Dear ,

The Annual General Meeting (AGM) is next Tuesday November 20, Lecture Theatre One (5:30pm - 7:00pm). The agenda and Annual Report will be emailed to you tomorrow. We hope you are able to make it to the AGM.

Congratulations

A warm congratulations is extend to Toni McCallum who was recently awarded her PhD recently: "(M)other Love: Cultural Difference and Gendered Practices in Queensland, Australia". Toni's supervisors were Dr Ann Taylor, Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Newcastle and Dr Daniela Heil, Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of Newcastle. 

A warm congratulations is also extended to Peta Cook, incoming Treasurer, who was presented with the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Community Engagement.

TASA 2018

Livestreaming

For this year’s TASA conference we are livestreaming selected events to enable engagement of a broader public and TASA members in the intellectual life of the conference. For the live streaming schedule, please read on... 

Conference Documents

For further conference information, please click on each colored button below to access the conference resources. 

Spotlight 

Sociologist looking for work

Anna Denejkina is completing a PhD in sociology at the University of Technology Sydney, where she also teaches in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences as a casual academic. Anna additionally works as a Research Assistant on various sociology-based projects at Western Sydney University.

Anna’s research is focussed on intergenerational trauma transmission, with her PhD is looking at combat-related trauma transmission from parent to child. Anna is looking for work in a teaching (tutoring, seminars, lecturing, marking) and also in research support, grant writing, and consultancy. Anna’s areas of expertise include community research, culture and cultural policy, emotions and affect, family, intimacy and relationships, mental health and illness, methodology, qualitative research, quantitative research, questionnaire design, surveys, teaching sociology, youth, and trauma transmission; psychological traumatology.

You can email Anna or visit her website for more information.

Grant Opportunities

Early Career Research Small Grants Scheme 2018

ECR and PhD scholars can apply for up to $5000 in research funding as part of the Freilich Foundation's Early Career Research Small Grants Scheme                          Application deadline: November 26. Read on...

Fellowship Funding

2019 Racial/Ethnic Minority Graduate Fellowship                                                     The Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP)                                                      Application deadline: February 1, 2019. Read on...

Employment Opportunity

New: Research Assistants                                                                                                               Barang Regional Alliance (‘Barang’) is a not-for-profit leading structural reform for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people on Darkinjung land in the Central Coast of New South Wales. We are seeking quotes for research assistance for our upcoming Youth Summit on 23 February 2019. The skills we seek are: understanding of cultural safety for Indigenous youth; qualitative research expertise: group interviewing; ethnographic note-taking; and analysis of qualitative data. We ideally seek to recruit two sociologists who identify as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander. You must be based in the Central Coast or able to travel here for the event. If you’re interested, please contact: Zuleyka Zevallos, 0413 146 838, or Zuleyka@barangregionalallianceltd.org.au

Research Assistant                                                                                                                              The Institute for the Study of Social Change (ISC) is seeking expressions of interest for a casual Research Assistant who will be involved in a major project entitled “Anticipatory Care: An action learning project with Tasmanian communities of place and culture”.  This project is a collaboration between the ISC and the Tasmanian Department of Health, the Sax Institute and The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre.                                                                                                                    Application deadline: November 19. Read on...

Scholarship Opportunities

New: The Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) at Western Sydney University have a scholarship opportunity on a project, 'Youth Mobilities and Digital Lives: Understanding Transnational Mobility's Impacts Through Social Media'. The PhD project will be based at ICS with the opportunity to work with the ICS-based supervisor, Dr Shanthi Robertson, on social media analysis/digital ethnography techniques to understand the impacts of transnational mobility on young people’s social, civic and economic lives.                                                                                                       Applications deadline: 30 November. Read on...

Deakin University are now offering a scholarship to a highly motivated PhD candidate to work on the Youth Mobilities, Aspirations and Pathways (YMAP) project. Applicants are invited to propose a project on any aspect of the impacts of transnational mobility on young people’s social and/or family ties, citizenship and civic lives, and/or economic opportunities and transitions to adulthood. The proposed doctoral project must align with the focus of the YMAP ARC project. This PhD will be based at Deakin and supervised by Professor Anita Harris with external supervision from Prof Baldassar and Dr Shanthi Robertson.                                                                                                                                  Applications deadline: 3 December. Read on...​​

Members' Publications

Books

Book Launches

Journal - Special Issue

Shanthi Robertson, Yi’En Cheng & Brenda S.A. Yeoh (2018) Special Issue: Mobile Aspirations? Youth Im/mobilities in the Asia-Pacific. Journal of Intercultural Studies.

Humphrys, E., & Shalbak, I. (2018). On ‘heroic fury’ and questions of method in Antonio Gramsci. Thesis Eleven, 147(1), 3–8. 

Journal - Articles

Robert van Krieken (2018) Georg Franck’s ‘The Economy of Attention’: Mental capitalism and the struggle for attention. Journal of Sociology. 

Elsie Foeken & Steven Roberts (2018) Reifying difference: Examining the negotiation of internal diversity on a (post-)lesbian subreddit. Sexualities. First Published November 12, 2018. 

Meredith Nash (2018) From ‘Tramp Stamps’ to Traditional Sleeves: A Feminist Autobiographical Account of Tattoos, Australian Feminist Studies

Pendlebury, JL (2018), "'This is a Man's Job': Challenging the Masculine 'Warrior' Culture at The United States Air Force Academy", Armed Forces and Society, DOI: 10.1177/0095327X18806524

Ehsan Ahmadian, Hugh Byrd, Behzad Sodagar, Steve Matthewman, Christine Kenney & Glen Mills (2018) ‘Energy and the form of cities: the counterintuitive impact of disruptive technologies’, Architectural Science Review, 30 October, Open Access: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00038628.2018.1535422

Naomi Berman and Flavio Rizzo (2018) Unlocking Hikikomori: an interdisciplinary approach. Journal of Youth Studies. DOI: 10.1080/13676261.2018.1544416.

Humphrys, E. (2018). Anti-politics, the early Marx and Gramsci’s ‘integral state.’ Thesis Eleven, 147(1), 29–44. https://doi.org/10.1177/0725513618787638

Informed News & Analysis

Ben Spies-Butcher (12 November, 2018) Two birds with one stone. How better taxing super could fund aged care. The Conversation. 

Amy Thomas (12 November, 2018) Abbott’s vision for remote education has been tried, and failed. Crikey. 

Shanthi Robertson (11 November, 2018) Gap years, working holidays, 'voluntourism': Have we been sold a lie? National Nine News.

Randa Abdel Fattah (09 November, 2018) How a Sri Lankan student’s arrest on terror charges exposes a system built to suspect minorities. The Conversation. 

Blogs

Elizabeth Humphrys and Ihab Shalbak (12 November, 2018) On ‘heroic fury’ and questions of method in Antonio Gramsci.

Podcasts

Sue Malta et al. (9 November, 2018) Sex and the senior — what does intimacy look like as you grow older? ABC Radio National, Life Matters

Micro-vlog

Micro-vlog series (just 2 minutes!). Zoei Sutton and Ben Lohmeyer host "2-Minute Truths” - a quick-fire interview with remarkable academics about their research and academic lives. Week 3 guest star: Joseph Borlagdan - “Try and find some common ground. So why is everyone there? …then I think you have a good platform for collaboration”. You can access the micro-vlog on Zoei & Ben's 2 Minute Truths website.

Nexus 

Welcome to the last edition of Nexus for 2018.  You can go directly to the Nexus site here or click on the individual articles below:

Eileen Clark: Editorial

Dan Woodman: The Minister’s veto and why we should do Social Sciences Week again

Louise St Guillaume: Anxiety and Teaching Sociology

Julia Cook: Reflecting on an ISA session addressing Andy Furlong’s legacy

Alan Scott: The 20- to 30-year gap has come (but it now seems as if it’s going)

Eileen Clark: The Boomer’s Lament

Sally Daly: Sociologist Stars

Patrick Brownlee: Reflections on the XIX International Congress of Sociology

Suzanne Franzway: ISA Congress Toronto July 2018: Two Congresses

Rosemary Hancock: Reflection on ISA 2018, Toronto

Joel McGregor: The Beaumont children: Investigations and implications of cold cases

Kristine Aquino & Jennifer Cheng: A Symposium: Migration, social inclusion and the multicultural city

Timothy Graham, Naomi Smith and Scott Doidge: Symposium: Digital societies

Bruce Curtis: Southern Notes #6

Ashleigh Watson: Postgraduate portfolio report

Doctoral Completions

Members' Keynote Invitations

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Promotions

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Other Events, News & Opportunities

Workshop

Situated Intersectionality and Gendered Migration                                          TODAY 15th November from 12.30pm - 2:30pm. UNSW Kensington Campus                   Professor Nira Yuval-Davis will lead a discussion on methodologies. This workshop will explore the ways that situated intersectionality methodology can add to our understanding of gendered migration and everyday bordering. Students, particularly those at the graduate level are also warmly invited to come to the workshop.                                      Registration free but required. Read on...

Competition

Student Paper Competitions and Outstanding Scholarship Awards                   The Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP)                                                     Submission deadline: January 31, 2019. Read on... 

Public Lecture

Activist Movements and Social Theory: Power, Resistance and Protest since 1968                                                                                                                                                     The Greek Centre for Contemporary Culture
168 Lonsdale st, Melbourne
Friday, 23rd November 4:30pm                                                                                                      Speakers include fellow member Theresa Petray                                                              Bursuries available for TASA postgraduate members.                                                  For more details, and registration, Read on...

PhD Summer School and One Day Conference

Researching Post-Capitalist Possibilities
January 2019 in Sydney, Australia
Hosted by the Community Economies Strategic Initiative, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University                                                                                          Registrations will open December 5.  Read on...

Call for Proposals - Journal

New Editor of Men and Masculinities                                                                        Sage are currently accepting editor applications for a three-year term commencing July, 2019 (this start date is negotiable). The search committee will begin reviewing applications on December 1, 2018. Read on...

Call for Papers - Journals

Czech and Slovak Journal of Humanities                                                                  Special issue on Cultural and Social Anthropology                                                                Submission deadline: December 31. Read on...

2019 Special Issue Call for papers: Disability and Children's Rights.                      The Canadian Journal on Children’s Rights (CJCR)                                                       Submissions deadline: April 1, 2019. Read on...

Call for Chapters - Book

Theorising the university: critical perspectives on institutional research  Edited by Mark Murphy, Ciaran Burke, Cristina Costa and Rille Raaper                                    Submission deadline: December 1, 2018. Read on...

Call for Submissions - Edited Book

The Rise of the Far-Right:Technologies of Recruitment & Mobilization         After decades of existing on the social and political margins, far-right groups and movements are enjoying increasing success and claiming a place in mainstream electoral politics. This call for submissions invites scholars to contribute a chapter to an edited book bringing together research that describes what factors lie behind this rise in the far-right, giving attention to how these groups recruit new members and mobilize action, and their use and involvement with media technologies.                                                            Submission deadline: TODAY November 15. Read on...

Symposiums

New: Language, Technology, and Communication in Healthcare.                            Interdisciplinary research and engagement for 21st century healthcare                                    Monday 10 December, 1:15 pm – 7:00 pm, University of Melbourne                                        This event is free but registration is required. Read on...

Rural Issues Symposium - The future of rural sociology in Australia, 2019         La Trobe, Bendigo, Friday 28th June, 2019.                                                                                  Keynote presentations from Professor Barbara Pini, Griffith University and Professor Robyn Eversole, Deputy Director of the Centre for Social Impact at Swinburne University of Technology. In recognition of the unique social experiences of rural, remote, and regional residents, the symposium aims to bring together students, researchers, applied sociologists, community and social services professionals and academics engaging with a range of issues pertinent to rural, remote and regional Australia.                                                                                                                                            Abstracts and scholarship applications due: Friday 22nd March, 2019. Read on...

Conferences

New: Time is Money, and Beyond: The Temporality of Action and Consequences                                                                                                                                6-7 May 2019 in Warsaw, Poland                                                                                              Submission deadline: 15 December. Read on...

EGOS 2019 Subtheme 54: Exploring the Labour Dimension of Sustainable Organizations: Ideologies, Struggles, Solutions (Markus Helfen, Andreas Pekarek, Rick Delbridge)                                                                                              Continuing the interdisciplinary exchange between the fields of organization studies and employment relations from two preceding EGOS sub-themes in 2017 and 2018, next year's theme concentrates on the ideologies, struggles and solutions around the labour dimension of the sustainable organization. We invite contributions that explore how labour shapes and is shaped by questions of organizational sustainability and what this means for future world(s) of work.                                                                                              Deadline for short paper submissions: January 14, 2019. Read on...

7th International and Interdisciplinary Emotional Geographies Conference, 17-19 July 2019                                                                                                                                                      Keynote speakers include fellow member, & incoming Applied Sociology Portfolio Leader, Catherine Robinson.                                                                                                 Themed Sessions submission deadline: December 10.                                              Abstract submission deadline: 4 March 2019. Read on...

Illuminating the SOCIAL in Social Problems                                                                 The Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP)                                                        August 9-11, 2019, at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City, NY.                                    Submission deadline: January 31, 2019. Read on...

Economy & the Possible: Alternative, Missed and Reified Futures in Contemporary Society                                                                                                                      20-21 May 2019 in Warsaw (Poland)                                                                          Submission deadline: 10 December. Read on...

EUROPE AND BEYOND: BOUNDARIES, BARRIERS AND BELONGING
14th ESA Conference, 20-23 August 2019 to be held in Manchester / UK. Read on...

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