Alliance for Work-Life Progress: Work-Life Rising Star Recognition Program

Accepting nominations between September 8-October 30, 2006

"We are seeking nominations for innovative, high potential career starters or individual mid-career contributors who exhibit a combination of professional and personal attributes that demonstrate emerging leadership and growing contributions to the work-life community."

Click here for a call for nominations flier and press release: http://www.awlp.org/award.

Special Issue: Gender, Work and Organization

Theme: “Women and Men in Management: Issues for the 21st Century”

Deadline for Submission: September 30, 2006

Possible subjects include: “The gender structuring of management and organisations; issues in managerial career development; leadership issues; the role of gender in the way managers conduct themselves; gender mainstreaming, and the presence, absence and development of policies (formal and informal) on gender; alternative forms of working at managerial levels; international comparisons of women and men in management; managerial diversity and employment; managerial cultures.” Please submit papers of approximately 7,000 words, and include a summary and three to five keywords.

Click here for more information: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0968-6673.
To submit papers, e-mail Adelina Broadbridge at: a.m.broadbridge@stir.ac.uk.

Global Perspectives- Call for Abstracts: British Sociological Association Annual Conference 2007

Theme: "Social Connections: Identities, Technologies, Relationships"

Deadline for Submission: September 30, 2006

The conference will take place at the University of East London, London, England, on April 12-14th, 2007. " The overarching theme invites engagement with a wide range of contemporary sociological concerns. The title 'social connections' frames a series of debates around identities, technologies and relationships, which also encompass the diversity of research interests within the discipline. A key element of the conference will be to explore how technologies are an integral part of the sociological imagination. "

Click here for more information: http://www.britsoc.co.uk/events/Conference.htm.

Call for Conference Proposals: College and University Work/Family Association 13th National Conference

Theme: "Strategic Partnerships: On Campus and in the Community"

Deadline for Submission: October 13, 2006

"Successful presentations will address the skills, knowledge and abilities necessary to enable work/life program administrators to position their initiatives within an organization and to form alliances and partnerships that advance their mission. We are especially interested in how this plays out in an academic institution with the often competing demands of students, faculty and staff."

Click here for more information (PDF): http://data.memberclicks.com/site/cuwfa/2007Call.pdf.

Global Perspectives-

The conference will take place at Keele University, Stratforshire, England on June 27th-29th, 2007. "Proposals for the World Congress may include: (1) individual or coauthored papers; (2) entire sessions of 4 papers; (3) roundtables of 4-5 persons on a particular topic; and (4) pedagogical sessions on teaching in the social economics tradition. The editors of the two journals of the Association—Review of Social Economy and Forum for Social Economics—are especially interested in papers suitable for publication. There will be no formal discussant assigned to papers/sessions. Instead, we encourage participation and discussion among the panelists and participants. We encourage historical, theoretical, empirical, and policy papers. We are particularly interested in research that explicitly articulates a particular framework of social values. Five broad areas for exploring the theme of social values and economic life include: (1) family and community relationships; (2) the workplace and its social organization; (3) the social nature of market relationships; (4) macroeconomic social policy issues; and (5) economic methodology and the history of economic thought."

Click here for more information: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0968-6673.
To submit papers, e-mail Deborah Kerfoot at: mna23@keele.ac.uk.

Global Perspectives- Call for Papers: Twelfth World Congress of Social Economics

Theme: "Social Values and Economic Life"
Deadline for Submission: January 31, 2007

The conference will take place at the University of Amsterdam on June 8-10, 2007. Possible topics include: “The concept of 'career', gender and friendship, professionalism and professional identity, feminist theory, methodology, ethics and organizations, colonialism in organizations, complexity and diversity in the workplace, sexualities in organization, men and masculinities, identity and subjectivity, power and resistance, home/tele working, gender and technologies, alternative organization, management, managers and management practice, eroticism and embodiment, romance, love and organization, new managerialism, harassment and discrimination, race and ethnicity, social exclusion, intimacy and organization.” Please submit paper abstracts of no more than 500 words.

Click here for more information: http://www.socialeconomics.org/callMay30.htm.

Special Issue: Human Relations

Theme: “Workers, Risk and the New Economy"

Deadline for Submission: July 13, 2007

Possible subjects include: “Low-wage workers and economic insecurity, migrant workers, insecurity and the management and negotiation of risk (for example through family or communal resources), gendered and racialized experiences of risk, dangerous technologies and the negotiation of risk, risk and opportunity—under what circumstances can taking a risk bring benefits, and what kinds of workers are most likely to reap the rewards, changes over time—is ‘risk’ as new as is sometimes supposed, and what can a historical perspective say, the role of institutions in regulating risk.

To submit papers online: http://www.humanrelationsjournal.org.
Questions about the submission process, contact Alice Gilberson at editorial@humanrelationsjournal.org.

To discuss paper ideas, contact Paul Edwards at p.k.edwards@warwick.ac.uk.

Conference Announcements

World at Work 2006 Telework Conference
Where: George Washington University, Washington, DC - When: September 26, 2006

Click here for more information: http://www.sourcemediaconferences.com/conferences/BMFE06/index.html/.

Global Perspectives- Conference Board: 7th European Work-Life and Diversity Conference
Theme: “Solving Europe's Productivity Puzzle: What Role for Work-Life and Diversity?"
Where: Radisson SAS Hotel, Berlin, Germany - When: October 19-20, 2006

Click here for more information: http://www.conference-board.org/conferences/conference.cfm?id=1196.

Council on Contemporary Families: 2006 Symposium

Theme: "Who Cares?: Dilemmas of Work and Family in the 21st Century"
Where: University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL – When: October 20, 2006

For more information, click here: http://www.contemporaryfamilies.org/docs/ccfchicagoprogram.pdf.

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For more information, click here: http://www.ncfr.org/conference_info/index.asp

Business and Professional Women's Foundation: 2006 National Employer Summit

Theme: "Raising Profits and Potential"
Where: L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, Washington, DC – When: November 9, 2006

For more information, click here: http://www.bpwusa.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=4752.

For more information, click here: http://www.agingconference.com/about_the_meeting.cfm.

For more information, click here: http://www.sswr.org/conferences.php.

For more information, click here: http://www.worldatwork.org/worklife2007.

For more information, click here: http://www.essnet.org/annualmeeting.htm.

Global Perspectives- Community, Work and Family: Second International Conference
Where: Lisbon, Portugal - When: April 12-14, 2007

For more information contact Maria Das Dores Guerreiro at maria.guerreiro@iscte.pt or visit the official site at http://cwf2007.com.sapo.pt.