Dear ES/PE community members, find below an abundant list of great academic opportunities: 13 calls for papers for conferences (some are fully or partly funded) and special issues, 10 job openings, 6 PhD fellowships, 4 visiting opportunities, 4 postdoc positions, and a grant in economic sociology, political economy, and related fields, with deadlines from today till October 31. Share this post with your colleagues and students. Good luck!!

Calls for Papers:

— CfP: “Homeless, Helpless, Hopeless? Taking Stock of (Un)successful Approaches to End Homelessness in Advanced Democracies“, an interdisciplinary workshop at the Institute of Sociology, University of Göttingen (Germany) March 8-9, 2024. Some financial assistance for presenters without their own, or insufficient, travel funds may be possible. DL: October 1

— CfP: The 17th Workshop on Political Economy, the Center of Public and International Economics at University of Technology Dresden (Germany), 24-25 November, 2023. Keynoters: Ruben Durante, Axel Dreher. DL: October 2

— CfP: “Alternative Economies for a Sustainable Future“, the SSRC-JFNY Japan Global Workshop, Claremont McKenna College (California, USA), January 9-12, 2024. The SSRC will cover the cost of airfare, airport transportation, three nights accommodation, and all meals during the workshop and in transit. DL: October 2

— CFP: The 2nd Workshop on Organization Studies and Family Firms, EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht (Oestrich-Winkel, Germany), 6-8 December 2023. Keynoters: Giulia Cappellaro, Gino Cattani, Dries Faems, Simone Ferriani, Eero Vaara. 10 scholarships are available to cover travel and accommodation costs to early career researchers from Southern Europe. DL: October 4

— CfP: “The Political Economy of Growth and Distribution:  Bridging Interdisciplinary Perspectives“, the YSI INET workshop for junior scholars, the University of Siena (Italy), 14-15 December 2023. Keynoter: Lucio Baccaro, Engelbert Stockhammer, Fabio Petri, Riccardo Pariboni. Participants  can expect to receive accommodation and a partial travel stipend. DL: October 14

— CfP: “Commons, Polycentricity, & Democracy: Building upon 50 years of Ostrom Governance Research“, the 7th Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University Bloomington (USA), June 19-21, 2024. DL: October 15

— CfP: “Political Marxism and Open Marxism“, Capital & Class‘ special issue. DL for proposals: October 15

— CfP: “Labor Past & Present: Bringing History and Activism Together” conference for gradate students and postdoc fellows, Columbia University (NYC, USA), February 2, 2024. Limited financial assistance will be available to support panelists’ travel and lodging expenses. DL: October 22

— CfP: “Neoliberalism and Capitalism as Keywords of Contemporary History” conference at Yale University, 23-25 February, 2024. Keynotes: Isabella Weber, David Edgerton. Some travel assistance may be available. DL: October 24

— CfP: The 3rd Doctoral Conference on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne (Germany), February 29 to March 1, 2024. DL: October 25

— CfP: “Networks and Political Economy” workshop for early postdocs and PhD students, Unoversoty Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, 25-26 January 2024. Kenoters: David Chavalarias, Alan Kirman, Maria Petrova, Ekaterina Zhuravskaya. Travel stipends may be granted to participants. DL: October 31

— CfP: “Coercion, Consent and Conflict in the Labour Process and Beyond“, the 42nd International Labour Process Conference, University of Göttingen (Germany), 3-5 April 2024. Keynoters: Hans-Jürgen Urban, Paul Thompson, Sarah Nies, Heide Gerstenberger, Klaus Dörre, Nicole Mayer-Ahuja. DL: October 31

— CfP: “What is a financial crisis? Perceptions, memories, analyses in a long-run historical perspective” conference, London School of Economics and Political Science, 17-18 June 2024. The organisers will offer lunches, dinners, and coffee breaks; limited funds are available for travel and accommodation expenses. DL: October 31

PhD Fellowships:

— Doctoral Fellowships to join “Kingdoms of Debt: An Ethnographic Study of Debt Collection and Debt Relief Proceedings in Israel” research project, the Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University (Israel). DL: October 1

— Don’t you want to attend the most interesting and promising online talks and webinars on various topics in economic sociology and political economy from all over the world? Of course you do! Follow the ES/PE’s Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin pages, Whatsapp and Telegram channels to have information about these events that are publicized only on our social media a week before they take place. On our social media you will also find the newest, excellent posts and articles from other media outlets.

— Research Associate (towards PhD) in Work & Employment (the changing terms and conditions of work / emerging patterns of work and employment), Management School’s Centre for Decent Work, University of Sheffield (UK). DL: October 5

— Doctoral position within the project on work precariousness and solo self-employment in the context of food industry and policies, University of Trento (Italy). DL: October 5

— Research Associate (towards PhD) in Work & Employment (underemployment / the informalisation of formal jobs), Management School’s Centre for Decent Work, University of Sheffield (UK). DL: October 5

— Research Assistant (with the aim of completing a doctorate) to work on developmental dynamics  / post-growth /  sociology of pluralist economics / global inequality, the Department of Pluralist Economics at Europa-Universität Flensburg (Germany). DL: October 8

— PhD candidate to study Financial and Fiscal Influence on Housing Inequality, the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven (Belgium). DL: October 23

Postdoctoral positions:

— Post-Doctoral Researcher to join “The Greening of African Economic Development” research project, the Department of Development Studies, SOAS University of London. DL: October 4

— Research Fellow for New Business Case Development, African Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Cooling, University of Birmingham. DL: October 5

— Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Cluster of Excellence “Politics of Inequality“, the University of Konstanz (Germany). DL: October 10

— Post-Doctoral Researcher to join “The Orders and Borders of Global Inequality: Migration and Mobilities in Late Capitalism” project to work on contemporary African migration and mobilities, the University College Cork (Ireland). DL: October 12

Visiting positions:

— Stone Visiting Scholars in Wealth Distribution, Inequality and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. DL: October 1

— The Jos Berghman Welfare Studies Stipend offers early career scholars the opportunity of spending a research term with the Social Policy group in the Centre for Sociological Research at KU Leuven (Belgium). DL: October 1

— Visiting Researchers Program (not funded) for professors, postdoc researchers and doctoral students in economic sociology and comparative and international political economy at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne (Germany). DL: October 31

— Visiting fellowship for researcher working on the social, political, or cultural effects of digitalization, Center for Advanced Internet Studies (Bochum, Germany). DL: October 31

Grant:

— Call for Constructive Advanced Thinking (CAT) Programme 2024 – 2026. The aim of the CAT initiative  to foster networks of excellent early-career researchers dedicated to devising new ideas to understand and to tackle current or emerging societal challenges. This call has been incubated in the Network of European Institutes for Advanced Study (NETIAS). DL: October 15

Job openings:

— Tenure-track Assistant Professor in global political economy, the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria (BC, Canada). DL: October 1

— Assistant Professor in Economic Sociology, the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge (UK). DL: October 2

— Tenure-track Assistant Professor in political economy, the Department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. DL: October 8

— Tenure-track position inin the field of interrelations between socio-economic change and political orders, the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. DL: October 11

— Professor of Sociology of Work and Economic Sociology, the Institute of Sociology of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Jena (Germany). DL: October 15

— Associate Director (PhD holder) of a new undergraduate major “Moral and Political Economy“, the Center for Economy and Society, Johns Hopkins University (MD, USA). DL: October 20

— Professorship in sociology with a focus on transnational work, in particular the study of structures, institutions and labour relations, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany). DL: Octobers 22

— Tenure-track position in business-government relations / business history / economic development / political economy / public policy at the Business, Government and the International Economy unit, Harvard Business School. DL: October 25

— Tenure-track faculty position focused on the relationship between business and society, the Organization & Management area at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School (GA, USA). DL: October 27

— Tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Economic Sociology or Network Analysis, the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Santiago). DL: October 31

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