 | | Dear ~~first_name~~,
Please join us TODAY for our TASA Thursdays event. Fellow members Josephine Brown & Alan Morris have helped to secure five experts from community organisations who, among other things, advocate for Northern Rivers residents.
The flood crisis in the Northern Rivers focused national media attention on Lismore in March 2022. This attention raised the issues of emergency needs for housing, food, medical care and assistance for animals and pets. The floods, however, extended well beyond Lismore, affecting the whole of the Northern Rivers region of NSW. Already, this region faced many challenges, not least due to the increased costs of housing due to tree- and sea-changers leaving major cities during the Covid pandemic. The region saw price rises in rentals of around 40%, pricing many locals out of the housing market, and forcing them to live in tents, cars and caravan parks.
This panel will discuss the aftermath of the floods, not just for Lismore, but across the whole of the Northern Rivers region, where an already vulnerable group of communities continue to suffer the effects of the floods, particularly in relation to an exacerbation of the housing crisis.
Discussant: Josephine Brown
Panellists:
- Jemima Mowbray (Policy and Advocacy Manager, Tenants' Union of NSW)
- Brendan Ross (Coordinator, Northern Rivers Tenants Advice & Advocacy Service)
- Simone Hickey (Financial Counsellor)
- John Lee OAM (You Have a Friend)
- Jean S. Renouf (Resilient Byron)
TODAY, SOON! 12:30pm - 1:30pm AEST
| If you missed last week's TASA Thursdays event on Parenting during your PhD, with fellow members Laura Simpson Reeves, Richa George and Bernado Dewey, a link to the video recording will be available in next week's newsletter.
Our TASA Thursdays events keep on coming! Next week - Thursday August 18th, 12:30pm - 1:30pm (AEST) - fellow members Sonia Martin, RMIT University & Simone Casey ACOSS and RMIT University, will be discussing Stigma and Welfare: Revolting subjects, reclassification and resistance:
There has been much scholarly interest in the ways in which Australian welfare arrangements and social policy processes stigmatise those in receipt of government support. Social research reveals the pejorative assumptions about people in receipt of income support embedded within welfare policies and employment service arrangements. This forum explores the stigma power of welfare as a mechanism for legitimising punitive welfare arrangements and maintaining dominant social interests. We consider this within the context of employment services, the reclassification of welfare subjects and the forms of resistance that emerge as a result. Sonia and Simone share insights from their recent research and policy observations, and invite open conversation.
You can register for the event here.
| | Renewed call for Vice-President nominations
| As a reminder, no nominations were received for the Vice-President portfolio. If you are interested in nominating for the Vice-President position, and you would like more information, we encourage you to contact Peta Cook, the current holder of that role, Alphia Possamai-Inesedy, TASA President or Sally Daly in TASA Admin. To nominate, please ensure your Candidate and Nominator forms are submitted to TASA Admin by midday, Monday August 15th.
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Call out for ISA 2023 Aligned Thematic Events | TASA is now inviting applications for Thematic Events for 2023 to be aligned with the International Sociological Association (ISA) World Congress of Sociology in Melbourne (25 June – 1 July 2023).
Given the importance of supporting the ISA and allied events, TASA will be providing additional funding for individual thematic events in 2023 and will be accepting applications from thematic groups and general TASA members.
The ISA Aligned Thematic Events scheme allows for groups of TASA members to apply for up to $3,000 for activities that support a thematic area and are aligned with any of the ISA Thematic, Working or Research groups. Note, you do not have to be an ISA member or registered for ISA 2023 in order to apply for the funding.
| | Members' Engaging Sociology | If you are hosting a Social Sciences Week event this year, please email the details to TASA Admin so that we can assist with promoting your event.
| Kieran Hegarty (2022) "The invention of the archived web: tracing the influence of library frameworks on web archiving infrastructure", Internet Histories, DOI: 10.1080/24701475.2022.2103988
| Videos from a 2 day workshop, held in June, on the topic of ‘(Dis)locating Coloniality: Lived and Digital Religious Flows across the Indian and Pacific Oceans’ are now available here.
| TASA Thursdays
For a full list of our TASA Thursdays events for 2022, as well as the registration links, please visit TASAweb here.
| A New Education World: A TASA & AARE Sociology of Education Symposium
Wednesday 7 September, 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm AEST
Hybrid - in-person venue Carlton, Melbourne
The event will showcase sociology's contribution to our collective thinking about the possibilities of education
For full details, the zoom link, in-person address and registration button read on...,
| Vulnerable bodies and the un/making of wellbeing
A Social Sciences Week event by The Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, TASA and the School of Social Sciences
Online, Thursday 8 September, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm AEST
Introduction: Katherine Kenny
Speakers: Alex Broom, Dinesh Wadiwel, Julia Cook, Michelle Peterie, Malini Sur & Blanche Verlie
| Cultures of Wellbeing Symposium
A Cultural Sociology Thematic Group Event
10am-3pm, Wednesday, 23 November
Deakin Downtown, Deakin University
Abstract submission deadline: August 31. Read on...
| Youth and money matters: Precarity, wellbeing and digital media
A Sociology of Youth Thematic Group symposium
Keynote - Professor Lisa Adkins, FASS, University of Sydney
Panellists: A/Prof Steven Threadgold, Dr Julia Coffey, Dr Benjamin Hanckel and Dr Natalie Hendry
Monday 28 November 9am-4pm
| Conceptualising Youth Mobilities Amidst Social Challenges Workshop
28th November
Hybrid, Deakin Business Centre
Abstract submission deadline: 5pm (AEST) on 14 August (via QR code on this poster)
| | Memorial service for the late Professor Gary Bouma
| A memorial service for Prof. Gary Bouma, organised by members of the Multicultural Advisory Group to the Victorian Government, will be held in the Hall of St Peter’s Eastern Hill on Sunday 21 August 2022 at 4pm. This will be an in-person gathering of friends and colleagues who may not have been able to attend the funeral service held in 2021 which was limited by COVID lockdown.
Sunday 21 August, 4.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m.
Hall of St Peter’s Eastern Hill - 15 Gisborne Street, East Melbourne. Enter driveway on Albert Street.
Light refreshments will be served.
Please register your attendance by 14 August here.
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Deadlines for our TASA hosted ISA 2023 XX World Congress are now available here. For quick reference, the abstract submission deadline is September 30.
| New: RC44 Research Committee on Labour Movements is encouraging academics and practitioners, including and especially early-career researchers, to submit abstracts for RC44 sessions at the ISA World Congress of Sociology in Melbourne, 2023. RC44 is holding sessions on multiple topics. If you want to give a paper that does not fit into one of these sessions, you can apply to join one of our two roundtables, each of which accommodates up to 25 papers. Please be aware that due to the nature of the roundtable sessions, only in-person contributions can be considered.
| Journal of Sociology - Volume: 58, Number: 2 (June 2022) has been published. You can access the Table of Contents here.
| Yuwinbir – this way! Going beyond meeting points between Indigenous knowledges and health sociology
Health Sociology Review special issue Volume 31, Issue 2 (2022)
Guest edited by Megan Williams and Demelza Marlin.
All articles are on OPEN ACCESS for 90 days here.
| Professor of Sociology
Uppsala University, Sweden
Application deadline: September 30. Read on...
Post-doctoral Fellow
University of Lethbridge, Canada
Application deadline: September 1. 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. | | | Multicultural Education Aides Supporting Students from Refugee Backgrounds
This PhD scholarship is offered by the Melbourne Social Equity Institute in partnership with Foundation House University of Melbourne
Application Deadline: Monday 3 October. Read on...
| | Other Events, News & Opportunities | Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli Fellowship for Writers
This Fellowship is currently available to mid-career writers with active participation and engagement in social justice issues; who are under the age of 40; and who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, LGBTQIA+, living with a disability, or culturally and linguistically diverse.
| Call for Papers - Journal
| New: Media International Australia feature section on the topic of "Telecommunications Revolution? Enduring problems and possible futures".
Scholars whose research focuses on changes happening across the telecommunications landscape (particularly in the Asia-Pacific region) are encouraged to submit a proposal for the section.
Submission deadline: 3 October.
More information is available here.
| Childhood, Youth and Activism: Global Perspectives on Demands for Rights and Justice from Young People and their Advocates
Chapter proposals for the forthcoming book in the Sociology Studies of Children and Youth series.
Guest edited by Katie Wright and Julie McLeod.
Long abstracts due 10 September 2022 with chapters due 10 January 2023.
The full CFP can be found here. Details on the book series can be found here.
| Round Table Consultation Event - Understanding domestic violence and religion: Exploring how faith-based organisations can be part of the solution
This event is a national gathering to share information about initiatives and research demonstrating how churches and faith communities in Australia are working to prevent and respond to domestic and family violence.
Online or in-person (Melbourne), Friday 28 October,
| Ethics in fragile research contexts: Collective explorations
Thursday 18 August, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm AEST, University of Melbourne organised by the Australian Association for Research in Education. This is a hybrid event: both online and face-to-face.
| War, Economic Strife 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...
| Sociology and Space
Invitation for authors’ contributions to the journal’s special issue triggered by the war in Ukraine
Abstract submission deadline: September 1. Read on...
Visioni LatinoAmericane
Latin America between socio-environmental, health and conflict emergencies. Risks, strategic and geopolitical choices,
socio-economic repercussions, shortage of raw materials and food. Reality and perspectives
Adult Migrants’ Language Learning, Labour Market, and Social Inclusion
Special Issue, Social Inclusion
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 30. Read on...
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