RC33 Eighth International Conference on Social Science Methodology Call for Papers

RC33 Eighth International Conference on Social Science Methodology Welcome to RC33`s 8th International Conference on Social Science Methodology.
RC33 is the International Sociological Association`s Research Committee on Logic and Methodology in Sociology. Its conference is the major international forum for current and fundamental issues in social science methodology and since 1984 has attracted scholars from all over the world and from a diverse range of academic fields and disciplines.
The focus of the conference is on innovations and current best practice in all aspects of social science research methodology. It provides an opportunity to reflect on contemporary methods, as applied in a range of settings and disciplinary contexts, to hear about emerging methods, tools, techniques and technologies, and to discover what resources are available to social science researchers and users of research.
The aim of the conference is to disseminate knowledge and promote methodological debate with the goal of contributing to the scientific development of social science research, particularly by building the evidence base to evaluate the efficacy, efficiency and rigour of the methods and techniques of social science research.
We welcome papers on all aspects of social science methodology, including but not restricted to: critiques and analysis of the philosophical paradigms that underpin the logic of social research; issues in the formulation of research questions; the design of social research; methods of collecting data, and analysing them; research technologies; and issues relating social science methodology to research consumers.
The focus of each presentation will be a methodological issue. Papers concerned solely on the application of a technique are not acceptable, but we welcome papers that illustrate a methodological issue or problem within the context of a substantive research study.
The conference is organised into scheduled sessions covering themes proposed and organised by members of the international social science community.

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anzea Conference 2012 Call for Papers

anzea Conference 2012 The anzea Conference 2012 will be held at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, 8-11 July 2012.
The theme is Evaluation in the real world - relationships, roles, responsibilities and results.
What does evaluation look like in the real world? How do perceptions of the world differ amonsgt evaluation practitioners and those we work with and for, and how do we acknowledge, understand and evaluate within these multiple realities? What are the practicalities, challenges and opportunities we face commissioning, designing, implementing and experiencing evaluation in this real world?
anzea Conference 2012 invites you to dig deeper into what happens in the `real ` world of evaluation, and what the challenges and opportunities are for the evaluation community in serving and relating to real communities and real people.
anzea`s services, roles and functions
Services
* An annual conference (national, or provided as regional symposia)
* Professional development and education including training workshops, seminars and other events
* A website with information about relevant conference and events nationally and internationally
* anzea evaluation digest - Karearea - published twice a year
* Development of an online information resource library
* Regional Branch events
* A newsletter published three times per year
* A bulletin service advising job vacancies and available tenders
Regional
* Local activities (seminars etc.)
* Local networking and professional support
* Professional development/professional education
* Membership recruitment and retention
National
* Leadership in evaluation (e.g. enhancing visibility and accessibility of Aotearoa New Zealand evaluation theory and practice)
* Development and utilisation of Aotearoa New Zealand evaluation theory and models of evaluation practice (e.g. local, bicultural, multicultural, international)
* Working to develop evaluation capacity in communities and nationally
* Professional development coordination and provision (e.g. coordinating training opportunities)
* Professional support services across anzea regions
* Advocacy and public education
* Development of national standards for effective and ethical practice
* An annual national evaluation conference
* Resource development and management

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3rd Annual Conference of the European Decision Sciences Institute Call for Papers

3rd Annual Conference of the European Decision Sciences Institute The role of international business is becoming increasingly more prominent in the economic development and prosperity of every country.
Businesses are becoming more and more aware that sustainability and success in the global arena depends on their ability to achieve and maintain effective integration of global business activities. Business decisions, in order to support global integration in all facets of business life, require not only technical but also social and intercultural competence and innovative thinking as firms today have to master advanced technologies, face fierce competition, and embrace social and cultural diversity to a much greater extent than before.
The third Annual Conference of EDSI (2012) invites papers from researchers and practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds across business, management and the public sector with interests in decision making to share their work and experience, focusing on Innovation and Decision Making for Global Integration.
Suggested topics include but are not limited to:
* Strategic decision making in global supply chain management
* Supply chain operations management
* Behavioral aspects of operations management
* Operational risk and disaster management
* Financial risk management
* Decision making in regional development
* Advances in NGO Management
* New trends in entrepreneurship
* Innovations in information technology applications
* Innovative approaches in education
* Global investment decision making
* Innovative applications in modeling and decision techniques
* Information economics for the 21st century and beyond
* Performance and revenue management
* Industry sector-specific decision making and strategy formulation
* Aviation Management
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International Institute of Social and Economic sciences Call for Papers

International Institute of Social and Economic sciences International Institute of Social and Economic sciences invites you to participate in International Academic Conference to be held in June 24-27, 2012 in Dubrovnik, Croatia at hotel Valamar Dubrovnik President. We welcome scholars, researchers, as well as corporation and government executives.
You are invited to present your research work under one of the following conference tracks:
* Business and Economics
* Social Sciences and Humanities
* Teaching and Education
* Health and Welfare
Please submit your proposal/abstract via registration form or via e-mail. The abstract should not exceed 500 words. Within one week from receiving your abstract we will let you know if your proposal is accepted. All accepted abstracts and papers are peer-reviewed and will be published in the conference proceedings on our website.
Decide the form of your presentation: you can present your work during the conference either as a regular presentation in one of our panels or in a poster session. You can also present your paper in an E-session. We welcome also researchers willing to organize their own panels or workshops.
Regular Presentation: You will have up to 20 minutes time for your presentation. It is recommended to speak no longer than 15 minutes and let at least 5 minutes for discussion. Please bring your presentation on a USB flash drive. Each presentation room will be equipped with a laptop and a screen for PowerPoint presentations. The laptop will be set up for powerpoint presentations. Transparency projectors are not provided. Assume there may not be internet access.
Poster Session: Poster session enables to present your research work on a table space and discuss with those who will show interest. One or more authors should sit or stand near their poster during the poster session, which takes usually approx. one hour. It is recommended to have several hard copies of your work to hand it over to those who will show interest.
E-Session: If you want to present your paper without attending the conference, you can use an E-session. Your work will be presented electronically using Microsoft PowerPoint with narration(voice-over). If you need advise or more instructions on how to prepare your presentation, we will be happy to help you. Please contact us by E-mail.
If you participate in E-session, you pay the reduced registration fee.
Panel: A panel session may be organized by a group of four or more people who give their regular presentations on a given subject. Please fill all the information in your registration form.
Workshop: If you want to organize a workshop, please give us its title, the names of participants and outline briefly the aims of the workshop in your submission form.
Be aware of the deadlines of submission and registration.
Please send us Your paper by E-mail. Your paper should contain: name(s) of the author(s), institution(s), title, abstract, keywords and references. Papers published in one of our journals are double-blind, peer reviewed. If you want your paper to be published, please ask us for its peer-reviewing.

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Networks in the Global World: Structural Transformations in Europe, the US and Russia Call for Papers

Networks in the Global World: Structural Transformations in Europe, the US and Russia The objective of the conference is to find responses to the challenges arising from the increasing influence of networks in contemporary societies and the consequent structural transformations in Europe, Russia and the US by joining the efforts of representatives of various scientific schools and disciplines.
Central themes of the conference:
- Inter-firm networks and the development of global markets.
- Network analysis of public policy.
- Academic communities: Network approaches to research.
- Knowledge networks and innovations in the global world.
Call for papers
Organisation committee invites submissions of oral presentations (20 min.), oral reports (10 min.) and poster presentations on central themes of the conference:
– Inter-firm networks and the development of global markets.
– Network analysis of public policy.
– Academic communities: Network approaches to research.
– Knowledge networks and innovations in the global world.
Registration
Selected papers will be published in a peer-reviewed journal after the conference.
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IISIC - International Interdisciplinary Social Inquiry Conference Call for Papers

IISIC - International Interdisciplinary Social Inquiry Conference CALL FOR PAPER - International Interdisciplinary Social Inquiry Conference - IISIC 2012
The Organizing Committee of IISIC-2012 is pleased to call for papers for our conference to be held in Bursa, Turkey on 17- 21 June 2012. The IISIC - 2012 conference has been organized in collaboration with Uludag University (Bursa - Turkey), James Cook University (Townsville - Australia) and RMIT University (Melbourne - Australia).
The theme of the conference is interdisciplinary perspectives in the social sciences. An interdisciplinary focus in the social sciences has been much debated, and has attracted growing interest in recent years. The IISIC also welcomes papers from scholars from wider fields relating to cultural, economic, political, criminological, psychological and theological aspects of the social sciences. The IISIC - 2012 conference intends to bring together all areas in the social sciences to develop multi - disciplinary perspectives. Topics will include, but are not limited to:
Stream 1 – Sociology & Social Policy
Stream 2 – Economics
Stream 3 – Political Science
Stream 4 – Psychology & Behavioral Sciences
Stream 5 – Management & Business
Stream 6 – Education Studies
Stream 7 – Theology & Religion Studies
Stream 8 – Cultural Studies
The 2012 conference program will include keynote plenary sessions and a number of concurrent breakout sessions featuring papers on current research issues and practice - based workshops. Papers and presentations are encouraged from both micro and macro perspectives and all papers are to be presented and written in English (also a limited number of Turkish papers will be accepted). Papers can be peer reviewed for inclusion in a special omnibus edition of the journal or published on the conference web site. Selected authors will also be invited to submit expanded papers for publication in the International Journal of Social Inquiry (IJSI), Is-Guc, The Journal of Industrial Relations & Human Resources and the Journal of Uludag University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences. Further, after evaluation by the scientific committee, papers will be published in proceedings books.

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Critical Matter Call for Papers

Critical Matter Critical Matter Matter everywhere! We breathe, eat and die… Things surround and affect us until it becomes unclear who “we” are and what “we” can become. The question of materiality imposes itself. Accordingly, materialities and materialisms gain popularity in social and cultural studies. Recently, scholars of diverse disciplines have increasingly stressed the importance of posing questions concerning the social life of things; the materiality of affects, emotions and the psyche; the material preconditions of the production of knowledge, the independent existence of epistemic things; the materiality of signifiers, signs and media, communication and information; the performative production of materiality in the arts and in literature; vitality and materiality of life in the age of biotechnology; the potentiality of bodies beyond anthropocentrism; the materiality of space; new materialist ontology; lastly, Marx-based historical materialism and new materialist approaches to the economy testify their relevancy in times of never-ending crisis and social distortions. These approaches have one thing in common. They no longer refer to matter as a passive carrier of meaning or human manipulation. The world of the material is not considered as a sphere of linear causality and determination; emphasis is rather put on the obstinacy and contingency of matter. What is interesting in these debates is not so much what they turn away from (linguistic turn) or what they turn to (material turn), but rather which encounters they enable. “Matter” offers a flexible and pulsating point of reference for the concurrence of diverse materialisms, critical theories and radical politics. This encounter of critical materialistic approaches ranging from new to old, from feminist to postcolonial, from Marxist to post-structuralist, from the (social) sciences to the humanities raise questions such as: What forms of collective action emerge from assemblages of humans and non-humans? How considerable is the threat of exclusions, dependences and exploitation within these networks? Has a re-thinking of the classical conception of “reification” become necessary and how can the danger of essentialism be approached? What is critical in matter? Abstracts for lectures can be handed in regarding the following and adjoined topics as well as the topic of the conference in general. Please indicate the preferred panel. ___Body and Affectivity Is the affective material (emotions, the unconscious, critical neurosciences) and to what degree is the material affective (drive-nature, symbols, affective work)? What are the consequences of the embodiment of the affects and the psychologization of the body (newer psychopathologies, medicalization, responsibilization, narcissism)? ___Life In what ways do life sciences contrive life (visualization, synthetical biology, bio- and reproduction technologies) and how does life contrive itself (evolution, élan vital, resilience)? Which borders, exclusions and hierarchies are either produced or questioned by that (human-animal, life-death, mechanical-vital, organic-anorganic, male-female)? ___Ontology and Epistemology Which challenges are imposed to a (philosophical) understanding of matter by newer academic and scientific approaches (quantum physics, complexity theories)? What does that mean for extremes such as reason-sensual, mind-nature, etc.? How may the independent existence and contingency of the material be theorized and conceptualized without fixating it? What about the materiality of epistemic techniques and dispositives? Source : Call for Papers Portal