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Great news! the submission deadline for TASA 2017 has been extended to June 15.

Please note, the deadline for the two TASA Awards listed below is June 15.

Vale Dr Paul Priday: Adman, Renaissance Man, Gender and Cultural Researcher

Fellow TASA member Paul Priday died recently. His family are raising donations for the Unicorn Foundation in his memory.

Nexus

Calling all postgraduates!

In the next couple of issues, Nexus is providing space to publish short accounts (up to 500 words) from postgraduate students in sociology and allied disciplines on their research methodology. We would be interested in hearing whether you had to change course methodologically and why, whether theory drove your initial investigations or empirical data. If theory was significant, tell us which theorist(s) and why and whether the theory has sustained you. Accounts of what approach worked for you and why would be especially welcome. Once our readers engage with your accounts, we will provide space in later issues in the ‘letters to the editors’ where these will be published. We will publish up to six pieces in the next issue of Nexus. Successful applicants will be asked to provide a photograph and contact details for themselves.

Eileen Clark, Alexia Maddox, and Peter Robinson, editors.

Journal of Sociology

Special Edition 2019 - Call for Editors

Papers featured in special editions are subject to the normal process of peer review. Selection of papers and coordination of the peer review process will be the responsibility of the Guest Editors. Papers may be selected either on the basis of invitation or via a general ‘call for papers’. Final copy for this special edition is due on the fourth of September, 2018 and publication will be in March 2019. Expression of Interest deadline: July 31, 2017. Read on...

Members' Publications

Journal Special Issue

Johns, Amelia., Noble, Greg, & Harris, Anita (2017) After Cronulla: ‘Where the Bloody Hell Are We Now?’ Journal of Intercultural Studies

Journal Articles

Kristin Natalier (2017) Micro-aggressions, single mothers and interactions with government workers: The case of Australia’s child support bureaucracy, Journal of Sociology

Harris, Anita & Melinda Herron (2017) Young People and Intercultural Sociality after Cronulla, Journal of Intercultural Studies.

Amanda Wise (2017) The Long Reach of the Riots: Denying Racism, Forgetting Cronulla, Journal of Intercultural Studies.

Shakira Hussein & Scott Poynting (2017) ‘We’re Not Multicultural, but … ’ . Journal of Intercultural Studies.

Amelia Johns (2017) Flagging White Nationalism ‘After Cronulla’: From the Beach to the Net, Journal of Intercultural Studies.

Wickham, G., B. Evers, and J. Goodie (2017) ‘The State and Civility: A Crucial Nexus’, European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology 4:2, pp.135-155.

Informed News & Analysis

Paul Byron & Brady Robards: There’s something queer about Tumblr, The Conversation

TASA Events

TASA 2017

Submissions focussing on the conference theme of ‘Belonging in a Mobile World’, as well as other areas of interest to TASA thematic groups, are invited. The mobilities turn in sociology has generated questions about different modes of belonging in a world characterised by global flows and precarities. The media report growing levels of permanent and temporary migration, undocumented migration, and movements of people seeking asylum. Governments respond, opening borders, curtailing movement. While becoming hypermobile, superdiverse, and cosmopolitan, immobility is a lived reality for many. Submissions deadline: EXTENDED June 15. Read on...

Please note: information on Childcare is available on the conference site here.

Sociology and Animals Symposium

Development for Species: Animals in society, animals as society Deakin University, Melbourne City campus, September 18-19, Submission deadline: June 30. Read on...

Postgraduate scholarship: With the support of TASA, the Sociology & Animals Thematic Group will be offering 3 postgraduate scholarships valued at $150 each. Potential scholarship winners will need to be registered TASA postgraduate members & located outside of Melbourne. If you wish to be considered for a postgraduate scholarship please indicate this in the same email as your abstract submission.

2017 TASA Health Day

Mobilising health sociology for impact: How can complex understandings of injustice and inequality be used in policy and practice? Friday 13th October 2017, UNSW Sydney Submission deadline: July 19. Read on...

Travel Bursaries Award: The Health thematic group has obtained funding through TASA to award 5 travel bursaries of $150 to postgraduates or casual and unwaged staff (who must be TASA members and living outside of Sydney) to attend the symposium. The recipients of the bursaries will be eligible for reimbursements to the value of $150 for travel expenses related to attending the symposium. You do not have to be presenting a paper to receive an award. However, those who have submitted an abstract will be given priority. If you wish to apply for a travel bursary please email for more information, Sophie Lewis (sophie.lewis@unsw.edu.au).

Youth Symposium

Research Methods in Youth Studies: Doing ‘Difference Differently’ Wednesday 22 November, 2017, University of Melbourne Invited speakers: Greg Noble, Anita Harris, Pam Nilan, Julia Coffey, Brady Robards Submission deadline: July 31. Read on...

Crime & Governance Symposium

Politics and Crime Control in the 21st Century: Controversies and Challenges The symposium will be held at the UoN Sydney campus (Elizabeth St, Sydney) on the 22nd September 2017. Keynotes: Eileen Baldry & Lana Sandas Some travel bursaries to postgraduates or casual and unwaged staff to attend the symposium are available. Submission deadline: Extended to August 4. Read on...

Sociology of Economic Life and Work, Employment and Social Movements Workshop

Ten years since the global financial crisis: Social movements, labour & the crisis last time Concurrently in Perth - Melbourne - Sydney Fri 1st December, 2017 Keynote: Dick Bryan Submission deadline: EXTENDED to June 15. Read on...

International Sociological Association

isagram

The June issue of ISA's isagram is available here.

XVth ISA International Laboratory for PhD Students in Sociology

Struggles for Substantive Citizenship, Community Building in Troubled Times for Democracy
September 17-23, Poznan, Poland The local host and the International Sociological Association will cover travel and lodging expenses (including meals at the Laboratory) for the participants.
Application deadline: June 15. Read on...

CHASS Prizes

2017 will mark the fourth year of the annual Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) Australia Prizes. The Australia Prizes honour distinguished achievements by Australians working, studying, or training in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) sectors, including academics, practitioners, philanthropists, policy makers, and students. Submission deadline: June 30. Read on...

Other Events

Symposium

New: From PhD to Academic Employment: Secrets to Excelling in the Job Market Joshua Roose, TODAY Thursday 1 June (1pm – 2pm) Level 6, 215 Spring St, Melbourne (near corner Lonsdale St). Read on...

ECR Workshop

The Sociological Review ECR Workshop: Social Transformation Within and Beyond the Academy 26th September 2017 at the University of Sydney The Sociological Review are accepting submissions from PhD students and ECRs wishing to participate in this symposium, and have 6 x $150 travel bursaries available. Further details and submission instructions are here. Submission deadline: June 3.

Public Lectures

The Politics of Postgenomic life; By Dr Maurizio Meloni Thursday 29 June, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm, Docklands, Melbourne This is a free event. Read on...

Symposiums

Tourism: The phenomenon and its socio-economic consequences November 28-30, Tunisia Submission deadline: June 30. Read on...

Digital Food Cultures symposium Friday 20 October, University of Canberra This symposium is directed at the social, cultural, political and ethical dimensions of representations and practices related to using digital technologies for food production, consumption, preparation, eating out, promoting healthy diets or weight loss, marketing, ethical consumption, food activism and environmental and sustainability politics. Abstract submission deadline: TODAY June 1. Read on...

TASA 2017 Conference

TASA's Annual Conference Belonging in a Mobile World, 27 - 30 November, Perth Submission deadline: EXTENDED to June 15. Read on...

ISA World Congress, Torronto, 2018

Sociology, Theory and Complementary and Alternative Medicine XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology Toronto, Canada, on July 15-21, 2018. RC15 Sociology of Health (host committee) Submission deadline: September 30. Read on...

Forms of Collectivity Among Contemporary Youth
XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology Toronto, Canada, on July 15-21, 2018. RC34 Sociology of Youth (host committee) Submission deadline: September 30. Read on...

War, the Military and Societal Transformation XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology Toronto, Canada, on July 15-21, 2018. RC16 Sociological Theory (host committee) Submission deadline: September 30. Read on...

Continuity and Change in the Family Life Course (9895) Toronto, Canada, on July 15-21, 2018. RC06 Family Research (host committee) Submission deadline: September 30. Read on...

Experiences of and Responses to Disempowerment, Violence and Injustice within the Relational Lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Two Spirited (LGBTQ2) People XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology Toronto, Canada, on July 15-21, 2018. RC06 Family Research (host committee) Submission deadline: September 30. Read on...

Other Conferences

Respect Existence or Expect Resistance Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand 6-10 December, Dunedin, New Zealand Submission deadline: September 10. Read on...

Association of Industrial Relations Academics, Australia and New Zealand conference (AIRAANZ) 'Jobs and Change in Uncertain Times' : 32nd Annual AIRAANZ Conference
Adelaide, South Australia
7-9 February 2018 Stream proposals due: TOMORROW 2 June 2017 Submissions close: 15 September 2017 Read on...

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