Dear ES/PE community members, find below an abundant and excellent list of great academic opportunities: 24 calls for papers for conferences and special issues, 9 postdoctoral positions, 8 job openings, 6 summer schools, 2 PhD scholarships, a visiting opportunity, a non-residential fellowship, an award, and a grant in economic sociology, political economy, and related fields, with deadlines from January 15 till February 5. Share this post with your colleagues and students. Good luck!

Calls for Papers — Conferences and Workshops:

— CfP: “For Dignified and Sustainable Economic Lives: Disrupting the Emotions, Politics, and Technologies of Neoliberalism”, the 36th meeting of the Society of the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), University of Limerick (Ireland), 27-29 June 2024. DL: January 19.
SASE is the major scholarly and professional global organization of economic sociologists and political economists. SASE meetings are genuine intellectual fetes thanks to the affluence of presented knowledge and a warm, stimulating atmosphere. SASE’s 21 Research Networks, focusing on various socio-political aspects of economies and markets, will run their own sessions, and during the meeting will be also held 13 thematic mini-conferences. The Meeting’s keynoters will be Tressie McMillan Cottom, Paul Pierson, Corina Rodriguez Enriquez, and Isabella Weber.
— SASE-Digit Early Career Workshop, July 26. Travel and accommodations costs, as well as SASE registration and membership, are paid for participants. DL: January 19.

— CfP: “Work and the Data Economy“, a joint meeting of the Society for Economic Anthropology and the Society for the Anthropology of Work, Tufts University (MA, USA). Keynoter: Karen Levy. DL: January 15

— CfP: “The state of “the State” in Economic Sociology: Perspectives on State Capacity in Transformative Times“, the German Sociological Association’s Economic Sociology Section conference, the John F. Kennedy Institute at the FU Berlin, April 18-19th 2024. Early career researchers will be supported with the travel costs. DL: January 15

— CfP: “Tension, Trust, and Transformation“, the 16th European Sociological Association (ESA) conference, Porto (Portugal), 27-30 August 2024. Among ESA’s Research Networks are RN05 – Sociology of Consumption, RN06 – Critical Political Economy, RN09 Economic Sociology, RN17 Work, Employment and Industrial Relations. DL: January 15

— CfP “Commoning Beyond Growth” workshop, Nottingham Trent University (UK), 5-7 June 2024. Keynoters: Massimo de Angelis, Kate Sope. DL: January 15

— CfP: “Failure Regimes: Economization, Creolization and Moralization of Failing” workshop, University of Warsaw (Poland), 6-7 May 2024. Keynoters: Costica Bradatan, Catherine Alexander. DL: January 15

— CfP: “Solidarity in the Light of the History of Economic Thought”, the 20^th conference of the Charles Gide Association, Sciences Po Bordeaux (France), June 20-22, 2024. Keynoters: Deirdre McCloskey, Philippe Van Parijs. DL: January 20

— CfP: CEPR Economic History Annual Symposium, Dublin (Ireland), 13-14 June 2024. DL: January 22

— CfP: “Institutions and Survival: Challenges for Sustainability“, the Forum for Institutional Thought Association and the World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research conference, University of Białystok (Poland), 22-23 February 2024. Keynoters:  Annica Kronsell, Ewa Bińczyk. No fee. DL: January 23

— CfP: “Worlds of Digital Labour”, the 59th International Conference of Labour and Social History conference, 26-28 September 2024, Educational Centre of the Upper Austrian Chamber of Labour, Linz (Austria). DL: January 26

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— CfP: “Walter Benjamin and Methods in Management and Organization Studies” workshop, Centre for Research into the Organization of Work and Consumption,  Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge (UK), 9-10^th May, 2024. The attendance is free of charge; some bursaries available for doctoral students or the unwaged, to help with travel and accommodation. DL: January 26

— CfP: “Is Planning Possible in the Face of Crises?”, the 13th French Political Economy Association conference, Montpellier (France), July 2-5, 2024. Submissions in English are welcome. DL: January 31

— CfP: “Policy Making and Policy Implementation: An Intermediation Perspective” workshop, Heidelberg University (Germany), May 2-3, 2024. DL: January 31

— CfP: “Business History as a Multidisciplinary Field: Prospects, Comparisons and Contributions“, the European Business History Association Annual Congress, Carcavelos and Lisbon (Portugal), July 11-13, 2024. DL: January 31

— CfP: “The Gains of their Sorrow: Slavery, the Slave Trade, and the Rise of Capitalism in the Other South” workshop, NOVA University Lisbon (Portugal), 19 June 2024. Keynoters: David Wheat, Nicholas Radburn, Pepjin Brandon. Accommodation will be provided for early career scholars or PhD researchers. DL: January 31

— CfP: “Waste and Value” conference, the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), 25-26 April 2024. No registration fee. DL: February 1

— CfP: “The Changing World Economy, and Today’s Imperialism“, the 14th International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy conference, Kadir Has Üniversitesi, Istanbul (Türkiye), September 4-7, 2024. DL: February 1

— CfP: “Global Perspectives on Gramsci“, the 2nd annual international conference on Gramsci’s legacy, Istituto di Cultura Italiana, in Montreal (Canada) and in a hybrid mode, May 8-10 2024. Keynoters: Paolo Capuzzo, Omer Moussaly. DL: February 1

— CfP: “Networks and Resilience”, the 44^th Sunbelt conference, Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh, Scotland, UK) 24-30 June 2024. Keynoters: Albert-László Barabási, Örjan Bodin, Michele L. Barnes, Ulrik Brandes. DL: February 4

— CfP: “Cooperatives, Hybrids, and Democratic Organisations as the Future of Sustainable and Equitable Socio-Economic Development“, the International Cooperative Alliance research conference, University of Dundee (Scotland, UK), 24 – 26 June 2024. Keynoters: Virginie Pérotin, Donal McKillop. DL: February 4

Calls for papers — Journals:

— CfP: “James M. Buchanan and Public Debt“, Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice‘s special issue. DL for abstracts: January 19

— CfP: “The Organisation and Mobilisation of ‘Unusual Suspects’: Precarious work, Informalisation and Labour Organisations“, Work, Employment and Society‘s special Issue. DL for abstracts: January 31

— CfP: “Industrial Relations, Labour Unions and Strikes in Africa“, Industrielle Beziehungen/ Industrial Relations’ special issue. Deadline for proposals: February 1

Visiting position:

– Institute for European Global Studies of the University of Basel (Switzerland) visiting fellowships (3 months) on the topic “Natural Resources as Objects of Conflict“. The fellowship includes a grant for travel, accommodation and living expenses. DL: January 31

PhD Scholarships:

— PhD scholarships in Humanistic Approaches to Entrepreneurship, the Department of Business Humanities and Law at Copenhagen Business School. DL: January 15

— PhD Studentships in “Modern Capitalism and Rising Inequalities“, Department of Accounting & Finance, The Open University Business School (UK). DL: January 31

Job openings:

– Lecturer (permanent position) in Global Political Economy, The University of Manchester (UK). DL: January 15

— Full Professor of Sociology with expertise in the areas of work and social inequality, University of Vienna (Austria). DL: January 15

– Tenure-Track Professor in Political Science and Welfare State Policy, University of Vienna. DL: January 15

— A tenure-track Assistant Professor in the political Economy of Europe, the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics at Sciences Po (Paris, France). DL: January 29

— Assistant Professor in Organization Theory to join the project on how financial structures affect organizations’ outcomes and forms (3-year position), Copenhagen Business School (Denmark). DL: January 29

— A tenure-track faculty position in Sociology (social mobility and inequality; work and organizations; lifestyles and culture; economic sociology) at ENSAE Paris-CREST, Institut Polytechnique de Paris (France). DL: January 31

— Assistant Professor with specialization in Political Economy of Finance, the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands). DL: January 31

— Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Department of Sociology, Stockholm University (Sweden). DL: February 1

Postdoctoral positions:

— Postdoc positions in Humanistic Approaches to Entrepreneurship, the Department of Business Humanities and Law at Copenhagen Business School. DL: January 15

– Postdoctoral Fellowships in Chinese Studies in global political economy to join the “Global Firms and Rival States: Business, Transnational Commerce, and China’s Rise” research group, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University. DL: January 16

— Reagan Postdoctoral Visiting Fellows Program, The Ronald Reagan Institute (California and Washington DC, USA). Projects that focus on the Reagan presidency are welcome, but also those that pre-date or post-date the Reagan presidency so long as they consider the origins, legacy, or themes of Reagan’s policies. DL: January 20

— Postdoctoral researcher to join the “The emergence of social and environmental impact assessment practices to finance solutions to tackle grand challenges” project, Aalto University School of Business (Finland). DL: January 24

— Postdoc position in Organization Theory to join the project on how financial structures affect organizations’ outcomes and forms, Copenhagen Business School (Denmark). DL: January 29

— Junior University Researcher in Economic Sociology and Sociology of Work and Organisations, The Competence Center for Management of Cooperatives at the Free University of Bozen/Bolzano (Italy). DL: February 1

— Postdoc position in the “Returns to Work in Occupational, Relational, and Corporate Settings” project at Centre de Sociologie des Organisations, Sciences Po Paris (France). DL: February 1

— Post-doctoral position on “Political Economy of Climate Policy”,  The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (Germany). DL: February 4

– Neil Davidson Postdoctoral Writing Fellowship for those working on Marxist theory / class struggle / trade unionism / neoliberalism / radical political economy at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow  (Scotland, UK). DL: February 5

Summer Schools and Courses:

— CfA: “Establishing Links between Research and Labour Activism”, the 3rd Labour Transfer Summer School, Buggerru (Sardinia, Italy), June 19-24, 2024. DL: January 15

— CfA: The Past Networks Summer School, Barcelona (Spain), 25-29 June 2024. The Summer School is to teach theory and practice of network research to those who study history. A small number of bursaries is available. DL: January 21

— CfA: “Social Network Analysis“, the Konstanz Methods Excellence Workshops, the University of Konstanz (Germany), 26/02-1/03, 2024. DL: January 25

— CfA: “Personal Networks: Theory, Methods and Applications“, the 12th winter course edition for graduate students and researchers, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain) and in a hybrid form, February 6-10, 2023. DL: January 30

— CfA: “Political Economy of Finance” Summer School for PhD students, postdocs, and early career scholars, Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs, Brown University (RI, USA), 17-21 June 2024. The School is organized by Benjamin Braun and Mark Blyth. Instructors: Adam Goldstein, Benjamin Braun, Daniela Gabor, J.W. Mason, more. The cost of travel and hotel accommodation will be covered for all participants. DL: February 1

— CfA: “Waste: Cultural Imaginaries and Materiality“, PhD School at the Faculty of Humanities at University of Copenhagen (Denmark), 22-24 April 2024. Teachers: Trine Brox, Saskia Adelle Abrahms-Kavunenko, Paulina Kolata, Gauri Pathak, Hervé Corvellec. DL: February 1

Grant:

— Economy and Society‘s Special Issue Competition: £5,000 of event funding to assist the development of a special issue (workshop, writing retreat, etc). DL: January 15

Award:

– Capital as Power Essay Prize, by The Review of Capital as Power. DL: January 31

Fellowship:

— The New School Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy non-residential fellowship for PhD students or junior academics engaged in research on cooperative principles within the digital economy. DL: January 21

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