Call for Chapters: Colleges and Their Communities

Chapter Proposals Due April 10, 2023

Chapter Drafts Due October 15, 2023

Anticipated Publication Date:  2025-2026

This edited volume will explore myriad ways in which colleges/universities have worked with and against their communities, covering such issues as neighborhood gentrification, town-gown conflicts, innovation alliances, local food programs, and the existence (or lack of) access pipelines for local students. Contributions are not restricted to the US and we encourage chapters that explore international contexts.  See the attached call for more information. 

Chapter proposal/abstract submission:

Please submit an abstract no longer than 500 words with a potential title and topic area to Allison Hurst, hursta@oregonstate.edu, by April 10, 2023.  Notification of accepted chapter proposals will be made by April 15, 2023, with completed chapter draft to be submitted no later than October 15, 2023.  Final contributions will be limited to 6000 words maximum (or roughly twenty double-spaced manuscript pages).

Please see attached link for more details.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d_kGYr4AMVEbrEQQhrEISWoJ2OyoARXD/view?usp=share_link

Call for Papers: SASE 2023, “Network A: Community, Democracy, and Organizations”

Please consider submitting a 500-word abstract or a panel of abstracts relating to community, democracy, and organizations for Network A of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) annual meeting. The 2023 annual meeting is primarily an in-person conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 20-22, 2023, but we do have a very limited number of virtual presentation slots available online July 11-13, 2023. 

Our network focuses on the moral or values-based underpinnings of human thought, practices, and institutions that comprise civil societies, particularly as they relate to the participatory, collectivist, and democratic aspirations of organizations, markets, and other spaces of collaboration and contestation. We examine how communities, enterprises, and societies can be organized around principles of democratic governance or other substantive values that go beyond calculative self-interest and instrumental relations. In particular, we welcome submissions relating to: (1) how groups and initiatives promote social change, through formal organizations, informal groups, prefigurative organizations, decentralized projects, participatory decision-making, and various forms of shared ownership; and (2) how collectivities reinforce prevailing conventions of hierarchical, bureaucratic, and profit-driven organizational structures and markets. To learn more about our network, please read here.

If you are interested in presenting in person or virtually, please submit your paper title(s) and abstract(s) to https://auth.oxfordabstracts.com/?redirect=/stages/3551/submitter (select “Network A: Community, Democracy, and Organizations”) by the hard deadline of February 1, 2023. Early Career workshop applicants should submit full papers and other materials, as specified here. For more information about the conference, visit https://sase.org/event/2023-rio-de-janeiro. To join our Network A listserv, visit https://inthefray.org/list. We look forward to reading your submissions!

Best wishes from your SASE Network A organizers,

Katherine K. Chen, kchen@ccny.cuny.edu

Victor Tan Chen, vchen@vcu.edu 

Philipp Degens, Philipp.Degens@uni-hamburg.de 

Joyce Rothschild, joycevt@aol.com 

Marc Schneiberg, schneibm@reed.edu 

Jason Spicer, jason.spicer@utoronto.ca 

Call for Papers: Future of Activism Research Workshop (April 21 & 22, 2023), Sponsored by the Ford Center of the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Social movement activism continues to play a prominent role in politics, business, and culture. On the politics side, movements such as Black Lives Matter on the left and the Covid policy resistance movement on the right have been prominent. In business, #MeToo has significantly shaped workplace policies at the same time that the labor movement has experienced a resurgence. Culturally, activism has bled into the kinds of media we consume and become an integral part of individuals’ online lives. These movement “moments” have been accompanied by new types of resources (e.g., transnational organizational networks) and tactics available to activists (e.g., social media campaigns). Now is a good time to reflect on the question of: what next? The purpose of this conference will be to highlight new scholarship on social movement activists who are shaping our political, economic, and cultural worlds, with a key focus on how these worlds are being reshaped by technologies and changes to social and conventional media. We are also interested in the changing ideological landscape of social movements, including the consequences of polarization.

On April 21 and 22, 2023, at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, we will convene a small number of scholars in a workshop to present and discuss their research on the current and future directions of activism. The conference will be an intimate gathering and will allow for rich and in-depth discussion of the papers. If you are interested in participating in the workshop, please submit a 1-2 page abstract by January 30. You can upload your abstract at this link (https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/32747b615d684693a13d6379ee0da31f). The abstract should contain a description of both the empirical context, theoretical perspective, and analytic approach of the paper. Prior to the workshop, we will ask participants to share a working paper with all other workshop participants. The Ford Center will provide lodging and subsidize the travel costs for one author of each paper presented at the workshop. We expect to accept between 10-12 papers. If you have any questions about the workshop, feel free to reach out to the organizers, Brayden King (b-king@kellogg.northwestern.edu) and Ed Walker (walker@soc.ucla.edu).

Call for Papers: EGOS 2023– Sub-theme 61: “Problems or Solutions? Emerging Technology, Equity & Inclusion at Work”

We would like to bring to your attention to the sub-theme on “Problems or Solutions? Emerging Technology, Equity & Inclusion at Work,” which we are convening as part of the European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS) 39th annual colloquium in Cagliari, Italy. The conference will take place on July 6-8, 2023.

Our purpose is to bring together researchers interested in emerging technology, organizations, and equity, with a special interest on both the inherent biases and promising solutions emerging technology might bring. For this gathering, we welcome papers from different perspectives, regions, and disciplines.

If you are interested, we encourage you to submit a short paper (3,000 words) before January 10, 2023. You can access the full call for papers here:

And the detailed instructions for submission can be found at:

https://www.egos.org/2023_Cagliari/SUB-THEMES_Call-for-Short-Papers

If you have any questions or require additional information, please contact:

Lindsey Cameron (Wharton, UPenn), ldcamer@wharton.upenn.edu

Pamela Hinds (Stanford), phinds@stanford.edu

Elise Mattarelli (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy and San Jose State University), elisa.mattarelli@sjsu.edu

Call for Papers: EGOS 2023 – Subtheme 4: “Social Movements and Organizations: Outcomes and Secondary Effects”

We would like to bring to your attention to the sub-theme on “Social Movements and Organizations: Outcomes and Secondary Effects,” which we are convening as part of the European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS) 39th annual colloquium in Cagliari, Italy. The conference will take place on July 6-8, 2023.

Our purpose is to bring together researchers interested in social movements and organizations, especially for a deeper examination of the consequences of activist efforts. For this gathering, we welcome papers from different perspectives, regions, and disciplines.

Our subtheme is part of EGOS Standing Working Group (SWG) 04 on Social Movements and Organizations.

If you are interested, we encourage you to submit a short paper (3,000 words) before January 10, 2023. You can access the full call for papers here:

And the detailed instructions for submission can be found at:

https://www.egos.org/2023_Cagliari/SUB-THEMES_Call-for-Short-Papers

If you have any questions or require additional information, please contact:

Forrest Briscoe (Penn State University), fbriscoe@psu.edu

Panikos Georgallis (University of Amsterdam), p.georgallis@uva.nl

Jocelyn Leitzinger (University of Illinois Chicago), jocelynl@uic.edu

Call for Papers: Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE)

The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) is pleased to announce the call for papers and panels for its 35th annual conference, “Socio-Economics in a Transitioning World: Breaking Lines and Alternative Paradigms for a New World Order”, hosted by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 20-22 July 2023.

Please find information on submissions here [https://sase.org/conference-submission/], as well as information on SASE’s research networks [https://sase.org/about/networks/] and 2023 mini-conference themes [https://sase.org/event/2023-rio-de-janeiro/#mini]). General information about the conference, including the theme, fees, and deadlines, can be found here [https://sase.org/event/2023-rio-de-janeiro/].

The hard deadline for submissions is Wednesday, 1 February 2023.

Please feel free to distribute widely. We hope that you will join us!

Jacob Bromberg

Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics 

Call for Submissions: The 2023 Annual Junior Theorists Symposium! 


​SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 1st, 11:59pm Eastern Time

The 17th Junior Theorists Symposium (JTS) is now open to new submissions. The JTS is a conference featuring the work of emerging sociologists engaged in theoretical work, broadly defined. Sponsored in part by the Theory Section of the ASA, the conference has provided a platform for the work of early-career sociologists since 2005. We especially welcome submissions that broaden the practice of theory beyond its traditional themes, topics, and disciplinary function.

The symposium will be held as an in-person event on Thursday, August 17 prior to the 2023 ASA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA.  

SUBMIT YOUR PRÉCIS HERE
 
It is our honor to announce that Claire Decoteau (University of Illinois-Chicago), Greta Krippner (University of Michigan), and Victor Ray (University of Iowa) will serve as discussants for this year’s symposium. Daniel Hirschman (Cornell University), winner of the 2022 Junior Theorist Award, will deliver a keynote address. Finally, the symposium will include an after-panel titled “Why Theorize?” This panel will seek to bring scholars, thinkers, and doers into conversation to explore convergences, tensions, and a range of possible responses to the question: why theorize?

We invite all ABD graduate students, recent PhDs, postdocs, and assistant professors who received their PhDs from 2019 onwards to submit up to a three-page précis (800-1000 words). The précis should include the key theoretical contribution of the paper and a general outline of the argument.

Successful précis from last year’s symposium can be viewed here.

Please note that the précis must be for a paper that is not under review or forthcoming at a journal.

As in previous years, there is no pre-specified theme for the conference. Papers will be grouped into sessions based on emergent themes and discussants’ areas of interest and expertise. We invite submissions from all substantive areas of sociology, we especially encourage papers that are works-in-progress and would benefit from the discussions at JTS.

Please remove all identifying information from your précis and submit it via the Google form below. Wendy Li (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Jon Shaffer (Johns Hopkins University) will review the anonymized submissions. You can also contact them at juniortheorists@gmail.com with any questions. By early April, we will extend 9 invitations to present at JTS 2023. Please plan to share a full paper by July 7, 2023. 

*Presenters should plan to attend in-person, though this may change based on the Covid-19 pandemic.

If you have any issues uploading your document, please send a copy of your précis with all identifying information removed to juniortheorists@gmail.com. Please include your name and affiliation (University and Department) in the body of the email.

Call for Papers: Organizations and City-level Outcomes at EGOS

“Cites as Sites and Drivers of Organizational Action” at the European Group of Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium 2019
We would like to invite you to submit your current work to our sub-theme on Cities as Sites and Drivers of Organizational Action (#43) at the EGOS Colloquium 2019, which will be held in Edinburgh on July 4–6, 2019 (call for papers attached and online).
 
The sub-theme welcomes submissions of high-quality research on cities as arenas of and actors in organizing investigated from the perspectives of organization studies, management, sociology, geography, and political science, among others. While we have a preference for empirical, comparative research that neither relegates cities to a passive backdrop of organizational behavior, nor treats organizations as a derivate of local communities and markets, we are also open to other investigations on cities as sites and drivers of organizational action. This research will likely analyze processes, such as branding, collaborating, competing, learning, participating, and coordinating across sectors.

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Call for Papers: “Economy & the Possible” Conference in Warsaw

Call for Papers:  Economy & the Possible: Alternative, Missed and Reified Futures in Contemporary Society (conference)
20-21 May 2019
Warsaw (Poland)

This event is the 3rd of the series of meetings on new economic sociology, which are organized within the framework of Polish Sociological Association, Polish Academy of Sciences and University of Warsaw.
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Call for Papers: ESS Mini-Conference on Race and Organizations

Mini-Conference: Race and Organizations
Eastern Sociological Association Annual Meeting
Boston, MA

When researchers analyze race and organizations they primarily do so at the individual level. Sociological studies confirm that organizations produce inequality or systematic disparities between racial groups. In particular, all else being equal, Whites have far better experiences and outcomes with the organizations – firms, schools, hospitals, etc. – that we have come to depend upon for our livelihood than racial minorities.

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