intelligence: Critical perspectives from AI social science’
In an era increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence (AI), public and academic discourse is often dominated by polarised narratives—either heralding AI as a solution to complex problems or warning of its dangers … this Collection invites social science perspectives to advance the study of AI’s sociotechnical, cultural and political dimensions.
Submission deadline: 30 April 2026. Read on...
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Early Career Work and Family Fellowships
The goal of the program is to help promising young scholars establish career successes and integrate them within the WFRN research community.
| | Queer Temporalities
Online and in-person at Macquarie University 1-3 October
Exploring the theories and possibilities of queer lives unbeholden to normative narratives of time, memory, success, love, happiness, and family.
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75 Years of Sociology
British Sociological Association
8-10 April 2026
University of Edinburgh, UK
Abstract submission deadline: October 3rd. Read on...
2026 Centering Care Across the Life Course
Work and Family Researchers Network Conference
June 17-20, 2026, Concordia University Montreal Canada.
Abstract submission deadline: October 1st. Read on...
Predoctoral Preconference
Work and Family Researchers Network Conference
The Predoctoral Preconference will provide workshops intended to help graduate students form meaningful connections with diverse scholars, learn about publication strategies, as well as how to engage with stakeholders such as organisational leaders or policy advocates.
Development in Turbulent Time
20th Annual International & Interdisciplinary Conference of International Partners
University Luigj Gurakuqi Shkoder, ALBANIA
14-15 November 2025
Abstract submission deadline: 14 September. Read on...
Centering Care Across the Life Course
SAVE THE DATE
Concordia University in Montreal Canada
June 17-20, 2026
Submissions open in July and close November 1. Read on... |  | The Jobs & Scholarships Board allows you to view opportunities that TASA Admin and fellow members have posted.
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