SASE 2027 Conference in Glasgow: 30 June – 3 July 2027

SASE 2027 Conference

Rebuilding Foundations and Hope: Creative Reconstruction in a
Moment of Disruption

39th Annual SASE Conference

Location: University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland
In person: 30 June – 3 July 2027
Virtual events: 16-18 June 2027

 

Theme Overview

Rebuilding Foundations and Hope: Creative Reconstruction in a Moment of Disruption
39th Annual SASE Conference

This is a challenging moment for democracy and for capitalisms organized to promote shared prosperity.  It might even be a perfect storm. 

Some of this is disturbingly familiar. Neoliberalism’s pressures on social protections, regulation, and workers’ collective rights continues alongside growing concentrations of economic power among wealthy individuals and corporations in technology, food and other key sectors, fueling political fractures and neo-populist attacks on immigration, labor flows and the lifelines they provide to the global North and South. Financialization’s promise to support consumption through copious and cheap credit is fully bankrupt. Climate change impacts deepen from agriculture to insurance and finance, with particularly devastating effects on low-income communities and developing nations. Some of this has just come more clearly into view. Recent revelations opened new windows into elites’ complete disconnection from society and utter disregard for the welfare of others as they seek to bend politics and economics to their own ends. Autocracy has revealed itself as a global and coordinated movement.  Elites in some quarters are aiming well beyond the usual targets of social provision and worker right to dismantle a wider array of institutional supports for democracy and high road capitalisms—elections, independent judiciaries and the rule of law, independent central banks, science, professional journalism, universities, public health, international development and aid. And now we have the United States’ new embrace of autarky, trade wars and open warfare, which is wreaking havoc on international trade, oil and gas supplies, transnational cooperation, and trade- and oil-dependent industries and small businesses in rich and poor nations. Institutional guardrails on predatory capitalism and predatory states were constraining, at least in some places and times, until they weren’t. 

In this context, it is easy to lose sight of resilience and the ways actors around the world are mobilizing to meet disruption and destruction with efforts to creatively reconstruct institutions, guardrails and their supportive coalitions. This is also a time of struggles to revive, rebuild and revive civic and economic infrastructures. It is a time of redeploying resources, connections and solidarities, of scaling down to capitalize on the wealth of communities and cities, and scaling out and up to (re)build regional and global cooperation in economics and politics, of contesting autocracy, and more. This is also profoundly a moment of pushing back.  

The theme of this year’s SASE’s meeting is to highlight this pushing back. We aim to take stock of these experiments and projects of reconstruction and reassembly, consider their ability to promote shared prosperity and democracy, and analyze conditions for realizing these possibilities. For example, how can small business sectors and micro-enterprises leverage their embeddedness in networks, extended family, communities and associations to endure and even sidestep tariffs, price shocks, cost shifting by large firm partners, or immigration raids? What can they achieve by rerouting supply chains and contracts, adopting new technologies or product mixes or organizing mutual aid schemes? What about innovations in anti-trust strategies or labor organizing to address new digital and technology titans? Does it help when transnational activists drag firms to court to hold them responsible for environmental harms?  What led trade unions to organize to support migrant workers in workplaces and local communities? What can we make of sometimes grassroots efforts to organizationally diversify capitalism, from sustaining or extending public banking to promoting worker cooperatives, either on their own or in combination with unions or municipal development programs? What do citizen-led innovations to contest AI, address climate change, or repair democracy reveal about their prospects?

This is a critical moment, perhaps a critical juncture, where actions now will have lasting effects. If we can sample from the multitude of ongoing efforts to rebuild key institutional and political foundations, we can facilitate comparison and discovery, surface possibilities, accelerate learning, avoid balkanization, and counter framings of failure or resignation.  SASE is fortunate to have a wealth of analytical resources, accumulated knowledge and expertise, and the energy for this task. And where better to sort out new visions or strategies for addressing corporations, conspiracies against the public, moral sentiments, and the foundations for capitalist economies organized for shared prosperity than Glasgow and Scotland, the home of Adam Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment. 

SASE President: Marc Schneiberg

Network A: Community, Democracy, and Organizations

Network A is devoted to the examination of alternative, participatory, and/or solidaristic forms of economic enterprise and entrepreneurship, community organizations, third-sector organizations, or political organizations.  By alternative, participatory, and/or solidaristic, we mean to encourage the analysis of how communities, enterprises, and societies can be organized around: (1) principles of democratic governance; (2) processes that build social solidarity and cooperation; and/or (3) substantive values and purposes that go beyond calculative self-interest and instrumental relations.

Network A

Network B: Globalization and Socio-Economic Development

This network considers how, at a time of a polycrisis, domestic, transnational, and international institutions and markets influence the contours of developmental opportunities in the global economy and beyond.

Network B

Network C: Gender, Work and Family

This network focuses on exploring the current state, and the changes in institutions concerned with gender and family roles and workplace organization.

Network C

Network D: Professions and Expertise

Through the Professions and expertise network we seek to develop critical analysis of the dynamics of professions and expertise.

Network D

Network E: Comparative Capitalisms

The aim of this network is to advance research on changing labor markets, industrial relations, and systems of social protection within the study of contemporary capitalisms.

Network E

Network F: KITE: Knowledge, Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship

This network focuses on innovation and entrepreneurship as well as its underlying technologies and knowledge sources. On these topics, we particularly welcome, but do not require, an institutional perspective.

Network F

Network G: Labor Markets, Education, and Human Resources

The network welcomes contributions on the general issues of labor market segmentation, unemployment, human resources, and the link between training, skills and jobs.

Network G

Network H: Markets, Firms and Institutions

This network focuses on the interrelationships between markets, firms, and institutions.

Network H

Network I: Alternatives to Capitalism

The broad aim of this research network is to advance the international, comparative and interdisciplinary study of alternatives to capitalism.

Network I

Network J: Digital Economy

Digital technologies are contributing to radical, growing and unpredictable transformations of economic life, raising a broad range of new issues for scholars of the economy. This research network is dedicated to the study of these issues.

Network J

Network K: Institutional Experimentation in the Regulation of Work and Employment

This network focuses on making work better through actor experimentation with institutions to regulate work.

Network K

Network L: Regulation and Governance

This network promotes the interdisciplinary study of regulation and governance at national and global levels.

Network L

Network M: Spanish Language

A lively Spanish-speaking section that was established in 2011.

 

Network M

Network N: Finance and Society

The goal of this network is to promote cross-disciplinary dialogue on the study of finance and include perspectives from social sciences outside of economics.

Network N

Network O: Global Value Chains

This network aims to bring together social scientists interested in analyzing the causes and consequences of this offshoring-outsourcing phenomenon. 

Network O

Network P: Accounting, Economics, and Law

This network focuses on the intersection of accounting, economics and law. Institutional design, rules and social norms are critical to the working of organizations in economy and society. 

Network P

Network Q: Asian Capitalisms

The basic idea of this first area network within SASE is to make Asia a central field of investigation for theories of institutional change and diversity of capitalism.

Network Q

Network R: Islamic Moral Economy and Finance

This network aims at bringing scholars and practitioners together to consider and discuss the role of Islamic moral economy and Islamic finance in achieving its stated ideals by highlighting the tension areas as well as the dynamism observed in the practice of Islamic finance.

Network R

Network S: Environment and Climate Change

This Network aspires to advance a broad, interdisciplinary, and critical dialogue on the interactions between the economy, society, and the environment.

Network S

Network T: Health

This network focuses on the social scientific study of health and medicines, broadly defined. It explores four key areas: the embeddedness of health and medicines within broader economic, political, and social structures and systems; health equality and equity, including access to medicines; organizing and the organization of health; and innovation in and pricing and valuation of health and medicines.

Network T

Network U: Postcolonialism and Legacies of Empire

This network is devoted to engaging the connections between imperialism, colonialism, racism, slavery, and capitalist expansion and global socio-economic development.

Network U

Network V: Geoeconomics

This network explores the intersection between geopolitics, international political economy, and national capitalist systems in an era of ongoing global transformation.

Network V

Mini-Conferences

Mini-conferences are thematic clusters within the SASE Annual Conference. Each brings together 3 to 7 panels under a shared research theme, creating focused discussions that bridge disciplines and global perspectives.

 

Click here for the Mini-Conference Call as a PDF

SASE: 2027 Mini-Conferences, Call for Theme Proposals

Conference theme: Rebuilding Foundations and Hope: Creative Reconstruction in a Moment of Disruption

39th Annual SASE Conference

University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland

30 June – 3 July 2027

(virtual events: 16-18 June 2027)

Mini-Conference Theme Proposal Deadline: 15 August 2026

Mini-conference proposal form

NB: If you have applied before, please read this call carefully, as there are changes compared to past years.

The SASE conference is divided into Networks and Mini-Conferences. Networks are semi-permanent, Mini-Conferences change year to year. Mini-conferences act as a separate stream in the conference program. We are currently accepting proposals for  mini-conference themes for the 2027 SASE conference at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, 30 June – 3 July 2027 (with virtual events 16-18 June 2027).

Thematic mini-conferences are a key element of SASE’s annual conferences. Preference will be given to proposals linked to the overarching conference theme: Rebuilding Foundations and Hope: Creative Reconstruction in a Moment of Disruption. Special consideration will also be given to proposals that cover areas currently underrepresented in SASE, notably race and ethnicity, migration, and heterodox economics – as well as submissions that provide a global perspective.

Mini-conference applications are reviewed and adjudicated by the program committee. This committee is renewed each year and appointed by the current SASE president with Executive Council approval. Note also that network organizers will be given the opportunity to provide comments to the program committee on overlaps between networks and mini-conference proposals. 

Before submitting a proposal, please consult the list of extant SASE networks. Themes that would otherwise fit within a network will be expected to include an explanation as to why the topic should be discussed in a mini-conference format. You may also request that your mini-conference be hosted by a standing network. You may also consult programs from past conferences (https://sase.org/archive/events/) to view mini-conference themes from previous years. SASE is committed to diverse membership and lively intellectual debates, and encourages proposals that are offered by a diverse group of organizers and/or are likely to bring a diverse group of participants.

Proposals for mini-conference themes must be submitted electronically by 15 August 2026. To apply, please fill out the form available here. Do note that past mini-conference organization does not guarantee future organization – mini-conferences are not intended to be permanent structures, they rather vary in content and focus from year to year, depending notably on the conference theme of that year.

General guidelines:

Mini-conferences are featured as a separate theme track in the program. If accepted, your mini-conference will be included in the general SASE call for papers and you will receive applications through our conference submission system. 

If your mini-conference is accepted, you will be given a specific number of panels that you will be able to organize. Mini-conferences must have a minimum of 3 panels, and can have a maximum of 7. If you do not receive sufficient submissions, you may organize one or two panels with those submissions within an existing network. If you receive more submissions than you can accommodate, you will be given the option to reject those submissions or transfer them to a standing network. 

The deadline for submissions to mini-conferences will be November 1, 2026. You will then be asked to make decisions on which submissions you would like to accept, within the parameters detailed above. The deadline for decisions is December 1, 2026. At that point, any transferred submissions will be sent to networks. The deadline for submissions to networks is 16 December 2026. 

You may only organize one mini-conference per year – if you apply as organizer of multiple mini-conferences and more than one is accepted, you will have to choose which mini-conference you will actually organize.

Please note: If your application is accepted, all mini-conference organizers are expected to become SASE members. Those attending the conference are additionally required to pay conference registration fees. More information on membership is here: https://sase.org/become-a-member/. 

Proposals should be submitted electronically using this form. If you have any questions or difficulties, email saseexecutive@sase.org. 

Dates to bear in mind:

August 15, 2026: Mini-conference theme proposal deadline 

September 15, 2026: Decisions on mini-conference proposals communicated

October 1, 2026: General submissions for the 2026 conference open 

November 1, 2026: Submission deadline for mini-conferences 

December 1, 2026: Decisions on mini-conference submissions due

December 16, 2026: Deadline for submissions to networks

March 30 2027: Final registration deadline

15 April 2027: Programs due (papers organized into sessions with moderators)

16-18 June 2027: SASE Virtual conference

30 June – 3 July 2026: SASE Conference in Glasgow

SASE is committed to providing a safe and welcoming environment for all members and event participants, irrespective of, for example, race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, language, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, religion, disability, veteran status, or socio-economic status. Our association exists for the purposes of scholarly, educational, and professional exchange; much of the richness and vitality of this exchange is owed to SASE’s diverse membership and spirit of inclusiveness. We provide inclusionary events such as the Women and Gender (WAG) Forum, conference fees are based on socio-economic status, we are dedicated to a Code of Conduct, and we consider diversity in committees and convener teams. Discrimination and harassment of colleagues, students, or other participants in SASE events undermines shared principles of equity, free inquiry, and free expression – and is considered by SASE to be a serious form of professional misconduct.

Glasgow 2027 Submissions.

General submission guidelines can be found here.

 

 

SASE 2027 Glasgow Hotels

TBD

2027 SASE Early Career Workshop

June 29, 2027 – more information to come.

Travel Grants

TBD

Virtual Conference

16-18 June 2027. More information to follow.

Deadlines

  • 15 August 2026: Deadline for mini-conference theme submissions
  • early October: Submissions for 2027 conference open
  • 1 November: Deadline for submissions to Mini-conferences
  • 16 December 2026: Deadline for submissions to Networks
  • late January/early February: Decisions communicated 
  • 8 March 2027: Early bird registration deadline
  • 31 March 2027: Final registration deadline (must be registered by this date to be included in the program)
  • 16-18 June 2027: SASE Virtual conference
  • 29 June 2027: Early Career Workshop
  • 30 June – 3 July 2027: SASE Conference

SASE Membership Dues and Registration Fees

TBD

Practical Information

TBD

Featured Speakers

Joseph Wong

Michelle Holder

Sponsored by the SASE Women and Gender Forum

Erin A. Cech

Joseph Wong

Professor Joseph Wong is Vice-President, International, at the University of Toronto, where he is also a Professor of Political Science and a Professor in the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. He was the Roz and Ralph Halbert Professor of Innovation at the Munk School from 2013 to 2023 and held the Canada Research Chair in Health, Democracy, and Development for two terms from 2006 to 2016. He was selected to be a Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation mentor and fellow in 2023.

Professor Wong is the author of many academic articles and several books, including the latest From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia in 2022, published by Princeton University Press, as well as Betting on Biotech: Innovation and the Limits of Asia’s Developmental States (2011) and Healthy Democracies: Welfare Politics in Taiwan and South Korea (2004), both published by Cornell University Press. His academic articles have been published in The Lancet, Perspectives on Politics, the Annual Review of Political Science, the Bulletin of the WHO, Comparative Political Studies, Governance, Journal of East Asian Studies, Studies in Comparative International Development, among others.

Inspired by the Sustainable Development Goals and in collaboration with the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, Professor Wong founded the Reach Alliance: http://reachalliance.org/what-is-reach. Focusing on how development interventions reach the world’s hardest to reach (e.g. the poorest of the poor, the geographically remote, administratively invisible, socially marginalized), the Reach Alliance has produced over 90 case studies and published its findings in outlets such as the Bulletin of the WHO, the BMJ Global Health, Lancet, and the Stanford Social Innovation Review, among others. The Reach Alliance comprises nine university partners globally, including Tecnológico de Monterrey, University of Oxford, University College London, University of Melbourne, Ashesi University (Ghana), the University of Cape Town, Singapore Management University, and most recently, Howard University.

Michelle Holder

Michelle Holder is an Associate Professor of Economics at John Jay College, City University of New York, and was an Urban Institute One Million Black Women Research Partnership Scholar in 2023. She is also a Senior Fellow with the Roosevelt Institute in New York. Her research focuses on Black workers and women of color in the American labor market. Michelle has testified before the U.S. Congress as well as the City Council of New York on issues such as the gender wage gap, prohibiting discrimination based on unemployment status, infrastructure investment, and Black men and employment. Michelle has also appeared on, or been quoted in, major media outlets including CNN, MSNBC, NPR, PBS, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, The Lily, the New York Amsterdam News, El Diario, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The Economist, TheGrio, Politico, The Guardian, USA Today, The 19th, Marketplace, MarketWatch, Bloomberg and Vox.  Her first book, African American Men and the Labor Market during the Great Recession, was published in 2017 by Palgrave Macmillan, and her second book, Afro-Latinos in the U.S. Economy, co-authored with Alan Aja, was published in 2021 by Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield.  Michelle received a Bachelor’s degree in economics from Fordham University, a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Michigan, and Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the New School for Social Research in New York City.

Sponsored by the SASE Women and Gender Forum

Erin A. Cech

Dr. Erin Cech (she/her) is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Mechanical Engineering (by courtesy) at the University of Michigan. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from UC San Diego and undergraduate degrees in Electrical Engineering and Sociology from Montana State University. Cech’s research examines cultural mechanisms of inequality reproduction in the workforce broadly and STEM fields specifically. Her work has appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It has been covered by The New York Times, NPR, and Washington Post. Cech is the author of two books: The Trouble with Passion: How Searching for Fulfillment at Work Fosters Inequality (2021) and Misconceiving Merit: Paradoxes of Excellence and Devotion in Academic Science and Engineering (with M. Blair-Loy; 2022). She was named one of Business Equality Magazine’s “40 LGBTQ+ Leaders Under 40” and was honored with the University of Michigan’s prestigious Henry Russel Award (2021) and Faculty Recognition Award (2024).