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Date: 9/20/2023
Subject: TASA members newsletter: September 21st
From: TASA



Beyond textual boundaries
Dear ~~first_name~~,
 
We hope you can join us TODAY (September 21st 12:30pm - 1:30pm AEST) for our TASA Thursdays event on Beyond textual boundaries: Using visual methods in sociological research, presented by fellow members Kazi Fattah and Dorinda t'Hart. The webinar will explore some of the issues surrounding visual methods and presentation, while also challenging some of the ethical concerns which can be encountered using visual data.
 
Via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83134582187?pwd=Y3FENE43Nmo0VkVMejBWWGM3anRvQT09
Meeting ID: 831 3458 2187 Passcode: 756253
 
TASA 2023 Registrations now open
 
Earlier this week, we sent you an email about TASA 2023 registrations. As a reminder, the early bird rate ends on October 8th AEDT. All current TASA 2023 information is available via TASAweb here. If you have any questions related to the Colloquium, or other TASA events, please contact our Events Manager, Penny Toth. To register, click on the orange button below:
 
 
 
Forthcoming TASA Thursdays
TASA Thursdays - from social media to generative media newsletter
Join us for our October TASA Thursday session 'From Social media to generative media,' presented by Dr Mark Carrigan.

Mark's initial work on generative AI has been concerned with issues of policy and practice within universities. Mark is writing a guide book for academics about how to use generative AI in reflective and creative ways, building on a previous book he wrote Social Media for Academics.

He originally saw the parallel as a matter of the challenges facing academics but Mark has since realised the interconnections are much deeper than this. Generative AI systems are trained on user generated content at a time when social platforms are running up against the limits of the digital advertising model and exploring new subscription-based approaches.

They have played an essential role in accelerating hype through end users sharing screenshots and influencers building capital out of this shared object of attention. What OpenAI euphemistically refers to as 'collective intelligence' has relied on social platforms to facilitate what Nancy Baym and Jean Burgess call public pedagogy: users developing their own ideas of what to do with a platform and sharing these with others. Generative AI is utterly entangled with social media while auguring a radical shift in it.

The humane technology guru Tristan Harris has talked about social media as our 'first contact' with AI and generative AI as our 'second contact'. This feels overly simplistic but it does raise the question of how we conceptualise the relationship between and historicise the emergence of generative AI in terms of a broader history of the platform economy.

 
EVENT DETAILS
Date: Thursday 19 October 2023
Time: 7pm - 8pm AEDT (Mark is based in the UK, which is why this event will be in the evening)
Format: Zoom Webinar
Other TASA Events
TASA Tea Time - Sept 2023
Join us for TASA Tea Time, hosted by Aisling Bailey on Thursday 28 September 2023.

TASA Tea Time is a space for members to come together and chat all things sociology, TASA, #TASA2023, and other related topics. Come along to this casual space and share with like-minded members.

EVENT DETAILS:

Date: Thursday 28th September
Time: 12:30pm- 1:30pm (AWST Perth)
           2:00pm - 3:00pm (NT and SA)
           2:30pm - 3:30pm (AEST Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Tasmania, Brisbane).
Format: Zoom Webinar 

Note, this event is for TASA members only.
 
TASA Travelling Scholar - Darwin
Join us for TASA's Travelling Scholar Lecture: 'Judicial Work & Emotion: A Socio-legal Approach' which will be presented by fellow member Sharyn Roach Anleu on Thursday 26 October 2023.

The growing field of law and emotion examines the presence (and absence) of emotion throughout law and legal work. Impartiality is a foundational value and judicial officers are expected to be impersonal, emotionless, and detached in their courtroom work and decision making.

Sharyn Roach Anleu's socio-legal research that uses a variety of methods demonstrates the ways emotion is embedded in the everyday work of judges, magistrates and their courts. Judicial officers undertake emotion work to regulate their own feelings and display, shaped by the legal framework and feeling rules. They may also need to manage the emotions of others, especially in court. A socio-legal approach shows how emotion can be a valuable resource to enable fair treatment rather than undermining impartial judging.

EVENT DETAILS

Date: Thursday 26 October 2023
Time: 10:00am - 11:30am (ACST)
Location: Level 2, Savannah Room, Northern Institute, Charles Darwin University, Casuarina
Format: In person & Online
Cost: Complimentary
 
 
Resources on the Voice
On Saturday, 14 October 2023, Australians will have their say in a referendum about whether to change the Constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing a body called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. Voters will be asked to vote 'yes' or 'no' on a single question. Below is a list of resources for you to view and share. If you have other resources, please email them to Sally in TASA Admin
Members' Engaging Sociology

Journal Articles

Sophie Lewis, Giselle Newton, Katherine Kenny, Frances Boyle (2023) The incurable self: Negotiating social bonds and dis/connection with metastatic breast cancer, Sociology of Health and Illness [OPEN ACCESS]
 

News and Analysis

David Rowe (2023) Sport: Socially divided, spuriously unified? Open Forum, September 14th. 
 

Blogs

 
 
TASA Publications

Journal of Sociology

TASA Executive seeks to appoint a new editorial team for the Journal of Sociology for the four-year term 2025–2028.
 
The term of the current editors expires at the end of 2024, although copy for the first issue of 2025 will be organised.
 
The journal receives financial and administrative assistance from TASA and from the publisher, Sage. Manuscript submission is done online through ScholarOne. All members of the editorial team must be TASA members and ideally will be located within a department of sociology or a School/unit that offers a major sequence of sociology, including doctoral studies. The Executive are willing to consider applications from an editorial team at a single university or a consortia of staff at two or more universities. Such consortia will be required to demonstrate that they have the capability to work effectively across locations. TASA will provide the Managing Editor with a complimentary TASA membership.
 
Applicants are also required to show that they have institutional support for the management of the journal, and to specify the nature of this support. Selection protocols and application instructions are available via the orange link below. Additional information is available from the TASA President, Alphia Possamai-Inesedy or from the current Editor in Chief, Helen Forbes-Mewett.
 
Expressions of interest should be emailed to TASA Admin by 9am Monday October 16th, 2023.
 
 

Health Sociology Review

Call for proposals for Special Issue by Guest Editors - Issue 1, 2025
 
Each year HSR publishes a special issue on a matter of central importance to health sociology and related fields, edited by guest editors. Previous special issues have addressed topics around Indigenous knowledges, violence against women, temporality, posthuman perspectives, trans health, sex tech, COVID-19 and self-tracking.

The Editors of HSR encourage sociologists to submit proposals to develop and edit special issues exploring new ideas and the cutting edge of their field of expertise. We particularly welcome proposals for special issues with a focus on novel empirical domains, theoretical frameworks and/or methodologies in the sociology of health and illness (for example, the intersection of health sociology and climate change).
 
Proposal submission deadline: TOMORROW September 22ndRead on... 
Employment
Professor in Sociology
London School of Economics
Application deadline: September 24. Read on... 
 
Assistant Professor (Sociology)
University of Massachusetts Boston
Application deadline: October 1st. Read on...
 

Jobs Board

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.
Current Employment Opportunities
PhD Scholarships
HDR Scholarship - Young Workers and Post-Industrial Citizenship
Deakin University
Fellow member David Farrugia is looking for two students with backgrounds in sociology, education, anthropology, or other critical social sciences, with an interest in youth, citizenship and employment and with an appetite for big ideas.
Application deadline: October 2nd. Read on...
 

Scholarships Board

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.
Current Scholarship Opportunities
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: 
Jobs and Scholarships Board
Other Events, News & Opportunities

So Fi Zine

SOFIZINE
New: So Fi Zine #14
 
So Fi Zine publishes fiction, poetry and visual art inspired by social science.
Edition #14 will be published in late 2023.
Send your sociological fiction, poetry and visual art!
 
For submission details, visit sofizine.com/cfs.
 
Submission deadline: October 31.

Conferences

New: Sex, Health and Society Conference
Monday 25th September, 12:00 pm - Wednesday 27th September, 8:30 pm AEST
Online, UNSW Sydney.

Challenge assumptions, forge connections, and reimagine intimacy at the free and online 2023 Sex, Health, and Society Conference, a part of the annual SEXtember festival at UNSW Sydney! Through discussions, presentations, and interactive sessions, we'll explore international perspectives on pleasure, desire, sexual health, consent, race, inclusive research, and more. Join TASA member Dr Kerryn Drysdale’s interactive workshop on making research more inclusive of gender and sexuality diversity (featuring star HDR students), and keynote speaker Professor Kath Albury’s lecture on Sextech.
 
For the conference programme and to register, read on... 

Multicultural Framework Review: call for contributions

Research Strategy Submission Multicultural Framework Review

Fellow member Andrew Jakubowicz has been engaged to prepare a short paper for the Commonwealth Government Multicultural Framework Review (here) that addresses Research (and to some extent data). These were not mentioned in the Terms of Reference but have been identified by the Review Panel as a matter of priority.

If you are a researcher with an interest in the area of Multicultural Policy and its related issues of migration, settlement, racism, interculturalism, and community relations, Andrew would welcome your contribution. Acknowledging the time pressure everyone is under, Andrew has prepared a short survey online that should take no more than six minutes to answer, though the option for more elaborate responses has been provided.

Respondents to the survey may remain anonymous and will not be identified in any submission made. If you have colleagues you believe may wish to contribute, please do pass the email on. Deadline is TODAY September 21 2023.

Survey link: https://s.surveyplanet.com/hqmaemb6.

Any questions, please email Andrew.
 

Community of Practice Group

The new Community of Practice for Inclusive Research with Queer, Trans & Intersex people (CoPQTI) invites you to our inaugural events! 
 
Making research more inclusive of gender and sexuality diversity: HDR perspectives
Wednesday 27 September, 7pm. The aim of this workshop is to increase the confidence of a new generation of researchers to ask questions about sex, gender, sexuality and innate variations of sex characteristics in appropriate, meaningful ways.
For details, and to register, read on...
For background, the CoPQTI comprises UNSW academic and professional staff and research students, both LGBTIQ+ and allies, who hold particular expertise and interests in making research and other engagement and collaboration practices with queer, trans and intersex people more inclusive. If you are interested in hearing more about the CoPQTI, please contact Kerryn Drysdale (k.drysdale@unsw.edu.au).
 

Symposiums

Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Marking 10 Years Since the End of Australian Car Manufacturing was Declared
 
A one-day research symposium, Adelaide, Thursday 15 February 2024
 
This one-day research symposium has been organised to mark 10 years since Australia’s last carmakers announced plans to close domestic manufacturing operations. By February 2014, all remaining carmakers had announced plans to end the domestic manufacture and assembly of passenger cars over the following 3-4 years. By October 2017, Australia’s car manufacturing industry had shut down completely.
 
Note, some funding is available to support the participation of Early-Career Researchers (ECRs), HDR students, low-income or unwaged researchers, or researchers from outside the academy, e.g., from industry, policymaking, or community organisations, including potential to subsidise travel and accommodation for participants travelling from outside Adelaide/South Australia.
 
Submission deadline: October 20th. Read on...
 
 

Workshops

TG10 Digital Sociology WIP Workshop
Hybrid, December 14–15
The Digital Sociology Thematic Group (TG10) of the International Sociological Association (ISA), is organizing this second workshop for work-in-progress papers. The workshop is open to Early-Career Digital Sociology Researchers (Ph.D. Students and Postdoctoral Researchers) and will be held remotely and in-person in Belgrade on December 14–15, 2023. Suppose you are at this early career stage and seeking advice, evaluation, and intellectual encouragement in a supportive environment to enhance your work-in-progress paper toward its publication.
Abstract submission deadline: October 1. 
Read on...

Fellowships

Kohli Fellowships 2024
The Kohli Fellowship for Sociology promotes researchers who have successfully finished their dissertation with excellent success. It provides financial support for a two-year postdoctoral stay at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) starting October 2024. This time should be used to engage in a new research project, to advance publications, and to develop research collaborations. As Kohli Fellow at the WZB you will form part of a vibrant intellectual community and participate in the scholarly life of your host research unit. Scholars of all nationalities whose research relates to the WZB’s research program are eligible to apply for the Kohli Fellowship for Sociology. We particularly welcome research projects with a focus on life course and generational issues – but other topics are equally considered.  
Application deadline: October 25. Read on...
 
Early Career Work and Family Fellowship Program
The Work and Family Researchers Network (WFRN) is seeking applicants for its 2024-2025 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. Fellows receive a 2024 membership in the WFRN, conference registration, and $250 to attend an Early Career Fellowship Preconference (June 19, 2024) and the 2024 WFRN Conference (June 20-24, 2024) in Montreal, Canada.
Application deadline: October 15th. Read on...
 
The Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Incorporated (ACSPRI) Fellowship Program
ACSPRI's mission is to help foster high-quality teaching and research in the social sciences and to enhance the impact of social science research. To help achieve this mission, ACSPRI is pleased to announce – the ACSPRI Fellowship Program – supporting the next generation of high-quality researchers in the social sciences.
Application deadline: September 30. Read on...
 
TASA Gift Memberships
Gift memberships, for any membership category, can now be accessed at anytime via your membership profile screen. If you would like to gift a membership, to someone new or to a current member, please follow the steps below:
 
STEP 1: Click here and log in

STEP 2: Click on the drop down menu to the right of your name in the purple bar (RH) at the top of the website (see 1st image below)
 
STEP 3: Click on Profile (see 1st image below)
 
STEP 4: Click on the Gift Memberships menu item and complete the details, see yellow highlights in 2nd image below. 
Profile Steps 2
Submitting Newsletter Items
We encourage you to support your colleagues by sharing details of your latest publications with them via this newsletter. No publication is too big or too small. Any mention of sociology is of value to our association, and to the discipline, so please do send through details of your latest publication (fully referenced & with a link, where possible) for the next newsletter, to TASA Admin. Usually, the newsletter is disseminated every Thursday morning.
Updating your Member Profile
Personal pronoun preferences can be added to your profile. There are 9 combination options to choose from. Please let Sally in TASA Admin know if your preference/s is not on the list and we will have them added.
 
For assistance with updating your Member Profile on TASA web please see the video tutorial: Updating your Member Profile
 
TASA Documents and Policies
In case you are not aware, you can access details of TASA's current Executive Committee 2023 - 2024, and their respective portfoliosas well as documents and policies, including the ConstitutionValues StatementStatement on Academic FreedomCode of Conduct, Grievance Procedures Safe & Inclusive EventsSustainable Events and TASA History
 
Accessing Online Materials & Resources
Menu navigation for online content

TASA members have access to over 90 peer-reviewed  Sage Sociology full-text collection online journals encompassing over 63,000 articles. The image on the left shows you where to access those journals, as well as the Sage Research Methods Collection & the Taylor and Francis Full Text Collection, when logged in to TASAweb. If needed, here is a short instructive video on how to access the journals. 

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