International Civic Engagement

Social Capital Conferences, Publications and Grad Schools

From Fabio Sabatini of Social Capital Gateway:

Dear All,
this is to let you know about some interesting news on social capital and related topics.
 
Conferences:
 
- The program of the Social Capital Foundation Malta Conference that will take place in Bugibba, Malta, on 19-22 September 2008 is now available:

http://www.socialcapitalgateway.org/eng-malta2008.html#program
 
Please note that the deadline is still open and will end on 31 July 2008.
 
- The conference "The Third Sector and Sustainable Social Change: Frontiers for Research" will take place in Barcelona, Spain, on 9-12 July 2008. The program is now available at the address:

http://www.socialcapitalgateway.org/eng-barcelona2008c.html

- The workshop of the Social Movements Research Network will take place in Trento, Italy, on 10-11 October 2008. The deadline for abstract submission is 5 July 2008:

http://www.socialcapitalgateway.org/eng-trento2008.html

- The conference "Citizen Participation and Democratic Engagement" will be held in Bristol, UK, on 27-28 October 2008. The deadline for submitting an abstract is 31 july 2008:
 
http://www.socialcapitalgateway.org/eng-bristol2008.html

Forum
 
- The Social Enterprise World Forum will take place in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 2-5 September 2008. Please follow the link for further details:

http://www.socialcapitalgateway.org/eng-edinburgh2008.html

Books
 
- Eric M. Uslaner (2008), Corruption, Inequality and the Rule of Law, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press:

http://www.socialcapitalgateway.org/eng-news.htm#ric

- Flash Eurobarometer Survey "What Does European Citizenship Means to Europeans?", Flash Eurobarometer Survey No. 213:

http://www.socialcapitalgateway.org/eng-news.htm#eurob

Grad schools
 
- PhD Course on "Approaching Organisations", organised by the Roskilde University, the Danish Institute for International Studiesand the Aarhus University. The course will be held in Jyllinge, Denmark, from 8 to 10 December 2008:
 
http://www.socialcapitalgateway.org/eng-postgraduate.html#phdorgan

- The Summer School on Social Inequalities in Contemporary Societies" will take place in Trento, Italy, from 31 August to 6 September 2008:
 
http://www.socialcapitalgateway.org/eng-postgraduate.html#summertrento

- PhD Programme in Economics at the University of Milan, Italy. The deadline for submitting an application is 30 July 2008 (the call for applications is only in Italian):
 
http://www.socialcapitalgateway.org/ita-postgraduate.html#bandounimi

- PhD Programme in Economics at the University of Turin, Italy. The deadline for submitting an application is 18 July 2008 (the call for applications is only in Italian):

http://www.socialcapitalgateway.org/ita-postgraduate.html#bandounito

Papers
 
If you want to receive a weekly notification reporting new papers on social capital related topics, you can subscribe to the Nep-Soc (New Economics Papers on Social Norms & Social Capital) newsletter I edit within the RePEc project:
 
http://lists.repec.org/mailman/listinfo/nep-soc

 
Thank you for your attention.
Best regards,
Fabio Sabatini

Fourth CRESC Annual Conference on Citizenship and Culture (2-5 September 2008)

From H-CITIZENSHIP:

ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change Annual Conference 2008
2-5 September 2008, St Hugh’s College, Oxford

Cultural Citizenship

Plenary speakers: Mieke Bal, Nina Glick Schiller, Engin Isin, Ghassan Hage, Barbara Kirshenblatt Gimblett, Michael Keith, Scott Lash, Mary Poovey, Nick Stevenson

This fourth CRESC Annual Conference on Citizenship and Culture seeks to explore the inter-relationships between citizenship and culture and their contemporary social, cultural and political significance in a number of different contexts.

About 230 papers have been structured in some 60 sessions addressing the following themes:

·         Cities and Citizenship
·         Politics and Citizenship
·         Citizenship and the Cultural Sector
·         Science, Technology, Biology and Citizenship
·         Europe and the Citizen
·         The Relationships between Religious and Secular Concepts of Citizenship
·         Transnationalism and Cosmopolitanism
·         The Media and Citizenship
·         Colonialism and Post-colonialism
·         Sexual Citizenship
·         Race, Ethnicity, Indigeneity and Citizenship

The conference starts with a Plenary Session and a Film screening on Tuesday 2nd September 2008 at 06.30pm and will finish around 16.00 on Friday the 5th of September 2007. The academic programme is available online at: http://www.cresc.ac.uk/events/conference2008/programme.html

Registration details are available from http://www.cresc.ac.uk/events/conference2008/registration.html.

Early registration deadline is 31st of July 2008

For more information please contact Bussie Awosanya or Josine Opmeer at CRESC@manchester.ac.uk

Call for Papers - 4th Annual Graduate Conference in Political Science, International Relations and Public Policy

From the International Public Management Network Listserv:

Dear Colleague,

I am glad to announce the call for papers for our 4th Annual Graduate Conference in memory of the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

We are looking for submissions from research students across the social sciences (writ large) and on any topic as long as politics and policy are significant part of their research.

More details are in the conference website:

http://gradcon.huji.ac.il/

We would be most grateful if you could distribute this call among your colleagues and phd students.

The conference will be held on Thursday, December 18, 2008 at the Hebrew University. Please take the time to distribute among your outstanding graduate colleagues (MA + PHD)

This year we have 4 workshops in addition to the traditional panels:

WORKSHOP 1: Theories of Policy Change in Comparative Perspective; Chairs: Prof. Frank Baumgartner (Penn State, USA) & Dr. Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan (Hebrew University)

WORKSHOP 2: Global & Regional Governance;  Chairs: Prof. Tanja A. Borzel (Free University of Berlin) and Prof. Thomas Risse (Free University of Berlin)

WORKSHOP 3: Democracy, Constitutionalism and Citizenship; Chairs: Prof. Richard Bellamy (University College, London) & Dr. Dan Avnon (Hebrew University)

WORKSHOP 4: Jewish Political Thought; Chairs: Dr. Jeffrey Macy (Hebrew University)  & Dr. Moshe Helinger (Bar Ilan University)

Again, we hope you'll find the call and the conference enough to recommend it warmly to the phd advisor at your department and your own phd students.

Yours
Dan Miodownik & David Levi-Faur
The Hebrew University

First Euro Mediterranean Public Management Dialogue (1MED)

From the IPMN Listserv:

Dear all,

We are pleased to announce the First Euro Mediterranean Public Management Dialogue that will be held in Aix-en-Provence on October 10-11.

Along wtih the session, a doctoral seminar is organized.

You are invited to submit your proposal to this important and innovating event for the public management community.

We hope to see you in Aix.

http://www.med2008.org/

Pr Claude ROCHET
Institut de management public

http://www.managementpublic.u-3mrs.fr/

Université Paul Cézanne Aix-Marseille III

claude.rochet@univ-cezanne.fr

+ 33 1 58 64 84 42
+ 33 1 48 72 75 05
+ 33 6 76 04 67 90

http://www.claude-rochet.fr

New Social Capital Conferences, Grad Schools and Publications

From Fabio Sabatini of Social Capital Gateway:

Dear All,
this is to let you know about some interesting news on social capital and related topics:
 
New call for papers
 
- Special issue of Organization Science on "The Genesis and Dynamics of Networks". Guest editors Gautam Ahuja, Giuseppe Soda, Akbar Zaheer. The deadline for submitting a paper is October 31, 2008. Please follow the link for all details:

http://www.socialcapitalgateway.org/eng-organizationscience.html

- "Behavioral Labor Economics". The conference is organized by IZA (Institute for the Study of Labor) and will take place in Bonn, Germany, on October 17-18, 2008. The deadline for submitting an abstract is June 15, 2008. Travel expenses for presenters will be reimbursed by IZA:
 

http://www.socialcapitalgateway.org/eng-bonn2008.html

 
- "Gender and Corruption in Development Cooperation". The conference is organized by the EADI and will take place in Eschborn, Germany, on November 10-11, 2008. The dedline for submitting an abstract is August 1, 2008:
 

http://www.socialcapitalgateway.org/eng-eschborn2008.html

 
Grad schools
 
- Graduate School in Economic Governance, Development, and Public Policy, organized by Department of Economics of Åbo Akademi University of Turku, Finland, from 15th to 21st of September 2008:
 

http://www.socialcapitalgateway.org/ita-postgraduate.html#turku

 
- Summer School in Advanced Quantitative Methods, organized by the School of Engineering of the University of Pisa, Italy, from 7th to 11th of July 2008:
 

http://www.socialcapitalgateway.org/ita-postgraduate.html#pisaq

 
Books
 
- "Civic Engagement and Civic Attitudes in Cross-National Perspectives", special issue di Political Studies, guest editors Marc Morjé Howard and Dietlind Stolle:
 

http://www.socialcapitalgateway.org/eng-news.htm#polstudies1

 
- "Social Capital", virtual issue of Political Studies, including articles on social capital published on the journal from 2000 to 2006:
 

http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/post/56/v2

 
- "Social Capital, Networks and Economic Development. An Analysis of Regional Productive Systems", by Marìa Semìtiel Garcia:
 

http://www.socialcapitalgateway.org/eng-news.htm#semitiel

 
Papers
 
If you want to receive a weekly notification reporting new papers on social capital related topics, you can subscribe to the Nep-Soc (New Economics Papers on Social Norms & Social Capital) newsletter I edit within the RePEc project:

http://lists.repec.org/mailman/listinfo/nep-soc

Thank you for your attention.
Best regards,
Fabio Sabatini

First Global Dialogue on Ethical and Effective Governance

From H-PUBADMIN:

Dear all,

We are proud to announce *Governing good and Governing Well - The First Global Dialogue on Ethical and Effective Governance*, an international conference that will take place from the 28th until the 30th of May 2009 in the beautiful city of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The conference will be hosted by the Research Group 'Integrity of Governance' of the VU University.

Our goal is to bring together the best and most original scholars of the world on the ethics and quality of government and governance, to discuss the state-of-the-art of our knowledge, to stimulate international exchange and cooperation and to contribute to international policy making in this field. This first 'Global Dialogue' will build on previous initiatives by the EGPA Study Group on Ethics and Integrity of Governance and the ASPA Ethics Section (the 'Transatlantic Dialogue' and 'Transatlantic Workshop'). Partners and contributors include EGPA, IIAS, Ethics Section of ASPA,  BIOS, Netherlands Institute of Government (NIG), Integrity Bureau of the City of Amsterdam.

Core of the conference will be *7 workshops*, which will meet throughout the period of the conference. These will be jointly chaired by conveners from Europe, the U.S., Australia and other parts of the world, and will consist of an internationally mixed audience of participants. The conference is open to all who get their paper proposal accepted, but participants will be expected to subscribe to one workshop, act as a discussant for another contribution, and be expected to participate actively in the  discussions.

For more information about the conference, the 7 workshops and themes, and the rest of the program, please check the conference website: http://english.fsw.vu.nl/firstglobaldialogue

*Call for papers*

Submission of paper proposals is due at November 1st 2008; submission deadline for full papers is April 15th 2009. For details about abstract submission, please refer to the conference website.

More information will follow soon, please keep checking our website!

Warm greetings from the organizing committee,

Gjalt de Graaf
Hester Paanakker
Zeger van der Wal

Conferences, Grad Schools and Publications

From Fabio Sabatini of Social Capital Gateway:

Dear all,
this is to let you know about some interesting news & events on social capital and related topics:

Conferences

- Network modelling and economic systems, Lisbon, Portugal, October 9-11, 2008. The deadline for submitting an abstract is May 15 2008. Please follow the link for further details:

http://www.socialcapitalgateway.org/eng-lisbon2008.html

- The social impact of sport governance & management, Milan, Italy, November 20-22, 2008. The conference is organized by the Research project "Sport and Social Capital in the European Union", funded by the European Commission and hosted by the Luigi Bocconi University of Milan. The deadline for submitting an abstract is June 30, 2008:

http://www.socialcapitalgateway.org/eng-bocconi2008.html

- Well-being: are we happy with our standard of living?, Cassino, Italy, September 26-27, 2008. The deadline for submitting an abstract is June 30, 2008:

http://www.socialcapitalgateway.org/eng-cassino2008.html

- Behavioral and experimental economics, Copenhagen, November 14-15, 2008. The deadline for submitting an abstract is September 20, 2008:

http://www.socialcapitalgateway.org/eng-copenhagen2008.html

Books

- Sam Wong, Exploring Unseen Social Capital in Community Participation. Everyday Lives of Poor Mainland Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2007:

http://www.socialcapitalgateway.org/eng-news.htm#wong

Grad schools

- Summer school in Applied economics "Programming in Matlab", Lecce, from 28th of July to 1st of August 2008:

http://www.socialcapitalgateway.org/eng-postgraduate.html#matlab

Papers

If you want to receive a weekly notification reporting new papers on social capital related topics, you can subscribe to the Nep-Soc (New Economics Papers on Social Norms & Social Capital) newsletter I edit within the RePEc project:

http://lists.repec.org/mailman/listinfo/nep-soc

Papers reported in the second-last issue are as follows:

• Paolo Buonanno & Giacomo Pasini & Paolo Vanin, 2008. "Crime and Social Sanction," "Marco Fanno" Working Papers 0071, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Marco Fanno". [Downloadable!]
• Becchetti Leonardo & Pelloni Alessandra & Rossetti Fiammetta, 2008. "Relational goods, sociability, and happiness," wp.comunite 0039, Department of Communication, University of Teramo. [Downloadable!]
• Rodrigo Harrison & Mauricio Villena, 2008. "The Evolution of Social Norms and Individual Preferences," Documentos de Trabajo 333, Instituto de Economía. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.. [Downloadable!]
• Daniel Birke, 2008. "The economics of networks - A survey of the empirical literature," Occasional Papers 22, Industrial Economics Division. [Downloadable!]
• John P. Haisken-DeNew & John P. Haisken-DeNew and Mathias Sinning, 2007. "Social Deprivation and Exclusion of Immigrants in Germany," Ruhr Economic Papers 0031, Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universität Dortmund, Universität Duisburg-Essen. [Downloadable!]
• Brady, Michael P. & Wu, Steven Y., 2008. "The Effect of Intragroup Communication on Preference Shifts in Groups," IZA Discussion Papers 3429, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
• Sebastian Goerg & Werner Güth & Gari Walkowitz & Torsten Weiland, 2008. "Distributive fairness in an intercultural ultimatum game," Jena Economic Research Papers 2008-028, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Max-Planck-Institute of Economics, Thueringer Universitaets- und Landesbibliothek. [Downloadable!]
• Oxoby, Robert J. & Friedrich, Colette, 2008. "Incentive Design and Trust: Comparing the Effects of Tournament and Team-Based Incentives on Trust," IZA Discussion Papers 3424, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
• Strömblad, Per & Myrberg, Gunnar, 2008. "Urban Inequality and Political Recruitment Networks," Arbetsrapport 2008:3, Institute for Futures Studies. [Downloadable!]
• Khim Yong, Goh & Kai-Lung, Hui & I.P.L. , Png, 2008. "Social Interaction, Observational Learning, and Privacy: the "Do Not Call" Registry," MPRA Paper 8225, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]
• Mosca, Michele & Pastore, Francesco, 2008. "Wage Effects of Recruitment Methods: The Case of the Italian Social Service Sector," IZA Discussion Papers 3422, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
• Eriksson, Tor & Villeval, Marie-Claire, 2008. "Performance Pay, Sorting and Social Motivation," Working Papers 07-12, Aarhus School of Business, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
• Radhuber, Michael, 2007. "Crescita Economica o Sviluppo Civile? Altre Vie per il Mezzogiorno," MPRA Paper 8037, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised Apr 2008. [Downloadable!]

Thank you for your attention and best regards.
Fabio Sabatini

ANNOUNCEMENT: 5/9 Immigration Conference at University of Pennsylvania

From H-CITIZENSHIP:

On Friday, May 9th, 2008, the Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism will host its first annual International Interdisciplinary Conference, devoted to the program's 2007-2008 theme, "Citizenship, Borders, and Human Needs."  The conference takes place from 9 am to 6 pm in the Bodek Lounge on the first floor of Penn's Houston Hall, 3417 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, followed by a reception at the University Museum.

Four panels will address immigration and economic needs; immigration and political needs; immigration and cultural needs; and the legitimacy of immigration restrictions, seen from perspectives in receiving and sending nations.  Panelists include Antonio Yunez-Naude; Karolina Smzagalska-Follis, and Michael Katz; Christian Joppke, Kamal Sadiq, and Aristide Zolberg; Veit Bader, Leti Volpp, and Julie Mostov; Rainer Baubock, Chandran Kukathas, and Linda Bosniak.  Full details can be found at the DCC Program website, http://www.sas.upenn.edu/dcc/; click on "2007-2008 Events."  For more information, contact Professor Rogers M. Smith, Chair, Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism, rogerss@sas.upenn.edu.

Call for Papers - International Interfaith Conference: 'Interfaith Dialogue in Modernity and Post-Modernity'

INTERFAITH ENCOUNTER IN
MODERNITY AND POST-MODERNITY

The University of Winchester, UK: 9-11 September 2008

THE CONFERENCE
Today, when the cultures of the world are coming closer yet also seem to be drawing further apart, there is an increasing need for the representative faith traditions to engage in dialogue and encounter.  However, questions are asked as to the basis and impact of Interfaith Dialogue and Encounter.

‘Interfaith Encounter in Modernity and Post-modernity’ will bring together a group of around ten leading international scholars from Judaism, Islam and Christianity to form a central colloquium of intensive discussion.  Around this, a wider conference on Interfaith Encounter will occur. Attendees will be able to deliver papers, observe colloquium sessions, and engage in Q&A sessions with the scholars involved. Each day of the conference will be themed:

DAY 1: the implications of modernity/ post-modernity for interfaith encounter
DAY 2: how scholarly debate about dialogue impacts on religious institutions
DAY 3: dialogue and public life, the role of religion in peacemaking and conflict resolution, business ethics, and debates about ‘multiculturalism’

Confirmed colloquium scholars: Khaleel Muhammad; Alwi Shihab; Riffat Hassan; Racelle Weiman; Reuven Firestone; Maurice-Ruben Hayoun; Ursula King; Perry Schmidt-Leukel; Rosemary Radford Ruether.

REGISTRATION AND SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:
Papers are called for (40 minutes: 30 talk, 10 questions) that explore the issues of Interfaith Encounter from a variety of perspectives and traditions (these may explore the main conference themes or other areas of Interfaith Encounter, Inter-religious Dialogue, theologies of religions and related studies).

Both delegates and observers are welcome.

ABSTRACTS of proposed papers to be submitted by 1ST JUNE 2008.
REGISTRATION and CONFERENCE FEES to be paid by 1ST JULY 2008.
Those wishing to attend should submit a registration request with the following data: family and personal name(s), address, institutional affiliation (if any), email, abstract and paper title (if any), attendance pattern (i.e. whole conference or specific day).

ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE:
Dr Paul Hedges, Department of Theology and Religious Studies,
University of Winchester, Winchester, SO22 4NR
Tel: 0044 (0)1962 827451
Email: paul.hedges@winchester.ac.uk

CONFERENCE COSTS:
£250 (developed countries), £175 (developing countries and students) to include two nights single accommodation (9th, 10th), the conference dinner, and meals during the conference (dinner 9th to lunch 11th). Daily rate: £50 (lunch only 10th & 11th).

THE CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS:
Dr Paul Hedges; Professor Leonard Swidler; Revd Dr Alan Race

ORGANIZED IN CONJUNCTION WITH:
The Journal of Ecumenical Studies; Interreligious Insight; The Centre for Global Ethics; St. Philip’s Centre for Study and Engagement (Leicester); World Council of Faiths

Call for Papers - World Summit on Public Management Education

From the International Public Management Network Listserv:

World Summit on Public Management Education and Training
18-19 June 2009
Corvinus University, Budapest
(Jointly organised by IRSPM, the Public and Nonprofit Group of the AOM and the EFMD)

The Call for Papers for this event is now live on the summit website -

http://worldsummit2009.uni-corvinus.hu

submissions are encouraged from academics, practitioners and policy makers for the important event.

Stephen P Osborne
President
IRSPM