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Meeting ID: 897 4655 6605 & Password: 097932
As an engineer and physicist, Erik’s view of society and its evolution may be somewhat different to what others are used to, but, according to Erik, it is based on three easily understandable ideas: One, the evolution of society can be seen as the present stage of a general process of evolution, with certain characteristics present throughout. Two, all our actions are determined by the information available to us at the time of action, so that society can be viewed as a giant information-processing system. And three, the increasing interaction between individuals as society evolved led to an increasingly complex structure, in which the elements had to give up more and more of their individual freedom and sovereignty.
The next Postgraduate & Early Career Researcher event will be the Postgraduate Engagement and Impact Award Information Session hosted by Laura Simpson Reeves on behalf of the Postgraduate Sub-Committee, with insights from the current Postgraduate Portfolio leader Dorinda ‘t Hart and previous award winners. Thursday 7 July, 12:30pm - 1:30pm AEST, via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89645847792?pwd=MkhMcVFsNERVWmZuMWo1ajdzRFJnZz09
Meeting ID: 896 4584 7792 & Passcode: 843279
| | Vale Professor Riaz Hassan
|  | | Note, the image on the left was taken at TASA's 2014 conference where Riaz was the recipient of the Distinguished Service to Australian Sociology Award.
We extend our gratitude to fellow member Sharyn Roach Anleu for the following Vale:
It is with great sadness that I share the news that Professor Riaz Hassan passed away on June 8th, 2022, in Melbourne. His passing represents a great loss to Australian sociology and the social sciences in general. He touched the lives of many – students and colleagues – especially at Flinders University, where he was professor from 1988 until 2004. He was first appointed to Flinders as senior lecturer in 1977 following a decade at the University of Singapore after completing his doctorate at Ohio State University in 1968.
Riaz’s academic career extended over four decades, and he remained committed to the value of empirical social science to understand pressing problems on national and global levels. He conducted research in a wide variety of areas including housing, suicide, euthanasia, organisational culture, urban life, development, demography, and Muslim societies. More recently, he undertook pathbreaking research on Islam in contemporary life. He led a large-scale, 10-year multi-country study of Muslim religiosity in 2001 in which he explored Islamic consciousness, concluding that origins of modern Islamism are in the historical, social, political, and material conditions of Muslim countries and Western imperialism. Read on...
| | | | TASA Conference Bursaries
| If you have submitted an abstract for our TASA 2022 conference in November, you may be eligible for one of our conference bursaries. For details, please click on the relevant link/s below. Note, the application deadline has been extended to Monday July 4th.
| | Members' Engaging Sociology | Phillips, Melissa and Olliff, Louise (eds). Understanding Diaspora Development: Lessons from Australia and the Pacific. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022 |  | | This book brings together new research that engages with the concept of diaspora from a uniquely Australian perspective and provides a timely contribution to the development of research-informed policy, both in the Australian context and more broadly. It builds on the understanding of the complex drivers and domains of diaspora transnationalism and its implications for countries and people striving to develop human capabilities in a globally interconnected but also fractured world. The chapters showcase a wide range of diaspora experiences from culturally and linguistically diverse communities in Australia. This work demonstrates the usefulness of diaspora as a concept to explore the experiences of migrant and refugee communities in Australia and the Pacific and further understanding on the peacebuilding, conflict, economic, humanitarian and political engagements of diaspora communities globally. The insights and findings from the breadth of research featured shed light on broader debates about diasporas, migration and development, and transnationalism. Read on... | | | |
Farida Fozdar, David Mickler, Sarah Prout Quicke, Mary B. Setrana, Muhammad Dan Suleiman & Dominic N. Dagbanja, "Transnational Economic Engagements: The Africa-Australia Nexus" in Phillips, Melissa and Olliff, Louise (eds). Understanding Diaspora Development: Lessons from Australia and the Pacific. Palgrave Macmillan (2022)
| | Newton, G., Drysdale, K., Zappavigna, M., Newman, C.E. (2022) ‘Truth, Proof, Sleuth: Trust in Direct-to-Consumer DNA Testing and Other Sources of Identity Information among Australian Donor-Conceived People’. Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385221091184 | 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.
| TASA Thursdays
For a full list of our TASA Thursdays events for 2022, as well as the registration links, please visit TASAweb here.
| TASA Tea Time
Thanks to Heidi Hetz, our equity & inclusion portfolio leader, the next TASA Tea Time session will be held on Thursday July 7, 4:00pm (AEST). You can register for the session here.
| Migration, Racism and COVID-19: Challenges and Insights Workshop
Co-hosted by the Migration & Mobilities Research Network and TASA Migration, Ethnicities & Multiculturalism Thematic Group
TOMORROW Friday, 17 June, 10am – 5pm AEST
The University of Melbourne and Zoom (Hybrid Event)
This is a free event, but online registration is required.
| | TASA Public Engagement Survey (PES) | Last week, we emailed an invitation to participate in TASA's research regarding the Public Role of Sociology, being managed by Roger Patulny, our Public Sociology Portfolio Leader. To find out more and to participate, click on the orange link below:
Take the Survey
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We encourage you to share the survey link among your networks. |
Deadlines for our TASA hosted ISA 2023 XX World Congress are now available here. For quick reference, the abstract submission deadline is September 30.
| Journal of Sociology - Volume: 58, Number: 2 (June 2022) has been published. You can access the Table of Contents here.
| Journal of Sociology - call for guest editors for the 2024 special issue
Each year the editors invite expressions of interest from the international community of sociological scholars to guest edit a special issue of the journal. Special issues may address any sociological theme that is likely to be of interest to the journal’s international readership.
The deadline for expressions of interest for the 2024 special issue is June 20th, 2022. For full details, read on...
| Health Sociology Review Call for New Editorial Team
Applications are invited for the editorship of the journal HEALTH SOCIOLOGY REVIEW (HSR) for the four-year term 2023–2026. Transition arrangements will begin later in 2022, although the content for the first issue of 2023 will be finalised by the out-going editors.
| Teaching Opportunity, Semester 2, 2022
Casual, June/ July – November 2022
University of Melbourne
Seeking someone who is sociologically trained, to join our dynamic teaching team in Semester 2, 2022. Particularly interested if you have a practice background in the education, public health, youth or community services sectors. You would be teaching professionals who already work in same (eg. doctors, teachers, nurses, police) the fundamental concepts for an applied socio-environmental approach to understanding and working more effectively with young people. In focus are fundamental ideas like social change, inequality, historical, global and cultural perspectives, class, gender, race, ability, geographies, inter-sectionality … etc. SEC (see below) is a core subject in the Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma or Master in Adolescent Health and Wellbeing.
The subject is ready to go but needs a great communicator with a heart for effective practice.
For more details, read on...
Contact Dr Ani Wierenga: wierenga@unimelb.edu.au
Head of School, School of Social Sciences and Professor
Monash University
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Environmental Policy
The Fenner School of Environment and Society are seeking an outstanding mid-career academic to contribute to the School’s research, education and impact in the field of environment policy. The successful candidate will contribute to curriculum renewal and lead courses relevant to environment policy. The position is a continuing Level C/D. They are looking for a candidate with an excellent capacity for collaborative research and outreach, a passion for teaching, and an inter-disciplinary approach to building partnerships for research and impact on environment policy. This role is also specifically available for women. Women from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and LGBTQ+ women are strongly encouraged to apply.
Application deadline: June 19. 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.
| | | | 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: 30 Years of Photovoice: Past, Present, and Future
Online, October 20-22
This virtual conference aims to bring photovoice practitioners together to share experience with this powerful and participatory visual method for mutual learning and positive change.
Fellow member Katherine Carroll is the event's track leader for Photovoice in Health
New: Revitalising Universities in (post-) COVID times. University of Tokyo (Tokyo), November 4 and 5, 2022
Hybrid, November 4-5
Convened by fellow member Naomi Berman
Bring together academics, educators, and experts from Australia, Japan and other regions to discuss the future of higher education as universities navigate pathways out of the pandemic.
Fellow member Raewyn Connell will be joining (virtually) as keynote speaker. Echoing Connell’s original call to rethink the ‘good university’, COVID has thrown into question taken-for-granted notions about the position of universities, forcing a reframing of understandings around their social purpose.
Submission deadline: July 8. Read on...
| New: War and the Long-Lasting Intersectional Effects on Refugees, Minorities, Disabled People and the Global Environment
Free online postgraduate workshop
Presenters can approach the issues from whichever intersectional preference they choose.
Hosted by (In) Justice International and TASA
September 14th, 9:00pm to September 15th 12:50am AEST
Abstract submission deadline: August 15. Read on...
| Summer Institute in Computational Social Science - Festival
| Fellow member Erik Aslaksen has written a book called Evolution and Society. Erik is looking for members to review the book.
The book presents a view of society as an information-processing system, with individuals as the networked processors. In its ideal form, from which our current society is very far removed, the access and contribution to the information is freely available to every individual; a main aim of the book is to provide a measure of whether we are currently moving toward or away from this ideal. The book has 13 chapters and about 300 pages, and the review would be needed by early October. | Social Sciences Week 2022 | | The team of Social Sciences Week (SSW) organisers have developed a digital assets webpage where you can easily download SSW images for your email signature, Twitter & Facebook etc. | Expanding the Boundaries of Digital Inclusion: Perspectives From Network Peripheries and Non-Adopters
Social Inclusion
Deadline for Articles: 31 January 2023
Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion
Change and Its Discontents: Religious Organizations and Religious Life in Central and Eastern Europe
Volume 15 (Forthcoming 2024)
Edited by Olga Breskaya, University of Padova, and Siniša Zrinščak, University of Zagreb
| Disabled People and the Intersectional Nature of Social Inclusion
Social Inclusion, Volume 11, Issue 4
Abstract submission deadline: November 15 - 30. Read on...
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