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2019

Research Fellow in Transport Economics You will have a PhD (or close to completion) in an area of economics covered by the Institute’s Economic and Appraisal Group (EAG), gained either in transport or related industries such as regulated sectors or health. Closing Date: 28 February 2019 Visiting Fellow Research Stays at MaxPo in Paris MaxPo invites applications from senior academics for 2–4-month research stays at Sciences Po in the heart of Paris. Application deadline: April 30, 2019. Heidelberg University Full Professorship in Empirical Macro Sociology The Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at Heidelberg University invites applications for a Full Professorship in empirical macro sociology, starting in October 2020. Deadline for applications is 25 March 2019. Annales d’Ethopie CfP – Work in Ethiopia: Rationalization, Dominance and Mobilizations CfP for the next issue of Annales d’Ethiopie. Deadline for article submission: May 15, 2019 Tenure-track position on the Future of Work The Department of Sociology at Queen’s University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor that centres on the future of work. Deadline for applications: 1 March 2019 BEYOND4.0 Summer School 2019 "Work and Welfare in the Digital Age: What We Know and What More We Need to Know": Summer school for PhD students and Early Career Researchers. NYC Hotel Crunch SASE/NYC will be taking place at the same time as WorldPride and hotels are filling up quickly. Click through for a list of hotel suggestions near to The New School. PhD Fellowships – Copenhagen Business School Application deadline: 1 March 2019 In Memoriam: Jean-Daniel Reynaud (1926-2019) by Erhard Friedberg Doctoral Positions – International Max Planck Research School Doctoral Positions in Economic Sociology, Comparative Political Economy, and Organization Studies - Application Deadline 28 February 2019. Call for Nominations: 2019 Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize Deadline for Submission: 1 March 2019 Call for Papers to be published in “Research in the Sociology of Work” Professional Work: Knowledge, Power, and Inequality - Elizabeth Gorman and Steven Vallas, editors. Deadline: 15 March 2019

2018

Call for Proposals: Special Issue of Socio-Economic Review "Understanding the Platform Economy: Socio-Economic Dynamics in new Digital Markets" Deadline: 15 March 2019 In the Media Sébastien Lechevalier (EHESS), Program Director of SASE/Kyoto 2018, comments in Le Monde on the Japanese view of the Carlos Ghosn affair. Celebrating Alice Amsden – SASE Book Award For those who have yet to encounter her formidable works, Alice Amsden was one of the most accomplished heterodox economists in the world, specialized in the field of economic development, as well as a consummate teacher. Costa Rica 2019 Regional Conference SASE is delighted to announce the dates for our next regional conference! Is There a Latin American Economic Sociology? Read latest issue of the economic sociology_the european electronic newsletter, then mark your calendars for SASE's upcoming regional conference in Costa Rica - 20-22 November 2019!

2019

Honors and Distinctions Here we celebrate the achievements of SASE members by highlighting the honors and distinctions that have been bestowed upon them during the past year. Career Opportunities See interesting calls for papers and career opportunities from around the world, collected here for the SASE newsletter

2018

2019 Annual EASP Conference CfP The East Asian Social Policy Research Network is now accepting submissions for its 16th annual conference, to be held from July 2nd-3rd 2019 at National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. Submission deadline: 12 March 2019

2019

What Kind of Futures in Academia? Postdoctoral Experiences In this series of interviews we hope to illuminate for our readers what a future in academia might look like and what considerations they may wish to take into account while they pursue careers in the field of socio-economics. The Futures of Solidarity: A Discussion with Professors Virginia Doellgast (Cornell) and Michael McCarthy (Marquette) Is solidarity a thing of the past? Or will it carry forward into the future, and if so, how? What are the institutional and social arenas for and forms of contemporary solidarity? In this feature, editors Agatha Slupek and Assaf Bondy discuss these issues with Professors Virginia Doellgast (Cornell, USA) and Michael McCarthy (Marquette University, USA), respectively. Futures and Futurology An Interview with Professor Jenny Andersson Professor Jenny Andersson is a researcher at the Centre d’études et des recherches internationales at Sciences Po and Principal Investigator of the Futurepol Project. SASE had the chance to speak with her about her newest book, The Future of the World: Futurology, Futurists, and the Struggle for the Post Cold War Imagination. SASE’s Global Futures: Report from the Third Japanese Political Economy Workshop (October 2018) As part of SASE’s continuing effort to compose a truly global community of socio-economics research, one of our editors, Kostiantyn Ovsiannikov, reports back from the 3rd Japanese Political Economy Workshop SER Special Issue: Call for Papers A special issue on the topic of Socio-Economic Dynamics in new Digital Markets is now accepting submissions. The aim of this Special Issue is to better understand the socio-economic dynamics structuring the platform economy, with a focus on new “sharing” and gig labor platforms. Deadline 15th March Note from an Editor: Futurity and The Politics of Imagination Whose policy proposals, whose political programs, whose visions for a future society can be imagined; that is, conceived of as possible, as enact-able, and not merely dismissed as outlandish and unfathomable? SASE Regional Conference 2019: Costa Rica! SASE’s 4th RISE Regional Conference, Productive Transformation, Regional Asymmetries, and Social Exclusion in Ibero-America, will be hosted by the Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica from 20-22 November 2019. Interview with SASE President Akos Rona-Tas I grew up in Budapest and began college as a literature major interested in literary theory and philosophy, but I soon became drawn to sociology. At that time sociology was a young discipline in Hungary, as it had been banned for decades as a bourgeois pseudo-science by the Communist state. Meet the Editors The SASE Newsletter is created by a dynamic group of graduate students and early career scholars from both sides of the Atlantic, aided and abetted by the SASE staff. We are pleased to introduce the Newsletter’s 2019 editors

2018

MaxPo PhD Seminar Applications are now being accepted for the MaxPo PhD Seminar "States, Sectors, Firms, Growth: New Developments in the Political Economy and Economic Sociology of Capitalism" - Deadline 15 March 2019. MPIfG Visiting Researchers Program | Academic Year 2019/20 The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG) invites researchers from the fields of Economic Sociology and Political Economy to apply for its 2019/2020 Visiting Researchers Program. The deadline for applications is April 30, 2019. SASE Launches Annual Alice Amsden Book Award SASE will be celebrating its 30th anniversary at The New School from 27-29 June 2019 – and it’s launching an annual book award! Up to you to choose the contenders. Submission deadline: 15 January 2019 SASE/New York 2019: Networks and Mini-Conference Themes SASE/New York 2019 Networks and Mini-Conference Themes In Memoriam of James G. March Longtime SASE member, Erhard Friedberg, has graciously allowed us to reprint this text. Network I Organizer Lara Monticelli Garners Marie-Curie Fellowship! Warm congratulations to Lara Monticelli for being awarded the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie post-doctoral fellowship! Marie Piganiol awarded RIODD-VIGEO EIRIS prize 2018 SASE would like to extend its congratulations to Marie Piganiol who has been awarded the "Prix de thèse RIODD VIGEO EIRIS 2018" SASE/New York 2019: Submissions Detailed information for submitting a proposal, including the option to setup a "Free Account" that enables you to access the submission system. Deadline extended to: 28 January 2019 SASE/New York 2019: Conference Theme The conference theme for our 2019 annual meeting at The New School, New York is Fathomless Futures: Algorithmic and Imagined. SER Paper by Graduate Student Barbara Kiviat Recognised with 3 Awards at 2018 ASA Meeting “The Art of Deciding with Data: Evidence from How Employers Translate Credit Reports into Hiring Decisions” by SASE Early Career Workshop participant Barbara Kiviat was recognised with three awards at the 2018 annual American Sociological Association meeting!  ASA Section Elections: Economic Sociology The results of the 2018 ASA elections are in, and we would like to offer our congratulations to SASE Executive Council member Emily Barman  in her new role as Chair-Elect. The New School Hosts SASE June 27-29, 2019 Here are some must reads related to this venerable institution. SASE/Kyoto 2018: Broadening Horizons! A roundup of activities, images, and events from our 30th annual meeting in Kyoto, Japan. Don't miss the photos! A Warm Welcome to SASE Kyoto! SASE attendees were honored by a special performance of the Ayakasa Boko celebrity troupe that gave a dance which can be traced back to the 18th century, when it was practiced by the people of Mibu-mura. The music was provided by bells, drums, and flutes. In The Media! SASE President Akos Rona-Tas gave a series of lectures at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany, that was reported in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Call for Proposals: Special Issue of Socio-Economic Review "Understanding the Platform Economy: Socio-Economic Dynamics in new Digital Markets" Deadline: 15 March 2019 Great News! SER Impact Factor New Impact Factor for SER! Hats off to Gregory Jackson and the SER editorial team! Congratulations to Gregory Jackson and Richard Deeg Their paper "Comparing Capitalisms: Understanding Institutional Diversity and its Implications for International Business" selected as the winner of the 2018 JIBS Decade Award! Conference App now available for SASE Kyoto 2018 The native app for our 30th annual conference in Kyoto is now live. SASE Kyoto Conference now underway We are delighted to welcome all of our scholars to the 30th annual SASE conference, which is now underway. Find out how to follow the event here. MaxPo Think Notes Check out the Think Notes from the MaxPo 5th anniversary conference, "Destabilizing Orders: Understanding the Consequences of Neoliberalism".