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As advised yesterday, an issue with the TASA website was identified that provided a potential backdoor to the documents stored in the password protected members' section of the site. We didn't have any evidence that a breach had occurred but disabled the TASA websites as a precaution while we rectified the situation. The sites are back on line with some limited functionality, particularly links, while these are being fixed. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

TASA 2018

Call for plenary participants

Doing research on the academy, on academic precarity and/or changes in academic work? Fran Collyer is organising a plenary on these issues for the next annual TASA conference, and would be pleased to hear from you. Please do not concern yourself with funding for attending the conference at this stage. Contact Fran.Collyer@sydney.edu.au

Posters

If you would like to present at TASA 2018, and you are not an Honours student or above, you are invited to submit a poster presentation. More details about this will be available soon.

Health Sociology Review

Call for New Editorial Team

Applications are invited for the editorship of the journal Health Sociology Review for the four-year term 2019–2022. Transition arrangements will begin in 2018, although the content for the first issue of 2019 will be finalised by the out-going editors. Submissions due: June 29. Read on...

Journal of Sociology

Call for Submissions

Special Edition 2020: The Journal of Sociology is an international journal published four times a year by Sage. Each year the Editors invite expressions of interest from the international community of sociological scholars in guest editing a Special Edition of the Journal. Special Editions may address any sociological theme which is likely to be of interest to the Journal readership.                                                                Expressions of Interests due: July 9. Read on...

Call for Papers

Special Edition of the Journal of Sociology 2019: “Inequalities in the ‘Gig Economy’ era: gender and generational challenges”.                         Abstracts due: April 8. Read on... 

Content Alerts

For instructions on how to set up the Table of Contents email alerts for the Journal of Sociology, please right click here and open them up in a new tab.

2018 Awards

• Stephen Crook Memorial Prize - Closes April 30.  Read on...
• Raewyn Connell Prize - Closes April 30. Read on...
• Outstanding Service to TASA - Closes May 31. Read on...
• Distinguished Service to Australian Sociology - Closes May 31. Read on...
• Sociology in Action - Closes June 15. Read on...
• Outstanding Contributions to Teaching in Australian Sociology - Closes June 15. Read on...
• Early Career Researcher – Best Paper Prize - Closes June 30. Read on...

For details, please go to the Social Sciences Week website. 

TASA members attending ISA 2018 Toronto

Our list of TASA members going to Toronto continues to grow. As mentioned in previous newsletters, TASA will be having a stand at the event (#30) to promote our ISA 2022 Melbourne event. If you are not on the list below, and you are going to Toronto, please email the TASA Office and we'll include you in next week's newsletter.

Book Chapters

Schermuly, A. C. (accepted 20 March 2018) 'Urbanisation, law and order, and vulnerability'. In H. Forbes-Mewett (Ed.) Vulnerability in a Mobile World. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing Ltd.

Journal - Articles

Schermuly, A. C. (accepted 9 March 2018) 'Encounters between the police and the public: Seize the day or practice avoidance?', Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice (forthcoming).

Charlotte Fabiansson (2018) Belonging and Social Identity Among Young People in Western Sydney, Australia. Int. Migration & Integration https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-018-0540-x. Published online 14 February 2018.

Susan Banks (2018). The social dynamics of devaluation in an aged care context. Journal of Sociology. Published online March 23, 2018.

Knight F, Kokanović R, Ridge D, Brophy L, Hill N, Johnston-Ataata K & Herrman H (2018) Supported Decision-Making: The Expectations Held by People With Experience of Mental Illness. Qualitative Health Research. DOI: 10.1177/1049732318762371 

Gavin Smith (2018). Data doxa: The affective consequences of data practices. Big Data & Society. Article first published online: January 17, 2018

Informed News and Analysis

Sophie Lewis & Karen Willis, 'Do you really need private health insurance? Here's what you need to know before deciding. The Conversation

Alan Morris, 'Mission nearly impossible: the City of Sydney’s efforts to increase the affordable housing supply'. The Conversation

Blogs

Trudy Hart, 'The work-life balance struggle for contemporary single mothers: Individual views and experiences'.

Janeen Baxter, 'Life Course Centre - March 2018 Newsletter'

Ann Game, 'Weather, meetings, walking'

Zines

Ashleigh Watson, 'So Fi zine is currently accepting submissions for Edition #3.' Submit by April 15.

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. 

Jens Zinn has been invited to give a keynote for the 27th Society of Risk Analysis annual conference in Sweden: June 18–20 2018. The conference theme is Risk & Uncertainty – From Critical Thinking to Practical Impact. Jens keynote is titled Understanding Risk-taking – Paradoxes and Explanations.

Crystal Abidin has been invited to give a keynote for the Instagram Conference 2018: Studying Instagram Beyond Selfies. June 1, 2018. Crystal's keynote is titled Tap that, Hack that, Map that: Economies, Cultures, and Materialites of Instagram.

Lesley Pruitt has been invited as a guest speaker for the seminar 'Displacements: From Everyday Experience to Global Policy - A Monash GPS Public Discussion'. May 7, 2018.

Deborah Lupton has been invited to be a part of a panel for Victorian Health event, 'Harnessing the Power of Digital Technologies'. April 24. Deborah will provide an overview of how technology is being used in health promotion, some of the opportunties, limitations and important factors that need to be considered when using technology in health promotion.

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.

Edgar Burns has been appointed Senior Lecturer at La Trobe University. Before coming to Australia he served as Faculty Research Mentor in New Zealand, reporting that experience in an article, ‘Research mentoring academic staff in a new degree environment’. Journal of Educational Leadership, Policy & Practice, 24(2), 68-80 in 2009. Since completing his PhD at La Trobe in 2010 he has published several dozen articles and many conference presentations. Teaching articles include his latest, ‘Ethic of discomfort: Is asking for nude lipstick racist?’ online 2018 in Race Ethnicity and Education. He is currently completing a book provisionally titled Theorizing Professions: A Sociological Introduction, and is a team member in a La Trobe project about Australian school teachers’ experiences of being bullied.

Thematic Groups

Re-imagining economic security & wellbeing in an age of precarity

Workshop for TASA members hosted jointly by TASA ‘Sociology of Economic Life’ and ‘Work, Employment and Social Movements’ Thematic Groups    Melbourne, Friday 23 November                                                                                        Abstract submission deadline: June 1. Read on...

International Sociological Association

Global Mapping of Sociologists for Social Inclusion (GMSSI) 

The International Sociological Association (ISA) has undertaken the development of the Global Mapping of Sociologists for Social Inclusion (GMSSI) to create the globaldatabase of sociologists.

GMSSI aims to identify, connect, and enable global collaborations in sociology, and support sociologists who encounter multiple barriers, economic and political, which impede participation in global exchanges.

GMSSI aims to increase the visibility of sociologists and their knowledge production and also be an important resource for sustained interaction with the media on a range of issues.

Your participation is important to the success of GMSSI in building this global sociological community.

To start: Go to https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/gmssi/callforparticipants.cgi where ISA briefly explain what the site is about and where they offer a link to sign in or sign up. You do not need to be a member of ISA to participate. 

Other Events, News & Opportunities

Seminar

New: Displacements: From Everyday Experience to Global Policy - A Monash GPS Public Discussion. Please join Monash GPS & friends as they will be launching the Signs special issue on Displacement.                                                                                                    Monday 07 May 2018, 5:30-8pm, Monash Law Chambers                                                  RSVP deadline: 30 April. Read on...

Symposium

New: Housing & Community Research Unit - Housing, Welfare, Social Policy, Problematic populations: past, present and future                                          14-15 June, Hobart                                                                                                                Submission deadline: April 13. Read on...

Pentecostal Charismatic Christianities in Oceania                                          Keynote Speaker: Debra McDougall (Melbourne University) -‘Crashing waves: The transnational force of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity in Oceania and beyond’  17-18 of August, Parramatta                                                                                              Submission deadline: April 30. Read on...

Surveys - Call for Volunteers

New: TASA members Alan Petersen and Kiran Pienaar, both from Monash University, are conducting research into the use of testing in healthcare. As part of this study, they are calling for volunteers to complete a short online survey. They are looking for those who have participated, or been invited to participate, in bowel, breast or cervical cancer screening & those who have recently undergone, or considered undergoing, a medical test. See, Online survey: Experiences of health testing and screening.  

Anthropocene Campus Melbourne 2018 (ACM18)

New: PhD candidates, Humanities, Arts and Social Science scholars at all levels, as well as artists, physical scientists, engineers, and other practitioners, are encouraged to apply.      3-6 September                                                                                                                          Engage in recent debates that have occurred over the past decade about the existence and start date of ‘the Anthropocene’. Reference to the age of the human has provided an important prompt for academics, artists and others to critically reconsider how knowledge is produced and reproduced. What forms of critique, knowledge-making and collaboration are needed to meet the challenges we now face? Across the four days of ACM18 participants will engage in a range of lectures, field trips, and workshops in Melbourne and the wider area exploring the theme of ‘The Elemental’.                                              Application deadline: April 3. Read on...

Call for Book Proposals

A new Palgrave book series edited by TASA members Kim Toffoletti (Deakin) and Holly Thorpe (U.Waikato, NZ) (along with Jessica Francombe-Webb, U.Bath, UK) is seeking book proposals. The series, titled ‘New Femininities in Digital, Physical and Sporting Cultures’, welcomes proposals that investigate gender identities and assemblages in sport, physical culture and fitness contexts. For more details please contact kim.toffoletti@deakin.edu.au or follow this link.

Call for Papers

New: Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change is an international, interdisciplinary peer-reviewed and open access journal. It aims to publish excellent cultural analysis from a range of perspectives. It welcomes innovative and original conceptual and empirical research drawn from a number of disciplines including sociology, social theory, cultural studies, history, cultural anthropology and media studies. Read on...

Performing the University (working title): An anthology about the concept of the university as performance

Volume Editors: James Arvanitakis (Western Sydney University), Peter Copeman (University of Canberra) & Amanda Burrell (Western Sydney University)            Universities are cultural entities, fashioned, refashioned and contextualised in specific social and historical circumstances, in elaborate and protracted processes. As such, they are constituted by behaviours that are learned, rehearsed, presented and re-presented over time – as a series of performances. Abstract submission deadline: April 3. Read on...

Gender and Sexuality Studies Seminar Series

Deakin Downtown, 727 Collins Street, Tower 2, Docklands, Victoria. The seminars are held on the first Friday of every month. Fellow member Brady Robards is scheduled to speak on Friday May 4. The full list of speakers for the year can be viewed here.

Queer Will: hikikomori as willful subjects                                                                            'First Fridays' Deakin GSS Seminar Series: Rosemary Overell on 'Queer Will'                  April 6, Melbourne. Read on...

Conferences

Youth Futures: Connection and Mobility in the Asia Pacific                                   This year’s conference will explore the increasingly interlinked, complex and uncertain world that young people across the Asia Pacific live in.                                                                  15 – 16 November,  Deakin Downtown, Melbourne                                                            Keynote speakers include fellow members Shanthi Robertson and Crystal Abidin Submission deadline: May 14. Read on...

Power & Governance: Forms, Dynamics, Consequences                                Tampere, Finland, 27–29 August 2018                                                                           Submission deadline: March 30. Read on...

Oceania Ethnography and Education Network  - for scholars interested in the socio-cultural analysis of education.                                                                                                16-17 August 2018 at Deakin Downtown (Melbourne, Vic)                                          Submission deadline: May 1. Read on...

International Conference on Marxist Critical Theory in Eastern Europe 16-19th of November, Chengdu, China.                                                                                Submission deadline: June 30. Read on...

European Sociological Association Research Network 29 Social Theory Mid-term Conference Refigurations of Society, Sociological Perspectives on Modernity in Transition                                                                                                                      September 5-6, Berlin, Germany                                                                                  Submission deadline: April 7. 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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