| Members' Engaging Sociology | | Dear ~~first_name~~,
TASA 2023 starts on Monday! The Colloquium kicks of with a terrific postgraduate event that includes a panel discussion on Imposter Syndrome and a workshop on Zine making. The keynotes and concurrent sessions are scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday. In case you haven't heard, the Colloquium is hybrid. There is still time to register via the orange link below:
| You can check out our TASA 2023 program (blue circle icon peppered throughout depicts online presenters), Handbook and Book of Abstracts all via the orange links below. Note, information on the keynote speakers, panel sessions and individual presenters is also all available via TASAweb here.
|  | Abstract: Sociological theory is critical to our understanding of the world. While memoir is often dismissed as “women’s work” as it is anchored in individual experience, this talk explores how memoir writing can use theory to help to inform our understandings of the social through self-writing. Read on...
Note, Na'ama has been invited to give a 15-20 minute presentation during our Women's, Non-Binary, & Friends Breakfast.
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Abstract: Howard Becker, who passed this August, leaves a legacy of ideas about how to do sociology well. This includes a great deal of direction on how to see, how to be there, how to read, and how to write in a way that the social comes to life. In my talk I pay homage to Becker’s work on making representations and I reflect on alternative forms of storytelling. Read on...
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Abstract: In my quest to answer a simple question about Australian settler social policy as it applies to Indigenous issues—namely, can it be ‘good’—I first had to confront the negative task of confronting how policy is conventionally approached. In the place of a focus on policy decisions and ramifications, I proposed approaching policy as a wilder configuration, one where every effort needed to be deployed to resist its claims to superior rationality and coherency. Read on...
| | | Note: you can access details of all TASA 2023 presenters on TASAweb here.
| | Have you registered for Post Grad Day?
A vital part of our TASA 2023 program is Post Grad Day, which will be held on Monday 27 November at the University of Sydney.
Join us in-person or online, for an engaging program that will explore how early career researchers and established academics were able to 'navigate their own early careers while also dealing with Imposter Syndrome'.
Delegates will also get the opportunity to participate in a hands on Zine Making Methods workshop facilitated by fellow member Ash Watson.
EVENT DETAILS
Date: Monday 27 November
Venue: The University of Sydney
Time: 9:00am - 1:30pm (includes lunch with TASA Executive for in-person delegates)
Format: In-person or Online
The event is free for members.
| | The Future of HASS - on during TASA 2023 | |
FREE EVENTS
The Future of HASS in the University
Monday November 27, 5.45pm
Wallace Theatre, University of Sydney
Followed by drinks and canapes at the Courtyard Bar and Restaurant
The Future of HASS Research
Thursday November 30, 5.45pm
Wallace Theatre, University of Sydney
Followed by drinks and canapes at the Refectory
For catering purposes, registration is essential via the orange link below:
| | TASA Thematic Group Events
|  | On behalf of TASA's Sociology of Religion Thematic Group, we invite you to join us on 30th November 2023 for an interactive workshop on Creative Methods or Arts-based Inquiry in the study of religion.
Arts-based inquiry or creative methods help researchers to explore unique ways of gathering, representing, and sharing research. These approaches allow for a variety of voices to speak through the research and thus provide richer understandings of human experience. It is a cross-disciplinary and versatile field that utilizes creative mediums such as art, poetry, photography, film, theatre, and creative writing to engage with and present research.
EVENT DETAILS
Date: Thursday 30th November 2023
Time: 9:45am - 12:30pm
Location: Room 310, Eastern Avenue & Auditorium and Theatre Complex, University of Sydney
Cost: TASA Members $5.00 | Non-Members $15.00
PROGRAM
As part of the workshop you will be invited to participate in one of the following activities:
Activity 1: Zine making Methods
Facilitated by Ash Watson
Activity 2: Witnessing
Facilitated by Samantha Hauw
Activity 3: Lego Serious Play
Facilitated by Laura Simpson Reeves
Activity 4: Tarot Reading in Precarious Times
Facilitated by Anastasia Murney |  | Registrations are now open for De-centring academic expertise: The Politics of knowledge production and social transformation which will be held from 4-5 December 2023 at the University of Melbourne & Online.
Within this symposium, we want to consider how difference and uncertainty within research relationships can be productive forces for change. Audre Lorde, for instance, memorably called for methods of social change via the development of new tools for relating across difference. If we are to 'know differently', following Claire Hemmings, embodiment and affective responses must be central to the research frame. 'Affective dissonance,' within this view, is productive and can facilitate social transformation and promote 'affective solidarity'. Rather than promoting solutions (as if such an answer exists), we invite attendees to explore the complexity of research politics and practices, and consider ways to transcend the power dynamics that currently instantiate who, what, where, when, and how research occurs. Thinking through how we collectively work at the intersection of the university, community, and government navigate competing imperatives to develop projects, conduct research and produce transformative outputs is thus essential to the project of social justice.
EVENT DETAILS
Date: 4-5 December 2023
Location: University of Melbourne, Parkville Campus
Format: Please note this Symposium will be a Hybrid event
Registration: Includes morning tea & lunch on both days and afternoon tea on day one.
A small number of bursaries are also available - please reach out for more information/details.
This event is delivered by The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) Emotions and Affect, Critical Disability Studies and Applied Sociology Thematic Groups. Hosted by University of Melbourne’s School of Social and Political Sciences. | Dear Friends of Sociology Out West,
You are invited to Sociology Out West’s end-of-year picnic. This is a great opportunity to catch up and have a well-earned celebration of this year’s successes.
WHEN: Friday the 1st of December
TIME: 4pm onwards.
WHERE: At James Mitchell Playground South Perth Foreshore
We have had a great year and we look forward to celebrating with you!
Best wishes,
The Sociology Out West team | | | Celia Roberts, Mary Lou Rasmussen, Louisa Allen and Rebecca Williamson (2023) Reproduction, Kin and Climate Crisis: Making Bushfire Babies, Bristol University Press
| | What is it like to have a baby in climate crisis?
This book explores the experiences of pregnant women and their partners, pre- and post-birth, during the catastrophic Australian bushfire season of 2019-20 and the subsequent COVID-19 pandemic. Engaging a range of concepts, including the Pyrocene, breath, care and embodiment, the authors explore how climate crisis is changing experiences of having children. They also raise questions about how gender and sexuality are shaped by histories of human engagements with fire.
This interdisciplinary analysis brings feminist and queer questions about reproduction and kin into debates on contemporary planetary crises.
| | | Featherstone, Lisa, Byrnes, Cassandra, Maturi, Jenny, Minto, Kiara, Mickelburgh, Renee and Donaghy, Paige. (2023). The Limits of Consent: Sexual Assault and Affirmative Consent. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
| | This open access book examines the ways that consent operates in contemporary culture, suggesting it is a useful starting point to respectful relationships. This work, however, seeks to delve deeper, into the more complicated aspects of sexual consent. It examines the ways meaningful consent is difficult, if not impossible, in relationships that involve intimate partner violence or family violence. It considers the way vulnerable communities need access to information on consent. It highlights the difficulties of consent and reproductive rights, including the use (and abuse) of contraception and abortion. Finally, it considers the ways that young women are reshaping narratives of sexual assault and consent, as active agents both online and offline. Though this work considers victimisation, it also pays careful attention to the ways vulnerable groups take up their rights and understand and practice consent in meaningful ways. Read on... | | | |
Lohmeyer, B., McGregor, J. R., Crittenden, Z., & Hartung, C. (2023). Mentoring for care-experienced young people: A rapid review of program design. Children and Youth Services Review, doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.107350 [OPEN ACCESS]
| Stephen Crook Memorial Prize was established to honour the memory of Professor Stephen Crook in recognition of his significant contribution to Australian sociology. The Prize is awarded biennially, at TASA's Conference, to the best authored monograph within the discipline of Sociology published in the previous two years.
Raewyn Connell Prize is to honour the work of Professor Raewyn Connell in recognition of her outstanding contribution to Australian Sociology. In particular, it honours her contribution to sociological theory and research, and her support and encouragement of sociologists at the beginning of their careers.
Honours/Masters Student Award is given annually to the best Honours/Masters student in Sociology in each Australian university. Each winner receives a one-year student membership to TASA, making the student eligible for conference discounts, membership of Thematic Groups, the weekly members’ newsletter, online access to sociology journals (full text) and self-promotion opportunities in Nexus. For the full details, and to nominate your top Honours/Masters student in Sociology, read on... | Postdoctoral Research Fellow in epidemiology/quantitative social science/demography
University of Sydney
Full time, Camperdown campus
Please note that the University shutdown period is from Friday 22nd December 2023 to Monday 8th January 2024. Applications and queries will be reviewed once they return from leave. Read on...
Lecturer in Cultural Studies (Multiple Positions)
University of Melbourne
Full-time; Continuing
Application deadline: November 30. Read on...
| Lecturer / Senior Lecturer - Social and Political Sciences (Multiple Positions)
University of Melbourne
Application deadline: TOMORROW November 24th. 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.
| | | Rainbow Families PhD Top-Up Scholarship
University of New South Wales
Researching the experiences and needs of LGBTQ+ parents and their children, and developing skills in collaborative community-led research
| | 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. | | | | In case you are not aware, you can add job and scholarship opportunities to our publicly searchable Jobs & Scholarships Board via your TASA membership profile, see image below: | | Other Events, News & Opportunities | New: Basic Income & the Arts
The Australian Basic Income Lab
Tuesday, November 28 at Sydney Town Hall at 6pm.
This roundtable is particularly timely given the innovative pilot of Basic Income for Artists in Ireland, and a push by artists facing precarious working conditions around the world for greater income security.
For details, and to register, read on...
| New: Community of Practice for Inclusive Research
Online, Tuesday December 5th, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM AEDT
Speakers include fellow members Christy Newman, Anthony K J Smith & Kerryn Drysdale
For details, and to register, read on...
| New: The first and only academic journal devoted to the study of femininities: the Journal of Femininities.
While there are numerous journals focused on masculinities, there has yet to be a single academic journal focused on femininities – until now! For years, we have dreamed of bringing symmetry to the study of gender through this flagship journal. Today, that dream becomes a reality as we proudly launch the Journal of Femininities.
We aim to cultivate and unify the field of Femininities by publishing cutting-edge research advancing theories and methods that deepen understandings of femininity. It is an international, peer-reviewed journal that welcomes contributions from various disciplines (e.g., sociology, psychology, gender studies, business, public health, education, political science, media studies, legal studies, family science, etc.). We are particularly interested in interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and transdisciplinary work from feminist perspectives. We encourage research that explores femininity across intersectional axes, recognizing its complexity across race, sexuality, disability, class, and more. Click here to read more about the journal’s aim, scope, and submission guidelines.
If you would like to register as a peer-reviewer or submit an article, please click here.
Finally, you are invited to follow the Journal of Femininities on social media. You can find us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter/X.
| Gift memberships, for any membership category, can now be accessed at anytime via your membership profile screen. If you would like to gift a membership, to someone new or to a current member, please follow the steps below:
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STEP 4: Click on the Gift Memberships menu item and complete the details, see yellow highlights in 2nd image below. | | Submitting Newsletter Items | | We encourage you to support your colleagues by sharing details of your latest publications with them via this newsletter. No publication is too big or too small. Any mention of sociology is of value to our association, and to the discipline, so please do send through details of your latest publication (fully referenced & with a link, where possible) for the next newsletter, to TASA Admin. Usually, the newsletter is disseminated every Thursday morning. | | Updating your Member Profile | Personal pronoun preferences can be added to your profile. There are 9 combination options to choose from. Please let Sally in TASA Admin know if your preference/s is not on the list and we will have them added.
| | TASA Documents and Policies | In case you are not aware, you can access details of TASA's current Executive Committee 2023 - 2024, and their respective portfolios, as well as documents and policies, including the Constitution, Values Statement, Statement on Academic Freedom, Code of Conduct, Grievance Procedures, Safe & Inclusive Events, Sustainable Events and TASA History.
| | Accessing Online Materials & Resources | | TASA members have access to over 90 peer-reviewed Sage Sociology full-text collection online journals encompassing over 63,000 articles. The image on the left shows you where to access those journals, as well as the Sage Research Methods Collection & the Taylor and Francis Full Text Collection, when logged in to TASAweb. If needed, here is a short instructive video on how to access the journals. | | | TASA Admin (Sally): admin@tasa.org.au
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