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Date: 6/2/2022
Subject: CHASS Newsletter June 3
From: Sally Daly



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CHASS Newsletter
Dear ~~first_name~~,
 
We are excited to welcome new and renewing members; the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy (ASCP),  the Association for the Study of Religion (AASR) and the Australian Women's & Gender Studies Association (AWGSA). ASCP,  AASR and AWGSA are three of the associations participating in this year's inaugural Congress of HASS.  On that note, the Congress of HASS organising committees and working groups continue to meet and plan for this exciting inaugural event.
 
Congress of HASS

The Congress of the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

November 24 - December 3, 2022


If you haven't already, we welcome and encourage you to share the Congress of HASS poster widely to help us promote the event. 

Although it's too late to add you to the poster, if you would like to be a part of the Congress of HASS, there is still time to join this event. If your association has a conference, symposium, public lecture, or workshop etc. that you are planning for the year that might fit as part of the initiative, please contact the CHASS President, Professor Dan Woodman (dan.woodman@unimelb.edu.au). We'll be sure to add your association to our website and other Congress of HASS promotional spaces. 

 
The participating associations are listed below:
 

  • Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
  • Australasian Association of Philosophy
  • Australian Academy of the Humanities
  • Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies
  • Australian and New Zealand Association of Theological Schools
  • Australian Anthropological Society
  • Australian Association for the Study of Religion
  • Australian Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotion
  • Australian Early Medieval Association
  • Australasian Consortium of Humanities Research Centres
  • Australian Historical Association
  • Australian Linguistic Society
  • Australian Society for Continental Philosophy
  • Australian University Heads of English
  • Australian Women’s and Gender Studies Association
  • Cultural Studies Association of Australasia
  • Deans of Arts Social Sciences and Humanities
  • Drama Australia
  • Humanities 21
  • Languages and Cultures Network for Australian Universities
  • The Australian Sociological Association
HASS Awards & Prizes
New: Early-career Researchers Awards
Universities Australia is searching for three emerging researchers who can tell the story of their brightest ideas and its impact. If you would like the chance to have your work celebrated far and wide, then get cracking and submit an entry in this year’s Pitch it clever awards.
Nomination deadline: June 5. Read on... 
 
Head On Photo Awards
Enter your photographs in the Portrait or Landscape categories for a chance to win from a prize pool - including $30,000 cash - and be exhibited in Head On Photo Festival 2022.
Nomination deadline: June 5
Read on...
 
PhD Award
Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association
Nomination deadline: June 30. Read on...
 
Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (DASSH) Awards for Excellence and Innovation
The Awards are offered across these categories:
  • Education and Employability
  • Public Engagement
  • Indigenous
  • International
Nomination deadline: July 1. Read on...
 
Annual Awards
The Australian Sociological Association bestows several annual awards and four of them are currently open for nominations. Namely:
  1. Distinguished Service to Australian Sociology Award;
  2. Outstanding Service to TASA Award;
  3. Sociology in Action Award; and
  4. Early Career Best Paper Prize
Nominations for all 4 awards close on June 15th.
 
PhD Award
 The Australian Women’s Studies Association (AWGSA)
 This thesis prize is given to the best feminist thesis produced in Australia in the two-year period preceding the Biannual AWGSA Conference. The award eligibility period is from November 2020 – June 2022.
Application deadline: June 30. Read on...
 
Holberg Prize
An international prize awarded annually for outstanding contributions to research in the humanities, social sciences, law and theology.
Nomination deadline: June 15. Read on...
  
HASS Events
New: Desiring Silver: Saving Souls, Travelling Light, and the Other Side of the Coin
Free online Seminar 
Wednesday 15 June 6.00 pm (AEST)
For details, and to register, read on...
 
New: Migration, Racism and COVID-19: Challenges and Insights Workshop
Free, in-person event, Parkville, June 17, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM AEST
For details, and to register, read on...
 
New: Being spiritual in Australia: Complexity, contemplation and controversy
Free, online webinar
Wednesday 8 June, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
For details, and to register, read on...
 
New: Workshop is to celebrate National Reconciliation Week and NAIDOC Week 2022.
Free, South Australia
Join in on discussions about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History – Pivotal Moments, Terminology, Pre Colonisation / Post Colonisation / World View, Individual and group activities, what were the Government Policies of the day and the intergenerational impact of the policies, Stolen Generation / Identity / Incarceration / Loss of land – Native Title /Reconciliation
3 dates: 10th, 17th, 23rd June
For details, read on...

New: The Australian Performing Arts Exchange (APAX) conference
In-person at NIDA, Sydney from 5-9 September with options to attend online via livestream.
For details, read on...
 
New: Theatre Network Australia (TNA)
21 July–22 July, TNA will be hosting a series of in-person workshops and networking events for emerging independent performing arts producers and artists. This is an opportunity to connect with peers, refresh and develop producing practice, and hear from established practitioners.
Registrations close Wednesday 20 July.
For details, and to register, read on...
 
New: Artist and Producer Coaching Breakfast
A call for expressions of interest for Victorian performing artists and producers to participate in a breakfast
9am-10:30pm on 21 July 2022.
After registrations close, names will be randomly selected. Those selected will be paid $150 to attend this session, breakfast is provided.
To register, read on...

New: Using novel research translation to change public attitudes
Free online seminar, July 20, 3:00pm - 4:00pm AEST
For details, and to register, read on... 
 
Design Fringe
Melbourne Fringe’s annual object and spatial design exhibition
Registrations deadline: July 1.  Read on...
 
Reception and Emotion - Conference 
Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies
27–30 June
Registration deadline: June 24. Read on...
 
World Religions Symposium 2022
Explore how major world religions have had, and continues to have, profound impacts on societies across the globe.
20 July, 9:30am - 2.00pm, Queensland
For details, and to register, read on... 

Diversity Now
The International Symposium on Bilingualism
26-30 June 2023

Symposia deadline:
1 September. Read on... 
 
Urgent Histories
Australian Historical Association Conference
Monday 27 June – Friday 1 July
Deakin University Geelong Waterfront Campus
For details, read on...   
 
Households and Sustainability Workshop in Italy
Monash University is hosting an international workshop bringing together interdisciplinary perspectives on household innovation and agency in sustainability transitions.
Monash Prato campus in Italy, October 26-28, 2022.
For the Call for Papers and full details read on... 
 
AAP logo
Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference
28 June - 7 July
Registrations are open. Read on...
 

@ThinkEmotions
Past and Future Emotions
Two-day Symposium
The University of Melbourne (as part of the Congress of HASS)
Abstract submission deadline: June 30. 
Read on...
 

AAS2022
The Australian Anthropology Society's 2022 conference invites panels and papers that respond to the notion of 'Life Support'.
Waurn Ponds (Geelong) campus of Deakin University, 23rd to the 26th November.
Lab submission deadline: July 8. Read on...
 

TASA 2022 logo
Social Challenges, Social Changes
In-person conference at the University of Melbourne
28 November to 2 December 2022.
Keynotes announced: 
  1. Professor Barbara Prainsack, Head of Department at the Department of Political Science at the University Vienna
  2. Dr Samantha Crompvoets, a sociologist, entrepreneur, consultant and advisor to Australian and international governments and the private sector on leadership, accountability, institutional misconduct, and integrating women into traditionally male dominated fields.
  3. New: Professor Yin Paradies, a Wakaya man who is Chair in Race Relations at Deakin university. Yin conducts research on the health, social and economic effects of racism, anti-racism theory, policy and practice as well as Indigenous knowledges and decolonisation.
  
HASS Funding
New: The Strengthening Rural Communities (SRC) program aims to give the thousands of small remote, rural and regional communities across Australia an opportunity to access funding to support broad community needs. Grants up to $10,000 and $50,000 for ongoing Covid-19 recovery, up to $25,000 for ongoing bushfires recovery, and grants up to $10,000 for small community initiatives. 
For details, read on... 
 
The Australian Anthropological Society Postdoctoral Fellowship
Consists of an honorarium of AUD$4,000, awarded to a PhD graduate to assist in the development of work for publication. The honorarium is intended to support the writing up of research already conducted. It is not intended to support fieldwork or conference attendance.
For details, read on...
 
 
HASS Publications

Call for Submissions

Griffith Review are calling for submissions to 'A Matter of Taste'. They are looking for essays, reportage and fiction that respond to the theme in creative and compelling ways.
Submission deadline: July 1. For details, read on... 

Books

Tania Ferfolja & Jacqueline Ullman (2022) Gender and Sexuality Diversity in a Culture of Limitation: Student and Teacher Experiences in Schools. Routledge.  [OPEN ACCESS]
 
Brian Rappert (2022) Performing Deception: Learning, Skill and the Art of Conjuring. Open Book Publishers. [OPEN ACCESS]

Journals

The Journal of Global Indigeneity (JGI) Vol. 6, Issue 1, 2022
Critical Indigenous Sociology Symposium
All articles are available in full here.
 
Crawford, Nicole & McKenzie Lara 2022, 'Localised learning: Mobilising belonging among mature-aged students in low socio-economic status regional and remote areas', Higher Education, online first.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-022-00877-x [OPEN ACCESS]
 
Anthony K J Smith, Christy E. Newman, Bridget Haire, & Martin Holt (2022) Prescribing as affective clinical practice: Transformations in sexual health consultations through HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis. Sociology of Health and Illness. [OPEN ACCESS]
 
Alex Broom, Katherine Kenny, Leah Williams Veazey, Alexander Page, BarbaraPrainsack, Claire E.Wakefield, Mustafa Khasraw, Malinda Itchins, & Zarnie Lwin (2022) Living (well) with cancer in the precision era. Science Direct. [OPEN ACCESS]
 
Shanton Chang & Catherine Gomes. 2022. Why the Digitalization of International Education Matters. Journal of Studies in International Education. 26(2):119-127. doi:10.1177/10283153221095163 [OPEN ACCESS]

Podcasts

 
Shanton Chang & Cat Gomes: International students’ digital experiencesEuropean Association for International Education, May 25th
 
Dissecting Dictators, Seriously Social, May 23rd
 
The Rise of the Campaign Speech, Seriously Social, April 26th

Resources

Theatre Network Australia have added a new resource page to their website to assist performing arts organisations and independents. You can access that page here. 

Videos

  1. Law Matters Series Are Indigenous Rights Inconsistent with Australian Political Traditions?
  2. The Future of Work Challenges of Regulation for the Albanese Labor Government
  3. Transforming Business for the 21st Century: Making Corporate Purpose a Reality
  4. On Capitalism and Freedom: The Social Responsibility of Business
  5. Exploring the relationship between economic insecurity and intimate partner violence
 
 
HASS Employment Opportunities
New: Head of School, School of Social Sciences and Professor
Monash University
Application deadline: July 10. Read on...

New: Lecturer in Digital Cultures
University of Sydney
Application deadline: June 28. Read on...
 
New: Level A Research Officer or Level B Research Fellow
La Trobe University
Application deadline: June 15. Read on...
 
New: Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Environmental Policy
The Fenner School of Environment and Society
Seeking human geographers
Application deadline: June 19. Read on...
 
New: Teaching Opportunity, Semester 2 2022
Casual, June/ July – November 2022, University of Melbourne 
Seeking someone who is sociologically trained, to join a dynamic teaching team. Particularly interested if you have a practice background in the education, public health, youth or community services sectors.
For details, read on...
 
New: Project Officer (First Nations Arts and Culture)
The Australia Council for the Arts, Sydney
Application deadline: June 6. 
Read on...
 
New: Senior Lecturer, Arts and Cultural Management
The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA)
Application deadline: June 6. Read on...
 
New: Dean and Head of School, School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences
University of Newcastle
Application deadline: July 11. Read on...
 
Lecturer, Humanities and Pedagogy
La Trobe University
Application deadline: June 5. Read on...
 
Senior Lecturer, Arts and Cultural Management
Edith Cowan University
Application deadline: June 6. Read on...
 
Associate Dean, Production
Edith Cowan University
Application deadline:
June 15. Read on...

 
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