Dear  ,

There are only 4 sleeps left until the start of #TASA2017! To help you prepare, here is the Book of Abstracts and the Conference Proceedings.  If you are unable to attend, you can follow the action via Twitter: #TASA2017. 

Congratulations

Our warm congratulations are extended to the following recipients of the recent Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project 2018 grants round:

• Belinda Fehlberg, Kristin Natalier & Bruce Smyth: This project aims to identify the meaning of home for children in separated families by interviewing children and parents about children’s experiences of home and homemaking.
• Deborah Stevenson, Justin O’Connor and Christiaan De Beukelaer: UNESCO and the making of global cultural policy: culture, economy, development
• Adele Pavlidis: Women and the rise of contact sport.
• Yamini Narayanan, Jennifer Wolch, Maan Barua: Animals and urban planning: Indian cities as Zoöpolises

We also extend our warm congratulations to fellow member Randa Abdel-Fattah who has been awarded a DECRA: Trust, politics, fear: 'Generation 9/11' Muslim & non-Muslim youth compared.

If you were awarded an ARC grant recently, please do email the details to admin@tasa.org.au so that we can share your news with members next week.

We are also congratulating our Thematic Group Portfolio Leader, Peta Cook (University of Tasmania), who has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Council of the Ageing (COTA), Tasmania. COTA is a national body that represents the rights, needs, and interests of older people, and focuses on policy issues from their perspectives as citizens and consumers.

Promotions

Have you been promoted recently? If so, we'd love to hear about it so that we can share the details in the weekly newsletter here.

Monash University recently promoted 4 fellow TASA members:

• Jo Lindsay  - Professor
• Steve Roberts - Associate Professor
• Kirsten McLean - Associate Professor
• Brady Robards - Senior Lecturer

Members' Publications

Books

Book Launch

Melbourne Gender, Queer, and Feminist Research Network's Annual Seminar and Book Launch. The book being launched is by fellow member Lucy Nicholas & Christine Agius, (2018) The Persistence of GlobalMasculinism: Discourse, Gender and Neo-Colonial Re-Articulations of Violence. Springer.                                              December 14, 2-4pm, Swinburne University, Hawthorn. Read on...

Journal Articles

Scott Fitzpatrick (2017). Reshaping the Ethics of Suicide Prevention: Responsibility, Inequality and Action on the Social Determinants of Suicide, Public Health Ethics.

C​​oles, L., ​Hewitt, B., & Martin, W. (2017). Contemporary fatherhood: Social, demographic and attitudinal factors associated with involved fathering and long work hours​. Journal of Sociology. 

Meredith Nash (2017): ‘Let’s work on your weaknesses’: Australian CrossFit coaching, masculinity and neoliberal framings of ‘health’ and ‘fitness’, Sport in Society, DOI: 10.1080/17430437.2017.1390565

Grant, Ruby and Meredith Nash (2017) 'Navigating Unintelligibility: Queer Australian Young Women's Negotiations of Safe Sex and Risk.' Journal of Health Psychology.

Hannah Soong, Garth Stahl & Hongxia Shan (2017). Transnational mobility through education: a Bourdieusian insight on life as middle transnationals in Australia and Canada, Globalisation, Societies and Education

Informed News & Analysis

Erika Altmann: Foreign ownership of housing – how do Australia and New Zealand compare? The Conversation

Blogs

Victor Minichiello & John Scott: Research shows distribution of online male escorts, by nation

Podcasts

Randa Abdel-Fattah: Who gets to tell the story? ABC Radio National 

Nicholas Hookway: Giving it Away: the economics of charities, ABC Radio National 

Videos

Shanthi Robertson: Visa Scams, The Feed, November 17, SBS - 5:11 - 7:33

Members' Keynote Invitations

Have you been invited to give a keynote? If so, we'd love to hear about it so that we can list the details in the weekly newsletter here. 

Peta Cook (University of Tasmania) was part of a panel discussion at the annual general meeting of the Council of the Ageing (COTA),Tasmania, which explored “what’s in a number”, and “how do we address ageism”. Other members of the panel were Sue Leitch (CEO, COTA Tas), Cassy O’Connor MP (Leader of the Tasmanian Greens, Tasmanian House of Assembly), and Madeleine Ogilive MP (Tasmanian Labor Party; Tasmanian House of Assembly). A video is available on Facebook.

Thematic Group Events

Emotions and Social Theory Workshop 

The Social Theory thematic group of TASA and the Contemporary Emotions Research Network (UOW) are running a collaborative workshop on emotions and social theory.  November 27, University of Wollongong.

Other Events, News & Opportunities

John Western Public Lecture

The Human Judge: Between Craft and Profession                                                   Join the Institute for Social Science Research and the School of Social Science for a special evening featuring a lecture delivered by sociologist, and fellow member, Professor Sharyn Roach Anleu of Flinders University, Adelaide.                                                    Friday December 8, The University of Queensland                                                                Please RSVP by December 1. Read on...

Workshop

HASS Centres of Excellence workshop for the forthcoming ARC Centres of Excellence rounds.                                                                                                          Monday, 11 December, 10:00am–4:00pm,  ACT                                                                     Free Admission: Bookings essential. RSVP: by 4 December. Read on...

Screening

New: As part of the 16 Days of Activism at UNSW, the Globalisation & Governance Research Network, the Gendered Violence Research Network and the School of Social Sciences invite you to the screening of The Uncondemned.                                                      December 5, UNSW Sydney. Read on...

Symposiums

Advancing the Public Benefit of Universities. Universities exist to serve society, but what does that look like in the 21st century?                                                                Keynote: Raewyn Connell                                                                                                     Friday, 1 December, 9am – 5pm, University of Technology Sydney                                        For program and registration details, please read on...

Australian Mothering in Contemporary and Historical Perspective                    15-16 Feburary, 2018, The University of Melbourne. Read on...

Health Inequities, Trade and Global Governance Research Symposium           La Trobe University's Centre for Health Law and Society                                                               30 November                                                                                                                       Registration is free but essential. Read on...

Conferences

Power & Governance: Forms, Dynamics, Consequences                                  Tampere, Finland, 27–29 August 2018                                                                                          For session and paper proposal deadlines, please read on...

Abolitionist Approaches to Social Problems                                                                    The Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP)                                                         August 10-12, 2018, Philadelphia                                                                            Submission deadline: January 31, 2018. Read on...

Exit, Voice and Loyalty:  Alternative Economic Models and Responses to Decline in Contemporary Society                                                                                          21-22 May 2018 in Warsaw, Poland                                                                                                      Submission deadline: December 10. Read on...

Call for Papers

New: Routledge Studies in Crime and Justice in Asia and the Global South
Call for Proposals                                                                                                                                 The series provides an opportunity to illustrate the work of emerging and established scholars who are challenging traditional paradigms in the fields of crime and justice. Read on...

Following the success of the Crime and Governance ‘Politics and Crime Control’ symposium, The Journal of Applied Youth Studies (JAYS), along with guest editors Joel McGregor and Xanthé Mallett, are now welcoming abstract submissions for a special issue to be published in early 2018.                                                                                        Abstract submission deadline: December 7. Read on...

Breastfeeding in Public thematic series                                                           International Breastfeeding Journal                                                                                     Abstract submission deadline: November 30. Read on...

Consumer Vulnerability: Advancing a multidisciplinary perspective of vulnerability                                                                                                                                    The Editors are looking for interdisciplinary perspective on consumer vulnerability. Submission deadline: 12 February, 2018. Read on...

Gift Memberships

Gift memberships are available with TASA.  If you would like to purchase a gift membership, please email the following details through to the TASA Office:

1. First name of gift recipient;
2. email address of gift recipient;
3. the membership category you are gifting (see the Membership Categories & Fees section of TASAweb);
4. the cost of the membership; and
5. who the Membership Invoice should be made out to;

Upon receiving the above details, TASA will email the recipient with full details on how they can take up the gift membership.  You can view an example of that email in both Word (39kb) and Pdf (159kb) formats. You will receive an invoice, via email, after the recipient completes the online membership form.

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