CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Labor market and Economic perspectives on large-scale Migration in Sociology (LEMS)

On August 4, 2017August 4, 2017 By Sarah MosseriIn Calls for Papers, Calls for Proposals, Conferences, UncategorizedLeave a comment

Dates and location:
Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) of the University of Mannheim on Friday, November 17 and Saturday, November 18, 2017.[1]

Theme:
Labor market and economic sociologists take notice of each other less often than common concerns might suggest. This ignorance is particularly troubling amid the large-scale influx of immigrants and refugees into established economies over the past few years in particular and the past decade in general. Among these changes, issues of employment and emergent economic activities, which both fields focus on, gain in significance and salience. Labor market sociologists demonstrate that unregulated labor markets are neither free nor fair, diminishing hopes for quick integration. A focus on the distribution of relevant worker characteristics over a range of social dimensions such as class, gender, and ethnicity allows labor market sociologists to develop more constructive views of labor market mechanisms. Economic sociologists scrutinize dynamics around the establishment of larger social objects such as industries and “informal economies”, some of which are dominated by immigrant ethnic groups. In more specific settings, economic sociologists have found evidence that ethnic diversity—an obvious consequence of migration—increases the resilience of common market mechanisms. The conference seeks to foster a dialogue between the two views in order to develop conceptual, analytical, and empirical strategies that help us study and understand the forces undergirding the recent developments and their consequences.

Submission:
Name, title, and abstract (250 words)
Deadline: September 10, 2017 (LEMS2017@mzes.uni-mannheim.de)
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Sociology of Medical Education Interest Group ASA Meet-up

On July 19, 2017 By Sarah MosseriIn Conferences, Montreal 2017Leave a comment

Join the Sociology of Medical Education Interest Group for our second annual ASA Meet-up! Last year’s gathering in Seattle was a huge success and we would love to see you again this year. Please bring any interested colleagues and students!

Our event will take place on Saturday, August 12th following the Medical Sociology Section Reception. Please join us from 8pm at gaZette Restaurant and Lounge, located in the Westin Montreal.

The Westin Montreal is near the Palais des Congres. For more information, please visit: http://www.westinmontreal.com/gazette-restaurant-montreal/

Please contact Alexandra Vinson (alexandra.vinson@northwestern.edu) if you have questions about the event or would like to be added to the Sociology of Medical Education mailing list.

ASA Item of Interest: Regular Session on Gender & Work

On July 14, 2017July 14, 2017 By Sarah MosseriIn Conferences, Montreal 2017Leave a comment

Regular Session on Gender & Work
Tuesday, Aug. 15. 2:30 -4:10 PM.
Palais des congrès de Montréal, Level 5, 512D

Description
Gendered barriers and opportunities continue to shape the experience of women and men workers and the structural and cultural contexts of workplaces. This session contains six papers with fresh analyses of these issues in occupations that vary in their degree of precarity, professionalization, and gender segregation. Continue reading “ASA Item of Interest: Regular Session on Gender & Work” →

Call for Participants: Professional Development Sessions During Economic Sociology ASA Roundtables

On June 15, 2017 By Sarah MosseriIn Conferences, Montreal 2017, WorkshopsLeave a comment

Economic Sociology Sections Issues Call for Junior Faculty and Graduate Students to Sign Up in Advance for Professional Development Sessions During the Economic Sociology ASA Roudtable Session, Sunday, August 13, 8:30 a.m.

The Economic Sociology Section Council is pleased to announce Economic Sociology Mentoring Roundtables, to take place at the upcoming ASA Meetings in Montreal this August. The program will feature professional development roundtables for graduate students and junior faculty around the following topics:

Table 22:Journal article publishing
Table 23: Book publishing
Table 24: Navigating the job market
Table 25: General professional advice

These sessions have been designed to give graduate students and junior faculty opportunities to meet faculty mentors outside their home institutions and strengthen their professional development networks. The sessions will take place during the Economic Sociology Roundtable Session on Sunday, August 13^th from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. at Palais des congress de Montréal, Level 5, 517B.

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ESSEX SOCIOLOGY and SAGE Joint Cocktail Reception — ASA 2017

On June 11, 2017June 11, 2017 By Sarah MosseriIn Conferences, Montreal 2017Leave a comment

Department of Sociology at the University of Essex, in association with Sage Publishing, is holding a Cocktail Reception at Pointe-à-Callière Museum, 10 minute walk from the Conference Center and a great location.

Date: Sunday 13 August
Location: L’Arrivage Bistro, Pointe-à-Callière Museum, Montreal
Time: 7:30pm – 9:30pm

Essex is celebrating the 50th Anniversary of its Summer School, and Sage the launching of its Research Methods: Video Collection, to which several Essex Sociologists have contributed.

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Call for Participants: EPIC 2017

On March 11, 2017March 11, 2017 By Sarah MosseriIn ConferencesLeave a comment

EPIC invites proposals to EPIC2017—the premier international conference on ethnography in business. EPIC2017 will take place in Montréal, 22–25 October 2017.

The EPIC2017 theme perspectives explore vantage points, hybridity and subversion in ethnographic practice. Contributions should draw on theoretical advances in social research, coupled with applied best practices from professional fields, to strike new directions for creating and implementing knowledge and affecting change.

Our diverse attendees come from every industry and many scholarly disciplines, including Fortune-500 companies, the world’s top technology firms, management consultancies and design studios, universities and NGOs, public policy organizations and think tanks.

Call for Participation: https://2017.epicpeople.org/submit/
About EPIC2017: https://2017.epicpeople.org/about/
Submission deadline: March 31, 2017

Call for Abstracts: 2017 Junior Theorists Symposium

On January 18, 2017January 17, 2017 By Sarah MosseriIn Calls for Papers, ConferencesLeave a comment

2017 Junior Theorists Symposium
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
August 11, 2017

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 20, 2017

We invite submissions of extended abstracts for the 11th Junior Theorists Symposium (JTS), to be held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on August 11th, 2017, the day before the annual meeting of the AmericanSociological Association (ASA). The JTS is a one-day conference featuring the work of up-and-coming sociologists, sponsored in part by the Theory Section of the ASA. Since 2005, the conference has brought together early career-stage sociologists who engage in theoretical work, broadly defined.

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Call for Papers: Mini-conference on Intersections of Economic Sociology and Organizations, Occupations and Work

On January 6, 2017 By Sarah MosseriIn Calls for Papers, ConferencesLeave a comment

Fellow Travelers on Different Roads: The Intersections of Economic Sociology and Organizations, Occupations, and Work

August 11, 2017
Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, Montreal

The industrial revolution fundamentally transformed society. Central to this transformation was the growing role of work, organizations, and markets in daily life. It is no coincidence that the discipline of sociology was founded in this era, and that the study of these institutions continues to be at the core of both the Economic Sociology and Organizations, Occupations, and Work sections.

This mini-conference aims to bring together members of both sections to facilitate dialogue within and across our fields. The event will highlight work that advances research in Economic Sociology and Organizations, Occupations, and Work, using a diverse set of theoretical and methodological approaches. We invite research that explores core themes from both domains, as well as research that develops the intersections and tensions between the two. We are especially interested in new work that engages with emerging phenomena and/or uses novel perspectives. We hope that the conference will bring together economic sociologists and scholars of organizations, occupations, and work from across institutional divides, including those in sociology departments, as well as in schools of management, engineering, public policy, and industrial and labor relations. Thematic sessions will be determined based on submissions.

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Call for Papers: “Seeking a More Just and Egalitarian Economy: Realizing the Future via Co-operatives, Communes, and Other Collectives” at SASE in Lyon, France

On January 6, 2017January 6, 2017 By Sarah MosseriIn Calls for Papers, Conferences1 Comment

Joyce Rothschild and Katherine Chen are co-organizing a mini-conference at the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) in Lyon, France. Please consider submitting an abstract, due to the SASE submission site by Feb. 3, 2017. Accepted presenters will need to provide a full paper by June 1, 2017 for discussion. Please circulate to this cfp to interested persons!

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