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Date: 2/8/2023
Subject: TASA members newsletter: February 9th
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Dear ~~first_name~~,  
 
We hope you can join us for our first TASA Thursdays event for 2023 next week Thursday 16 February,  12.30-1.30pm AEDT. We are starting the 2023 series off with a discussion on 'The Far Right in Australia: Historical insights and the current scene’. Panellists include fellow members Raewyn Connell and Pam Nilan with colleagues Joshua Roose, and Mario Peucker. You can register for the event here.
 
If you are a thematic group convener, note that the deadline for funding applications (for events in the second half of 2023) has been extended to March 6th. Today, Tom Barnes, the thematic group portfolio leader, will be emailing conveners directly about this and the first meeting for 2023. 
 
Congratulations
When the Australian Research Council (ARC) announces their funding decisions, it is always a bitter sweet time. Everyone who has applied for ARC funding is acutely aware of the incredible amount of time and energy that goes into an application. Whilst we extend our warm congratulations to those members bolded below on their recent grant success, we also acknowledge that there will be many members whose applications were not funded. We wish them luck for future ARC funding rounds. 
 
When caring ends: Understanding and supporting informal care trajectories
This project aims to advance understandings of how, why, when, and for whom caring ends, including the socio-cultural and relational factors that shape experiences before, during, and after caring. Using an innovative, multi-method sociological approach, and foregrounding carers’ voices, this project expects to generate new knowledge on the meaning and experience of care and caring. This project is significant in bringing together leading researchers and key carer-focused organisations, spanning service sectors and moving across care relationships, life stages and contexts. Expected outcomes include enhanced service capacity with tangible policy and practice benefits that will enable sustainable and fulfilling informal caring experiences.

Investigators: Associate Professor Emma Kirby; Professor Christy Newman; Dr Brendan Churchill; Dr Louisa Smith; Professor Iva Strnadova; Dr Lukas Hofstaetter; Ms Sarah Judd-Lam; Dr Margaret Boulos

Veteran suicide: investigating the historical and social dimensions
This project aims to address veteran suicide by conducting an historical and cultural analysis of the ways government, the military and the community have understood, governed, and serviced veterans from 1914-present. This project will generate new knowledge, moving beyond orthodox medical and cultural assessments to explore wider historical, cultural and sociological relations of veteran suicide, including civil military relations, and the influence of the veteran sector and families and community. The project will develop an innovative survey that will form the foundation of a longitudinal social health and wellbeing dataset on veterans, and contribute to policy and service provision to reduce veteran suicide and improve their wellbeing.
 
Investigators: Associate Professor Ben Wadham; Professor Sharon Lawn; Dr Margaret Hutchison; Associate Professor Udoy Saikia; Associate Professor Karl Hamner
 
Regional Australia' skills shortages and high-skill refugees' employment
Regional Australia loses to cities thousands of professional and trade-related people whose skills cannot be replaced. Focusing on small and medium-size enterprises producing food and beverages, this project aims to determine whether refugee employment (i) is a strategic resource (ii) can alleviate these chronic regional skill shortages, and (iii) can be integrated in immigration policy. In doing so, it will for the first time provide critical empirical evidence on the possible need to separate policy measures aimed at rural vs. urban employers. The outcomes will contribute to reducing the problem of critical skill shortages and wastage at once and do so with an eye to the needs to rural Australia – a key driver of the country’s exports.
 
Investigators: Professor Massimiliano Tani; Dr Sally Baker; Dr Claire Higgins; Dr Kim Houghton; Ms Katherine Bassett; Ms Stephanie Cousins; Ms Sathya Gnanakaran

Online anti-racism for Australia
Harmful manifestations of online racism are increasing. The neo-liberal assumption is that social media users and user groups can be responsiblised to disrupt online racism. This project analyses a subset of online anti-racism campaigns. The review provides the material to test effectiveness, using surveys. The survey findings will identify the ingredients for effective, safe and efficient online anti-racism intervention. An online anti-racism program will be developed, implemented and evaluated. The development of guidelines for online anti-racism will overtly address the challenges and risks of action in this environment where regulation is so heavily contested.
 
Investigators: Professor Kevin Dunn; Dr Alanna Kamp; Associate Professor Tristan Kennedy; Associate Professor Nida Denson; Professor Craig McGarty; Professor Yin Paradies; Dr Mandy Truong; Dr Rachel Sharples; Dr Jehonathan Ben
 
How parents manage climate anxiety: coping and hoping for the whole family
This project studies how Australian parents manage climate anxiety for themselves and their families. Using mixed-methods/mixed-media approaches, it examines whether an increase in climate disasters is accelerating the spread of collective anxiety amongst families, how parents manage this anxiety for their children and partners, and if there are associated mental health burdens and gendered inequities in this management. It also looks at climate anxiety management across generations and climate histories, drawing out pessimistic/optimistic narratives about the future to enable action, resilience, and hope. It will produce an evidence base and photo-voice/documentary resources to help parents and support organisations combat climate anxiety.

Investigators: Associate Professor Roger Patulny; Dr Jordan McKenzie; Associate Professor Rebecca Olson; Associate Professor Fiona Charlson; Professor Mary Holmes; Adjunct Professor Andreas Hernandez
 
New Possibilities: Young People and Democratic Renewal
Vibrant democracies require generational renewal as norms, values and cultures evolve. This project is a systematic study of Australian students in the climate change movement. Examining who the students are, why they participate, how they organise, how they represent themselves and are represented by others in social and mainstream media, the project ethically advances ways of co-researching students’ civic and political participation in offline and online settings. Expected outcomes include improved capacity for investigating student political action, new knowledge of the motivations, norms and practices that characterise student climate politics and concepts and tools for democratic renewal through engagement with young people.

Investigators: Associate Professor Philippa Collin; Professor Judith Bessant; Dr Michelle Catanzaro; Associate Professor Faith Gordon; Dr Stewart Jackson; Professor Robert Watts
 
Understanding the role of digital technologies in addressing loneliness
This sociological project aims to develop a new approach to understanding the role of digital technologies in efforts to overcome loneliness. The team expects to generate new knowledge of how digital technologies are used by people who feel lonely and applied in policies and programs, using an innovative approach to explore different views, gaining the essential knowledge for assisting lonely Australians, and building much-needed research capacity in the sociology of loneliness and digital technologies. This should provide significant benefits such as a deep understanding of the sociocultural factors that influence people’s use of digital technologies to address loneliness, and evidence-based support for effective strategies and policies.

Investigators: Professor Alan Petersen; Dr Barbara Barbosa Neves; Professor Flis Henwood
 
Wealth Inequality in Australia: Sources and Solutions
The project aims to investigate the causes and consequences of asset price inflation and increasing inequalities in asset-based wealth in Australia. It expects to generate significant new knowledge about the evolution of asset-based inequality and about how the increasing concentration of asset-ownership is shaping the life opportunities of young people. Expected outcomes include the identification of policy options available to mitigate the negative impact of asset inflation and growing wealth inequality. This should provide significant benefits for governments and policy makers at a time when asset price inflation and the cost of housing represent critical policy challenges.

Investigators: Professor Lisa Adkins; Professor Martijn Konings; Associate Professor Stephen Whelan; Professor Daniel Woodman
 
Engaging Outsiders in Sport: Transforming Sport Event Legacy Planning 
The project aims to investigate intersectional inequities in sport participation for girls, women and non-binary people in Queensland by working with them to envision legacies for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Using a co-creation approach this project expects to identify how and what benefits can be achieved through legacy planning that engages with end-users who have historically been marginalised in sport. In doing so, the expected outcomes of the project include the development of evidence-based resources to improve engagement in sport and to build capacity and sustain meaningful change for communities and organisations.

Investigators: Dr Adele Pavlidis; Professor Simone Fullagar; Dr Millicent Kennelly; Professor Simon Darcy; Dr Kirsty Forsdike; Professor Holly Thorpe; Professor David McGillivray
 
Survival & Wellbeing among Migrant Precariat in Australia’s Gig Economy
The food and parcel delivery industry is now a structural feature of the Australian labour market. Little is known about the social consequences of this development for the workforce. especially temporary and long-term migrant workers involved in this industry. This project aims to investigate the risks to safety and wellbeing to migrant cohorts who undertake this work, interrogating the intersecting impact of age, gender, class, and ethnicity and particularly migration status. The project produces major national benefits, such as an enhanced capacity to inform future labour market policies and regulation as well as conceptual innovation in describing the 'everyday survival' strategies of migrant workers in Australia.

Investigators: Associate Professor Selvaraj Velayutham; Professor Amanda Wise; Associate Professor Shaun Wilson; Dr Norbert Ebert; Dr Nicholas Harrigan
 
Australian Spirituality: Wellness, Wellbeing and Risks
While there has been significant research conducted in Australia on rising religious diversity and those who are non-religious, spirituality has not received the same scholarly attention despite its popularity. This is the first nationwide study of spirituality in Australia, investigating First Nations, religious, and holistic spirituality, their contributions to wellbeing, and their possible risks. It includes a national survey and interviews with spiritual persons, and case studies of sacred places around the country. This project also draws on the expertise of leading First Nations, Australian and international scholars, and will be of national benefit in its capacity to inform practices and policies for personal and planetary wellbeing.

Investigators: Associate Professor Anna Halafoff; Professor Cristina Rocha; Professor Andrew Singleton; Dr Tyson Yunkaporta; Professor Lori Beaman; Professor Paul Bramadat; Associate Professor Mar Griera
 
The Social Life of Death
This project aims to investigate experiences of death, dying and bereavement amidst rapid social, economic and political transformation. In the wake of COVID19, and as Australia’s anticipated ‘death boom’ approaches, how to foster good deaths has never been more uncertain, nor more urgent. Drawing on innovative methods and socio-cultural theory, and working in partnership with families and communities, this project aims to generate new knowledge to better inform and improve policy and spark cultural renewal around the end of life. Expected outcomes include setting the international benchmark for novel scholarly understandings of death, dying and bereavement, and centring community voices in addressing contemporary challenges to dying well.

Investigators: Professor Alexander Broom; Dr Katherine Kenny; Associate Professor Nadine Ehlers
 
The sociology of health data for sexuality and gender diverse people
This project aims to investigate the sociological dimensions of digital health data for sexuality and gender diverse people with complex health needs. It employs qualitative and co-design methods to engage with sexuality and gender diverse people, advocates, clinicians, decision-makers, and health data designers. The project expects to generate much-needed knowledge about the participation of sexuality and gender diverse people in health data systems, with respect to trust, disclosure, stigma and prejudice. Expected outcomes include insight for enhancing health data systems for sexuality and gender diverse people. This project should provide significant benefits for the promotion of inclusive, safe and useful health data systems.

Investigators: Associate Professor Mark Davis; Professor Christy Newman; Associate Professor Lisa Fitzgerald
 
Understanding vicarious trauma in Australian foster care
 This project aims to investigate experiences of vicarious trauma in Australian foster care. This project expects to generate new knowledge about antecedents and mitigators of vicarious trauma, and will do so by using interdisciplinary approaches to understand the specific contexts in which vicarious trauma may occur. Expected outcomes of this project includes the generation of national data about vicarious trauma in foster care through the development of a new measure of vicarious trauma. This should provide significant benefits, such as providing a clear means to assessing vicarious trauma, and through the development of a mobile app that will enable foster families in Australia to monitor and report experiences of vicarious trauma.

Investigators: Professor Damien Riggs; Associate Professor Clemence Due; Dr Ben Lohmeyer; Associate Professor Yvonne Clark
 
Postgraduate Sub-Committee 2023-2024:
Call for New Members
TASA’s Postgraduate Portfolio Leader, Richa George, is calling for expressions of interests to join TASA’s Postgraduate Sub-Committee (PGSC) for the 2023-2024 term. This PGSC supports the Postgraduate Portfolio Leader in representing and furthering the interests of TASA’s postgraduate members. The PGSC consists of a maximum of seven members who usually serve a two-year term and meet online approximately six times a year as well as face-to-face at the annual conference.
The deadline for nominations has been extended to February 17th. For the full details, read on...
  
Members' Engaging Sociology

Books

Deborah Stevenson (2023) Cultural Policy Beyond the Economy: Work, Value, and the Social. Edward Elgar Publishing

Cultural Policy
This unique and insightful book provides a comprehensive examination of contemporary cultural policy and its discourses, influences, and consequences. It examines the factors that have led to a narrowing of cultural policy and suggests new ways of thinking about cultural policy beyond economics by reconnecting it with the practices of work, value, and the social.

With a particular focus on Australia and the UK, and with reference to transnational bodies including UNESCO, this book identifies and examines influential national and international factors that have shaped cultural policy, including its implementation of an economic agenda. Deborah Stevenson retraces the foundations of contemporary cultural policy, with chapters exploring the hierarchies of legitimacy that form the basis of value and excellence, the increased hegemony of the economy within the art world complex, and the notions of class and gender as two key factors of social inequality that shape access to the arts. Read on...

Book Chapters

Lata, Lutfun Nahar. (2023). Poverty, Gender, and Informal Livelihoods: Access to Public Space and Livelihood Challenges in Dhaka, Bangladesh. In SECURITY, DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY IN ASIA: Volume 3: Environment, Sustainability and Human Security, edited by Zhiqun Zhu, pp. 197-211. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing.
 
de la Fuente, E. (2022). Concrete Materialities: Architectural Surfaces and the Cultural Sociology of Modernity. In: Rodríguez Morató, A., Santana-Acuña, A. (eds) Sociology of the Arts in Action. Sociology of the Arts . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11305-5_9
 

Journal Articles

Spaaij, R., Luguetti, C., McDonald, B., & McLachlan, F. (2023). Enhancing social inclusion  in sport: Dynamics of action research in super-diverse contexts. International Review for the Sociology of Sport. https://doi.org/10.1177/10126902221140462 [OPEN ACCESS]
 
 

News and Analysis

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.
 
The Conversation, February 9th. 
 
Michael Flood, Chay Brown, Kirsti Mills, & Lula Dembele(2023) Who is perpetrating domestic, sexual and family violence? The Conversation, February 8th. 
 

Videos

Sophie Hickey & Catherine Hastings (2023) Prof. Nick J.Fox “The BSA Applied Sociology Group: The Curriculum”. TASA Applied Sociology Thematic Group, February 8th. 
 

Awards/Grants

Career Development Grant - 2023
New: 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.

TASA's Career Development Grant is targeted at TASA members who have limited or no access to funding for career development activities, including TASA members employed outside of academia.

Eligible career development opportunities include but are not limited to:
  • research related cost (e.g. transcription, use of interpreters, participant reimbursement, employment of a research assistant),
  • professional editing,
  • conference attendance (where this is not covered by other TASA bursaries),
  • career development activities associated with establishing / furthering a career outside of academia.
A total of $4,500 is available, with a maximum of $1,500 available per applicant.

There is one round for applications per year:

Applications closed on 20 May 2023.

Successful applicants will be announced in June 2023.

The funding can be used between 1 July 2023 until 30 June 2024.

All expenses need to be claimed by 16 June 2024.
 
 
Jean Martin Award - 2023
The Jean Martin Award, a part of the legacy of the late Jean Martin (picture left), recognises excellence in scholarship in the field of Sociology and aims 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. 
Nomination deadline: March 1st, 2023. Read on...
 
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
 

Events

TASA Thursdays
We hope you can attend our first TASA Thursdays event for 2023 on 'The Far Right in Australia: Historical insights and the current scene’ with panellists Raewyn Connell, Pam Nilan, Joshua Roose, & Mario Peucker.
Thursday 16 February, 2023, 12.30-1.30pm AEDT.
Registration for this event is available here.
 
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: Health Sociology Thematic Group Online Seminar Series
Tuesday February 21st, 1-2pm (Vic/NSW, ACT, Tasmania)
Masculine enhancement as health or pathology: Optimisation discourses in health promotion materials on performance and image-enhancing drugs (PIEDs)
Authors: Gemma Nourse, Suzanne Fraser, David Moore
For the full details, and to register, Read on...
 

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)
For the full details, read on...
 
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).
For the full details, read on...
 
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...

TASA Publications

Journal of Sociology

Journal of Sociology - Volume: 59, Number: 1 (March 2023) has been published. You can access the Table of Contents here.
 

Health Sociology Review

Health Sociology Review
Call for papers: Matters of Time in Health & Illness
Issue 1, 2024
This special issue will bring together papers exploring how time relates with and in health and illness. We encourage submissions that think with ‘time’ in many ways: as a heuristic device for exploring the sociological dimensions of how health and care unfold (in prolonged and fleeting ways); as a sociohistorical situating of health and care practices; as a way of measuring and constituting health experiences and events; and as a speculative orientation towards anticipated and imagined futures of health.
Guest Editors: Mia Harrison, Anthony K J Smith, and Sophie Adams.
Submission deadline: February 12.
For the full details of the call, read on...
 
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
For the full details of the call, read on...
Employment
Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Disability Studies
Toronto Metropolitan University
Applications close: TOMORROW February 10. 
Read on...

Limited Term Faculty (LTF) Position in Disability Studies
Toronto Metropolitan University
Applications close: March 1. 
Read on...
 
2 Lecturers in Culture and Society, School of Humanities and Communication Arts
Western Sydney University, Parramatta campus
x1 Full-Time, Ongoing Position
x1 Part-Time(0.5FTE), Ongoing Position
Applications close: February 19th. Read on...
 
Assistant Professor - Sociology
Institute of Sociology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Applications close: February 28th. Read on... 
 

Jobs Board

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.
Current Employment Opportunities
PhD Scholarships
PhD Scholarship - Informal Sport and Urban Diversity- Domestic
Macquarie University
Application deadline: February 15th. Read on...
 
PhD project that complements an Australian Research Council funded study on Informal Sport, Urban Diversity and Social Resilience.
The research is led by fellow members Amanda Wise (MQ) and Kristine Aquino (UTS) et al. under whose supervision the successful candidate will work.
Application deadline: February 15th. Read on...
 

Scholarships Board

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.
Current Scholarship Opportunities
Other Events, News & Opportunities

Call for Papers - Journal

New: 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).
Submission deadline: 28th February. Read on...
 
China and Climate Change: Towards a Socially Inclusive and Just Transition
Social Inclusion
Deadline for Abstracts: 15 March 2023. Read on...
 
Social and Ecological Infrastructure for Recidivism Reduction
Social Inclusion
Deadline for Abstracts: 15 March 2023. Read on...

Conferences

Queer Displacements
Western Sydney University are proud to announce that they are hosting the 2023 Queer Displacements Conference – the second Asia-Pacific conference to cover LGBTIQ+ asylum and migration!
22-23 February 2023 | Western Sydney University (Parramatta City campus).
The Queer Displacements is the first and only conference in the Asia Pacific designed to comprehensibly foreground protection and settlement challenges of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ+) forcibly displaced people. It is created to champion the voices and the lived experience of LGBTIQ+ forcibly displaced people. The Queer Displacements conference is the space for awareness raising, solidarity, building alliances and engaging the whole of society in ensuring justice, protection and solutions for LGBTIQ+ people in forced displacement.
For details, Read on...
 Register to attend today. Spaces are limited. Register here. 
New: 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... 
 
New: 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
Submission deadline: August 1. Read on...
 
World Convention
(In)Justice International
Finland March 28-31
Agenda and registration available: Read on...
 
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
Read on...
 
Unsettling Certainties
Society for the History of Emotions' Fourth Biennial Conference
University of Adelaide over 28 November to 1 December 2023
Submission deadline: March 1. Read on...
 
TASA Gift Memberships
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 2: Click on the drop down menu to the right of your name in the purple bar (RH) at the top of the website (see 1st image below)
 
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