Dear ES/PE community members, find below an abundant and excellent list of great academic opportunities: 27 calls for papers for conferences (some are fully or partly funded) and special issues, 12 postdoctoral positions, 6 summer schools, 5 PhD scholarships, 2 job openings, a non-residential fellowship in economic sociology, political economy, and related fields, with deadlines from February 18 till March 18. Share this post with your colleagues and students. Good luck!
Calls for Papers — Conferences and Workshops:
— CfP: “The Changing World Economy, and Today’s Imperialism”, the 14th Annual Conference of the International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy, Kadir Has Üniversitesi (Istanbul, Türkiye), September 4-7, 2024. DL: February 18
— CfP: “The Financialization of Social Housing” workshop & special issue, Brussels (Belgium), 18-19 June 2024. There is no fee. DL: February 19
— CfP: “New Frontiers and Innovations in Interest Group Research”, the ECPR Standing Group on Interest Groups workshop, Dubrovnik (Croatia), 25-27 June 2024. DL: February 19
— The YSI-EHES Graduate Spring Webinar in Economic History: a platform for young researchers to present their work and get feedback from senior scholars. DL: February 23
— CfP: “Industrial Relations in the Era of Multiple Crises: Inequalities, Industrial Action, & Intersectionalities after COVID-19“, the BUIRA Annual Conference, Queen Mary, University of London (UK), July 17-19, 2024. Pre-conference doctoral workshop to be held on July 16. DL: February 24
— CfP: “Hoarding Opportunities: Entrepreneurship and Inequality” conference, the Max-Planck-Institute of the Study of Societies in Cologne (Germany), September 25-27, 2024. DL: February 25
— CfP: “Class Struggle and the Construction of Alternatives in the Era of Disaster Capitalism“, Historical Materialism international conference, Barcelona (Spain), 3-7 July 2024. DL: February 29
— CfP: “Cities and the Wealth of Nations“, the 1st York Economic History & Political Economy Workshop, University of York (UK). There is no workshop fee; food will be provided. Some travel support funds for PhD students and early-career researchers could be granted. DL: February 29
— CfP: The 3rd Global Economic Networks Interdisciplinary Workshop, Tübingen (Germany), June 20-21, 2024. Keynoters: Teresa Fort, Andreas Moxnes. Participants will be provided with lodging; travel costs can be covered, in particular for some US-based researchers; childcare services may also be provided. DL: February 29
— CfP: Workshop in Economic History, Uppsala University (Sweden), May 23-24, 2024. Keynoter: Jeanet Sinding Bentzen. Lodging and meals are provided; PhD students and junior researchers will be given priority to have their travel expenses covered. DL: February 29
— CfP: “Welfare and Policies in LAC: Advances and Challenges Ahead“, the international workshop to launch the network on Welfare & Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean, University of Costa Rica in San José, 9–10 May 2024. Keynoter: Adriana Camacho DL: February 29
— CfP: “The Future of Capitalism: Neo-Feudalism?“, an interdisciplinary conference at the University of Chicago (USA), May 2, 2024. DL: March 1
— CfP: “Digital Capitalism: Beyond the Neoliberal Paradigm?” conference, University of Leeds (UK), June 3, 2024. Keynoter: Kylie Jarrett. No fee. DL: March 1
— CfP: “Critical Labour Studies in the Times of a Polycrisis“, the 7th International Conference Social Boundaries of Work, Institute of Sociology, University of Wrocław (Poland), 16-18 October 2024. DL: March 1
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— CfP: The 51st Meeting of the History of Economics Society, Universidad del Desarrollo in Santiago (Chile), 14-18 July 2024. Keynoters: Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, Sandra Peart, Maria Alejandra Carrasco, Leonidas Montes. DL: March 1
— CfP: “Social Economics in a time of interlocking crises”, the 17th World Congress for Social Economics, University of Massachusetts Boston (USA), 5-6 June 2024. Keynoters: William A. Darity, Dania Francis, Sirisha Naidu, Juliet Schor, Stephanie Seguino, and Pavlina Tcherneva. DL: March 1
— CfP: The 5th LSE workshop on Political Economy of Turkey, London School of Economics and Political Science, 7th June 2024. There is no registration fee; a few travel and accommodation support grants will be offered. DL: March 1
— CfP: “The Political Economy of Environmental Policy” workshop, the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (Sweden), 19th of April 2024. Keynoter: Michaël Aklin. DL: March 4
— CfP: The 2nd Yale-UB Historical Political Economy Workshop, University of Barcelona (Spain), July 8-9, 2024. Keynoter: Kenneth Scheve. Lodging and meals will be provided; some funding for travel will be offered. DL: March 7
— CfP: “Future of Work in the Global South and Global North” symposium, University of Melbourne (Australia) and online, 2-3 May, 2024. Keynoters: Professor Niels van Doorn, Cheryll Ruth R. Soriano, Katie Wells. Registration is free; all catering will be supplied. DL: March 10
— CfP: “Sustainable Welfare in a Global Context“, the ISA Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy network’s annual conference, Oslo Metropolitan University (Norway), September 4-6, 2024. DL: March 15
— CfP: “Law and Political Economy in Latin America: Problems and Perspectives for a Transnational Agenda” workshop, Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law (Oñati, Spain), 9-10 May 2024. DL: March 15
— CfP: “Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work” conference and special issue of the ILR Review, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University (USA), September 12–13, 2024. Partial costs for paper presenters can be reimbursed. DL: March 15
— CfP: “The Social History of Money across the Eastern Bloc and the Global South in the Twentieth Century” workshop, Faculty of History at Cambridge University (UK), 27–28 June 2024. Keynoter: Oscar Sanchez-Sibony. Participants will be invited to publish in a special issue. Limited funding will be available to ease expenses. DL: March 18
Calls for papers — Journals:
— CfP: Development in Practice‘s special Issue on the 50-year anniversary of the call for a New International Economic Order. DL for abstracts: February 26
— CfP: “Digital Capitalisms: Grappling with Big Tech in the Silicon Valley and Beyond“, Organization‘s special issue call. DL for abstracts: February 28
— CfP: “New Worlds of Logistical Labour – Spaces, Places, Technologies, Workers“, Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation‘s special issue. DL: March 1
Summer Schools:
— CfA: “The Analysis of Social and Educational Inequalities”, the European Consortium for Sociological Research summer school, Collegio Carlo Alberto (Turin, Italy) March 18-21, 2024. The School is free of charge; admitted PhD students will be provided accommodation, all lunches, and a social dinner. DL: February 18
— CfA: “Complex Networks: Theory, Methods, and Applications“, the 8th Spring School, Villa del Grumello, Como, Italy, May 27-31, 2024. DL: February 25
— CfA: The Law and Organizing Academy — a retreat to build community and learn key frameworks at the intersection of organizing, law, and political economy, the Borden Estate (upstate New York), May 20-23, 2024. The Academy is free and includes food, lodging, and reimbursed travel from NYC. DL: February 29
— CfA: “Digital Capitalism“, a weekly, online course by the Transnational Institute, 1 April – 12 May 2024. Free of charge. DL: March 1
— CfA: Summer School in Social Economics, University of Massachusetts Boston (USA), June 3-4 in conjunction with the World Congress in Social Economics (June 5-6). 25 fellowships will be awarded to the participants (Registration and membership fees, lodging, travel stipend). DL: March 1
— CfA: “Ageing and Work“, the SIPET masterclass for early-career researcher, Stockholm (Sweden), June 11-14, 2024. SIPET will support the participants by covering accommodation. DL: March 8
PhD Scholarships:
— PhD candidate on the topic Tax Behavior and Social Exchange, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Tilburg University (The Netherlands). DL: February 18
— PhD Studentship within “Solidarity! Engaging young people in working-class movements in the past, present and future” project, Manchester Metropolitan University and the Working Class Movement Library. DL: February 28
— Pre-Doctoral Fellowship (work and PHD fellowship) in comparative and international political economy, the Global Political Economy Project at the Mortara Center for International Studies at Georgetown University (Washington DC, USA). DL: March 1
— PhD position (fully funded) for the project “Giving and Losing Sense: How CEOs Navigate the Disruptive Gales of AI Adoption“, Department of Organization Studiesת Tilburg University (The Netherlands). DL: March 1
— 13 full bursaries for the PhD program in Political Science and Sociology at Scuola Normale Superiore (Florence, Italy). The 4-year program is taught in English in an research-intensive faculty specializing in labour sociology, economic sociology, social movements, international political economy. DL: March 7
Job openings:
— Assistant Professor in Organization Theory and the Impact of Funding on Organizational Forms, the Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School (Denmark). DL: February 29
— Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in Social Stratification & Inequality, Centre for Research on social Inequalities at Sciences Po in Paris (France). DL: March 11
Postdoctoral positions:
— University Assistant (post-doc position) in Sociology to join “Social Stratification and Quantitative Methods” group, The Department of Sociology, University of Vienna (Austria). DL: February 18
— Research Associates in sociology, social policy or political science to work on the project “City governments, citizen public sector debts and debt collection practices“, the School of Geography and Planning at Cardiff University (UK). DL: February 21
— Research Associate in the fields of political economy, sociology, and development studies to join the Political Economy of Structural Transformation working group. DL: February 25
— Post-Doctoral Fellowships to study Economic and Social Challenges of Democracies, the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Tel Aviv University (Israel). DL: February 26
— Assistant Researcher specializing in Economic Sociology or Political Economy, Socioeconomic Systems and Earth Systems research group, Porto University (Portugal). DL: February 29
— Postdoc vacancy in Organization Theory and the Impact of Funding on Organizational Forms, the Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School (Denmark). DL: February 29
— Postdoc position in Entrepreneurship, the Department of Strategy and Innovation, Copenhagen Business School (Denmark). DL: March 1
— Postdoctoral Fellow with a focus on Legal Architecture and Political Economy, the Centre for the Study of the United States and the Women’s and Gender Studies Institute in the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto (Canada). DL: March 1
— Henry Kaufman Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Financial History, the Business History Conference. DL: March 1
— Postdoctoral Research Fellow with PhD in Social Sciences to work on the topic of “Trade and Climate Change” at the Department of Global Development Studies at Saint Mary’s University (Nova Scotia, Canada). DL: March 1
— Postdoc Research Assistant in International and/or Comparative Political Economy, the Center of International and Comparative Political Economy, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany). DL: March 4
— Research Associate (Post-Doctoral Fellow) to work on issues related to the theme of “Anti-capitalist Environmentalism“, the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). DL: March 15
Research Fellowship:
— The Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing (Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey) invites applications from PhD students, junior and senior scholars for the non-residential research fellowship in economic sociology, sociology of wealth and inequality, labor and labor movements, work and organizational sociology. DL: February 29
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