The deadline for TASA 2023 Call for Abstract is just days away. Don't miss your chance to share your knowledge and research with peers and colleagues from around the Country. 

Held once again, in conjunction with the Council of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences Congress of HASS, TASA 2023 will kick-off with a half-day postgraduate event (Monday 27 November), followed by two further days (Tuesday 28 and Wednesday 29 November) involving panel-based sessions, general paper sessions relevant to a TASA thematic group, plenaries, and social events.

TASA 2023’s theme, ‘Sustaining the Social: Voices, Culture, Natures,’ takes up the sense of social unravelling and remaking in the context of the increasing ethical imperative to live generously with and alongside other voices, diverse cultural frames, and the many environments that sustain us.

The theme is deliberately a broad one but with a central focus on what it is to constitute, contest and participate in societies and social relations in current times.

There are many sociologies that can speak here; sociologies of class, ethnicity, Indigeneity; of body, disability, genders and sexualities; of inequality, health, education, regionality; of culture, religion, emotion; and of economy, technology, environment and activism.

We invite sociologists from all sectors – urban, regional and remote – to share their research insights and to connect their work to ways of sustaining the social.

  Guidelines for Submission

Participants who wish to deliver a paper; can either submit an abstract to the general paper sessions relevant to a TASA thematic group or to one of ten focused panel-based sessions listed below:

1. Young people, financialization and new technologies
2. The politics of the climate crisis
3. The social life of pandemics within and beyond health systems
4. Sustaining care across species and scales
5. Supporting diverse families in times of crisis
6. Dynamics of the asset economy
7. Dangerous diasporas? Finding space for diaspora engagement in multicultural Australia
8. Live music, heritage, and sociality: Post-pandemic urban cultural citizenship
9. Towards a more convivial academia
10. The future of work and care: practices, tensions and ways forward

All abstracts should be approximately 200 words and must be submitted using the Oxford Abstracts Portal by Friday 4 August 2023. All papers must connect with the broad colloquium theme. 

Note: If you have submitted to a panel session, we ask that you also select a relevant thematic group in case your abstract is not selected for inclusion in your chosen a panel session.

For further guidelines about submitting your abstract Click here

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Paper Selection

Paper selection will take place in mid-August through consultation with each team of panel convenors, thematic group convenors, and TASA’s colloquium convenor. Please note that only a limited number of abstracts will be accepted. All submitting authors will be notified of the outcome in early September.

We hope you’ll consider submitting an abstract and we look forward to your participation in our TASA 2023 Colloquium.

Kind regards,

Kim Humphery

Director – Northern Institute, Charles Darwin University,

Vice-President of TASA and Convener of TASA 2023.