Call for Papers for the
8th International Conference in Critical Management Studies Sub‐theme: Reflexivity – Advances in the Study of Organizational Change 10 ‐ 12 July 2013, University of Manchester
The purpose of this sub-theme is, among others, to discuss the conceptualization of reflexivity in processes of organizational and social change as well as the interplay between personal and institutional reflexivity. Deadline for abstract submission is February 24, 2013.
Call for Presentations
2013 German Stata Users Group Meeting
Organizers: Johannes Giesecke (University of Bamberg) and Ulrich Kohler (University of Potsdam)
Place: University of Potsdam Date: June 7, 2013
Submission Deadline: March 1, 2013 About the Conference
We would like to announce the 11th German Stata Users Group Meeting to be held at the University of Potsdam on Friday, June 7, 2013. We would like to invite everybody from anywhere who is interested in using Stata to attend this meeting.
Presentations are sought on topics that include:
The conference language will be English due to the international nature of the meeting and the participation of non-German guest speakers. (See http://www.stata.com/support/meeting for the proceedings of other User Group Meetings.)
The academic program of the meeting is being organized by Johannes Giesecke and Ulrich Kohler.
Submission
If you are interested in presenting a paper, please submit an abstract by email to one of the organizers (max 200 words). The deadline for submissions is 1st March 2013. Presentations should be 20 min. or shorter.
Finance and Logistics
Participants are asked to travel at their own expense. There will be a small conference fee to cover costs for coffee, teas, and luncheons. There will also be an optional informal meal at a restaurant in Potsdam on Friday evening at additional cost. The logistics are being organized by Dittrich and Partner (http://www.dpc.de), the distributor of Stata in several countries including Germany, The Netherlands, Austria, Czech Republic, and Hungary. You can enroll by contacting Anke Mrosek by email or by writing, phoning, or faxing to
Anke Mrosek
Dittrich & Partner Consulting GmbH
Prinzenstr. 2
42697 Solingen
Tel: +49 (0) 212 260 66-24
Fax: +49 (0) 212 260 66-66
The final program, cost, and venue will be circulated in March 2013.
Call for Papers
Conference
“Ethnic Diversity and Social Capital: Mechanisms, Conditions and Causality”
Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) May 24 and 25, 2013
The debate on trust, cooperation, and civic engagement in ethnically diverse communities has proliferated rapidly over the last decade. Dozens of studies have been conducted, covering a variety of countries and levels of analysis, across a range of indicators of social capital, and using divergent operationalizations of diversity. The outcomes of these studies have been almost as varied as their research designs.
The time has come to draw up the balance, in order to identify both what we have learned, and what has remained unresolved. In doing so, we want to move beyond the somewhat dreary and inconclusive discussion of the mere absence or presence of correlations between diversity and social capital. More can be gained by focusing more closely on the causal mechanisms linking the two, and on moderating factors that point towards conditional effects of diversity.
In order to achieve this aim, we want to bring together leading scholars who carry out cutting-edge research on the mechanisms and conditions of diversity effects. For this two-day event, we invite about 20 scholars from several disciplines to present new and unpublished studies on the linkages between ethnic diversity and social capital.
If you would like to present your ongoing research on the mechanisms and conditions of diversity effects at the WZB, please submit your proposal until February 17, 2013 at http://www.wzb.eu/mad/call-for-papers.
In case of successful application, we cover travel expenses and accommodation in Berlin (based on economy fare and up to three nights of accommodation).
The confirmed list of speakers includes:
Dietlind Stolle, McGill University, and Miles Hewstone, University of Oxford (Keynote speakers); Peter Thisted Dinesen, University of Copenhagen; Frank Kalter, University of Mannheim; Karen Schönwälder, Sören Petermann and Jörg Hüttermann, MPIMMG Göttingen; Eric M. Uslaner, University of Maryland; Susanne Veit, WZB.
Conference organizers:
Ruud Koopmans, Bram Lancee, Merlin Schaeffer (WZB)
For further information, please contact jutta.hoehne@wzb.eu.
REMINDER
Call for Papers
Ableism, Racism and Conflicts of Participation and Inclusion in Society and the Labour Market
International Conference on Linking Concepts of Critical Ableism and Racism Studies with Research on Conflicts of Participation – June 6-8, 2013
NEW DEADLINE
January 30th 2013 Abstract submission deadline
Network and Centre of Participation Research, University of Hamburg Prof. Dr. Marianne Pieper
Jamal Haji Mohammadi, Gesa Mayer, Till Telake
While anti-discrimination laws and the UN Disability Rights Convention provide legal guarantees anchoring the right to self-determination and inclusion in all sectors of society, these guarantees have yet to be realised in practice.
Central to this conference is the question of implementation of the rights of marginalised people to inclusion, self-determination and participation in society in general and especially in the labour market. The focus is on two central interconnected axes of difference, ableism and racism, which act as powerful social “ushers” in conjunction with other constructions of difference. Both “disability” and “migration background” are terms used colloquially and often understood as properties associated with individuals; however, what remains hidden is how they are the product of complex processes of construction. These processes can take on very different forms in different geopolitical contexts depending on the specific logics of economic valorisation as well as different political and technical conditions.
The aim of the conference is to discuss the creation of concepts as well as theoretical and methodological tools adequate to the task of analysing marginalisation and participation. An additional focus of the conference will be on the concept and practices of inclusion and a discussion of models, perspectives and policy options. The conference program is divided into three sections:
1. Theoretical and conceptual development
The aim is to explore new theoretical and methodological approaches to analysing processes of marginalisation by examining how ableism and racism interact with other axes of difference (gender, age, sexual orientation, class) in the context of specific economic conditions. How do logics of valorisation, production conditions and the labour market situation in contemporary neo-liberal economies relate to ableism, racism and other axes of difference?
2. Development of methodological perspectives / Discussion of new research designs
Creative and innovative methodologies will be presented for discussion. There will be an emphasis on theoretical concepts and research methods/research designs which neither comprehend people as simple emanations and materialisations of power logics and structures, nor view them as completely autonomous actors. The aim is rather to explore the potential offered by theoretical concepts and research designs from the fields of “neo- materialism” and complexity theory to escape the narrowness and aporias of social constructivist approaches.
3. Current empirical studies and reports from the field will be used as the basis for discussions of different forms of participation in the labour market and in everyday life.
a) Network activists will outline and discuss new perspectives and models as well as demands and opportunities for political intervention.
b) A panel discussion will allow network activists and scientists to debate new perspectives and models together with political decision-makers and representatives from business and the trade unions.
Important dates
January 30th 2013 Abstract submission deadline
March 3rd 2013 Abstract reviewed
March 4th – April 12th 2013 Early bird registration
May 15th 2013 Final deadline for registration
May 25th 2013 Full conference program published on-line
We invite colleagues from different countries and different disciplines within the social sciences. Please send your abstract (Limit 2000 characters, 250 words) to cepar@wiso.uni-hamburg.de
A Book Launch (or a special issue of an international journal) is in preparation.
Conference venue: University of Hamburg – Institute of Sociology – Network and Centre of Participation Research www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/cepar
If you have any questions please contact to: cepar@wiso.uni-hamburg.de
CALL FOR WORKSHOPS
WORKSHOPS AT THE SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL AAAI CONFERENCE ON WEBLOGS AND SOCIAL MEDIA BOSTON, MA, USA, JULY 8-11 2013
SPONSORED BY THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
The ICWSM-13 Committee invites proposals for Workshops Day at the Seventh International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-13). The Workshops Day will be held on the last day of the conference on July 11, 2013 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to meet and discuss issues with a selected focus — providing an informal setting for active exchange among social scientists, computer scientists, and other researchers and developers.
Members of all segments of the social media research community are encouraged to submit proposals. To foster interaction and exchange of ideas, the workshops will be kept small, with 25–50 participants. Attendance is limited to active participants only. The format of workshops will be determined by their organizers, who are encouraged to avoid a mini-conference format that is dominated by long talks and short discussions. Instead, the organizers should leave ample time for discussions and interaction between the participants, and should encourage the submission and presentation of position papers that discuss new research ideas.
Instead, the organizers should leave ample time for discussions and interaction between the participants, and should encourage the submission and presentation of position papers that discuss new research ideas.
Workshops can be a half-day or full-day in length. A half-day workshop is assumed unless you specify otherwise in your proposal.
PROPOSAL CONTENT
Proposals for workshops should be no more than three (3) pages in length, and should contain the following:
Workshops are an excellent forum for exploring emerging approaches and task areas, for bridging the gaps between the social science and technology fields or between subfields of social media research, for elucidating the results of exploratory research, or for critiquing existing approaches. Because workshops are intended for focused exploration of special topics, topics that are already the subject of regular meetings are not appropriate.
WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION
Workshop organizers will be responsible for the following:
Workshop organizers who want to publish the papers from their workshop (or significant portions of it) will have the opportunity to do so through the AAAI Press. The Press (which retains the right of first refusal to publish) will furnish details of its program to interested organizers and authors.
ICWSM will provide logistical support, and meeting places for the workshops, and will determine the dates and times of the workshops.
ICWSM reserves the right to drop any workshop if the organizers miss the above deadlines. Workshops are not to be used as a vehicle for marketing products. A reduced workshop registration fee will be offered to ICWSM-13 technical program registrants.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE
Proposals must be received by January 9, 2013. Decisions about the Workshops Day program will be made by January 16, 2013. Submissions must be in PDF format and can be made via the EasyChair conference system
IMPORTANT DATES
Key Facts
Date: March 18-20, 2013
Location: University of Potsdam
Organizers: Marco Caliendo and Alexander Kritikos
Lecturers: Sascha O. Becker (University of Warwick), Daniel S. Hamermesh (University of Texas), Arno Riedl (Maastricht University)
Submission Deadline: January 15, 2013
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About the Workshop
We are pleased to announce the 2nd Potsdam PhD Workshop in Empirical Economics. The aim of the workshop is to give talented young researchers the opportunity to present and discuss their research and to study new developments in Empirical Economics.
Lecturers
The first lecture will be given by Arno Riedl on “Experimental Economics”. Riedl is Professor of Public Economics at Maastricht University. In his research he uses tools and methods of behavioural and experimental economics to investigate decision-making in a variety of social and economic situations. He has published in top journals in economics, biology, neuroscience and political science.
Sascha O. Becker will talk about “The Role of Education in Economic History”. He is Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick and Deputy Director of the Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE). His research interests are in Education and Labour Economics, Public Economics and Economic History. His papers have appeared in international journals, including the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the American Economic Review.
The final lecture will be given by Daniel S. Hamermesh on “Research Advice for PhD Students”. Hamermesh is Sue Killam Professor in the Foundations of Economics at University Texas and Professor of Economics at Royal Holloway University of London. His research concentrates on time use, labour demand, discrimination and unusual applications of labour economics. He authored several seminal books and a wide array of articles in labour economics in the leading general and specialized economics journals.
Audience
The 2nd Potsdam PhD Workshop in Empirical Economics is open to around 20 graduate students and post doctorates within three years after dissertation. Participants will be given the opportunity to present and discuss their own research in a poster session. We encourage all young researchers interested in Empirical Economics to apply.
Submission
Please submit your CV and a paper (or an extended abstract) by January 15, 2013 to workshop[at]empwifo.uni-potsdam.de.
There will be no workshop fees; travel and accommodation expenses have to be covered by the participants.
Call for Papers zum
Herbstworkshop 2013 der Kommission Personalwesen 19. und 20.09.2013, Universität Hamburg
Der Herbstworkshop der Kommission Personalwesen soll die Vielfalt der aktuellen personal-wirtschaftlichen Forschung der Mitglieder der Kommission widerspiegeln. Wir bitten daher um die Einreichung des „besten“ personalwissenschaftlichen Beitrages ihrer derzeitigen Forschung. Willkommen sind sowohl theoretisch-konzeptionelle als auch empirische Beiträge. Diese können in den folgenden Kategorien eingereicht werden, wobei die Formatierungsrichtlinien der Zeitschrift für Personalwesen (ZfP) gelten:
Ausschlussfrist für die Einreichung der Beiträge und Kurzberichte ist der 31.05.2013. weitere Informationen – Call for Papers
Call for papers for a special issue of Industry and Innovation on
“Field-Configuring Events as Arenas for Innovation and Learning“
The aim of this Special Issue is to analyze field-configuring events (FCEs) explicitly as arenas for innovation and learning from an interdisciplinary perspective. It aims to analyze the specific parameters that allow different kinds of FCEs to bring about novelty in different contexts and to specify the innovation and learning processes that take place at these dynamic arenas. The deadline for complete manuscript submissions is October 1, 2013. Further Information
Call for Papers
for the 6th Analytical Sociology Conference – June 7 and 8, 2013 in Stockholm.
Organizers:
Peter Hedström, Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm
Jens Rydgren, Department of Sociology, Stockholm University
Viktoria Spaiser, Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm
Clara Lindblom, Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm
Kim Jansson, Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm
CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline: 1st of February
Analytical sociology is an approach for understanding the social world. It is concerned with explaining societal phenomena such as social network structures, patterns of segregation, collectively shared and diffused cultural and/or political ideas or common ways of (inter-)acting in a society. It explains such phenomena not merely by relating them to other societal phenomena, but by detailing in clear and precise ways the mechanisms through which the phenomena were brought about. Parts of analytical sociology focus on action and interaction as the cogs and wheels of social processes, while others consider the dynamic social processes that these actions and interactions bring about.
We are delighted to announce that Thomas Schelling will give the keynote address of the conference. Thomas Schelling was awarded the 2005 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis. His models of segregation are widely cited and a continuing source of inspiration for analytical sociologists.
We welcome presentations using any qualitative or quantitative method that allows for the study of social mechanisms and the complex social dynamics they give rise to. In addition, we welcome purely theoretical papers dealing with central aspects of the explanatory approach of analytical sociology.
Abstracts (500 – 1000 words) should be sent to inas2013@iffs.se no later than the 1st of February 2013 and should contain the following elements:
1) title of the paper,
2) author(s) and their affiliation and e-mail address, and
3) brief summary of the paper.
Acceptance notes will be sent out on the 1st of March 2013. The final version of the paper is due on the 1st of May 2013.
For more information on practical details such as location, hotels etc. please click here (please note; more information will be uploaded to the site soon). If you have any questions please do not hesitate to send an email to inas2013@iffs.se.
Transnational networks – Call for Abstracts for a session at the XXXIII. Sunbelt Conference, May 21 – 26, 2013 in Hamburg, Germany
organized by Andreas Herz, Sören Petermann and José Luis Molina
Transnational studies focus on the border-crossing activities of individuals, migrant groups, corporations and social movements. A central innovation of the concept “transnationalism” depends on a perspective which refers to cross-border relationships and networks. E.g. looking at personal networks it can be seen that more and more people have highly transnationally dispersed relationship structures wherein the “social” is only partly routed in the “local”. Especially relational approaches and social network analysis (SNA) allow reconsidering and researching the cross-cutting transfer of ideas, transnational support as well as the formation of opinions and lifestyles beyond different geographical spaces and nation states. We invite presentations to discuss the transnational and geographically dispersed social formations form a network perspective. Possible questions are:
Submission will be closing on December 31 at 11:59:59 EST. Please limit your abstract to 250 words. Proceed to abstract submission: http://www.abstractserver.com/sunbelt2013/absmgm/
When submitting your abstract, please select “Transnational networks” as session title in the drop down box on the submission site. To be extra sure please put a note in the “additional notes” box on the abstract submission form that states Andreas Herz, Sören Petermann and José Luis Molina as the session organizers.
Best,
Andreas Herz, University of Hildesheim Foundation
Sören Petermann, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
José Luis Molina, University Autònoma de Barcelona