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If you missed our final 2022 TASA Thursdays event last week with fellow member Joshua Thorburn presenting on Exploring How Incels Perform Gender you can catch up with the recording here.
| | Members' Engaging Sociology |
Farida Fozdar & Catriona Stevens (2022) Vale Professor Stephen Castles, 1944–2022: The End of an Age of Migration, Journal of Intercultural Studies, 43:6, 689-690, DOI: 10.1080/07256868.2022.2127880 [OPEN ACCESS]
Catherine Ann Martin (2022) Influxes and invaders: the intersections between the metaphoric construction of immigrant otherness and ethnonationalism, Ethnic and Racial Studies, DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2022.2142062
Hookway, N. S., & Cruickshank, V. (2022). Changing masculinities? Using caring masculinity to analyse social media responses to the decline of men in Australian primary school teaching. Journal of Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1177/14407833221136018
Ramia, G., Mitchell, E., Morris, A. Wilson, Shaun., Hastings, C., et al. Explaining Government Policy Inaction on International Student Housing in Australia: The Perspectives of Stakeholders. High Educ Policy (2022). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41307-022-00288-8
Craig, L., Ravn, S., Churchill, B., & Valenzuela, M. R. (2022). A matter of time? Institutional timescapes and gendered inequalities in the transition from education to employment in Australia. Journal of Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1177/14407833221135220
| 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.
| TASA Thursdays
Our TASA Thursdays events for 2022 have ended. We are very happy to report that we have locked in our first event for 2023, though!; 'The Far Right in Australia: Historical insights’ with panellists Raewyn Connell, Pam Nilan, Josh Roose, & Mario Peucker. Thursday 16 February, 2023, 12.30-1.30pm AEDT. Registrations details will be available soon.
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New: Join the team for an end of year gathering to chat about animal sociology achievements, plans and ideas!
Wednesday, December 7, 2022, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM AEDT
| | | TASA Tea Time
The next TASA Tea Time session will be held on in-person during the conference Wednesday November 30th, 10:30am - 11:00am, Arts West building, University of Melbourne, Room 161. All welcome:-)
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Speakers: Benjamin Manning, Vanessa Bowden, Rebecca Pearse, Craig Browne, Malcolm Alexander, Bryan Turner, Jack Barbalet Catherine Hastings, & Alonso Casanueva Baptista
Melbourne, Monday 28 November 8:30 am – 5:00 pm AEDT
For the full program, and the abstracts, click here.
| Conceptualising Youth Mobilities Amidst Social Challenges Workshop
28th November
Hybrid, Deakin Business Centre
Speakers include Catherine Gomes & Valentina Cuzzocrea
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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
Bursaries available
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Remembering Stephen Castles
Part of TASA 2022
Thursday December 1st, 2:30pm - 3:00pm
Hybrid, University of Melbourne and via Zoom.
This is a free event.
| | | Religion, Race and Belonging: Reflecting on a Decolonial Turn in Studies of Religion in Australia
Penny Magee Memorial Lecture
1st December, 5pm, Pilgrim Theological College, Melbourne
Speaker: fellow member Enqi Weng
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You're invited to join a picnic to celebrate the holidays! The picnic will be on Thursday 15th December, from 4pm, at the James Mitchell Playground on the South Perth Foreshore. Friends and family are all welcome! Bring a plate to share 😊 | | | Journal of Sociology - Volume: 58, Number: 4 (December 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: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Sociology / Science and Technology Studies
The University of Sydney
New: Lecturer, Sociology
University of Wollongong
Application deadline: December 14. Read on...
Professor / Associate Professor / Assistant Professor
Hong Kong Baptist University
For full details, read on...
Assistant Professor - Sociology of Religion
University of Toronto Scarborough
Application deadline: November 28. Read on...
Professor in Sociology
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Application deadline: November 30th. Read on...
Assistant Professor (2 posts) in the Department of Sociology
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Application deadline: November 30th. Read on...
Assistant Professor in Environmental Sociology/ Sociology of Health
York University
Application deadline: December 2nd. 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.
| | | Pandemic parenting: Investigating reproductive, maternal and infant health care during the COVID-19 pandemic
University of Tasmania, with fellow member Jennifer Ayton as supervisor
The positions will remain open until filled. For details, read on...
Fit for purpose medical professionals - Fit for purpose: Investigating the teaching and learning of social accountability medical humanities informed curricula for Tasmanian medical students
University of Tasmania, with fellow member Jennifer Ayton as supervisor
The positions will remain open until filled. For details, read on...
Micro-biopolitics and the deep relationality of (self)care: Examining the politics and practices of care for the self and for others
University of Sydney, with supervisor Katherine Kenny
| | 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 | Inaugural Congress of HASS shared program
| We encourage you to come along and support sociology by attending the
Congress of HASS events | |
Congress of HASS
The Council for Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS). In addition to the many individual association events, like TASA 2022, that are the heart of the Congress, CHASS is hosting an opening and closing event as well as four professional development events throughout the Congress. This Opening Ceremony will have a plenary panel with 4 panellists, including fellow member Raewyn Connell, reflecting on the way they have used HASS to make change beyond the academy and beyond academic debates.
The panellists are:
Tony Birch (author)
Liz Allen (Demographer - Australian National University)
Alec Coles OBE (CEO of Western Australian Museums)
Raewyn Connell (Sociologist, University of Sydney).
The facilitator is Misha Ketchell Editor in Chief at The Conversation.
For full details about the opening ceremony as well as other events, and to register, read on... | | | Congress of HASS open, free, events include:
| The Most Pressing Issues facing Early and Mid-Career Academics 28/11/22 1.30pm
Monday November 28th, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Arts West Building, University of Melbourne
Social ventures and the translation of humanities, arts and social sciences research
Tuesday November 29th, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Arts West Building, University of Melbourne
HASS means Business
Wednesday November 30th, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Arts West Building, University of Melbourne
HASS - Tracks Out of Covid
Thursday December 1st, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Arts West Building, University of Melbourne
Congress Closing Plenary: HASS – Making better futures
Friday December 2nd, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Arts West Building, University of Melbourne
The panellists are:
- Fellow member Zlatko Skrbis (Sociologist and Vice Chancellor of Australian Catholic University)
- Yves Rees (Historian - Latrobe)
- Maggie Walter (Social Scientist and Pro Vice-Chancellor - Aboriginal Research and Leadership, University of Tasmania)
- Larissa Hjorth (artist and digital ethnographer - RMIT).
Apart from the opening event, which is catered, all of the above events are free to attend. You don't need to be registered for TASA 2022 but, although the events are free to attend, you will still need to register here.
| New: Agnes Heller Lecture, this year delivered by Professor Eva Illouz 'Sticky Stories: Populism and Emotions'
La Trobe University Sociology Program
Tuesday 6th December, 6.30pm-8.00pm (AEDT) online
For details, and to register, read on...
New: Working in Challenging Environments: What is the Work?
12th South Australian Women’s and Gender Studies Annual Public Lecture
Wednesday the 7th of December.
Event can be attended in-person or online
| New: Call for Book Reviewer
| New: Religion in Modern Education: Conflict, Policy and Practices
The Australian National University
13-15 April 2023, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Abstract Deadline: 14 February 2023. Read on...
Unsettling Certainties
Society for the History of Emotions' Fourth Biennial Conference
University of Adelaide over 28 November to 1 December 2023
| Left-Right, or Left Right Out? Knowledge Economies, Social Inequalities, Education and Authoritarian Populism
Professor Susan L. Robertson (Monash University).
Wednesday 30th November, 5:00pm-6:30pm, All welcome, drinks to follow the lecture
For details, and to register, read on...
| Injustice in a World of Uncertainty
International Convention in South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences, Mikkeli, Finland
28th-31st March, 2023
Abstract submission deadline: December 1st. Read on...
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