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The Australian Sociological Association invites submissions for our in-person only TASA 2026 Conference, to be held Tuesday 24 – Friday 27 November 2026 at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs campus, on Kabi Kabi Country.
Conference Theme: Resistance & Revolution
Our social and ecological world appears caught in a series of cascading and compounding crises, leaving no one untouched. The planetary upheaval of climate change promises an unavoidable revolution, regardless of the impulse towards ‘business as usual’. War in the Ukraine, and the genocide in Gaza rage on, as antisemitism and Islamophobia materialise into further violence globally. Mass protests are yet to bear fruit, and authoritarianism appears resurgent. Previous forms of resistance and revolution, such as demonstrations, petitions, boycotts, sit-ins, and marches, no longer offer transformative social and political change. Millions have participated in No Kings marches across the US with no appreciable change to the Trump administration’s damaging policies and practices.
These points of inflection and change are of central interest to sociologists, who understand resistances and revolutions as plural, multiple, complex and contextual. For TASA 2026, we recognise that we meet on Kabi Kabi Country, for which native title was recognised in 2024, with resistance and revolution affirming enduring sovereignty, deep connection to place, and decades of sustained effort, underscoring the importance of this theme. This year's conference sits in and with the tension between the resistant and revolutionary practices of the past, and the future not yet born.
TASA 2026 Theme asks:
- What can sociology offer to contemporary understandings of resistance and revolution?
- How can we read resistance and revolution expansively, productively and generatively in pursuit of a better world?
In the spirit of these questions, we welcome submissions that engage with these questions, and with related themes, including but not limited to:
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander resistance, resurgence, and self-determination
- Theories of social, political, and cultural change
- Gender (ed) revolutions and resistance
- Embedded knowledge of resistance movements and new forms of protest
- Resistance for and to change
- Slowness as a resistant practice
- Revolutionary technologies (domestic, digital, generative, and otherwise)
- Resistance and revolution in the mundane
- Revolution as a turn, rupture, or reorientation
- Refusal(s)
- Sovereignty, justice, and community-driven resistance
- Non-human and more-than-human resistance and refusal
- The relationship between crisis and change
- Spaces and places of and for resistance and revolution
Submission Types
We invite proposals for:
- Panel Presentation
- Individual paper presentations
- Photography Exhibitions
- Workshops: We are also seeking workshop proposals for TASA 2026. We particularly welcome workshop proposals from Thematic and Career Stage groups. Workshop proposals should clearly identify the topic, proposed activities and indicative facilitators. Workshops are typically 90 minutes long.
General Abstract Submission Guidelines (everything except panels):
- Maximum 200 words
- Individual Presentations will be allocated 15 minutes, followed by 5 minutes for discussion
- Each delegate may submit one abstract for an individual presentation and may also participate in one panel
- Submission does not guarantee acceptance; all abstracts are peer reviewed
- Accepted presenters must register for the conference in order to be included in the program
Please note: TASA 2026 is an in-person conference only.
Panels Abstract Submission Guidelines:
To submit a panel proposal, organisers will be required to fill out the Panel submission form. Note, the process has changed for TASA 2026.
Panel proposals should:
- Include a 200 word abstract
- Include 3–4 presenters
- Have a clearly articulated theme and session rationale that directly engages with the theme of this year’s conference.
- Nominate a panel organiser and Chair
- Confirm that all presenters are committed to attending the conference in-person
- Prior to submission, panel organisers are expected to source and confirm all presenters' information, including their Abstract title, for their proposed panel session.
- Panel organisers will also be expected to nominate a Chair for their session who must commit to being physically present at the conference.
- Online presentations will no be able to be included in your panel proposal.
Where panel proposals are not accepted, individual abstracts may be considered for inclusion within relevant thematic streams.
Please note: TASA 2026 is an in-person conference only.
How to Submit a Panel Proposal
1. Access the Panel Proposal link via the orange submission button below.
(Note: this is different to the general abstract submission form).
2. Enter your panel details, including:
- Proposed Panel title
- Panel abstract
- Panel chair
- Names and abstract titles of all proposed discussants
3. Provide the email address for each proposed panellist when prompted.
4. Panellists' invitations are sent automatically
Oxford Abstracts will email each panellist a unique link to upload their individual abstract to your Panel Proposal.
5. Attach existing abstracts (if applicable)
If a panellist has already submitted an abstract via the general abstract form, you may search for and attach their abstract to the Panel Proposal during your submission process.
Review Process
All submissions will be reviewed by our TASA 2026 National Organising Committee. Notifications of outcomes will be communicated once the review process is complete.
Important Dates
General Abstract submission deadline: 24 April 2026
General Abstract Notification: 25th May 2026
Panel Abstract submission deadline: 29 March 2026
Panel Submission Notification: 22nd April 2026
We warmly encourage you to submit your work and join us for TASA 2026 as we collectively reflect on resistance, revolution, and the sociological possibilities of the present and future.
If you have any questions about submissions or the conference, please contact Penny Toth, Event Manager, The Australian Sociological Association via events@tasa.org.au.
Warm regards,
TASA 2026 National Organising Committee
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