Conferences: Annual ASA and upcoming conferences & workshops
Upcoming Conferences
Call for Papers
Mini-Conference
Labor and Global Solidarity - The US, China and Beyond
organized by
The ASA Labor and Labor Movements Section & the Society for the Study of Social Problems
co-sponsored by
Asia and Asian American Section of the ASA, the Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies at CUNY, the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education, the Manhattan College Labor Studies Program, Critical Sociology, the Labour and Labour Movements Research Committee of the International Sociological Association, and the China Association of Work and Labor of the Chinese Sociological Association.
Monday, 12 August 2013
9:30 am - 6:30 pm
Joseph A. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies
City University of New York
18th Floor, 25 West 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036
The one-day mini-conference will bring together scholars and practitioners to address the changing landscapes of work and labor organizing at multiple scales, from the local to the transnational. Facing the global re-organization of production chains, the expansion of precarious work, hostile political climates, and the continued world-wide economic malaise, workers and their allies nonetheless continue to act, from escalating unrest across China, to new models of organizing in NYC, to greater cross-border solidarity, North-South and South-South.
To engage these developments and spark discussion, the conference will include panels on both local, global and transnational labor issues and organizing strategies. We also seek a mix of activists and academics. Finally, the mini-conference is an opportunity for international exchange as five labor scholars from China will be participating throughout the event and across the different panels. Papers including the U.S. and China are especially welcome, but topics and evidence from all over the world are appropriate.
We invite submissions of abstracts (min. 300 words) or full papers on a broad range of topics related to local and global labor, but are particularly interested in submissions that address the following themes of the conference:
* Labor in China
* Insurgency and Institutions
* Organizing (im)migrants - here, there and in the diaspora
* South-South Solidarity
* Transnational Labor Organizing - How & When does it Work
* Informal work, informal worker organizing
* Monitoring international supply chains from the shop floor(s)
* Responses to global economic crisis
To submit an abstract or paper, please send it to the conference co-organizers: Carolina Bank Munoz ([email protected]), David Fasenfest ([email protected]) , and Steve McKay ([email protected]). Abstracts or papers are due February 15, 2013. If submitting an abstract, full drafts of accepted papers are due June 30th, 2013. Papers presented at the conference will also be considered for publication in a planned special issue of the journal Critical Sociology and/or in a separate edited book. Conference participants will be responsible for covering their own travel and lodging expenses (though meals for participants on the program will be provided). The conference will be free and open to the public.
CALL FOR PAPERS
GEOGRAPHIES OF LABOR
35th Annual North American Labor History Conference
October 24-26, 2013
Wayne State University
Detroit, Michigan
The Program Committee of the North American Labor History Conference invites proposals for sessions, papers, and roundtables on “Geographies of Labor” for our thirty-fifth annual meeting.
Over the last several centuries, transformations in technology and in economic, social, political, and cultural practices have created new spatial regimes within and across geographic boundaries. Whether negotiating the changes around them or taking advantage of new possibilities to shape alternatives, workers have been central to remapping this emergent environment.
Inspired by the “spatial turn” in the social sciences, this conference will explore the myriad ways in which workers have interacted with a variety of geographic categories. We welcome projects that seek to understand these interactions through a number of lenses, including, but not limited to: empire, globalization, uneven development, mobility, and migration/immigration at the transnational, national and/or local level. We invite proposals from a wide variety of disciplines, especially history, geography, sociology, anthropology, economics, political science, and cultural studies.
Submissions of proposals for papers, panels, and roundtables should include a one paragraph abstract and a brief biographical statement per each participant by March 29, 2013 to:
Professor Francis Shor, Coordinator North American Labor History Conference
Department of History
Wayne State University
3157 Faculty Administration Building
Detroit, MI 48202
Phone: 313-577-9325; Fax: 313-577-6987
Email: [email protected]
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HMNYC 2013: Confronting Capital
April 26-28, 2013
New York University
Critical investigations into the present moment quickly reveal that the current crisis of capitalism shows no sign of abating. The failure of austerity to restore growth has sent ruling class politicians scrambling, as the assault of capital on all fronts of life—ecological, economic and social—grows exponentially.
This is not without resistance however. From the ongoing Arab revolution, to Occupy and Greece, confrontations of capital and regimes of power continue to proliferate, push forth new political horizons and sustain influence on a global scale.
HMNY 2013 is an intervention into the present to provide a theoretical space for debate and discussion, urgently needed on the left at this juncture. Moments like this are especially fertile for new looks at old debates, from the history of capitalism to new modes of resistance. HMNY 2013 will be a venue where figures representing the breadth of current leftist thought will convene to exchange ideas.
Historical Materialism (HM) is one the foremost journals of Marxian theory. HM’s London-based conferences have long drawn hundreds of scholars from around the world. Since 2006, North American HM conferences have been organized in Toronto and New York City (which will now alternate with bi-annual Spring conferences). HMNY 2013 will begin with a reception on the evening of Friday April 26th, and will take place on April 27th-28th at the New York University in downtown Manhattan. All participants are encouraged to stay for the whole duration of the conference.
The themes for this year's conference will include:
politics of socialist planning and utopias
history and future of social democracy
political economy of capitalism
history of international communism
political philosophy of feminism
debt, austerity, and finance
critical geographies
ecology and climate change
law, punishment, and incarceration
queer studies and sexuality
theories of the state and politics
race and capital
Empire and the third world
history of capital and labor
feminism and Marxism
critical philosophy
socialist strategy today
education under capitalism
aesthetic ideologies
culture and the crisis
The deadline for the submission of abstracts is February 15, 2013.
To contact organizers, email [email protected].
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You can visit HMNY 2011 for the audio recordings of past conference sessions.
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Reenvisioning the History of Sociology (and Much More)
A Call for Papers and Publication Opportunity for Graduate Students and Early Career Sociologists
The history of sociology is seen by some as an antiquated domain. However, there is ample evidence that innovations in sociological theory and methodology have repeatedly come through extended engagement with historical works in the sociological tradition. Talcott Parsons, Harriet Martineau, Lewis Coser, Pierre Bourdieu, Margaret Archer, and Paul Lazarsfeld all testify to the benefits to be gained, for theory and methodology, in engaging with sociology’s past. Furthermore, the “history of sociology” can be seen more broadly as the “sociology of sociology.” If we take this perspective, what once may have appeared to be the preserve of historians and classicists becomes a locus of research for all sociologists.
In order to highlight the relevance of sociology’s past to its present and future, perhaps what we need are new approaches to the history of sociology. The goal of this Symposium is to engage graduate students and early career sociologists in an effort to re-envision the history of sociology.
We invite paper submissions for a Symposium to be held in conjunction with the American Sociological Association’s 2013 Annual Meeting in New York City. This Symposium will be organized by the History of Sociology section, and held on the first day of the ASA (August 10, 2013). Following the successful model of the Junior Theorists Symposium, senior discussants will be invited to comment on a panel of papers, and to reflect on the broader theme of the Symposium.
The highest-quality paper submissions will be considered for publication in The American Sociologist. Professor Larry Nichols, as editor of The American Sociologist, has generously offered to dedicate an issue of his journal to publishing Symposium papers. Depending on paper length, space is available to publish up to seven papers. Decisions about which papers should be published will be made on the basis of paper quality and thematic coherence.
Paper specifications: All papers relating to the history of sociology are welcome, although papers engaging directly with the theme of the Symposium (“Reenvisioning the History of Sociology”) will be given highest priority. Papers focusing on the relevance of history of sociology to contemporary challenges in sociological theory and methodology will receive special attention. Papers must be under 30 pages in length, and must include (1) a title, (2) the author’s name, title, and contact information, (3) an abstract, and (4) a complete bibliography.
Please send submissions to the organizers: Michael Bare, University of Chicago ([email protected]) and Laura R. Ford, Cornell University ([email protected]). The deadline for submission is March 1. We will extend up to 12 invitations to present by May 1. Symposium participants will then have until July 1 to edit and revise their papers, prior to submitting the papers to the senior discussants.
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