Dear  ,

TASA bestows several prestigious awards and four of them are currently open for nominations:

1. Outstanding Service to TASA Award, closes May 31
2. TASA Award for Distinguished Service to Australian Sociology, closes May 31
3. TASA Sociology in Action Award, closes June 15
4. TASA Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teaching in Australian Sociology, closes June 15

Employment Opportunities

Professor/Associate Professor in Social Science

New: School of Public Health and Social Work,  Faculty of Health                                                   Queensland University of Technology, Calvin Grove                                                              This is an ongoing, full time position that is open to Domestic and International applicants. Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply.  The Professor / Associate Professor of Social Science will have a strong research leadership role in the discipline of Social Work and Human Services and within the wider School of Public Health and Social Work, and will contribute to postgraduate and undergraduate supervision and teaching.                                                                                                                  Application deadline: April 30. Read on...

Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Sociology of Ageing/Social Gerontology 

Sociology Programme, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore: Young and research-intensive, Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) is ranked 13th globally and 1st amongst the world’s best young universities.                                                                                                     Application deadline: April 14. Read on...

Members' Publications

Journal Articles

Dempsey, D. and Lindsay, J. (2017) ‘Surnaming Children Born to Lesbian and Heterosexual Couples: Displaying Family Legitimacy to Diverse Audiences’, Sociology

Adam Possamai, Jennifer E. Cheng, Stephane Lathion & Malcom Voyce (2017) Representations of Sharia in Three Global Cities: Sydney, New York and Geneva 2008–2013, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations

Johanna Wyn, Hernán Cuervo, Jessica Crofts, Dan Woodman (2017) Gendered transitions from education to work: The mysterious relationship between the fields of education and work,  Journal of Sociology

Zlatko Skrbiš (2017) Book Review: The Martin Presence: Jean Martin and the Making of the Social Sciences in Australia, Journal of Sociology

Informed News Analysis & Commentary

Kate Fitz-Gibbon, JaneMaree Maher, Jude McCulloch & Sandra Walklate: Victoria leads the way on family violence, but Canberra needs to lift its game, The Conversation

Blogs

James Arvanitakis: Factors contributing to high PhD completion rates…

Alan Scott: Believing in Sociology

Deborah Lupton: Deborah Lupton in Europe: June 2017

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...

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: June 1. 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: June 2. Read on...

Other Events

Seminars

New: Fellow member Alan Petersen on Can and should ageing be ‘treated’?  Making sense of the rise of the anti-ageing treatment market                                        Tuesday, 11 April 2017, 12.00 – 1.00 pm NARI Seminar Room, Building 9, Melbourne     All welcome: Read on...

Deborah Lupton on Tour

New: Fellow member Deborah Lupton will be giving four talks in Europe in June this year. Here are the details and the links to the events.

• 31 May-2 June: Society Through the Lens of the Digital, Hanover, Germany (Deborah is giving a lecture in the session on ‘Identity in Times of Algorithm – Quantified Self and Gamification’ on 1 June)
• 5 June: Critical Approaches to Digital Health and Leisure in Older Age, Bath, UK (giving a keynote)
• 6-7 June: 5th Annual Weight Stigma Conference, Prague, Czech Republic (giving a keynote on 6 June)
• 7-9 June: Metric Culture: the Quantified Self and Beyond, Aarhus, Denmark (giving a keynote on 7 June)

Masterclass

Masterclass for postgraduate and early career researchers                   Expressions of interest are invited for a masterclass with Associate Professor Rob Shields (University of Alberta, Canada), hosted by the Department of Sociology at Macquarie University, North Ryde. The Masterclass is free and includes morning tea.            Expressions of Interest deadline: tomorrow April 7. Read on...

Exhibitions / Public Forums

Imagining food: art, aesthetics and design                                                                                     Tasmania                                                                                                                                                                     The exhibition, that includes work from fellow member Peta Cook,  is on until tomorrow April 7. Read on...

Symposiums

Religion and the Humanitarian Challenge                                                           The Religion and Global Society Symposium 2017, Institute for Ethics and Society, University of Notre Dame Australia      August 9th & 10th                                                               Abstract Submission: May 31.  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: June 1. Read on...

Conferences

TASA's Annual Conference                                                                                   Belonging in a Mobile World, 27 - 30 November, Perth                                                                Submission deadline: June 1. Read on...

Indigenous Conference Services (ICS) are jointly hosting with the Indigenous Wellbeing Centre (IWC) to stage The 2017 National Indigenous Drug & Alcohol Misuse Conference                                                                                                                        21 – 23 August, Brisbane. Read on...

17th European Society for Health and Medical Sociology Biennial Conference                     Old tensions, emerging paradoxes in health: rights, knowledge, and trust       7-8 June 2018, Lisbon-Portugal                                                                                                         Submission deadline: April 17. Read on...

XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology                                                                                                 Power, Violence and Justice: Reflections, Responses and Responsibilities                            Toronto, Canada, on July 15-21, 2018. Read on...

Knowledge/Culture/Ecologies                                                                                 November 15-18, 2017
Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago - Chile                                                                                              Call for papers open. Read on...

8th Urban Space and Social Life:  Theory and Practice                                          Transforming Urbanity: People and Cities on the Move                                         9 - 12 June, Malyasia                                                                                                       Call for Papers, Photos for Exhibition, and Photo Essays                                        Submission deadline extended: APRIL 20. Read on...

Social Boundaries of Work. Methodological and Practical Problems of Research on Work and Employment in Modern Societies                                   27-28 of October, Institute of Sociology of the University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland) Submission deadline: April 30. Read on...

Summer School

New: 7th Marie Jahoda Summer School of Sociology in Vienna from September 24 to 29, 2017. This year’s topic is “Exile and Memory”.                                                        Application deadline: April 30. Read on...

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