The importance of China on the global economic stage cannot be ignored, and its unique legal and tax systems are of great inters to international scholars and business people alike. China’s tax system is acquiring western features while remaining entrenched in its rich cultural and historical roots. This makes for interesting study, analysis and comparison as its laws are becoming more accessible. 
The Journal of Chinese Tax & Policy focuses on the policy, administrative and compliance aspects of the Chinese tax system. It also welcomes comparative studies between China and other countries. The Journal is an internationally peerreviewed scholarly publication.

A new online, open access social work and social policy journal published by Social Work and Policy Studies, University of Sydney through the University of Sydney Library. More details are forthcoming. Please register to be informed when submissions are open or a new issue is published.

 

Social Work and Policy Studies: Social Justice, Practice and Theory aims to provide a platform for those advancing knowledge and debate on any aspect of social justice-informed social work, social policy, practice or theory.

With a goal of publishing twice yearly, the journal welcomes submissions that explore questions of: social injustice; inequity; systemic and/or individual oppression; the power dynamics of social relations such as race, class, gender, disability, sexuality, Indigeneity, age, region, political economy; questions engaging with intersectionality and multiple oppressions; and various forms of resistance, social change, social policy and social justice initiatives.  

Swamphen: A Journal of Cultural Ecology encourages critically creative responses to the sentient habitats of the world. We publish scholarly articles, lyrical essays, creative works and reviews of relevant scholarship, amplifying work that attends to human encounters with other species. Our journal emerges from the air, lands and seas that formed the first peoples of our region and we attend to these communities’ narratives as a first principle. While the journal primarily offers literary insights into the unsettled territories many know as Australia and Aotearoa, we also look to other ecologies in formation during this time of critical environmental change. Swamphen is peer reviewed and published biennially, in response to ASLEC-ANZ conferences. We welcome proposals for special issues.

Swamphen: a Journal of Cultural Ecology was previously known as the Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology. Our refreshed name refers to the Australasian swamphen (Porphyrio melanotus), known as the pūkeko in Māori language and the kwilom in Noongar language. Like the swamphen, our journal attends to life on the ground, in the skies and in waters. The name itself, swamp and hen, brings together the plants, earth, water and animals that are the focus of ASLEC-ANZ.

JASAL (ISSN 1833-6027) is a fully peer-reviewed journal of scholarship on Australian Literature, published by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL). We publish one or two general issues each year and one or more guest-edited special issues on particular themes, along with the annual guest-edited conference issue. JASAL welcomes essays that consider Australian literature in all its forms (fictional, critical, print, filmic, and so on) and in terms of its socio-political and cultural contexts. We encourage readers to become ASAL members and to visit the ASAL website for information about conferences and other activities. The Managing Editors of JASAL are Brigitta Olubas and Tony Simoes da Silva.

Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies is a fully-refereed journal of Victorian Studies published by the Australasian Victorian Studies Association (AVSA).

5-7 February 2020

Griffith University, Brisbane, South Bank Campus

 

Theme:  Laughter and Belonging

 Call for Abstracts:

Laughing together can be a powerful force for bonding and bringing people closer to one another, but laughter and humour can also be divisive and exclusionary. This year’s conference theme “Laughter and Belonging” particularly invites presentations on either or both aspects of laughter and humour.

As in previous AHSN conferences, however, presentations are welcome on all aspects of social laughter and humour, and from diverse disciplinary perspectives, including not only humour studies as such, but also literary studies, linguistics, cultural studies, politics, psychology, philosophy, history, comedy studies, law, creative practices, sociology, communication studies and others.

Submission Guidelines:

Abstracts are limited to 500 words only including references (if required). Abstracts will be reviewed by at least two reviewers. Please refer to the AHSN Guidelines for Presenters (LINK) and the Review Procedures of the AHSN (LINK).

To submit your proposal for a paper, you must first register as a ‘User’ on this website. To create your personal account, please REGISTER, and make sure to select ‘Author’ as your role. You may then ‘Log in’ and follow the prompts on ‘User Home’ for you as an Author to ‘Make New Submission’ and upload your Proposal.

Successful applicants will be advised of review outcomes in order of submission and in all case by no later than 1 October 2019.

Presenters are required to subscribe to our free e-Newsletter “The Humour Studies Digest” while submitting their abstracts. It is also possible to subscribe following the link: https://mailman.sydney.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/ahsn-members

Important Dates:

Submission portal opens on June 1, 2019

Submission portal closes on August 31, 2019

Acceptance advice by October 1, 2019

Registration for presenters and non-presenters August 1, 2019 –  January 8, 2020

Conference dates:  February 5-7, 2020

Presentation Format

You will have the opportunity to choose the format of your presentation.

-Standard conference talk: 20 minutes for presentation, 10 minutes for discussion.

-Practical workshop: You can submit a proposal to run a "hands-on" performance-based workshop of 60 minutes.

-Speed talk panel: A feature of the 2020 conference will be a multi-disciplinary panel of 5-6 presenters who will each have 5 minutes to give a short-focused overview of their work. This will be followed by 30-40 minutes of discussion.

Please express your interest in your abstract if you want to be considered for workshop or speed talks panels.

Postgraduate Scholarships

As in previous AHSN conferences, proposals from research students are particularly encouraged. There are five postgraduate scholarships available based on merits. The scholarship will waive the registration fee. The successful candidates will be advised as soon as possible after August 31.

Enquiries:

Should you have any questions or need any help, please contact us at ahsn2020conference@gmail.com

 

The Australian Religion Studies Review is now called Journal for the Academic Study of Religion. Please visit the website of JASR for current research from the leading peer-reviewed journal of the Pacific region dealing with all aspects of the academic study of religion. 

To view the archives of the ARS Review from 1988–2004, please click the link in the top navigation bar, or go here. You do not need to register to view the archives.

Digital Research and Publishing: A Graduate Student Journal in Digital Cultures publishes graduate student research examining the relationship between new technologies and practices of research and publishing. It is an interdisciplinary journal that draws on a number of fields within the humanities and social sciences. Its concern is critically examining and understanding how new media shape and relate to historical processes of textuality, especially in relation to the everyday lives of those living today in an apparently globalised world defined, in part, by the power of new technologies.

Health Education in Practice: Journal of Research for Professional Learning (HEPJ) (ISSN: 2209-3974) is a new electronic journal is dedicated to research and evaluation related to health education in practice. As an open access publication, the journal is designed to encourage dialogues with national and international communities of practice.

International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives (IEJ:CP) is an international, peer-reviewed journal for advancing academic quality and rigor in comparative and international education research. It is the official journal of the Oceania Comparative and International Education Society (OCIES formerly ANZCIES). IEJ:CP seeks to promote scholarly discussion of the relationships among educational policy and practice, theory, and cross-disciplinary global studies.

The LCTJ is an online-only, open access publication.

The LCTJ will publish high quality papers presenting theoretical and methodological developments in Legitimation Code Theory (LCT). These include but are not limited to new theoretical outlines, translation devices and methodological means of enacting LCT in research. The aim of the journal is to provide a forum for such LCT articles and enable them to be freely available to a wide audience.

Organizations play a critical role in any economy, undertaking numerous activities from production, to solving problems and generating new ideas and innovations. The Organizational Economics Workshop, held at The University of Sydney and jointly organised by The University of Sydney and The Australian National University, examines a broad range of economic issues relating to organizations, including: incentive contracts with external and internal parties and managerial remuneration; the organization of production, the use of labour and wage structures; the design of hierarchies; the allocation of decision making protocols within organizations; and the optimal allocation of ownership and alternative ownership structures. The Workshop started in 2007. The Workshop is a place for the presentation of both theoretical and empirical research into organizations.

The Organizational Economics Proceedings is a refereed journal of papers presented at the Workshop. The journal aims to be a forum the quick dissemination of new insights into the internal workings of organizations. Consequently, the Organizational Economics Proceedings also welcomes submissions of original research into organizations from researchers throughout the year. The journal does not require authors to forgo their copyright, so articles published in the Organizational Economics Proceedings can also be submitted and published in other journals.