Dear ES/PE community members, find below an abundant list of great academic opportunities: 16 calls for papers for conferences and special issues, 12 postdoc positions, 4 visiting opportunities, 2 awards, 2 job opening, 2 doctoral positions, and a grant in economic sociology, political economy, and related fields, with deadlines from November 3 till December 4. Share this post with your colleagues and students. Good luck!

Calls for Papers:

— CfP: “Gender, Family and Deindustrialization“, the 3rd annual conference sponsored by the Deindustrialization and the Politics of our Time partnership, University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, UK), June 25-26, 2024. There will be an opportunity for selected papers to be included in an edited volume . DL: November 3

— The 88th Conference of the Japanese Society for the History of Economic Thought, Onomichi City University (Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan), May 25-26t 2024. DL : November 8

— CfP: “Class, Skill and Exploitation: Harry Braverman’s Labor and Monopoly Capital after 50 Years“, a special issue of New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry. DL for proposals: November 10

— CfP: “Gendering the law of digital platforms. An interdisciplinary and comparative study of platform work and its law through gender”, the Platform Work Inclusion Living Lab conference, the University Paris-East, April 2024. Accepted papers will be published in a special issue. DL: November 10

— CfP: “Strike Activity in the 21st Century: Implications of the Recent Global Upsurge”, the 6th International Association on Strikes and Social Conflicts conference to be held in Cape Town (South Africa), 5th-7th February 2024. No registration fee. DL: November 10

— CfP: “Market(s) and Democracy“, the 7th International Conference Economic Philosophy, the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (Reims, France) on May 29th-31st, 2024. Keynoters: Dani Rodrik, Hélène Landemore. DL: November 15

— CfP: “Through the Lens of Work: Capitalism, Development, and Social Change in the Global South“, the Association for the Anthropology of Social Change and Development conference, University of Liège (Belgium), 22-24 May 2024. A limited number of scholarships will be available for doctoral students and young researchers. DL: November 15

— CfP: “Greening the Economy: Toward a New Political Economy“, Regulation & Governance’s special issue edited by Basak Kus and Gregory Jackson. DL for abstracts: November 15

— CfP: “Social and Economic History of Turkey, 1950-2000” edited volume by Berna Pekesen. DL for abstracts: November 15

— CfP: “Big Questions in Work-Family“, the 7th Work and Family Researchers Network Conference, Concordia University (Montreal Canada), June 20-22, 2024. DL: November 15

— CfP: “Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis“, an online workshop hosted by the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice and organized by Andreas Bieler and Vincenzo Maccarrone, 23 February 2024. DL: November 20

— CfP: “‘Our Interlocked Universe’: Sociohistorical Network Analysis; Methods, Applications, and New Directions” conference, University of Southampton (UK), 26-27th March 2024. Keynoter: Ruth Ahnert. DL: November 20

— CfP: The 19th Workshop on New Institutionalism, Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany), March 21–22, 2024. DL: November 20

— CfP: “Caught between the Digital Revolution and a Crisis of Democracy: Feminist Economics Responses and Imaginations for the Future“, the 32 IAFFE Annual Conference,  Sapienza University (Rome, Italy) and hybrid access, 3-5 July 2024. DL: November 22

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— CfP: “The Political Economies of Artificial Intelligence Technologies: Beyond Disruptive Transformation versus Capitalist Continuity“, the ECPR Political Economy and Welfare State Politics standing group, Joint Sessions of Workshops, Leuphana University Lüneburg (Germany), 25 – 28 March 2024. DL: November 23

— CfP: “Emotions, the Rich and the Poor: Affective hierarchies, boundaries and distinctions in class relations and social structure“, Emotion and Society‘s special issue edited by Nina Margies and Elgen Sauerborn. DL for abstracts: December 1

Awards:

— Herman E. Krooss Prize for Best Dissertation in Business History (broadly defined). DL: November 14

— Hagley Prize in for the best book in Business History (broadly defined). DL: November 30

Visiting positions:

— 3 Junior Fellowships (3-6 months) with a research topic focusing on the economy or human rights in contemporary European history at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences ‘Universalism and Particularism in European Contemporary History’ at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Germany). DL: November 30

— The Lady Davis Visiting Professor Fellowship,  the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel). DL: November 30

— A Visiting Fellow working on wealth inequality / housing / racial and ethnic economic inequality (funded up to 50 percent of their academic year salary), the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics at the University of Michigan (MI, USA). The Fellow may pursue a primarily nonresidential option. DL: December 1

— Marie Jahoda Visiting Fellowships to address real world problems related to digital futures at work, Digital Futures at Work Research Centre, University of Leeds (UK). DL: December 4

Doctoral position:

— A doctoral position within the project “Varieties of Procurement Regimes: How do States Procure Strategically and to What Effect?“, co-leaded by Prof. Dr. Miriam Hartlapp at FU Berlin and David Levi-Faur at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. DL: November 13

— Junior researcher (doctoral student) in social sciences, specializing in digital economy and society within economic sociology and political economy perspectives, the Department of Social Sciences at the LUT School of Engineering Sciences (Lappeenranta, Finland). Part of the work can be performed remotely. DL: December 3

Grant:

— The Fritz Thyssen Foundation supports scholarly events related to the “State, Economy and Society” theme. DL: November 30

Job openings:

— Lecturer in Sociology (Social Inequality and Stratification; Networks and Everyday Lives; Social Movements and Protest; Culture and Consumption), the Department of Sociology, The University of Manchester (UK). DL: November 9

— A tenure-track Assistant Professor with a focus on Economic History (complementary fields could include labor, industrial organization, political economy), the Economics Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. DL: November 17

Postdoctoral positions:

— Teaching Associate in the Political Economy of Biomedicine (Part Time, Fixed Term), the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge (UK). DL: November 5

— 2 post-doc positions to join the “Policies and Corporate Strategies for Strengthening the Sustainable Economic and Social Competitiveness of Switzerland” research project, the Center for Competitiveness, the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). DL: November 10

— A postdoc to join the project “Varieties of Procurement Regimes: How do States Procure Strategically and to What Effect?“, co-leaded by Prof. Dr. Miriam Hartlapp at FU Berlin and David Levi-Faur at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. DL: November 13

— SNF Agora Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University (MD, USA). DL: November 14

— Postdoctoral Researcher to join a new project on “European welfare states and the challenge of platform work”, University of Lausanne (Switzerland). DL: November 15

— Postdoctoral Fellowship on “Concentration of Economic Power and Crisis of Democracy“, Brazilian Center for Planning and Analysis, São Paulo, Brazil. DL: November 20

— Research Fellow in Social Sciences to support the ‘Growing Teesside’s Hydrogen Economy and Catalysing a Just Transition to Net Zero‘ project, Teesside University (England, UK). DL: November 23

— Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Valuation (in policymaking, regulation and business contexts), Institute for Technoscience & Society (to work with Kean Birch), York University, Toronto (Canada). DL: November 30

— Postdoctoral Fellowship in Moral and Political Economy, the Center for Economy and Society, the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University (MD, USA). DL: December 1

— Postdoctoral Research Scholar tp join the idea lab on “Firms and Industrial Policy” at the Columbia Center for Political Economy, Columbia University (NYC, NY, USA). DL: December 1

— Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Eviction Lab, the Department of Sociology at Princeton University. DL: December 1

— Postdoctoral Research Scholar tp join the idea lab on “Money and Finance” at the Columbia Center for Political Economy, Columbia University (NYC, USA). DL: December 1

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