European Sociological Association PhD Summer School 2014

University of York, UK July 27^th-29th

‘A SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION FOR THE 21^ST CENTURY’

CALL FOR APPLlCATIONS

The 2014 Summer School will focus on preparing work for publication. Through the work of students and talks by the teachers it will also reflect on the ‘twenty-first century sociological imagination’.

The 2014 ESA SUMMER SCHOOL WILL PROVIDE:

·      a platform for learning about publishing in peer review journals, publishing strategies and wider career development

·      the opportunity for students to reflect on their own work and how it relates to wider developments in 21^st-century Sociology

·      lectures delivered by ESA Executive Committee members

·      seminar groups organized around students’ presentations of their own papers

·      networking opportunities with fellow students from across European Universities and members of the ESA Executive

The Venue

The Summer School is co-organized by Department of Sociology at the University of York in the UK. The University of York is located just outside the historic medieval city of York in the north of England. http://www.york.ac.uk/about/

The Summer School Teachers are all members of the ESA Executive Committee:

Prof. Ellen Annandale (Director) (University of York, UK)

Prof. Maria Carmela Agodi (University of Naples, Ferderico II, Italy)

Prof. Ricca Edmondson (National University of Ireland, Galway)

Prof. Robert Fine (University of Warwick, UK)

Prof. Tally Katz-Gerro (University of Haifa, Israel)

Costs

ESA will cover the costs of accommodation and meals during the Summer School. A total of Euro 150 is available for each student towards the costs of travel to and within the UK. Students must bring their own computers.

WHO IS ELIGIBLE

·      PhD students working on an article in progress. This can be i) in the final stage before initial submission to a journal, ii) post peer review, or ii) at the final editing stage.

·      Candidates must be or must become an ESA member for the application to be considered. http://www.europeansociology.org/membership.html

·      There are 23 student places on the course. The main selection criterion is the quality of the application. However diversity in terms of gender, university, country of study and sociological themes will be taken into account

·      The selected students will be required to send their draft article (in English) by July 1st 2014, so it can be circulated among the teachers and the other students. Further details will be provided to successful applicants

·      The list of participants will be announced by the end of April 2014. For further information email Ellen Annandale, Director of the  Summer School 2014, ellen.annandale@york.ac.uk

HOW TO APPLY:

·      The deadline for applications is March 17th 2014 (there will be no exceptions).

·      Applications must include all requested information about the student, an abstract of the proposed article, and a short CV, as outlined on the application form.

·      Applications must be emailed to ellen.annandale@york.ac.uk

Professor Nikolas Kompridis

The Decline of the Middle Classes

in the

Developed World?

Madrid, Spain

September 28–30, 2014

Conference Website

In the wake of the 2008/2009 financial crisis have come increasing concerns that we may be witnessing the decline of the middle classes across the developed world. The forces underlying this uneasiness, of course, were at work before the crisis, but it seems to have hastened and aggravated their impact. Is the decades-long period of relative middle-class affluence at an end? Or will current difficulties pass as national economies strengthen?

In order to explore these and related issues, the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), the University of Maryland School of Public Policy (UMD), and the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) will hold a conference in Madrid, Spain, September 29–30, 2014. (An opening reception will take place the evening of September 28.)

The conference is designed to attract a worldwide audience, including academics and professionals from universities, think tanks, government agencies, nonprofits, and the private sector. Paper and panel submissions are welcomed on:

• the social and economic condition of the middle class in individual or groups of countries (including trends over time),and on the contributing and countering factors, including:

• macroeconomic policy;
• labor market conditions;
• family structure;
• work/family issues;
• demographics (such as aging and disability);
• immigration and migration;
• government cash transfer programs;
• social welfare; and
• workforce development efforts (including remedial education programs, such as basic, secondary, post school and career-related education; and higher education).

Proposals should be submitted through the APPAM website here from January 23, 2014 through March 31, 2014. Proposal reviews will be completed by May 2, 2014 and notifications will be sent directly thereafter. If a proposal is accepted, the presenter will need to register for the conference in order to participate (see “registration” below).

A person may submit no more than two proposals (including both single-authored and co-authored papers). Individuals will be limited to two acceptances (at least one of which must be multi-authored) and only one opportunity to present at the conference.

Keynote speaker:

Amitai Etzioni, University Professor and Professor of International Affairs; Director, Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University.

Program cochairs:

Program committee:

Sandra Archibald, dean, Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington;

Andrés Arias Astray, vice-chancellor of institutional relationships and international relationships, Universidad Complutense de Madrid;

Richard Burkhauser, professor, Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University;

Kenneth Couch, professor, Department of Economics, University of Connecticut; editor-designate, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management;

Angela Evans, professor, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas; president, Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management;

Jorge M. L. Ferreira, professor, Political Science and Public Policy Department, University Institute of Lisbon; executive editor, Intervençao Social;

Neil Gilbert, professor, School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley;

Mercedes Gómez Adanero, dean, Faculty of Law, UNED;

David Johnson, chief, Social, Economic and Housing Statistics Division, U.S. Census Bureau;

Robert Lerman, professor, Department of Economics, American University; institute fellow, Urban Institute;

Samuel Myers, Jr., professor, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota;

Enrique Pastor, dean, Faculty of Social Work, Universidad de Murcia; executive editor, Azarbe: Revista Internacional de Trabajo Social y Ciencias Sociales;

Sagrario Segado Sánchez-Cabezudo, director, Gregorio Marañon Center, UNED; English editor, Comunitania: International Journal of Social Work and Social Sciences;

Katherine Swartz, professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, Harvard University;

José Felix Tezanos Tortajada, professor and director, Department of Sociology III, Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology, UNED; executive editor, Sistema: Revista de Ciencias Sociales; and

David Weimer, professor, Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin.

Proposal submissions: The deadline for submissions is March 31, 2014. Decisions will be announced around May 2, 2014. 

Post-conference publication: Papers from the conference will be considered for publication in the Oxford University Press International Policy Exchange Series.

In addition, all relevant conference papers may be submitted for consideration to the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.

Language: English will be the official language of the conference. Abstracts, papers, and presentations are expected to be delivered in English.

Conference registration: Early registration for the conference will begin on February 17, 2014 and will continue until July 1, 2014. Regular registration will begin on July 2, 2014 and will continue until September 9, 2014. There will also be on-site registration for the conference. Please see the table below for registration costs. Instructions for registering can be found at the APPAM website here.

Conference schedule: An opening reception for all registrants will be held on the evening of September 28. There will be an optional dinner for program participants on September 29. There will be a separate charge for the dinner: $50 for early registrants and $65 for regular and on-site registrants (payment for the dinner can be made at registration). Coffee and light lunches will be provided during the conference.

Hotels: Hotel information will be made available at the conference website after March 15 here.

Side trips: Two side trips are being planned for the conference: a city tour of Madrid and a trip to Segovia or Toledo. More information about these trips will be available at the conference website after March 15 here.

For questions about abstract submissions and registration, please contact Jocelyn Mason of APPAM here.

For other non-registration questions, please contact Xavier Dólera Castells of UNED here.

Næste Nordiske Sociologkongres afholdes i Lund den 14-16 august 2014.

Der er åbent for indsendelse af abstracts indtil den 15. april 2014 og for tidlig tilmelding indtil 15. maj 2014.

Yderligere oplysninger om konferencen kan ses her.

Torsdag d. 23. januar

Kl. 17:30 – 19:15 på Københavns Universitet, Sociologisk Institut, Øster Farimagsgade 5, 1353 København K, lokale 7.0.18.

Tilmelding er ikke nødvendig.

Punkter til dagsordenen modtages af sekretær Lene El Mongy, lm@samf.ku.dk

senest den 20. januar.

Årets SociologNYT findes kun i en elektronisk udgave, som kan downloades på foreningens hjemmeside; www.sociologi.dk. SociologNYT indeholder materiale til generalforsamlingen; forslag til dagsorden, div. beretninger, regnskab og forslag. SociologNYT vil være tilgængelig senest d. 22. januar.

På vegne af bestyrelsen

Martin Munk, formand

The Danish Sociological Association gives 20 students the opportunity to waive the conference fee (500 DKK), conditional on having an submitted abstract accepted at a session at the conference. To apply for a student fee waiver, please contact Christoph Houman Ellersgaard (che@soc.ku.dk) after your abstract has been accepted by the session organizer.