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2019

2019 SASE Elections Results We are delighted to announce the results of the SASE elections for President and Executive Council. “Jean D’Alembert” Research Chair at IEA Paris The Paris Institute for Advanced Study is offering one 6-month chair for a high level international researcher in the humanities and social sciences (HSS) during the academic year 2020-2021. Deadline: 3 June 2019 Alice Amsden Book Award Winner The winner of the inaugural Alice Amsden Book Award of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics is... Brexit…or not? Interview with Jonathan Zeitlin Jonathan Zeitlin, former SASE president, has changed his mind. Why? Read the three (3) interviews. At Issue in New York City: Gentrification We read this hard-hitting article in the ASA Footnotes (Jan-Mar 2019 issue) and wanted to share it with you - New York City Gentrification, Policing, and Real Estate Developers by Thomas Volscho, College of Staten Island. SASE/New York 2019 – Featured Speakers Find out more about the exceptional scholars giving featured talks at our 30th anniversary conference in New York. SASE/New York 2019 – Author-Meets-Critics Panels Click through to see this year's excellent collection of Author-Meets-Critics panels. At-A-Glance Calendar Get a bird's-eye view of this year's conference schedule.

2018

Costa Rica 2019 Regional Conference SASE is delighted to announce the dates for our next regional conference!

2019

RESEARCH AND POLITICS – Special Issue on “The Political Consequences of Technological Changes” The journal Research and Politics published a special issue "Political Consequences of Technological Change", co-edited by Bruno Palier (LIEPP et CEE) and Thomas Kurer (Harvard University). CfP: Special issue of the Revue française de sociologie "Economic worlds, activist worlds / Contentiousness, boundaries, and cooperation" - Proposals can be in French or English. Deadline 31 May 2019. Interview with Dan Breznitz Dan Breznitz speaks with SASE about his work and his recent SER article co-authored with Darius Ornston Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholars Fellowship – Academic Year 2020-2021 The foundation annually awards up to 17 residential fellowships to scholars who are at least several years beyond the Ph.D. Application deadline: 27 June 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. 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 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. In Memoriam: Jean-Daniel Reynaud (1926-2019) by Erhard Friedberg

2018

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. 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. 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 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

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. 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.