OOW Section Member, Phaedra Daipha announces the publication of her new book, Masters of Uncertainty: Weather Forecasters and the Quest for Ground Truth (University of Chicago Press).
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The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality seeks to support research that expands our knowledge of key trends in poverty and inequality. Awards will be made to “New Scholars” who will then join one of the CPI’s ten research groups. The proposal deadline is November 1, 2015. Read the RFP here: http://web.stanford.edu/group/scspi/prog_new_scholars.html.
The Comparative Historical Sociology section of the American Sociological Association and the Equality Development and Globalization Studies (EDGS) program at Northwestern University are pleased to announce a mini-conference entitled “Can Comparative Historical Sociology Save the World?” The conference will take place August 19th, 2016 at the University of Washington, in Seattle.
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Directors
Robert Gibbons, Economics and Management, MIT
Woody Powell, Education and Sociology, Stanford University
ABOUT CASBS SUMMER INSTITUTE AND FELLOWSHIP
The CASBS 2016 summer institute, Organizations and Their Effectiveness, will take place from June 27 through July 8, 2016 at the Center on the Stanford University campus. Ten fellowships will be awarded to cover tuition, room and board, and travel. The deadline for applications will be in early January; decisions will be sent mid-February 2016.
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Please join us for the 6th annual Arizona Methods Workshops
January 7-9, 2016
These 3-day workshops are open to everyone and are hosted by the School of Sociology at the University of Arizona in Tucson, where all workshops are held.
This year we are offering 6 workshops:
~ Qualitative Data Analysis in ATLAS.ti with Corey Abramson
~ Programming in Stata with Jennifer Earl
~ Introduction to Social Network Analysis with Joe Galaskiewicz
~ Qualitative Comparative Analysis with Claude Rubinson
~ Introduction to R with Katerina Sinclair
~ Introduction to Machine Learning with Jacob Foster
Cost is $400 for one workshop and $650 for two. Students receive a 50% discount. Graduate students can apply for the Scott R. Eliason Scholarship, which offers free tuition.
For details, registration, and information about lodging and scholarships:
http://sociology.arizona.edu/methods
Downloadable and printable flyer:
http://tinyurl.com/AMWflyer
Please direct questions to:
Erin Leahey, Organizer
methods@arizona.edu
520.621.9351
An interdisciplinary team of three scholars — Stephanie Decker, Christina Lubinski, & Dan Wadhwani — have partnered to create a new webpage for scholars interested in historical approaches to studying organizations. It stems from conversations among a number of scholars from around world who have hosted seminars, events at conferences, published articles and books and run research projects and networks in this field. The website and blog aims to be a hub on which scholars interested in history & organizations can publish ongoing activities and publications, and exchange ideas and comments, for those involved in the network or for those just curious about this line of research.
If you are interested in contributing, please let Stephanie, Christina, or Dan know.
Organizational History Network
(Via Howard Aldrich.)
The OOW Council is happy to announce that the Section has exceeded its goal of 1,000 memberships. As a result, OOW will have an additional session at next year’s ASA meetings in Seattle.
We warmly welcome new and returning members and look forward to a year of academic fellowship and productivity!
The ASA Committee on Publications encourages applications for the editorships of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior and Sociology of Education. The official term for the new editors (or co-editors) will begin in January 2017 (the editorial transition will start in summer 2016) and is for a minimum of three years (until December 2019), with a possible reappointment of up to an additional two years. See complete application procedures and samples of previous successful proposals.
June 23-25, 2016 (June 22, 2016 Pre-Conference Policy Day)
Capital Hilton Hotel, Washington D.C., USA
The Work and Family Researchers Network (WFRN) invites submissions for the 2016 Conference, Careers, Care, and Life-Course “Fit:” Implications for Health, Equality, and Policy, to be held June 23-25, 2016 at the Capital Hilton in Washington, D.C. The Work and Family Researchers Network is an international membership organization of interdisciplinary work and family researchers. We seek fresh and innovative scientific contributions on work and family issues from investigators in diverse disciplines, and we value all disciplinary perspectives on the issues. The voices of all stakeholders are needed to understand and address work and family issues to advance knowledge and practice. We also encourage policy advocates, policy makers, and work-life practitioners to submit evidence-based contributions. Continuing at the 2016 conference will be a practitioner “track” in an effort to encourage practitioner and policy-oriented submissions and promotion of researcher and practitioner/policy maker collaboration. There will also be a preconference Congressional briefing (“Policy Day”) on June 22.
Read more about the Call for Papers here .
Organizations, Occupations and Work 