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Grad-to-Grad Networking

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Grad-to-Grad Networking for Scholars of Organizations, Occupations, and Work

February 14, 2025

12:30-1:30 PM (EST) / 9:30-10:30 AM (PST)

Zoom (registration at tinyurl.com/oownetwork required to receive link)

This virtual event is an opportunity for graduate students who study organizations, occupations, and work to meet peers with similar interests. The event is open to any graduate student with these interests; membership in ASA or the OOW section is not required. 

Research shows that lateral, peer-to-peer relationships are a meaningful resource for people building their careers. We hope this event can be a springboard for further in-person or virtual collaboration, information-sharing, and connection. Who knows? You might make a new friend, meet a new co-author, or just get more comfortable talking to others about your research.

Register to receive the Zoom link at: tinyurl.com/oownetwork. If you have any questions, please contact Ewa Protasiuk (ewa.protasiuk@temple.edu) or Victoria Zhang (vzhang3@mit.edu).

Socio-Economic Review Cafe, Nov 13th

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Socio-Economic Review Cafe, 13.11.2024

Featuring a conversation with SER authors Terri Friedline (University of Michigan), Anna K. Wood (University of Michigan), Bengt Larsson (Linnaeus University), and Alex Lehr (Radboud University). The event will take place on Wednesday, November 13th, at 8AM PST/11AM EST/5PM CET. Register at this link!

Join us for a discussion of FinTech and FinTech companies and broader theories of how they impact markets and society. Friedline, Stewart, Bolinger, and Wood’s article “Fintech as invasive infrastructure: a critical discourse analysis of corporate newswires and press releases, 1995-2021” uses Indigenous theorizing to argue how “FinTech” is a predatory infrastructure that extracts from people and accumulates for others. Larsson, Rolandsson, Ilsøe, Larsen, Lehr, and Masso’s paper “Digital disruption diversified—FinTechs and the emergence of a coopetitive  market ecosystem” investigates FinTech companies in four European countries, and they propose that FinTech firms aid in the creation of “coopetitive” market where cooperation and competition are combined.

Together, these papers offer insights into how FinTech has impacted markets and inequality. Finance and digital technologies are rapidly shaping modes of accumulation and society, and these two recent articles make important contributions to our understanding of the consequences.

As with all SER Cafe events, we will facilitate a dynamic conversation with the authors rather than lengthy talks. Come ready to engage.

Event: OOW Virtual Panel on Racialized and Gendered Organizations

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Join our lively discussion of the ways sociology can move the study of work and occupations towards more intersectional understandings of inequality at work and in workplaces, in worker’s experiences, and in theoretical and practical diversity.

DATE: Thursday, March 7, 2024
TIME: Noon – 1pm (ET)
LINK: https://wsu.zoom.us/j/99023987599 , Meeting ID: 990 2398 7599

PANELISTS:
Dr. Sharla Alegria, University of Toronto. Her research is primarily concerned with understanding how inequalities, particularly those at the intersections of gender and race persist in institutions and organizations that reject discrimination and make commitments to equity. Her work connects technology, its applications, and the conditions in which it was developed to better understand the persistence of race and gender inequalities in technologies and the workplaces that produce them.

Dr. Koji Chavez, Indiana University. His research is focused on gender and racial inequalities in the labor market and in the workplace. Much of his research centers specifically on discrimination in the hiring process, trends in discrimination, and is developing a theory of diversity commodification which explains how the corporate drive to diversify the workforce affects patterns of gender and racial discrimination in software engineering hiring.

Maritess Escueta, University of Delaware. Her research considers how workplace organizations reproduce gender and racial inequality, particularly in the tech industry. Her current research project examines how formalized performance evaluation processes are used to maintain race, class, and gender divisions between workers.

Bonnie Siegler, Columbia University. She studies diversity and equity discourses in education and DEI work and workers in schools. Her dissertation investigates U.S. school district commitments to racial equity in 2020 and the relationship between racial equity statements and organizational legitimacy.

Moderated by Dr. Julie Kmec, Washington State University