| The XX ISA World Congress of Sociology is being sponsored by the Melbourne Convention Bureau. | | | | Dear ~~first_name~~,
There are two important deadlines on the horizon. First, nominations for our Jean Martin Award close on March 1st. You can find the details, and the nomination form, on TASAweb here.
The second pending deadline is for early bird registration to the XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, which is being held this June in Melbourne. That deadline is March 22nd. For registration details, read on...
| | Members' Engaging Sociology | Jones, T. (2023). Euphorias in Gender, Sex and Sexuality Variations - Positive Experiences. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham. ISBN-13: 978-3-031-23755-3/ 978-3-031-23756-0; 3-031-23755-2 / 3031237552. 205p. |  | This Open Access book uses the concept of ‘euphoria’ to investigate when, why and how marginal gender, sex and sexuality groups have positive experiences of their diverse variations even within repressive and disordering contexts. Drawing on data from multiple online surveys including a study of 2,407 LGBTQ+ people and a study of 272 people with intersex variations, it names and offers a new ecological framework for understanding participants’ influences on and barriers to euphorias, asserting the subversive possibilities of being euphorically queer, as opposed to euphoric and queer. The author argues that it is the particularities of negative internal, socio-cultural and institutional contexts for a marginal group or groups that contributes towards the possibilities that shape their potential euphoric feelings and experiences. Ultimately, she calls for a more expansive focus in gender and sexuality studies to show the complex effects of dysphoria and repression on the possibilities of pleasure and joy. This book will be of interest to scholars across Gender, Sexuality and Queer Studies. Read on...
| | | Alexandra Coleman et al. Book reviewed by Adam Poole (2022) Class, place, and higher education: experiences of homely mobility, Educational Review, DOI: 10.1080/00131911.2022.2110709
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Morris, A. (2023). Housing and Inequality in Australia. The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 1-18. doi:10.1017/elr.2022.6
| 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.
| | Career Development Grant - 2023
| The annual TASA Career Development Grant seeks to support the career development activities of TASA members where these activities are not covered by other funding.
A total of $4,500 is available, with a maximum of $1,500 available per applicant.
Application deadline: 20th May. Read on...
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The Jean Martin Award, first offered 21 years ago in 2002, is a part of the legacy of the late Jean Martin (picture left) and recognises excellence in scholarship in the field of Sociology aiming to assist with establishing the career of a recent PhD graduate. Excellence in scholarship in the field of sociology, and the balanced treatment of sociological theory and research are the main criteria for deciding the Award.
The current round is open to theses for which a PhD has been/is formally awarded between the period March 1st 2021 to 28 February 2023.
| | Honours Awards - Call for nominations
| TASA's Honours/Masters Student Award is given annually to the best Honours/Masters student in Sociology in each Australian university. The Award is:
- Determined by the convenor (or equivalent) of the Sociology Honours/Masters program in each university
- Available to Honours/Master students who have a) completed a sociology major, and b) had their Honours/Masters thesis supervised and/or examined by a recognised sociologist in the current year
- In recognition of receiving the best overall mark in Honours/Masters for that year
| TASA Thursdays
We have several TASA Thursdays event lined up:
March 16th: Sport, Community and Social Inclusion. Speakers: Maia Tua-Davidson, Ramon Spaaij, Karen Block & Adele Pavlidis
April 20th: Live Music, Careers and a Rebounding Industry. Speakers: Catherine Strong, Fabian Cannizzo, Sam Whiting & Ben Green. You can register for the event here.
May 18th: Climate change and climate change activism. Speakers: Liv Hamilton, Rob Watts, Judith Bessant & Milo Kei
If you would like to be a presenter/panellist for one of our TASA Thursdays events, please contact Roger Wilkinson, our Digital Publications Editor. | TASA Tea Time
Heidi Hetz, our Equity and Inclusion Portfolio Leader, is going to continue to host our TASA Tea Time sessions this year. The first one is scheduled for March 6th at 3:30pm AEDT. You can register for the session here.
| New: Professoriate Lecture
Curtin University, March 9th, 5:00pm - 7:00pm AWST
Speaker: fellow member Farida Fozdar 'A reluctant Professor - Incontinence, Australia Day car flags, redundancies, and Global Futures'
| New: Sociologists out West
Murdoch University, room: 513.2.005, 5:30pm AWST
7th March
Guest speakers: fellow member Dorinda t'Hart together with colleagues Jake Chaloner and Cheng Yen Loo
| TASA ISA 2023 Aligned Events | Healthy Societies 2023: Southern Perspectives
June 22nd, 2023, Sydney
Keynote: Professor Nelson Filice de Barros
For the full details, read on...
| Australian Welfare Reform: Crafting Out Alternative Futures
June 22nd, Melbourne
Keynote: Dr China Mills, a leading scholarly civil society advocate (University of London)
| Disrupted plans, digital modalities, and undecided futures
June 22nd, 2023, Melbourne
Plenary Speakers: Professor Crystal Abidin (Curtin University), Dr Joshua Kalemba (Flinders University), Dr Brendan Churchill (University of Melbourne), and Dr Jacqueline Menager (Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet).
| Transformative social science: a dialogue between evidence, policy and practice
June 23rd, 2023, Melbourne
Panellists: A/Prof Catherine Robinson, UTAS (sociologist), Anna Adcock (sociologist & Māori scholar), Research Fellow in the Centre for Women's Health Research, Victoria University of Wellington, Professor Jan Marie Fritz, University of Cincinnati (sociologist) & Dr Simone Casey, Senior Policy Advisor ACOSS (social policy)
For the full details, read on...
| Single parenting, co-parenting, and post-separation families: Challenges and opportunities in times of crisis
June 23rd, 2023, Melbourne
Keynotes: Dr Moeata Keil (University of Auckland), Professor Kathryn Edin (Princeton University), and Professor Kay Cook (Swinburne University).
For the full details, read on...
| ‘Mobile Transitions’: A Symposium on Global Youth, Transnational Mobilities and
Transitions to Adulthood
June 23rd, 2023, Melbourne
Keynote: Associate Professor Valentina Cuzzocrea (Università degli studi di Cagliari)
For the full details, Read on... | Amazon Effects & Logistical Labour: New markets, new technologies, new workplaces?
June 23rd, 2023, Melbourne
Keynote: Professor Valeria Pulignano
For the full details, read on...
| Working Together Ways Yarning Circle
June 23rd, 2023, Melbourne
Keynote: Carol Vale and Dr Penny Taylor
For the full details, read on...
| Decentering knowledge in researching migration from the Global South
June 24th, 2023, Melbourne
Keynote speakers: Xiaoying Qi, Associate Professor of Sociology, Australian Catholic University & Lan Anh Hoang, Associate Professor in Development Studies, the School of Social and Political Sciences, the University of Melbourne.
For the full details, read on...
| Place Economies
Date: TBC - Adelaide
Keynote: Professor Ian Woodward, Southern Denmark University
For further details, read on...
| Journal of Sociology - Volume: 59, Number: 1 (March 2023) has been published. You can access the Table of Contents here.
| Health Sociology Review
Call for papers: Global Healthcare Systems and Violence Against Women and Girls
Issue 2, 2024 | |
Worldwide, it is estimated that approximately 30% of women have experienced violence (WHO 2021a) and that the prevalence of violence against women and girls increases significantly once broader social inequities are taken into account such as Indigeneity, disability, race and ethnicity, 2SLGBTIQ+ status, and age (WHO 2021b). Interaction with the healthcare system can provide an opportunity for a coordinated response to be enacted that provides critical care to women (Fitts et al., 2022). While there have been decades of advocacy for action to address the rates of violence against women, the breadth of minority and marginalised women’s experiences of accessing healthcare following violence are only gradually becoming known.
Guest Editors: Michelle Fitts and Karen Soldatic
Submission deadline: March 3rd
| | | New: Fellow member Erik Aslaksen has started a new Forum for members to explore how the concept of society, as it is used in sociology, relates to its use in other contexts, such as evolution, complexity, systems, and information, and how these relationships might provide inspirations and insights of value to members' work. According to Erik, seeing familiar subjects in a new light can often lead to better understanding and provide new approaches to studying them. Erik is hoping for vigorous and critical discussions as well as new and unexpected side threads to start.
To access the forum, login to TASAweb and click on the Forum tab in the main navigation bar.
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New: Research Fellow
Australian National University
Carry out independent and collaborative research on the governance of health, technoscience and well-being
Limited Term Faculty (LTF) Position in Disability Studies
Toronto Metropolitan University
Applications close: March 1. Read on...
Assistant Professor - Sociology
Institute of Sociology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
| 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: Rosi Braidotti: Posthuman Feminism
5.30pm, Wednesday 8 March
The Capitol – 113 Swanston St, Melbourne
| Call for Papers - Journal
| Sociologies of Health and Emotions
Health and emotions sociologists Marci Cottingham (Kenyon College, US), Rebecca E. Olson (University of Queensland, Australia) and Gillian Bendelow (University of Brighton, UK) are calling for abstracts to be considered for a special issue to be published by Open Access journal Frontiers in Sociology (edited by Hannah Bradby), affiliated with its new section on the Sociology of Emotions (edited by Stina Bergman Blix).
China and Climate Change: Towards a Socially Inclusive and Just Transition
Social Inclusion
Social and Ecological Infrastructure for Recidivism Reduction
Social Inclusion
| Making Connections: Multiculturalism and Interculturalism in Australia Conference
March 9-10, 2023, Swinburne University of Technology
The conference will explore whether and how combining multicultural and intercultural approaches could enrich diversity policy
in Australia. The conference will focus on the role ‘intercultural cities’ could play in addressing rising diversity challenges.
For details, read on...
Connections, Collisions, Collapse
Gender, Sex and Sexualities Conference
15th-16th June, South Australia
The 2023 Gender, Sex and Sexualities Conference Committee is currently accepting abstract submissions for full-length, short and panel presentations, as well as proposals for visual artworks to be displayed. We are in the process of seeking permission from Kaurna Elders to host the conference at UniSA in the Bradley Forum. The event will be held on Thursday the 15th and Friday the 16th of June. With this year’s theme of Connections, Collisions, Collapse we hope to envision futures that deconstruct our current world from a variety of perspectives.
Submission deadline: March 13. Read on....
World Conference for Religious Dialogue and Cooperation
October 04-08, 2023 Struga, North Macedonia
World Convention
(In)Justice International
Finland March 28-31
Unsettling Certainties
Society for the History of Emotions' Fourth Biennial Conference
University of Adelaide over 28 November to 1 December 2023
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