16th Annual Junior Theorists Symposium

Thursday, August 4, 2022

University of Southern California

Please register to attend in-person here

Interested in attending virtually? Register here

Donate to support JTS: Venmo: @JTS-2022

8:30am – 9:00am PST | Light breakfast

9:00am – 10:20am PST | Panel 1: Health and the politics of knowledge

Discussant: Steven Epstein, Northwestern University

Presenters:

Jonathan Shaffer (Boston University) – “Noncommunicable Diseases Between North and South: The Double Standards of a Single Category”

Lisa Owens (Columbia University) – “Birth, Blood, and the Social Origins of Trauma”

Brandon Sward (University of Chicago) – “The colonization of media: Indigeneity, visuality, and social science in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries”

10:20am – 10:30am PST | Break

10:30am – 11:50am PST | Panel 2: Political elites, social movements, and entrepreneurialism 

Discussant: Saskia Sassen, Columbia University

Presenters:

Vrinda Marwah (University of Utah) – “The caste of our commons: Political entrepreneurialism and social structure”

Luis Flores (University of Michigan) – “Polanyi at a Tupperware Party: Marketizing Home Life and the Social Limits of “Breadwinner Liberalism”

Wendy Li (University of Wisconsin-Madison) – “What Does the Revolving Door Do? Careers, Cohesion, and Policy Networks among Political Elites”

11:50am – 12:20pm PST | Lunch begins

12:30pm – 1:50pm PST | Keynote & lunch continued

Winners of the 2020 Junior Theorist Award for “Gender and Charismatic Power”

Paul Joosse (Hong Kong University) and Robin Willey (Concordia University of Edmonton) 

2:00pm – 3:20pm PST | Panel 3: Race, categories, and temporality

Discussant: Mario Small, Columbia University

Presenters:

Jared Clemons (Duke University) and Mo Torres (Harvard University) – “Racism without Races: Sociology beyond the “Social Construction of Race”

prabhdeep singh kehal (Brown University) – “Negotiating Utopia: Ethnography and Theorizing from Entangled US Trans Subjectivities”

Sabrina Charles (New York University) – “Time and Unpredictability: Arrhythmia in Immigration Court”

3:20pm – 3:30pm PST | Break

3:30pm – 5:00pm PST | After-Panel: Theorizing Intersections

Panelists: 

Tey Meadow (Columbia University)

Tianna Paschel (University of California, Berkeley)

Vrushali Patel (Florida International University)

Mary Romero (Arizona State University)

Adia Harvey Wingfield (Washington University, St. Louis)

5:30pm PST | “Theory in the Wild”

After the Symposium, please join us for drinks at TBD

Please contact Tara Gonsalves and Davon Norris with questions: juniortheorists@gmail.com 

The consortium is designed to allow for high levels of faculty-student interaction. In order to maintain a high faculty/student ratio, space for this consortium remains limited. Interested students must be nominated by their schools and must be OMT members (either already or by joining now).

Doctoral programs should limit their nominations to one applicant. Universities with multiple departments seeking to send students should coordinate their nominations. Preference will be given to those students who have progressed to the dissertation stage and are either on, or considering being on, the job market in the coming year.

Several waivers of the AOM conference’s registration fees and stipends are available to support students who are interested in applying but lack budget/resources from their schools or otherwise. The nomination deadline again is May 15, 2022. 

Nomination Instructions

Nominations should be submitted by the department representative who nominates the student via the following online form only (no email nominations, please): https://bostonu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3mb9XGJh3CCnpQ2

As specified in the online form, nominations should include basic information about the nominated student (name, e-mail address and university affiliation) as well as: (1) a confirmation that the student is (or will become) a member of the OMT division; and (2) a confirmation that the student will complete doctoral coursework and comprehensive exams (or equivalent) by August 1, 2022.

In addition, the following three supporting documents should be uploaded via the online form:

1. A brief letter from a faculty member providing a general appraisal of the nominee, including an assessment of the nominee’s progress toward a dissertation defense, expected defense date, and subject of dissertation;
2. The nominee’s CV (including contact information, research and teaching interests, publications, and/or working papers);
3. A 3-5 pages summary of a research project on which the nominee would like to receive feedback.

Additional information about the OMT Doctoral Consortium will be available on the OMT website closer to the date of the event.

If you have questions or concerns, feel free to contact the OMT Doctoral Consortium co-organizers:

            Michel Anteby, Boston University, manteby@bu.edu

Danielle Logue, University of Technology Sydney, danielle.logue@uts.edu.au

We look forward to seeing you in-person and virtually at AOM!

Michel & Danielle

OMT Representatives-at-Large

Dear colleagues,

SASE is proud to announce a new series of events, convened in collaboration with the Digital Futures at Work Research Centre and the University of Limerick, aimed at presenting cutting-edge research from leading thinkers in anticipation of the 2022 annual SASE conference at the University of Amsterdam, “Fractious Connections: Anarchy, Activism, Coordination, and Control” from 9-11 July 2022.

This series, SASE Salons [https://sase.org/salons], will be open live exclusively to paid SASE members—to join, visit https://sase.org/join-sase/.

Series overview

• April 28: “Fragmented work boundaries and digital (dis)connections” with Tony Dundon, Caroline Murphy, Michelle O’Sullivan, and Aida Ponce Del Castillo

• May 12: “Anarchism in the Business School” with Martin Parker

• May 17: “Fractious Feminisms and Feminist Solidarities” with Elaine Coburn, Jayati Ghosh, Martha Gimenez, Marjorie Griffin Cohen, Rauna Kuokkanen, Julie Nelson, and Busi Sibeko

• May 24: “Society and Economy” with Mark Granovetter, Elaine Coburn, and Michel Grossetti

• June 2: Panel on Ukraine with Alya Guseva, Yuliya Bidenko, Alexander Rodnyansky, and Mariia Shuvelova

• June 9: “The Rise of the Right in the US” with Arlie Hochschild and Glenn Morgan

• June 14: “How Digital Media Facilitated and Curtailed the Pro-Democracy Movement in Hong Kong” with Joseph Chan and Francis Lee

• June 23: “Histories of Racial Capitalism” with Destin Jenkins and Justin Leroy (open to non-members)

• June, TBD: Panel on Islamic Moral Economy and Finance, speakers TBA

Click through to learn more [https://sase.org/salons]

By joining SASE, you will also have access to the online content of the annual meeting, including all featured speakers and panels, as well as a limited number of hybrid events organized by the networks and mini-conferences. Click here to join [https://sase.org/join-sase/].

Best wishes,

The SASE Team

Dear colleagues,

We are looking forward to welcoming you to the 40th International Labour Process Conference, which will take place in Padua, Italy, 21 – 23 April 2022. The ILPC 2022 will be held in a hybrid format. You can choose to participate online or in person. Registration for Online Participation is open until SUNDAY APRIL 3rd. MORE INFORMATION ABOUT REGISTER HERE.

About the conference:

The 2022 Conference focusses on labour mobility and the mobilization of workers, aiming to develop its theoretical understanding, the implications of migration in the labour process and its connections with work and migration policies. The theme of labour mobility encompasses a variety of related topics, from migrants’ experiences of the labour market to wider issues of occupational mobility in the labour processes. The movement of workers in and out of jobs and occupations is especially important given the growth of precarious employment and the gig economy where insecure workers fear remaining forever stuck in the same spiral of mini jobs or social instability.

The Coronavirus pandemic has had tremendous implications on both of these understandings of labour mobility. On the one side, the tensions around labour migration have been exacerbated by the health crisis and the subsequent border closure, showing how the mobility of labour is crucial for many actors – workers, employers, states, unions but also temporary agencies and brokers – involved in the labour processes. On the other side, the (post?)-coronavirus time risks to worsen the segmentation of labour market along the lines of gender, race, nationality, age, education, social class and visa status.

This bulk of reflections mingles with the great amount of attention towards how social reproduction activities are interlinked with labour processes and in particular with the mobility of labour. While occupational mobility in the labour market is indeed strongly influenced by domestic and caring work in the household, international labour migrations sustain the social reproduction activities occurring in the country of origin and destination of migrant workers and their families.

Another key aim of the Conference is to understand how labour mobility shapes work and employment relations, affecting both dynamics of control and resistance in the labour process and individual and collective actions. Although labour turnover and subjective mobility practices have been, for long time, conceived as opposed to collective strategies to organize labour, the experiences of workers’ mobilizations show how boundaries between the two are actually much more blurred.

Therefore, the Conference will address the role of labour mobility in the international labour process, by developing a debate on several aspects: at a critical time of change for the world economy following the pandemic, how do labour migrations and the mobility of workers across borders, sectors and occupations shape and are shaped by changing labour processes? How do technological and social changes in work controls and production processes interact with the mobility of workers across jobs and borders? How do the mobilizations of workers challenge the dichotomy between individual and collective forms of actions?

ASA Section on Cultural Sociology presents:
Culture in Contemporary Life (CCL) Series
Fake News? Perspectives from Cultural Sociology

What is fake news? Who determines it? Can we rely on fact checkers and how should they judge? Is fake news simply a pejorative term used to silence voice of dissent? How is this label being used? What are the responsibilities of social media platforms in the production and dissemination of fake news? How can sociologists and particularly cultural sociologists contribute to this area of research? 

Speakers:
Francesca Tripodi (the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Gary Allan Fine (Northwestern University)

Jaron Harabam (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) 

Date:

March 29, 2-3 pm ET
Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/93933529816

For questions or comments, please contact Alejandra Cueto Piazza (alejandra_irene_cueto_piazza@brown.edu)

Talking about Walking Mannequins

Wednesday, March 30th, 11:15 AM EST / 8:15 AM PST via Zoom.

Register now for more details, and to join as the authors and a panel of expert discussants explore this important new book.

Authors:

• Joya Misra (Sociology and Public Policy, and Director of the Institute for Social Science Research, UMass Amherst)
• Kyla Walters (Sociology, Sonoma State University)

Discussants:

• Maxine Craig (University of California, Davis), author of Ain’t I a Beauty Queen? Black Women, Beauty, and the Politics of Race
• Eileen Otis (Northeastern University), author of Markets and Bodies: Women, Service Work and the Making of Inequality in China 
• Dennis Nickson (University of Strathclyde), coauthor of Aesthetic Labour 

Dear Colleague 

We’re pleased to share details of the 2022 Warwick Summer School on Practice and Process Studies.

2022 Warwick Summer School on Practice and Process Studies: Studying Emotion or Affect?

Hybrid event; 12 – 14 July 2022

Applications close 18^th March 2022. To find out more click here and to apply click here

The Warwick Summer School convenes scholars interested in practice and process studies in an open and multi-disciplinary learning community characterized by dialogue, discussion, and joint exploration. The Summer School is designed for those with an advanced understanding of practice and process theories. The three days will consider the state-of-the-art of practice, process and routines studies (2 days) and how we can advance practice and process studies on emotion and affect (1 day). The hybrid event will take place online and in-person at Warwick University, UK, for those happy to make their own travel and accommodation arrangements.

If you have any questions, please email matthew.hurst@warwick.coc.uk or mira.slavova@wbs.ac.uk

We look forward to seeing you!

The organizers,

Mira Slavova & Matthew Hurst

Qualitative Methods Workshop

June 29 – July 2nd, 2022

Nova School of Business & Economics

Campus of Carcavelos

Lisbon, Portugal

Join us for an intensive 4-day experiential workshop in qualitative research methods for studying work and organizing. The goal of this workshop, open to doctoral students, post-doctoral fellows and early-career faculty, is to provide project-based, interactive training in qualitative research methods and build community and networks across qualitative researchers.

Learn how to:​

• Collect qualitative data through interviews, participant and non-participant observation, archival data and artifacts

• Code data, write memos, create visuals and use other analysis techniques

• Develop grounded theory

• Frame your data to make theoretical contributions to the literature

• Navigate the writing and publishing process

• Be an active and engaged qualitative researcher

Faculty: 

Beth Bechky, NYU

Anne-Laure Fayard, NOVA SBE

Ruthanne Huising, EMLYON

Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, NYU

Melissa Mazmanian, UC Irvine

Apply here by March 15, 2022: https://www.qualitativemethodsworkshop.com/

Questions?  Contact: qualitativemethodsworkshop@gmail.com

Join the UC Berkeley Social Science Matrix on February 3rd, 2022 from 12-1:30pm PST for an “Author Meets Critics” panel discussion focused on the book, Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in US Higher Education, by Charlie Eaton, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Merced.

Professor Eaton will be joined in conversation by Professor Emmanuel Saez and Professor Jonathan Glater. The panel will be moderated by UC Berkeley Letters & Science Executive Dean Jennifer Johnson-Hanks.

For a zoom link, register here: https://tinyurl.com/t5fnvj76

Culture in Contemporary Life (CCL) Series 

Revisiting Cultural Methods to Address Racism

What theoretical perspectives can cultural sociology provide to address the current debates on race and racism? How to design research to unmask the systematicity of racism as well as the dynamics of creating change? In this online panel, four distinguished cultural sociologists will shed light on the pressing issues of race and racism in the academy and in the news. 

Speakers:

Ellen Berrey (University of Toronto)

Marcus A. Hunter (University of California, Los Angeles)

Mario L. Small (Harvard University)

Derron Wallace (Brandeis University)

Moderator：

Yan Long (University of California, Berkeley)

Date:

Jan 27^th, 2-3 pm ET

Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/93675437883

For questions or comments, please contact Yan Long (longyan@berkeley.edu)