| The XX ISA World Congress of Sociology is being supported by the Melbourne Convention Bureau. | | | | Dear ~~first_name~~,
We hope you can make it to our next TASA Thursdays event, on May 18th, with fellow member speakers Liv Hamilton, Rob Watts, Judith Bessant & Milo Kei. You can register for the event here.
| Sustaining the Social: Voices, Cultures, Natures
Monday 27 to Wednesday 29 November 2023: University of Sydney & online | As announced in an email last week, this year, TASA’s annual event sees a change of format due to the ISA World Congress of Sociology being held in Melbourne in June. TASA’s 2023 November event will be run as a colloquium involving 20 panel sessions (80 papers), two afternoon plenaries, social events, and TASA’s AGM and awards presentation.
Panel submissions will be open until May 29th. You can access the submission form via the orange link below:
| We are collecting resources on the Voice. If you have something to add to the below list, please email the details (with links) to TASA Admin.
| | Members' Engaging Sociology | Nguyen-Trung, K., Matthewman, S., & Uekusa, S. (2023). Understanding risk-taking behaviours through the practice-oriented risk habitus and multiple-capital model (P-HAC): A case study of disaster-affected farmers. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, vol. 91, June 2023, 103699. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.103699 [OPEN ACCESS]
Angus McLeay, Elenie Poulos and Louise Richardson-Self (2023) The shifting Christian right discourse on religious freedom in Australia, Politics and Religion, Vol 19 pp. 1-22, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755048322000414 [OPEN ACCESS]
Nguyen-Trung, K. & Le, A.T. (2023). The Consequences of Political and Economic Choices: Exploring Disaster Vulnerability with the Structure, Resource, and Behaviour Change model (SRAB). Qeios. https://doi.org/10.32388/MMNAQG [OPEN ACCESS]
| | Elenie Poulos (2023) The turn to belief and how the discourse of religious freedom marginalises minority religions in Australia in Freedom of Religion and Religious Pluralism, M. J. H. Bhuiyan & C. M. Zoethout (eds), Brill, https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004504967_008 | 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...
| TASA Thursdays
We have several TASA Thursdays event lined up:
May 18th: TASA . Speakers: Liv Hamilton, Rob Watts, Judith Bessant & Milo Kei. You can register for the event here.
June 15th: The Voice. Speakers: Joann Schmider (Indigenous Portfolio Leader) and others TBC.
If you would like to be a presenter/panellist for one of our TASA Thursdays events, please contact Roger Wilkinson, our Digital Publications Editor.
| Sociological Implications of Alienation in Families: The cancel Culture No-One is Talking About
Applied Sociology Thematic Group Seminar
Tuesday 16 May, 1-2pm (AEST) Online
Speaker: Dr Stanley (Stan) A. Korosi PhD (Soc) clinical sociologist and counsellor
Social alienation behaviours coerce children into cancelling a family member’s identity leading to their unwarranted rejection. A sociological view of parental alienation offers a structural perspective on social alienation in the family and its implications for public health policy not addressed in the current psychological and legal discourse.
Zoom: https://macquarie.zoom.us/j/83669977005?pwd=TXhhRW1xNkVjTU9UV2lmbWhUTm5oQT09
Meeting ID: 836 6997 7005 Password: 439530
| New: Inquiring for Life - How to build in research and evaluation systemically for (truly) living systems
Applied Sociology Thematic Group presentation
Tuesday June 6th, 1-2pm (AEST) Online
Speaker: fellow member Yoland Wadsworth
With a long career of 28 years in applied social research (1973-2001) and 20 years in academic settings (2002-2022), in this presentation Yoland will report on the most important insights derived from her work. Her questions arose initially out of the puzzle of why it is that health, community and human services want to hear from their service-users and paradoxically act repeatedly as if they don't want to hear from their users. This inquiry morphed into a PhD that asked how research and evaluation could be both methodologically sound and effectively valuable for the purposes of meeting service end-users' needs. And finally it became a question of how could the act of human inquiry per se best bring life to question-askers and serve their deepest value-driven purposes. The presentation will set out to outline a complex theory by means of a relatively simple and hopefully familiar conceptual cycle 'backbone', on which the theory's extensive implications may then be mapped. We will steer between over simplification and excessive complexity of what is really a Great Big Theory of Everything! (Although this theory hopes to escape the worst dangers of Grand Theory by being reflexive in its own terms.)
Zoom: https://macquarie.zoom.us/j/88331762536?pwd=ZFVKTHg0WmFWZ1hIRXMwelh2RHI1dz09
|  | | ISA World Congress of Sociology Practice Session
Friday 9 June 4:30-8:30, AWST, Forrest Hall, corner of Stirling Highway and Hackett Drive.
Are you presenting at the ISA World Congress in June/July? Or at another mid-year conference? If so, come along to present your ideas at a supportive and collegial practice session in early June. If not, come along to support your friends and hear about the latest sociologically-inspired research coming out of Western Australia.
This will be a rapid-fire presentation model with 10-15 minutes per presenter (depending on number of abstracts received) with structured feedback to help you improve your work.
Please send abstracts to sociologyoutwest@gmail.com by 19 May 2023.
If you are presenting 2+ papers at ISA, please feel free to send both abstracts if you would like to do so. You will only be allocated time to present one paper but both can be featured in our Sociology Out West event program.
This event is generously supported by the Forrest Research Foundation. There will be light refreshments and drinks provided after the presentations
| | | TASA ISA 2023 Aligned Events | |
#HS23 Epistemic Justice for Healthy Societies
ONLINE, June 20th, 2023, Sydney. 1:00pm - 3:00pm AEST.
Associate Professor Seye Abimbola (University of Sydney, Australia) will join Professor Nelson de Barros (University of Campinas, Brazil) to deliver their perspectives on epistemic justice in global health, with an introduction by SCHS Deputy Director, Dr Katherine Kenny and a discussion led by SCHS Deputy Director, Associate Professor Nadine Ehlers.
For the full details, and to register, read on...
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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).
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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), and Prof Barry Judd, University of Melbourne (Indigenous studies)
For the full details, read on...
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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...
| | | Amazon Effects & Logistical Labour: New markets, new technologies, new workplaces?
June 23rd, 2023, Melbourne
Keynote: Professor Valeria Pulignano
For the full details, read on... | | | | ‘Mobile Transitions’: A Symposium on Global Youth, Transnational Mobilities and Transitions to Adulthood.
Transnational Mobilities and Youth Transitions
June 23rd, 2023, Melbourne, 9:30am - 5:00pm
Keynote: Associate Professor Valentina Cuzzocrea (Università degli studi di Cagliari)
For the full details, and to register, read on...
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Australian Welfare Reform: Crafting Out Alternative Futures
June 22nd, Melbourne
Keynote: Dr China Mills, a leading scholarly civil society advocate (University of London)
| | | | 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; and Irudayja Rajan, Professor at the International Institute for Migration and Development (IIMAD), Kerela, India.
Registration closes May 30th. You can register here.
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Place Economies
July 5th and 6th- Adelaide. The first afternoon/evening (i.e., the 5th) will be at UniSA City West; the second full day (i.e., the 6th) will be at Flinders Victoria Square Campus.
Keynote: Professor Ian Woodward, Southern Denmark University
For further details, read on...
| | | Social Sciences Week (SSW) 2023
4th to the 10th of September.
In case you are not aware, SSW is an annual event that celebrates and showcases the diverse range of social sciences disciplines and research in Australia.
For details, and to register events, visit the SSW website here.
| Journal of Sociology - Volume: 59, Number: 1 (March 2023) has been published. You can access the Table of Contents here.
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New: Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Sociology of Health and Race
University of Melbourne
An opportunity to lead Indigenous health research with a passionate and dedicated team.
Research Fellow, Transforming Early Education And Child Health (TeEACH)
2 x Full-time fixed term position for 3.5 years supporting an exciting new program of research called the ‘Thrive: Finishing School Well’ project.
Western Sydney University, Westmead Campus
Tenure-Track faculty member
Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Center for Survey Research, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences.
Applicants specialising in computational social science, text mining, social network analysis, and data science are strongly encouraged to apply.
| 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 | Journals - Call for Abstracts
| New: (Special Issue) Transient migrants and their information behaviours
Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration
This Special Issue specifically looks at the information behaviours of transient migrants – groups of people who are temporarily in a country because of study, work, lifestyle or humanitarian reasons.
Special Issue Editors Shanton Chang, Dana Mckay, & Catherine Gomes
Abstract submission deadline: 1 July 2023 . For full details, read on...
New: (Special Issue) Sociology of HeaIth and Illness Journal Special Issue promoting the work of racially minoritised sociologists working in medicine, health and illness
In July 2020, the SHI Editorial Team decided to actively pursue initiatives which will foreground the work of Black and minoritised academics in the journal.
Abstract submission deadline extended: May 14th. For full details, read on... | Research Workshop (and Zine)
| Affect, Knowledge and Embodiment: A Critical Feminist Arts/Research Workshop
Ash Watson, Laura Rodriguez Castro, and Sam Trayhurn.
Explore ways of practically extending critical and feminist social research with art – specifically sociological fiction and zine making.
May 26, 10:00am 2:00pm, AEST
Southern Cross University, Gold Coast Campus Terminal Drive Bilinga, QLD
| Gender - Sport - Society: Focus on the FIFA WWC 2023
The face of sport is changing, and this year Australia is hosting one of the world’s biggest sporting events -- but this time the focus will be on women.
July 28, Southbank, Queensland.
Speakers: Tracey Holmes, Kim Toffoletti, & Nicole Surdyka
| | New: Transnational Belongings: Practices of Placemaking and Participation in Central America and Europe
Speakers: Noelle Brigden (Marquette University, USA) and Katia Pilati (University of Trento, Italy)
Chaired by: Leah Williams Veazey (University of Sydney)
Monday 3 Jul 2023 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM AEST, University of Sydney (Camperdown) and on zoom
Featuring two acclaimed international scholars, Noelle Brigden (Marquette University, USA) and Katia Pilati (University of Trento, Italy), this seminar will explore contemporary practices of mobility and migration through the lens of a community gym in San Salvador and ethnic and pan-immigrant organisations in European cities. Join us for scholarly exchange and friendly discussion, chaired by Leah Williams Veazey (University of Sydney, Australia).
| | | Pedagogic affects in creative, interdisciplinary doctoral research
A seminar on pedagogic affects through creative and interdisciplinary doctoral research
Online, Thursday May 18th, 6:00pm - 7:00pm AEST
| Calls for Abstracts / Chapters for Books | Family and Social Change in the Global South: A Gendered Perspective.
Book to be published by Emerald (2024)
Abstract submission deadline: May 29. Read on...
Deleuze, Guattari, and the Schizoanlaysis of Affective Labour
Schizoanalytic Applications Series, Bloomsbury Publishing
This call for chapters invites scholars, thinkers, and artists, to explore the application, potentials, and dangers, of deploying schizoanalysis and the radical free-play of desiring-production, to realms of affective labour and, more generally, to the commodification of affect.
| 10-month fellowships
The French Institutes for Advanced Study Fellowship Programme offers 10-month fellowships in the seven Institutes of Aix-Marseille, Loire Valley (Orléans-Tours), Lyon, Montpellier, Nantes, Paris and Rennes. It welcomes applications from high-level international scholars and scientists to develop their innovative research project in France. For the 2024-2025 academic year, FIAS offers 40 fellowship positions: 4 in Aix-Marseille, 3 in Loire Valley (Orléans-Tours), 10 in Lyon, 3 in Montpellier, 4 in Nantes, 13 in Paris and 3 in Rennes.
Application deadline: June 6, 2023 - 6:00 pm (Paris, France time). Read on... | Law and Emotion: A misunderstood relation
The lecture is being presented by two leading North American scholars in Law and Emotion: Professor Susan Bandes (DePaul University, Chicago) and Professor Richard Weisman (York University, Canada).
Banco Court, Supreme Court of NSW, Law Courts Building
Tuesday 16 May (5.15pm reception for a 6pm start).
| New: QTRG Conference 2023
28th-29th September, Macquarie University and online via Zoom
The Queer Theory Reading Group (QTRG) conference that is open to researchers of any career stage.
A recent explosion of queer voices in media, politics, and research has been seen. This proliferation begs the question: who is given the chance to speak for and within queer communities, and whose voices are diminished or altogether absent. How can queer subjects speak into and against silence? How are such absences correlated with practices of knowing and unknowing?
Abstract submission deadline: May 22nd. Read on...
World Conference for Religious Dialogue and Cooperation
October 04-08, 2023 Struga, North Macedonia
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