Dear ES/PE community members, find below and benefit from an abundant and excellent list of great academic opportunities: 26 calls for papers for conferences (some are partly and fully funded) and special issues, 8 PhD scholarships, 7 job openings, 5 postdoc positions, a grant, a course, an award, a visiting fellowship, and an internship in economic sociology, political economy, and broadly related fields, with deadlines from September 1 till October 17. Share this post with your colleagues and students. Good luck!
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Calls for Papers — Conferences and Workshops:

— CfP: “Age of Finance? Money, Government and Society since the 1970s” conference, the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History (Potsdam, Germany), May 11-12, 2026. Travel and accommodation costs will be covered. DL: August 31

— CfP: The 6th European Labour History Network Conference, Universitat de Barcelona (Spain), June 16-19, 2026. DL: September 1

— CfP: “Local Jobs, Global Lives? High-skilled migrants navigating transnational mobility and local embeddedness” workshop, Radboud University (The Netherlands), 11–12 December 2025. Participation is free; selected papers are planned to be included in a special issue proposal. DL: September 7

— CfP: “Pluralism, Precarity and Populism“, the International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics conference, La Salle University (PA, USA), January 5-6, 2026. DL: September 8

— CfP: “New Thinking in Industrial Policy: Perspectives from Developed and Developing Countries” conference, the Center for Development Economics and Policy (CDEP) at Columbia University (NY, USA), November 6-7, 2025. Two nights’ hotel accommodation and travel costs will be covered. DL: September 12

— CfP: “In the Cracks of the Asset Economy. Housing Assets and Class Formation in Contemporary Property Landscapes” workshop, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain), 27-28 November 2025. The Workshop to prepare contributions to a special Issue. Some travel expenses could be covered. DL for proposals: September 14

— CfP: The Association for Law and Political Economy Inaugural Conference, University of Richmond School of Law (Virginia, USA), February 6-7, 2026. Limited funds will be available to defray registration and other conference costs for those whose participation is contingent upon funding. DL: September 15

— CfP: The Centenary Conference of the Economic History Society, the London School of Economics (UK), 10 – 12 April, 2026. DL: September 15 

— CfP: The Conference on Policy Process Research, University of Bern (Switzerland), January 21-23, 2025, with a pre-conference ECR workshop on January 20. DL: September 15

— CfP: “Capitalism and Populism in the 21st Century, The Welfare State Today”, the 73th Annual Conference of the Japan Society of Political Economy, Nagoya University (Japan ), 25 – 26 October 2025. DL: September 29

— CfP: The 18th Annual Conference “The Political Economy of International Organization“, IE University Segovia (Spain), January 29-31, 2026. There is no conference fee. DL: September 30

— CfP: “Perspectives On (Un-)Employment“, Institute for Employment Research’s 17th PhD-Workshop, Nuremberg (Germany). Keynoters: Paula England, David Dorn. DL: September 30

— CfP: “Fundamental rights, well-being and quality of life“, the 9th Portuguese Association of Political Economy conference, University of Porto and Católica Porto Business School, January 29-31, 2026. Keynoters: Carlos Manuel Gonçalves, José João Abrantes. DL: September 30

— CfP: The Work and Family Researchers Network conference, June 17-20, 2026 at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada). DL: October 1

— CfP: The 2026 Social Capital Conference, Heriot-Watt University Dubai, 26-28th of March, 2026. Keynoters: Robert Putnam, Ray Chetty, Beate Völker. DL: October 3

— The 2026 In_equality Conference, the Cluster of Excellence on Politics of Inequality, University of Konstanz (Germany), 15-17 April 2026. Keynoters: Catherine De Vries, Thomas Piketty, Stefanie Stantcheva. DL: October 5

— CfP: “The Political Economy of Identity, Institutions, and Polarisation“, the European Journal of Political Economy conference, Davos (Switzerland), 2-4 February 2026. Keynoters: Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Nicola Gennaioli. DL: October 15

— CfP: “Infrastructures of Rent Extraction” workshop, University of Bologna (Italy), 28th of November. Extended DL: October 15

— CfP: “Co-creation”, the Business History Conference, Imperial College London (UK), March 26-28, 2026. DL: October 17

Calls for papers — Journals and Collections:

— CfP: “From Croesus to Nakamoto, How Currencies Emerge: Between Practice and Theory“, Revue de la Regulation‘s special issue. DL: September 1

— CfP: “Employee Ownership in the Contemporary Economy: Taking the High, Middle, or Low Road for Workers, Firms, and Society?“, Industrial and Labor Relations Review‘s special issue. DL: September 1

— CfP: “The Precarity of Work and Life: How Insecurity Equalizes and Stratifies People’s Experiences“, the British Journal of Sociology‘s special issue. DL: September 2

— CfP: “Quality of Life and Quality of Work”, Economic History Yearbook‘s special issue. DL: September 12

— CfP: “Forum on “Tech Oligarchy”“, Science as Culture‘s special issue. DL: September 30

— CfP: “What is Informality and What Could Be? Examples From the Latin American Region“, Journal of Latin American Studies‘ special issue. DL for abstracts: September 31

— CfP: “Revisiting State-Business Boundaries for the Possibility of Democracy“, Organization‘s special issue. DL: October 15

PhD Fellowships:

— PhD programmes in “Enterprise, Labor, Institutions and Criminal Justice”, “Institutions and Policies”, “Economic History and History of Economic Thought. Firms, Institutions, and Cultures” at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan campus (Italy). DL: September 2

— The Department of Social Sciences at the LUT School of Engineering Sciences (Finland) is seeking a junior researcher (funded doctoral student) in social sciences, specialising in critical AI and data studies, to strengthen its fields of study in political economy, economic sociology, and science and technology studies with critical approaches. DL: October 3

— Funded PhD program “The Political Economy of Socio-Ecological Transformation” at the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany). DL: September 10

— PhD candidate in Social and Economic History, the Department of History at Humboldt University (Berlin, Germany). DL: September 10

— 3 PhD positions at the Department of Economic History, Uppsala University (Sweden). The following projects are searching for one PhD student: “The managing of the Swedish banking crisis 1990-2005”, “Economic Outcomes of the ´Entrepreneur´ during the Expansion of the Welfare State”, Creating value of hazardous waste: recycling in the automobile industry, 1970-2020s”. DL: September 15

— 6 Doctoral Researchers as part of the Research Training Group “Figurations of the Precarious in the Global South”, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Global South Studies at the University of Tübingen (Germany). DL: September 15

— To attend the most interesting and promising online talks on various topics in economic sociology and political economy from all over the world follow the ES/PE on Facebook, Twitter, Bluesky, Linkedin, Whatsapp and Telegram 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.

— Doctoral researcher (in sociology; skills in ethnographic research is a plus) to be part of the research project ‘Manicuring Intimacy: Feminised labour, (self-)care, and racialised encounters in nail salons’, School of Social Science at the University of Helsinki. DL: September 30

— 11 doctoral positions as part of the Research Training Group “Cross-border Labour Markets: Transnational Market Makers, Infrastructures, Institutions” at Bielefeld University and University of Duisburg Essen (Germany). DL: October 1

Grant:

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

Internship:

— CfA: Socio-Economic Review, the official journal of Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), is inviting applications for its Board of Graduate Interns.  Members of the Board of Graduate Interns will be listed by name in the journal’s impressum and will also receive free membership and registration for the annual SASE conference in Bordeaux in 2026. DL: September 1

Course:

— CfA: “Cities Beyond Growth“, a six-week (Oct-Nov) online course by Transnational Institute, Commons Network, Oikos, NaZemi, Institute for Political Ecology, and FUHEM. Register for free.

Award:

— The Eric Wolf Prize in Anthropology of Work and Political Economy, Society for the Anthropology of Work. DL: September 1

Postdoctoral positions:

— Postdoctoral Researcher on Social Inequalities, University of Lausanne (Switzerland). DL: September 9

— Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate to support deepening knowledge of the ways civil society institutions and grassroots actors are transforming the economic and social landscape, The Equity Research Institute and the Department of Sociology, The University of Southern California (USA). DL: September 27

—  2 full time Research Fellows to study the impact of New Labour’s social and economic policies on the lives life-courses of those born in the 1990s, Warwick / Queen Mary College, University of London / Nottingham (UK). DL: September 30

— Post-doctoral researcher to  plan and lead ethnographic work with project participants and stakeholders working on issues pertaining to retrofitting of social housing in Cork City, Department of Sociology, University College Cork (Ireland). DL: October 2

— Post-Doctoral Research Associate to contribute to the Economic Geography and Globalization Research and have an interest in reimagining what the “economy” means, University of Münster (Germany). DL: October 15

Job openings:

— A tenure-track faculty specializing in work, employment, and organizations, the Work and Organization Studies group, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School (USA). DL: September 5

— A full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor in housing or urban sociology, the department of Sociology at Santa Clara University (CA, USA). DL: September 15

— Assistant/Associate/Full Professor of Urban Studies specializing in the study of inequality and segregation, University of Helsinki (Finland). DL: September 24

— Associate Professorship of International Business (comparative political economy of business, international political economy), Saïd Business School and St Antony’s College, University of Oxford (UK). DL: September 29

— A tenure-track Assistant Professor using quantitative or computational methods in the area of economic sociology / and work, labor, and organizations, the Sociology Program at Bard College (NY, USA). DL: September 30

— Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Business and Government, the Department of International Economics, Government and Business, Copenhagen Business School (Denmark). DL: October 1

— Assistant / Associate / Full Professor in international political economy, Taipei School of Economics and Political Science, National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan). DL: October 15

Visiting position:
— CfA: “Emerging Forces in Global Political Economy“, a Residential Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (New Jersey, USA). DL: October 15

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