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We hope you can join us TODAY, Thursday August 18th (12:30pm - 1:30pm AEST), for our TASA Thursdays event with fellow members Sonia Martin (RMIT) & Simone Casey (ACOSS and RMIT) who 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. Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89423393843?pwd=RFVYZzlGTzl3VWRuUDI3c01LaS9Hdz09
If you missed last week's TASA Thursdays event on the Northern Rivers Housing Crisis, with fellow member, Josephine Brown as the discussant, you can catch up with the recording here.
Similarly, if you missed the TASA Thursdays event on Parenting during your PhD, with fellow members Laura Simpson Reeves, Richa George and Bernado Dewey, you can access the recording here.
| In case you missed our email, at the close of Vice-President nominations on Monday for TASA's Executive two-year term November 2022 – November 2024, Kim Humphry, RMIT, was elected unopposed to the Vice-President position. Kim has been a TASA member for many years and is currently on the ISA 2023 World Congress local organising committee.
| Renewed call for an Indigenous Portfolio Leader | Due to a job role change, our recently elected Indigenous Portfolio Leader is no longer able to take on the role. Consequently, we are reopening nominations for that portfolio. If you are interested in nominating for the Indigenous Portfolio Leader, and you would like more information, we encourage you to contact Alphia Possamai-Inesedy, TASA President or Sally Daly in TASA Admin. Note, this new portfolio represents the interests of Indigenous sociologists, and sociologists doing Indigenous research, on TASA’s Executive. It is the intention of the Executive that this portfolio, in its inaugural phase, be left open for the portfolio leader to develop. As a starting point, a position description has been developed in consultation with some Indigenous members and it can be viewed here.
To nominate, please ensure your Candidate and Nominator forms are submitted to TASA Admin by midday, Monday September 5th.
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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.
| Watch this space! for details about TASA funded ISA 2023 bursaries. There will be bursaries for TASA members as well as non-members from sister sociological associations in the Asia-Pacific Region. The details will be available very soon.
| | 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.
| Alexander, N., Petray, T., & McDowall, A. (2022). Conscientisation and Radical Habitus: Expanding Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice in Youth Activism Studies. Youth, 2(3), 295–308. https://doi.org/10.3390/youth2030022
Mead G, Barbosa Neves B. Contested delegation: Understanding critical public responses to algorithmic decision-making in the UK and Australia. The Sociological Review. August 2022. doi:10.1177/00380261221105380
| Nicholas, L., Chandra, S., Hanckel, B., Ullman, J., & Ferfolja, T. (2022). Gender Equity in the Workplace: Intersectional and Gender & Sexuality Diverse Approaches. https://doi.org/10.26183/g9h9-dm27
| 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
| Working on the Margins: Lived Experiences, Career Trajectories and Prospect
A Social Sciences Week event by Faculty of Arts, the University of Melbourne
Online, Thursday 8 September, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm AEST
Moderator: Dan Woodman
Speakers: Irma Mooi-Reci, Signe Ravn, & Megan Sharp
| 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
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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.
| 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.
| New: Where Next for Sociological Alcohol Research?
RC15 Sociology of Health (host committee)
Call for submissions
Sociological research into alcohol use has burgeoned over the past few decades. During this period, young people in many high income countries have, on average, begun drinking less than previous generations. This encourages us to look to new populations at risk from heavy drinking. From an earlier focus on carnivalesque drinking by young people in the night time economy, we are seeing an emerging interest in more mundane drinking practices such as home alcohol consumption and drinking in middle age.
| 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.
| New: The Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Visiting Professor of Australian Studies
The Committee on Australian Studies at Harvard University seeks to appoint a distinguished scholar to the Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Visiting Professor of Australian Studies for the 2024-2025 academic year.
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 | Zine - call for submissions
| New: Zine #12
So Fi Zine is a sociological fiction zine for arts-based research, creative sociology, and art inspired by social science. The zine publishes short fiction, poetry, and visual art in various forms.
| New: Explaining Mental Illness: Sociological Perspectives, by Baptiste Brossard (University of York) and Amy Chandler (University of Edinburgh), published by Bristol University Press.
Online, 30 August, 5pm (AEST)
Baptiste and Amy will be joined by panellists Roberto McLeay (University of Auckland), Rebecca Olson (University of Queensland) and Emma Tseris (University of Sydney).
The seminar is part of the 2022 Social Production of Mental Health seminar series co-hosted by Natalie Hendry (Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne) and Effie Karageorgos (School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Science, University of Newcastle) with support of the Future of Madness Network, University of Newcastle.
For details, and to register, read on...
| 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: Special issue on academic participation
Conjunctions: Transdisciplinary Journal of Cultural Participation
Inviting contributions that explore the methodological, ethical, empirical and practical aspects of constructing, analysing and concluding on data from participatory research processes.
Extended submission deadline: August 23rd.
For more details: click here and then click on the blue hyperlink under the Aims & Scope
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
TODAY 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.
| 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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