 | Dear ~~first_name~~,
Social Sciences Week ran again recently from the 9 to 15 September 2024 and CHASS was one of the participating organisations. My predecessor as CHASS President, Professor Dan Woodman, was the moving spirit behind initiating this now large and very successful enterprise eight years ago and Dan has remained a champion of it, with the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia now coordinating a large national program of events.
I much enjoyed attending the week’s launch at the Parliamentary Breakfast here in Canberra on 9 September, chaired by ASSA President, Professor Richard Holden. It was also a pleasure on that occasion to hear Dan Woodman, among others, speak about the critical role of the social sciences in improving the quality of our lives. It was tremendous, too, to learn from researchers themselves of several exciting First Nations projects awarded funding through the Academy’s 2024 Rechnitz Fund grants for early- and mid-career Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social science researchers. There were many highlights, but I mention just one to provide flavour of the innovative work being done: Gomeroi researcher and disability advocate Dr Sheelagh Daniels-Mays will be involved in developing the first ever braille code for an Australian Indigenous language. Congratulations to Sheelagh and all those who will be undertaking projects under this excellent program.
CHASS’s own Social Sciences Week event was a conversation I had online, on 11 September, with artist Dr Vic McEwan, who was the winner of our most recent Distinguished Works Prize. We talked about a range of topics connected with Vic’s work, including his role as a leader in regional arts through the Cad Factory, of which Vic is Artistic Director. Our conversation homed in on Vic’s work at the intersection of the arts, humanities and medicine via Face to Face: The New Normal, and the doctorate Vic undertook in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sydney in connection with this exhibition. Vic’s interdisciplinary art – which takes in sound, sculpture, photography, projection, performance, installation and 3D scanning – has engaged in particular with facial nerve paralysis. He is pioneering a socially engaged artistic practice that seeks to build relations, and mutual understanding, between patients, health practitioners and artists, all in new and exciting ways. The session was recorded, and is available on the CHASS YouTube Channel. My thanks to Sally Daly for her work in bringing us together, and to Vic for a stimulating conversation.
It was a pleasure subsequently to hear Vic speak on a panel with Kirsten Wehner and Bradley Bell (chaired by Professor Simon Haberle) at the Australian National University in Canberra on another recent project, the film More than a Fish Kill. Being shown as part of Immersia 2024, a festival run annually by the ANU School of Culture, History & Language, this documentary film explored the tragic fish kills in western New South Wales in 2019 and 2023, as well as the efforts of local communities to rebuild and rejuvenate the environment in its wake. It is a remarkable story of both the Barkindji and Wiradjuri peoples and another reminder of the importance of artists and scholars connecting with local and regional communities. The film, undertaken as a partnership between the Cad Factory and the National Museum of Australia, is being shown at various events across the country, so do get along to see it if you have the chance.
Frank Bongiorno AM
CHASS President | | CHASS Prize for Distinctive Work in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
This prize is for a performance, exhibition, research project or a specific advance in policy development in any HASS field. Performances or exhibitions must have been open to the public between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2023. Policy work and research may have commenced earlier, but must have been completed during 2023.
Nomination deadline: September 25, 2024.
| | | | CHASS Future Leaders Writing Prize
The CHASS Future Leaders Writing Prize aims to recognise and reward young Australian writers (35 and under). The theme for 2024 is 'open'.
Please email your submissions to helen@futureleaders.com.au by September 25th and cc CHASS Admin (membership@chass.org.au).
| | | The Future Leaders Writing Prize 2024
Prize: $10,000
Sorento Creative Writing Prize
Prize: $5,000
| ACSPRI Fellowship Program
PhD candidates at ACSPRI Member Institutions are invited to apply for the 2025-26 ACSPRI Fellowship Program.
Valued at $25,000, the fellowship will help PhD students to achieve their career goals, by providing direct financial support and professional development opportunities.
Fellowship holders will receive an annual bursary for two years and financial support to participate in ACSPRI courses and events.
| The Australian Linguistic Society is currently seeking application for the Susan Kaldor Scholarship, which funds international summer school or intensive programs for Australian linguistics students. The Susan Kaldor Scholarship provides funding of up to $2,500 to assist an ALS student member to attend an international institute, summer school or similar intensive course (for example the Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute; the LOT Summer School (The Netherlands); etc).
Western Sydney University is now open to applications for their Language & Cultural Diversity in Automated Decision-Making: Australasia Pacific scholarship. Successful domestic candidates will receive a tax-free stipend of $35,000 (AUD) per annum for up to 3 years to support living costs, supported by the Research Training Program (RTP) Fee Offset. Successful international candidates will receive a tax-free stipend of $35,000 (AUD) per annum for up to 3 years to support living costs. Those with a strong track record will be eligible for a tuition fee waiver, [and Overseas Student Health Cover (OSHC) insurance (Single Policy)].
Application deadline: 30 September
Applications are invited from suitably qualified scholars for a PhD scholarship to undertake a higher degree by research, funded by the Australian Research Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (CEVAW). The PhD candidates will be located in the Department of Social Work in the Melbourne School of Health Sciences under the primary supervision of either Honorary Professor Cathy Humphreys or Professor Sarah Wendt, and other suitable supervisors as agreed. Two PhD Scholarships are available.
Application deadline: 14 October
| Symposiums
Everyday Heritage and Difficult Legacies - Congress of HASS
Everyday Heritage & Australian Historical Association
Thursday November 28th, 10am - 5pm, UWA
The Everyday Heritage Symposium is a partnership event with the Australian Historical Association (AHA), the Congress of the Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (CHASS), University of Canberra, University of Western Australia, and Business Events Perth (BEPerth).
The ‘Save-the-Date’ flyer for the symposium can be accessed here.
The ideas & ideals of Australia: The Lucky Country turns sixty
Australian Academy of the Humanities
Canberra
Thursday 14 - Friday 15 November 2024
Conferences
The State of Democracy and Politics: Local, Regional and Global
Australian Political Studies Association
University of Western Australia
Monday November 25 - Thursday 28 November 2024
Anthropology in Crisis: Reclaiming the Discipline in Contested Spaces and Times
Australian Anthropological Society
University of Western Australia
Tuesday November 26 - Thursday 28 November 2024
Living Now: Social Worlds, Political Landscapes
The Australian Sociological Association
Curtin University
Tuesday November 26th - Friday November 29th
9th Biennial ACSPRI Social Science Methodology Conference
Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Incorporated
University of Sydney, Holme Building
Wednesday 27 - Friday 29 November 2024
Earlybird registration opens: Late August
Earlybird registration deadline: 11 October
Short videos submission deadline: 13 November
Kia Tōnui – Flourish: 2024
Drama New Zealand & Drama Australia
Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington, New Zealand
Friday 27 - Monday 30 September 2024
Public Lecture
Shape the Nation
Academy of Social Sciences Australia
Chief Scientist Dr Cathy Foley is confirmed for the Academy’s ‘Shape the Nation’ lecture as part of the CHASS Congress of HASS on Thursday 28 November from 5-7pm. More details to follow soon.
Online Symposiums
AAP Online Conference
Australasian Association of Philosophy
Wednesday 16 - Friday 18 October
Convention
2024 SHAPE Futures EMCR Network Annual Convention
SHAPE Futures Network
The University of Western Australia, Perth
Thursday 28 November
1PM – 2PM Panel Discussion
2PM – 4PM EMCR Workshop
4PM – 5:30PM Networking event
More information soon.
Colloquium
20th Murdoch Colloquium: Philosophy & Indigenous Knowledges
Australasian Association of Philosophy, Murdoch University and the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy
Thursday 28 - Friday 29 November 2024
Seminars
NEW: Storytelling in colonial contexts: law, lore, and transformation
University of Melbourne
Thursday 10 October, 6:45PM - 7:45PM
NEW: The work of literature in an age of political polarisation
University of Melbourne
Thursday 24 October, 6:45PM - 7:45PM
| All of the below articles are available on open access:
Noh, J.-E. (2024). Coloniality and decoloniality in ‘comfort women’ memory activism: Transnational and transgenerational truth-telling practices in Australia. Journal of Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1177/14407833241253629
Mahl, D., Zeng, J., Schäfer, M. S., Egert, F. A., & Oliveira, T. (2024). “We Follow the Disinformation”: Conceptualizing and Analyzing Fact-Checking Cultures Across Countries. The International Journal of Press/Politics. https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612241270004
Santos, A., & Cazzamatta, R. (2024). Who Shapes Mediated Conversations Among Rising Global Powers? Examining News Geography, Authorship, and Media Sources Within the BRICS Framework. The International Journal of Press/Politics. https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612241269835
Pienaar, K., Kelaita, P., & Murphy, D. (2024). COVID-19 and the biopolitics of stigma in public housing: dividing practices and community boundaries in pandemic times. Health Sociology Review, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2024.2390019
Mills, X. J. (2024). “Defend your children, they can be taken by two gay men”: A scoping review of the conflating and diversionary discourses used in same-sex marriage debates. Sexualities. https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607241274504
Chandra, S., Broom, A., Ridge, D., Peterie, M., Lafferty, L., Broom, J., Kenny, K., Treloar, C., & Applegate, T. (2024). Treatment ‘cultures’, sexually transmitted infections and the rise of antimicrobial resistance. Sociology of Health & Illness, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13832
Gertz, J., Petray, T., Compton, A., Jorgensen, M., & Vivian, A. (2024). Gugu Badhun Sovereignty Sundays: An adaptable online Indigenous nation-building method. Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues, 27(1–2), 41–61. https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.T2024080800004590612646662
Haw, A. L. (2024). Digital Racism and Antiracism Toward Asian and Muslim Communities During the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Australian Experience. Media International Australia. https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878X241274446
Balan, V. (2024). Digital technologies and the protest paradigm: The discursive construction of the #WomanLifeFreedom protests in Time and Wired magazine. Media, Culture & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437241276126
| Uniting Families Report 2024
The Uniting Families Report 2024 is the first in a 10-year series of reports that seeks to explore family life in Australia, especially the families in which children and young people are being raised.
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School uniforms and ‘appropriate appearance’ policies (Kayla Mildren)
A podcast called Meet The Education Researcher, hosted by Neil Selwyn, recently had an episode interviewing Kayla Mildren, the interview focused on her work on the sociology of school uniform policies – especially schools' attempts to regulate students’ hair and hairstyles.
The podcast can be found here. | A new book called "An Anthology of Global Risk", edited by SJ Beard and Tom Hobson, brings together a diversity of key texts in the emerging field of Existential Risk Studies. This book highlights the ongoing development of new academic paradigms and theories of change that have emerged from a community of researchers in and around the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. The chapters in this book challenge received notions of human extinction and civilization collapse and seek to chart new paths towards existential security and hope.
The full text can be accessed here.
A new book called "Trix: The Other Kipling", written by Barbara Fisher, represents the first biography of Alice MacDonald Kipling Fleming (1868-1948), known as Trix. The biography follows adolescent Trix as she returned to India, where her brother encouraged her to write poems and stories, which were regularly mistaken for his. In telling Trix’s story, Barbara Fisher rescues her from the misrepresentations, trivializations, and outright neglect of Rudyard’s many biographers.
The full text can be accessed here.
A new book called "Bitter-Sweet Democracy?: Analyzing citizens' resentment towards politics in Belgium", edited by Louise Knops, Karen Celis, Virginie Van Ingelgom, Heidi Mercenier and François Randour, offers new, empirical evidence on the state of trust, democracy and representation in Belgium; it further introduces an innovative methodological and conceptual framework to study this ‘crisis’, specifically by developing the concept of political resentment. By adopting a distinctive affective lens and by building upon the specific case of Belgium, this volume contributes to the broader conversation on political resentment and the critical role of emotions in contemporary politics.
The full text can be accessed here.
A new book called "Augustus De Morgan, Polymath: New Perspectives on his Life and Legacy", written by Karen Attar, Adrian Rice and Christopher Stray, celebrates De Morgan as a polymath. Drawing together multiple elements of his activity from a range of publications and archives, its contributors re-assess his academic work, his place in his intellectual environment, and his legacy. The result offers new insight into De Morgan himself as well as the wider circles in which he moved, including his family life.
The full text can be accessed here.
| | HASS Employment Opportunities |
NEW: Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Innate Variations of Sex Characteristics Psychosocial Models of Care)
Part Time
University of Southern Queensland
NEW: Policy Adviser - Social Services
Full time
Centre for Policy Development
NEW: Program Officer - Wellbeing
Full Time
Centre for Policy Development
NEW: Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor in Violin
Full Time
University of Melbourne
NEW: Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Viola
Full Time
University of Melbourne
NEW: Lecturer (B) - School of Humanities | Spanish Studies Program
Full Time
University of Adelaide
NEW: Postdoctoral Research Fellow / Research Fellow in Sociology
Full Time
University of Sydney
NEW: Associate Lecturer in Italian
Full Time
Australian National University
NEW: Professor / Associate Professor in Indigenous Studies & Director
Full Time
University of Melbourne
NEW: Lecturer, Science and Society
Full Time
James Cook University
NEW: Associate Lecturer in French
Full Time
Australian National University
Application deadline: October 15. Read on...
NEW: Lecturer in Glass & Ceramics
Full Time
Australian National University
Professor of Architecture
Full Time
The University of Newcastle Australia
NEW: Sydney Horizon Educators/Teaching and Research (the Sydney School Architecture, Design and Planning)
Full Time and Part Time
University of Sydney
NEW: English Language Teacher
Casual
University of Sydney
NEW: Postdoctoral Fellow / Research Associate
Full Time
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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