Registrations

Early bird registration closes on 15 October 2006.

For further details of registration costs, please click on the Online Registration Form.

Call for Papers

Full Paper (Refereed):

SUBMISSIONS FOR FULL PAPER (REFEREED) HAVE NOW CLOSED

Full Paper (General):

Abstract to be submitted by 8 September 2006

Work in Progress Paper:

Abstract to be submitted by 8 September 2006

To submit an abstract for Full Paper (General) or Work in Progress Paper, please click on the link titled Abstracts/Paper Submission.

Health Day

Monday 4 December 12 noon ? 5pm

(Coordinator: Dr Bev McNamara, [email protected])

Postgraduate Workshop

Monday 4 December 10.30am ? 4.30pm

(Coordinators: Tara McGee, [email protected] and Angela Dwyer [email protected] )

Advanced Methodology Seminar (NEW!)

Thursday 7 December 1pm ? 5pm

The Advanced Methodology Seminar seeks to bring together those interested in qualitative and quantitative social research methods for a stimulating afternoon of debate.
Plenary speakers Professor Emeritus David Silverman, Goldsmiths College, will speak on The Aesthetics of Qualitative Research: On Bullshit and Tonsils (1 - 2pm) and?Professor Catherine Riessman, Boston College, will speak on Narrative Analysis and Bob Dylan: What's the Connection? (2 - 2.45pm). The afternoon will conclude with a round table discussion on "Getting sociology heard - research methods in the public eye". Participants include the plenary speakers, plus Yoland Wadsworth (Swinburne); Alec McHoul (Murdoch); Max Travers (Utas); and Timothy Phillips (ANU) (3.15 - 5pm).
The afternoon costs $45.

(Co-ordinator: Dr Farida Tilbury, [email protected])

Opening Reception

Monday 4 Dec 6.00 ? 7.30pm

Women's Breakfast

Tuesday 5 Dec 7.30 ? 8.30am

Lecture and Reception at Murdoch University

Tuesday 5 Dec 6 ? 8 pm (buses will leave UWA at 5.15pm)
Professor Bryan Turner, National University of Singapore, will present a lecture titled ?Sociology of Mobile Rights: mobility, borders and security? discussing whether there can be rights to travel and how these are contradicted by modern surveillance. This will be followed by a reception before buses return delegates to Crawley or deliver them to the restaurant strip in Fremantle.

Conference Dinner

Wednesday 6 Dec 7.30pm

This year?s conference dinner will be held at the beautiful Mulberry on Swan, Caversham, in the Swan Valley. (For a preview of the venue, click here). Buses will transport delegates to and from the venue.

Additional Post-Conference Event

Following the TASA conference, The University of Western Australia will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of Anthropology at UWA with a Symposium, Anthropology in the West: 1956 - 2006 8 & 9 December, 2006.

One of the symposium sessions, on the interface between Anthropology and Sociology at UWA, will feature presentations from the outgoing and incoming Presidents of TASA: Dr Roberta Julian and Dr Michael Gilding.

Please check http://www.anthropology.arts.uwa.edu.au/50th for more information.

Conference Organising Committee

Dr Val Colic-Peisker, Murdoch University (co-convenor)
Dr Farida Tilbury, Murdoch University (co-convenor, Advanced Methodology Seminar coordinator)
Dr Bev McNamara, UWA (co-convenor, Health Day coordinator)
A/Prof Loretta Baldassar, UWA
Dr Raelene Wilding, UWA

Conference Secretariat

For registration, accommodation and general enquiries, please contact:
Institute of Advanced Studies
The University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway , CRAWLEY WA 6009, Australia
t: +61 8 6488 1340
f: +61 8 6488 1711
e: [email protected]
www.ias.uwa.edu.au