Dear ES/PE community members, find below an abundant and excellent list of great academic opportunities: 17 calls for papers for conferences (some are partly or even fully funded) and special issues, 13 postdoc positions, 5 job openings, 5 PhD scholarships, 2 summer schools, 2 grants, 2 visiting positions and an award in economic sociology, political economy, and broadly related fields, with deadlines from November 23 till December 20. Share this post with your colleagues and students. Good luck!

Calls for Papers — Conferences and Workshops:

—  CfP: “Inclusive Solidarities: Reimagining Boundaries in Divided Times”, the 37th meeting of the Society of the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), Palais des Congrès, Montréal (Canada), 1-3 July (virtual) and 9-12 July (onsite), 2025. DL: December 16.
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. 20 travel grants are available to individuals presenting on-site.
— SASE Early Career Workshop, 7-8 July, 2025. Travel and accommodations costs, as well as SASE registration and membership, are paid for participants. DL: December 16.

— CfP: “Crafting Futures: Institutions and their Implications“, the 7th Alberta Institutions Conference and PhD Workshop, sponsored by the Alberta School of Business and to be held in Banff, Alberta (Canada), June 19-21, 2025. Keynoters: Tammar Zilber, Andreas Glaeser. A PhD Workshop will be held on June 19^th; free accommodation will be made available. DL: November 23

— CfP: “Development Transitions – Amidst Waste, Wars, and Maldevelopment” conference, University of Helsinki (Finland), 27-28 February 2025. DL: November 24

— CfP: “The Future of Work: Technical Progress, Artificial Intelligence, and Working Times“, the 8th International ASTRIL conference, Università Roma Tre (Italy), virtually and in person, January 24–25, 2025. DL: November 25

— CfP: The 15th Annual Australian International Political Economy Network Workshop, Adelaide University and Flinders University (Australia), February 6-7, 2025. DL: November 30

— CfP: “Civil Society’s Responses to Illicit Trade” workshop, LUMSA University (Palermo, Italy), February 6-7, 2025. DL: November 30

— CfP: The 12th CEPR Economic History Symposium, Study Center Gerzensee (Gerzensee, Switzerland), 24-25 April 2025. Travel expenses could be covered; meals and accommodation are provided. DL: December 1

— CfP: “Organization of Illegal Marketplaces” paper development workshop, Institute of Sociology, University of St.Gallen (Switzerland), April 3-4, 2025. Discussants: Patrik Aspers, Matías Dewey, Gabriel Feltran, Dennis Rodgers, Meropi Tzanetakis, and Guillaume Dumont. There is no registration fee. Meals will be provided; partial grants for travel and accommodation can be provided to a small number of participants with limited resources. DL: December 1

— CfP: “Rethinking Political Finance: Political, Philosophical and Economic Perspectives” workshop, Monash University Prato (Tuscany, Italy), 25-27 June 2025. Keynoyter: Sarah Birch. Meals will be provided; a small amount of funding is available to cover costs for participants without funding. DL: December 8

— CfP: “Neoliberal Global Capitalism – Challenges for Postcolonial Studies“, the German Association for Postcolonial Studies annual conference, University of Bielefeld (Germany), 29-31 May 2025. A limited number of travel bursaries are available for emerging scholars, part-time, or currently unemployed speakers. DL: December 15

— CfP: “Making a Living, Making Art: Wage Labour, Class, and the Female Avant-garde” workshop, Constructor University (Bremen, Germany), 15–16 May 2025. Speakers will be provided with one night’s accommodation and a modest travel subsidy. DL: December 15

— CfP: “Decrypting Financial Discourses: the Narratives, Documents, and Writings of Financial Industries and Institutions” session at the annual conference of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore, University of Aberdeen (Scotland, UK), 3-6 June 2025. DL: December 17

— CfP: “Historical Insights and Modern Solutions: Navigating Polycrises and Achieving Social Justice in a Globalized Digital World“, the 46th Annual Meeting of Association for Institutional Thought (AFIT), Seattle (Washington, USA), April 2-5, 2025. DL: December 20

Calls for papers — Journals and Collections:

— CfP: “Digital Solidarity Economies“, Internet Policy Review‘s special issue. DL for abstracts: November 25

— CfP: “Creative Work in the Digital Age: AI, Power and Transformation“, Work and Occupations‘ special issue. Selected authors will present at a virtual conference in June, 2025. DL for abstracts: December 1

— CfP: “Sickness and Capitalism: Essays on Public Health, Medicine, and the Environment“, an edited volume to look at the history of capitalism in relation to the production of racial, gendered, and social inequalities in the field of public health. DL for abstracts: December 20

Summer Schools:

— CfA: “Critique, Praxis, Utopia: Law and Politics for a Post-Capitalist Age” summer seminar, the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry at The New School for Social Research (USA), June 8-14, 2025. DL: December 1

— CfA: “Establishing Links between Research and Labour Activism“, The 4th Labour Transfer School, Buggerru (Sardinia, Italy), 8-13 June 2025. A limited number of bursaries will be available. DL: December 15

Visiting positions and grants:

— Visiting fellowships for scholars of business and economic history, Harvard Business School. DL: December 1

— Global Economic Governance Fellows Program (for pre-doctoral students, PhD students, and post-docs), the Boston University Global Development Policy Center (USA). DL: December 15

Job openings:

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— Multiple tenure-track assistant professorships in areas pertinent to the foundations, functioning, and regulation of business sector and market institutions, with specializations including political economy (for candidates in Political Science); socio-legal or economic sociology / organizational sociology (for candidates in Sociology); economic history or business history (for candidates in History), Purdue University (Indiana, USA). DL: November 25

— Faculty Positions in Political Economy (tenure-track, all ranks), the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University (USA). DL: November 30

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—  Assistant Professor in Sociology specializing in  comparative inequalities and families / digitalisation and social networks, Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin (Ireland). DL: December 2

— Assistant Professorship in the History of Economics, the Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science (UK). DL: December 9

— Associate Professor in Sociology (open field), School of Education, University College London (UK). DL: December 20

Grants:

— The Fritz Thyssen Foundation supports scholarly events in the area of “State, Economy and Society“, with a connection to the German research system. DL: November 30

— The History of Economics Society welcomes applications by PhD students or recent postdocs for research funding to undertake research activities (travel and accommodation costs for visits to archives, for recording of oral histories, more). DL: December 1

PhD Fellowships and positions:

— PhD students to study the pharmaceutical industry’s marketing of opioids and the industry’s role in shaping opioid policy and federal legislative and regulatory activities, the Scales of Corporate Harm Lab in the Department of Geography at Penn State University (USA). DL: December 1

— Doctoral candidate with a master’s degree in Political Economy to develop an independent research project in the area of “The Intersection of Economy & Security“, The Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich (Switzerland). DL: December 1

— Doctoral position/ Research assistant in economic sociology and political economy to join the “Triangle of German Democratic Capitalism” project, Sociology Department, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany). DL: December 2

— Doctoral Researcher in Social Inequality and Social Policy, The University of Lausanne (Switzerland). DL: December 8

— PhD Position within the research group “The Political Economy of Financing Large-Scale Transformations. Off-Balance-Sheet Fiscal Agencies in Wars, Reconstruction, and the Green Transition“, Global Climate Forum (Berlin, Germany). DL: December 15

Awards:

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

Postdoctoral positions:

— Post-Doctoral position in the intersection of economic sociology and consumer behavior to join the “Investing in Meaning: How Symbolic Meanings Shape Lay Investors Stock Choices” project, the Institute of Marketing and Communication Management, the University of Lugano / Università della Svizzera Italiana (Lugano, Switzerland). DL: November 25

— Postdoctoral fellowship ‘Sociological analysis of city and nature: ecological attitudes, symbolic meanings and spatial inequalities in the varieties of capitalism’ at the Post-Authoritarian Landscape Research Center, Vilnius University (Lithuania). DL: November 30

— Two or more postdoctoral fellowships in Moral and Political Economy at the Center for Economy and Society, a division of the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University (USA). DL: December 1

— Postdoc position in the “Political Behaviour of the Turkish Multinationals between 2000 and 2024” project, International Relations Department and Research Center for Globalization, Koc University (Istanbul, Turkiye). DL: December 1

— Postdoctoral fellowships to support research related to wealth distribution, inequality, and social policy at the Stone Program at the Harvard Kennedy School (USA). DL: December 1

— Postdoctoral Fellowship to study healthcare policy of relevance to low- and middle-income countries in the Asia-Pacific region, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University (USA). DL: December 1

— Up to three Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellows in Politics, broadly construed to include political economy, Nuffield College and the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford (UK). DL: December 5

—  Postdoc researcher with a focus on political economy or regulation and governance to join the project “Varieties of Procurement Regimes: How Do States Procure Strategically and to What Effect?“, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany). DL: December 9

— Postdoc researchers in Political Economy, Economic Sociology, Political Economy/Sociology of Low-Carbon Transitions, the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (Köln, Germany). DL: December 13

— Polonsky Postdoctoral Fellowships the humanities and social sciences at The Polonsky Academy at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (Israel). DL: December 15

— Post-doc researcher  with the background within the social sciences and qualitative methods to study the labor market exploitation of migrants in the high-income, welfare states and how financial actors integrate concerns for labor market exploitation in their investments, the Stockholm School of Economics (Sweden). DL: December 15

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