The next Work and Family Researchers Network Conference will be held June 17-20, 2026, at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.
The conference theme is Centering Care Across the Life Course. More than 500 stakeholders in the work-family field are anticipated to attend, and the dynamic program will focus on meaningful exchanges.
Submissions open in July and close November 1, 2025.
More information can be found at https://wfrn.org/2026-work-and-family-researchers-network-conference/.
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WORK2025 Conference “Work in the Era of Unruly AI” from August 20-22, 2025 in Turku, Finland (also online)
The multidisciplinary, international WORK2025 conference is from August 20-22, 2025, at the University of Turku and online. WORK2025 offers 19 exciting research streams, five inspiring keynote talks, and nice breaks between the sessions to share knowledge, research results, and discuss new directions in research.
The main theme of WORK2025, “Work in the era of unruly AI,” will explore the “unruliness” of AI in contemporary working life. WORK2025 calls upon presentations and posters to address the main theme and various issues related to work and working life. WORK2025 welcomes abstracts from a wide variety of interdisciplinary, empirical, and theoretical perspectives.
Check out the streams and submit your abstract no later than February 20, 2025 at www.work2025.fi!
CALL FOR ASA OOW SECTION SESSION SUBMISSIONS – CHICAGO 2025
CALL FOR ASA OOW SECTION SESSION SUBMISSIONS – CHICAGO 2025
The OOW call for submissions for our annual conference is now out!
Call for Submissions: https://www.asanet.org/2025-annual-meeting/call-for-submissions/
Section Sessions: https://www.asanet.org/2025-annual-meeting/call-for-submissions/papers-extended-abstracts/section-sessions/
1 – Organizations
We invite paper submissions under the broad topic of organizations, including studies that assess the implications of their structures, norms, policies, and practices.
(Session Organizer) Elizabeth A. Armstrong, University of Michigan; (Session Organizer) Matthew Clair, Stanford University
2 – Professions and Occupations
We invite paper submissions on the broad topic of professions and occupations, including studies that focus on their emergence, evolution, and implications.
(Session Organizer) Nicholas Occhiuto, Hunter College; (Session Organizer) Alexandrea Ravenelle, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
3 – Gender Inequality in Organizations
We invite paper submissions under the topic of gender inequality in organizations.
(Session Organizer) Sharla Alegria, University of Toronto; (Session Organizer) Alexandra Kalev, Tel-Aviv University
4 – Labor Markets
We invite paper submissions under the broad topic of labor markets, including studies that examine their structures, dynamics, and consequences.
(Session Organizer) Koji Chavez, Indiana University; (Session Organizer) Steve McDonald, North Carolina State University
5 – Future of Work
We invite paper submissions under the broad topic of the future of work.
(Session Organizer): Angèle Christin, Stanford University; (Session Organizer) Steve Vallas, Northeastern University
6 – Informal and Unregulated Economies
We invite paper submissions under the topic of informal and unregulated economies, including studies that examine migrant and transnational dynamics.
(Session Organizer) Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, Princeton University; (Session Organizer) Patricia Ward, Bielefeld University
7 – AI in the Workplace (joint with Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section)
We invite paper submissions under the topic of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the workplace. (NB: Thanks to a special relationship between the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology (CITAMS) section and the journal Information, Communication & Society (ICS), all papers with a theme of information, communication, or media that are presented at the 2025 meetings of the ASA are eligible for submission to a special issue of ICS edited by the CITAMS chair each fall.)
(Session Organizer) Barbara Kiviat, Stanford University; (Session Organizer) Simone Zhang, New York University.
8 – Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work Refereed Roundtables
(Session Organizer) Michel Anteby, Boston University; (Session Organizer) Sigrid Luhr, University of Illinois, Chicago
https://oowsection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/call-for-submissions_asa_2024.docx
Conference Call: Organizing Plurality – INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ORGANIZATIONAL SOCIOLOGY (ICOS), March 2025 in Hamburg, Germany
Organizing Plurality
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ORGANIZATIONAL SOCIOLOGY (ICOS)
March 27 & 28, 2025 Hamburg, Germany
Call for Abstracts is now open!
Submission Deadline: November 30, 2024
The German Section of Organizational Sociology and its European peers are organizing the International Conference on Organizational Sociology ICOS 2025 at Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg, Germany, in March 2025.
The main topic is “Organizing Plurality,” which will be discussed in relation to several societal trends:
1) Organizations and Valuation
2) Organizations and Sustainability
3) Organizations and Digitalization
4) Organizations and Governance
Additional details can also be found on the pdf: icos2025_organizing-plurality.pdf
You can find the full Call for Papers and more information on their homepage, icos2025.com.
Announcement: Submit to the ISA Session on “New Digital Technologies, Power and Work: Labor Control and Resistance” by October 15
Please consider submitting by October 15 to a “New Digital Technologies, Power and Work: Labor Control and Resistance” session at the International Sociological Association Forum on Sociology in Rabat, Morocco, 6-11 July 2025.
Please see the link below for a detailed description:
https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2025/webprogrampreliminary/Session19472.html
If you are interested in submitting an abstract for this session, the Call for Abstracts is at https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/forum/rabat-2025/5th-isa-forum-call-for-abstracts.
The call closes on October 15th (note that the ISA observes Central Europe Time).
“If you have not attended ISA before, it is truly an international sociology conference with distinct inflections in each location where it meets—I have found every ISA conference I have attended to be fascinating, and of course, Rabat itself is a very interesting place in a very interesting region. In addition to this session, I encourage you to scan other possible sessions (Research Council 44 is the ISA’s Labor Movements section; RC 30 is the Sociology of Work).”
– Dr. Tilly, Professor of Urban Planning and Sociology, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: 11h edition of the Ethnography Workshop, ESADE Business School, May 6-7, Barcelona
We are pleased to announce that the 11th edition of the Ethnography Workshop will be hosted by ESADE Business School, on May 6 and 7, 2024, in Barcelona, Spain.
This workshop, created in 2013, is designed as a convivial space where you can share the peripeties of your ethnographic journey and think both through and beyond your observation with an interdisciplinary group of scholars (e.g., Management, Sociology, Anthropology, Entrepreneurship).
The workshop aims to foster a space for experimentation, play, and critique to engage ethnographically on a wide variety of topics. Discussing empirics, reflexive matters, issues of engagement and relationships with the field, are central to our conversations.
Participation is free of charge, and refreshments and meals are provided but participants are expected to cover their travel and accommodation expenses. Three emlyon Ethnography Institute grants of 500 euros are available to support participants with limited funding.
- Abstract (500 words) are due by March 1st, 2024, to blum@em-lyon.com.
- Notification of acceptance on March 18th and full paper due by April 28th.
More info here: https://oce.em-lyon.com/2023/06/19/ethnoworkshop/
Call for Submissions: EGOS 2024, Sub-theme: Organising beyond hierarchy?
Sub-theme title: Organising beyond hierarchy?
Big societal challenges such as the climate crisis, proliferating democracy deficits, intensifying casualisation and digitalisation of work and widening inequalities require rethinking the ways we organise to achieve change. Professions and professional organizations have often challenged established bureaucratic was of organizing and have provided alternatives such as partnerships and collegial forms, aiming to maintain high degrees of autonomy. In this stream, we invite you to think about organising beyond hierarchies in professional settings in the public, private or civil sectors and to ponder with us how alternative forms of organising might challenge or affirm the status quo, lead to or stagnate progress, advance or hinder equalities.
Full call for papers:
Submission deadline: Tuesday, January 9, 2024
Stream convenors:
Johan Alvehus, Lund University, Sweden
Perttu Salovaara, Helsinki University, Finland
Nela Smolović Jones, The Open University, United Kingdom
CFP: SASE Annual Meeting and Network A: Community, Democracy, and Organizations
Please consider submitting an abstract of about 500 words for an individual presentation or a panel relating to community, democracy, and organizations at the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) annual meeting. The conference submission deadline is Jan. 19, 2024. Our 2024 annual meeting will primarily be an in-person conference spanning 3 days in Limerick, Ireland, June 27-29, 2023. For those unable to travel, our network—Network A: Community, Democracy, and Organizations—also have a very limited number of virtual presentation slots in two sessions to be scheduled for June 18-21. (Details about those are here.)
As the organizers of Network A: Community, Democracy, and Organizations, we would be glad to consider any papers on our network’s topics that you wish to submit, in addition to any ideas you have for pre-formed panels with multiple paper presentations, roundtable discussion panels, or book salons (aka Author Meets Critics panels). SASE is an international organization of scholars who study topics related to economic sociology and political economy. Network A 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.
Examples of relevant phenomena include, but are not limited to: affinity groups; anti-oppressive human services; artistic or cultural collectives (including democratic governance and autonomy-respecting practices in creative organizations more broadly); collectively governed commons; community land trusts; community real estate investment cooperatives; community-based economic exchanges; community-run marketplaces; decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs); free schools; giving circles; limited equity housing cooperatives and co-housing; mutual companies and aid networks; open, commons-based, and inclusive innovation and valuation frameworks; participatory budgeting; public-private partnerships; social enterprises; solidarity economies; and worker, producer, or consumer cooperatives, including platform cooperatives.
To learn more about our network and its history, please read here. To join our Network A listserv, visit https://inthefray.org/list.
For more information about the 2024 conference, visit https://sase.org/event/2024-limerick/#submissions.
How to submit to the 2024 SASE annual conference:
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/6679/submitter and select “Network A: Community, Democracy, and Organizations” by Jan. 19, 2024.
SASE’s Early Career Workshop brings together PhD students, recent PhDs, and independent scholars who wish to participate in small roundtable discussions of their work with assigned faculty mentors. It is held in person shortly before the SASE annual meeting, with some travel expenses paid. Applicants should submit full papers and other required materials, as specified here, by Jan. 19, 2024.
Please direct any general questions or comments about Network A to sase@inthefray.org.
How to support Network A:
Network A relies entirely on the efforts of volunteer organizers and additional support from colleagues at all stages of their careers. Please consider supporting the growth and sustainability of our community in these and other ways:
(1) Circulate this cfp to listservs and other potentially interested parties, particularly those who might not have heard of our network or the SASE conference.
(2) Help us build community at the SASE conference in Limerick, Ireland. Among other things, please send us suggestions for local venues, local organizations, or other groups that might be of interest to our network’s members and that could possibly present at the conference, host field trips for our members, etc.
(3) Consider becoming part of the Network A leadership. There are many ways to help, including by organizing conference panels, social events, and virtual sessions.
We look forward to reading your submissions!
Best wishes from your SASE Network A organizers,
In-person team
Katherine K. Chen, kchen@ccny.cuny.edu
Victor Tan Chen, vchen@vcu.edu
Philipp Degens, Philipp.Degens@uni-hamburg.de
Virtual session team
Joyce Rothschild, joycevt@aol.com
Marc Schneiberg, schneibm@reed.edu
Coordination team
Paola Ometto, pometto@csusm.edu
CFP: EGOS 2024 – “The Impact of Organizational Practices on Workplace Diversity and Inequality”
EGOS 2024 – Milan, Italy
Subtheme 71: ” The Impact of Organizational Practices on Workplace Diversity and Inequality “
We would like to bring to your attention the colloquium on “The Impact of Organizational Practices on Workplace Diversity and Inequality,” which we are convening as part of the European Group of Organization Studies’ (EGOS) 40th annual conference in Milan, Italy. The conference will take place on July 4-6, 2024.
Our purpose is to bring together a group of researchers who share a concern for advancing our knowledge of the mechanisms through which organizations influence diversity and inequality in the labor market. We welcome papers from different disciplines and at all levels of analysis.
If you are interested, we encourage you to submit a short paper (3,000 words) before January 9th, 2024. You can access the call for papers here:
Summer 2023 Gender, Professions, and Organizations Writing Workshop at ASA Annual Meeting
Register now for the 22nd semi-annual Gender, Professions, and Organizations writing workshop at the ASA annual meeting (Thurs, August 17th) by signing up here: https://forms.gle/CZhuJJ3znWAYdew77.
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
The 22nd semi-annual Gender, Professions, and Organizations Writing Workshop is back to its in-person format this summer from 9 am to 5 pm on Thursday, August 17, 2023 – the day of pre-conference activities for the ASA annual meeting in Philadelphia. Originally a workgroup of sociologists studying gender and academic careers, scientific organizations, and organizational transformations to promote gender equality, the workshop has grown to now include scholars of gender, professions, and organizations more broadly. Our aims are to learn about the range of work of attendees, facilitate collaboration, build community across career stages, and MOST IMPORTANTLY to dedicate time for writing. This is an opportunity to write, network, and collaborate. We encourage new and returning participants. If you’ve never come, welcome, and if you have, welcome back!
As a group, we will discuss our current research projects. This exercise provides useful information to explore potential collaborations throughout the day. There will be designated blocks of independent, quiet writing time. You may use this time any way you wish: brainstorm a new paper, put finishing touches on a manuscript, work with collaborators, or analyze data. There will be separate, designated spaces for conversations around research and collaboration.
The full-day workshop is organized as two standalone sessions, each with time for introductions and time for writing. We will take a lunch break in between the two sessions at a nearby restaurant. At the end of the day, we come together for a discussion of what we have accomplished and our future plans. Participants are welcome to join for the morning, afternoon, or both. We will make a reservation for lunch (self-paid) for all who wish to join.
Anyone attending ASA is welcome to join the workshop; however space is limited. We will start a waitlist based on registration order if necessary. The workshop begins early on the 17th, so we recommend arriving in Philadelphia on the 16th.
Your ASA meeting fee will cover the room cost for the workshop. Participants should bring their own laptop computers (and maybe an extension cord) and snacks to share, as we do not have extra funding.
Please contact one of the current co-organizers with any questions. Register by August 1st, using this form https://forms.gle/CZhuJJ3znWAYdew77.
Best,
Summer 2023 GPO organizing team
Sharla Alegria (sharla.alegria@utoronto.ca, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto)
Melissa Abad (mabad2@stanford.edu, Senior Research Scholar, Stanford VMWare Women’s Leadership Lab)
Ethel Mickey (ethel.mickey@gmail.com, Assistant Professor, California State University, San Bernardino)
Elizabeta Shifrin (shifrin4@illinois.edu, PhD Candidate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Former organizers: Rodica Lisnic, Kathrin Zippel, Laura Kramer, Christina Falci, Laura Hirshfield, Julia McQuillan, and Enobong Hannah (Anna) Branch, Shauna Morimoto, Firuzeh Shokooh Valle
Organizations, Occupations and Work 