Navigating Uncertain Futures: Social Engagement and Transformative Change in Global Socio-Ecological Systems will be held virtually, October 14–15, 2022. Offered jointly by the Research Committee on Environment and Society in the International Sociological Association and the Section on Environmental Sociology in the American Sociological Association, this special virtual conference will support global dialogues among scholars in environmental sociology on the most pressing issues for our discipline and our planet: how to navigate climate futures. Organizers are currently soliciting the members of both organizations to consider submitting abstracts for oral presentations in this special event and are particularly interested in the participation of emerging scholars and scholars living and conducting research in the Global South. The abstract submission deadline is July 30, 2022. For more information, visit the website.
The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research is accepting abstracts for its EAPS Working Group on Register-Based Fertility Research, meeting in Rostock, Germany, December 15–16, 2022. Register and other administrative data are core data sources of demographic and sociological research on contemporary fertility. Currently, the use of register data for the purposes of fertility research remains largely focused on the Nordic countries, but these data are becoming increasingly accessible to researchers across other European countries and beyond. The working group aims at supporting this momentum of change, that is facilitating the use of existing and emerging register data sources for the purpose of studying fertility. If you are interested in participating in the meeting, please send an abstract of 200 words of your proposed talk to [email protected] by August 21, 2022. Read more about the working group here.
The Twenty-third International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities & Nations, will be held on the theme “Whose Accountability Revolution? Priorities, Incentive Structures, Organization Cultures” in Toronto, Canada, on June 22–23, 2023. The Diversity in Organizations, Communities & Nations Research Network is brought together by a shared interest in human differences and diversity and their varied manifestations in organizations, communities, and nations. Proposals are invited on several themes, including identity and belonging, education and learning in worlds of differences, organizational diversity, and community diversity and governance. The deadline is August 22, 2022. For more information about the conference, visit the website.
The Information, Medium & Society: Twenty-first International Conference on Publishing Studies, will be held on the theme “Social Narrative Makers: Storytellers, Researchers, Publishers, Platforms” in Paris on June 30, 2023. The Information, Medium & Society Publishing Studies Research Network is brought together by a shared interest in investigating publishing practices as distinctive modes of social knowledge production. Proposals are invited on several themes, including informational foundations, mediums of disruption, and social history and impacts. The deadline is August 30, 2022. For more information about the conference, visit the website.
The Eighteenth International Conference on the Arts in Society will be held on the theme “New Aesthetic Expressions: The Social Role of Art” in Kraków, Poland, July 5–7, 2023. The Arts in Society Research Network offers an interdisciplinary forum for discussion of the role of the arts in society. It is a place for critical engagement, examination and experimentation, developing ideas that connect the arts to their contexts in the world—on stage, in studios and theaters, in classrooms, in museums and galleries, and on the streets and in communities. Proposals are invited on several themes, including pedagogies of the arts, arts histories and theories, new media technology, and the arts in social, political, and community life. The deadline is September 5, 2022. For more information about the conference, visit the website.
The Thirtieth International Conference on Learning will be held on the theme “Considering Educational Change: Perspectives on Neoliberalism, Digitalization, and Post-Pandemic Policies” in São Paulo, Brazil, July 12–14, 2023. The Learner Research Network is brought together around a common concern for learning in all its sites, formal and informal, and at all levels, from early childhood, to schools, colleges and universities, and adult, community and workplace education. Proposals are invited on several themes. The deadline is September 12, 2022. For more information about the conference, visit the website.
The Im/Migrant Well-Being Scholar Collaborative invites scholars from the social sciences and humanities to submit their research to the conference Im/migrant Well-Being: A Nexus for Research and Policy to be held February 17–18, 2023, in St. Petersburg, FL. Potential research topics could include, but are not limited to: social well-being, such as studies of social activities, work, or access to social resources; relational well-being, such as studies of families, friendships, or support networks; emotional well-being, such as studies of life dis/satisfaction, emotions, or resilience; psychological well-being, including studies of identity, safety, mental health, or uncertainty; physical well-being, such as studies of stress, dietary and activity habits, or access to medical interventions; economic well-being that centers im/migrants themselves and/or their families, such as access to legal representation, health, food, and housing; and the intersections of some or all of these forms of well-being as they relate to state violence, such as im/migrant detainment, forced expulsion, and raids. Submissions are due September 30, 2022. If you have questions concerning the conference, email [email protected]. The submission form is on the website.
