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Updated November 05, 2007

Posted Nov 5, 2007

Call for Papers: Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) and the Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society (AFHVS)
Theme: Resilient Culinary Cultures: Disaster, Innovation and Change in Foodscapes
Where: New Orleans, Louisiana
When: June 4-8, 2008

This year's conference is being held in New Orleans, where one of the most distinct culinary cultures in the United States is slowly - but surely - recovering from one of the worst disasters in American history. The conference is hosted by the University of New Orleans, in the Historic French Quarter. Paper, panel, roundtable, and events proposals should be sent to Program Chair, Alice P. Julier (apjulier@gmail.com), no later than February 4, 2008. Follow this link for more information about the conference: http://www.afhvs.org/2008mtg.html

Posted Oct 10, 2007

First Call For Papers And Participation
2nd International Conference On Sociology
May 12-15, 2008
Athens, Greece

The Sociology Research Unit of the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) will hold its 2nd International Conference on Sociology in Athens, Greece, May 12-15, 2008. The conference website is www.atiner.gr/docs/Sociology.htm

The registration fee is 250 euro, covering access to all sessions, 2 lunches, coffee breaks and conference material. Special arrangements will be made with local hotels for a limited number of rooms at a special conference rate. In addition, a one-day cruise to picturesque Greek Islands and a half-day tour to archaeological sites will be organized.

Papers (in English only) from all areas of Sociology, Criminal Justice and Social Work are welcome. Selected (reviewed) papers will be published in a Special Volume of the Conference Proceedings. If you think that you can contribute, please send an abstract of about 300 words, via email only (atiner@atiner.gr), before October 15th, 2007 to:  Dr. Gregory A. Katsas, Head, Sociology Research Unit, ATINER and Professor, The American College of Greece-Deree College, Greece.

If you want to participate without presenting a paper, i.e. chair a session, evaluate papers to be included in the conference proceedings or books, contribute to the editing, or any other offer to help please send an email to Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos (gtp@atiner.gr), Director, ATINER.

Posted July 21, 2007

Call for Papers

Annual Meeting of the Agricultural History Society
Fertile Connections: Agriculture, Environment and Society in a Global Perspective
University of Nevada Reno, Nevada June 19-21, 2008

In an era of rapid transit, electronic communication, international commerce and worldwide environmental challenges, global connections abound. Reflecting those realities, a growing number of course listings sport an international or global focus with titles like Atlantic Economic History, World Agricultural History and Global Environmental History. At the same time, heightened interest in cross-cultural comparative approaches; approaches and insights from environmental and cultural history; and perspectives from related disciplines in the Social Sciences and Humanities are enriching the field.

Desiring to promote and extend these fertile developments, the program committee for the 2008 meeting of the Agricultural History Society invites submissions from scholars at all levels and in all disciplines on topics related to the history of agriculture, broadly conceived. We extend a special invitation to graduate students. The committee welcomes proposals of all types and formats, from the traditional papers/commentary format to less formal thematic panel discussions to roundtables on recent books. The program committee will also do its best to organize individual or "orphan" submissions into panels.

Submission Deadline: October 15, 2007

Submission Procedures: Complete session proposals should include a chair, participants, and, if applicable, a commentator. Please include the following information:

  • An abstract of no more than 200 words for the session as awhole;
  • A prospectus of no more than 250 words for each presentation;
  • A mailing address, email, phone number, and affiliation for eachparticipant;
  • A one-page CV for each participant

Individual submissions should include all the above except a session abstract.
Please send submissions, Microsoft Word or PDF format, to brian_cannon@byu.edu
Alternatively, applicants may mail five hard copies of their proposals to: Brian Cannon, Department of History, 2119 JFSB, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84606

Posted July 10, 2007

Final Call for Working Group Proposals
XII WORLD CONGRESS OF RURAL SOCIOLOGY
Koyang, Korea
Sunday, July 6th - Friday, July 11th, 2008

As you all know, The International Rural Sociological Association's XII World Congress of Rural Sociology will be held at the KINTEX Center in Koyang City, Korea from July 5th through the 10th, 2008. The central theme of the Congress will be the exploration of the economic, socio-cultural, political, and environmental context, and challenges, facing rural communities throughout the world.

While the Program Committee has received a number of excellent proposals for sessions and working groups (a working group is defined as a cluster of sessions), additional proposals for sessions and working groups are needed. As the Program Committee will soon be accepting abstracts for proposed individual papers on the IRSA web site (www.irsa-world.org), more working group proposals, and associated chairs and co-chairs, are needed to accommodate the expected rush in individual abstract proposals. Thus, the Program Committee would like to encourage you to consider submitting a working proposals. We would also like to encourage you to pass on this message to colleagues who may have an interest in organizing a session or working group.

Proposals for sessions and working groups should include an abstract of less than 250 words describing the sessions' content. These abstracts can be submitted via the IRSA web site (http://www.irsa-world.org/index.html), or can be sent, along with the name, full address, e-mail address and affiliation of the individual(s) proposing the session(s), to:

Raymond A. Jussaume Jr.
Department of Community and Rural Sociology
P.O. Box 644006
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-4006
USA
rajussaume@wsu.edu

Posted June 27, 2007

Funding for Research that Supports Social Change

The Sociological Initiatives Foundation provides grants of $5,000 to $15,000 to support research that supports social change.

The Foundation specifically supports research that focuses on:

  • Clear social policy objectives
  • Institutional and educational practices
  • Legislative and regulatory changes
  • Organizing previously unorganized groups
  • Building collective community capacity and/or power (such as expanding membership base)
  • Linguistic issues, such as literacy, language maintenance and expansion, multilingualism and its implications, and their possible intersection with social and policy issues.

The Foundation supports projects that address institutional rather than individual or behavioral change and/or research and initiatives that provide insight into sociological and linguistic issues that may be useful to specific groups and or communities.

It supports projects that have an explicit research design and a concrete connection to public or community impact. The research should ideally build an organization or constituency's potential to expand public knowledge, impact policy, and create social change. Complete guidelines and on-line concept application for the August 15, 2007 deadline are available at http://comm-org.wisc.edu/sif. Contact Prentice Zinn at pzinn@grantsmanagement.com or 617-426-7080x307.

Posted June 6, 2007

CALL FOR PAPERS
2nd International Conference on Sociology
May 12-15, 2008
ATHENS, GREECE

The Sociology Research Unit of the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) will hold its 2nd International Conference on Sociology in Athens, Greece, May 12-15, 2008. The conference website is www.atiner.gr/docs/Sociology.htm

The registration fee is 250 euro, covering access to all sessions, 2 lunches, coffee breaks and conference material. Special arrangements will be made with local hotels for a limited number of rooms at a special conference rate. In addition, a one-day cruise to picturesque Greek Islands and a half-day tour to archaeological sites will be organized.

Papers (in English only) from all areas of Sociology, Criminal Justice and Social Work are welcome. Selected (reviewed) papers will be published in a Special Volume of the Conference Proceedings. If you think that you can contribute, please send an abstract of about 300 words, via email only (atiner@atiner.gr), before October 15th, 2007 to: Dr. Gregory A. Katsas, Head, Sociology Research Unit, ATINER and Professor, The American College of Greece-Deree College, Greece.

If you want to participate without presenting a paper, i.e. chair a session, evaluate papers to be included in the conference proceedings or books, contribute to the editing, or any other offer to help please send an email to Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos (gtp@atiner.gr), Director, ATINER.