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Conferences and CALLs FOR PAPERS 

Call for Papers:

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY IN A GLOBALIZED ERA, Race, Gender & Class 

 

RACE, GENDER & CLASS, a journal dedicated to the study and dissemination of knowledge about exploitation in its myriad forms, seeks manuscripts addressing contemporary economic inequality. Both empirical and theoretical manuscripts are being sought. In particular, manuscripts falling into one or several of the following four categories will be given priority:

1. Income inequality in the United States

2. Income inequality within the European Union

3. Income inequality between the U.S and the European Union

4. Income inequality between Northern hemisphere countries and those in the Southern hemisphere

Given the hotly contested nature of inequality debates, priority will be given to manuscripts that grapple with appropriate measures of inequality (e.g., income or assets [e.g., households, geographic regions such as counties, states, provinces], health [e.g., life expectancy, morbidity, mortality], education [e.g., school enrollment, literacy rates]), and trends in those measures over time, particularly since the 1970s. In what ways has globalization contributed to a leveling or a dilation of inequality along lines of such measures? Who are the most adversely affected by what aspects of globalization? What policies flow from the theoretical considerations and empirical evidence? What roles do national governments play in the generation and/or exacerbation or in the prevention and/or mitigation of income inequality and what policy changes are warranted? What is the role of international and transnational organizations?

All manuscripts will undergo peer review. Manuscripts should be a maximum of 30 pages, inclusive of title page, abstract, main body of text, figures, tables, and APA-style references. Only title pages should contain authors' names, affiliation, phone & FAX numbers, in addition to the email address of the corresponding author. No endnotes or footnotes will be accepted. Author's Guidelines and related RACE, GENDER & CLASS publications can be found at WWW.SUNO.EDU/SUNORGC/. Electronic versions of manuscripts (MS Word 2003) should be sent directly to the Guest Editor, Richard K. Caputo at the following email address: caputo@yu.edu by 31 January 2009. The anticipated publication date of this special issue of Race, Gender and Class is fall 2009.

 

CONFERENCE:

The Ninth International Conference on Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations

Riga, Latvia, 15-18 June 2009    
http://www.Diversity-Conference.com      

The Diversity Conference has a history of bringing together scholarly, government and practice-based participants with an interest in the issues of diversity and community. The Conference examines the concept of diversity as a positive aspect of a global world and globalised society. Diversity is in many ways reflective of our present world order, but there are ways of taking this further without necessary engendering its alternatives: racism, conflict, discrimination and inequity. Diversity as a mode of social existence can be projected in ways that deepen the range of human experience. The Conference will seek to explore the full range of what diversity means and explore modes of diversity in real-life situations of living together in community. The Conference supports a move away from simple affirmations that 'diversity is good' to a much more nuanced account of the effects and uses of diversity on differently situated communities in the context of our current epoch of globalisation.

As well as impressive line-up of international main speakers, the Conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. We would particularly like to invite you to respond to the Conference Call-for-Papers. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication in the fully refereed International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations. If you are unable to attend the Conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication in this fully refereed academic Journal, as well as access to the electronic version of the Conference proceedings.

Proposals are reviewed within four weeks of submission. Full details of the Conference, including an online proposal submission form, are to be found at the Conference website - http://www.Diversity-Conference.com

We look forward to receiving your proposal and hope you will be able to join us in Riga in June 2009.

Also, we would like to remind you of the 2008 Conference which will be held 17-20 June 2008 at HEC Montreal in Montreal, Canada.

 

 

CONFERENCE:

Eastern Sociological Society annual meeting

Changing Lives, Resistant Institutions

Baltimore Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel 
March 19-22, 2009
http://www.essnet.org    

At the outset of a new century, sociology's enduring concern with how societies and individuals change has never been more relevant. On the one hand, growing demographic and cultural diversity has expanded options to create new ways of living, working, and building families. On the other, institutional resistance to these shifting social realities has posed new dilemmas for individuals and created new conflicts and inequalities among social groups.

The 2009 ESS Meeting will highlight emerging tensions between changing lives and resistant institutions, exploring how they play out in domains ranging from the private realms of family and personal life to the public worlds of work, politics, culture, and civil society. How are institutions shaping life chances across gender, class, race, ethnic, and generational divides? How can - and do - individual and collective actions influence the course of social change? How do the clashes between personal needs and institutional forms create new insecurities, but also give rise to new options and choices? Can we expand opportunity while also bridging our social divides?

With Baltimore and nearby Washington, D.C. as our backdrop, the 2009 meeting will consider the basic forces fueling social change as well as how political shifts in the wake of the 2008 elections are likely to alter our prospects for achieving a future that is both more diverse and more equal.