Conference: Working to End Racial Oppression
In Aotearoa, the WERO: Working to End Racial Oppression research programme has been dedicated to this cause for the past five years. The programme focuses on identifying the extent and persistence of racism, scrutinising both institutional and interpersonal forms of racial oppression, and developing strategies to mitigate its effects on society.
In 2025, WERO will host an international conference at the University of Waikato, gathering researchers, activists, and community members from Aotearoa and around the world to explore pathways to combat racial oppression.
This conference aims to advance decolonisation both politically and intellectually, challenge and dismantle the institutional foundations of racism, and expose the violent forms of racism that pervade societies globally.
Abstract Submissions close 31 October. Find out more here.
Conference: Pakukore Poverty By Design
21-23 November, Wellington
Join the Stout Research Centre at the Pipitea Campus of Victoria University of Wellington —Te Herenga Waka for this conference addressing poverty in Aotearoa New Zealand.
The conference will analyse the economic, governmental, legal and institutional systems that have created poverty, and which continue to lock too many whānau in its grip.
It asks whether a developed nation should continue to tolerate poverty and inequality. Hear from leading researchers and speakers who work at the front lines in the fight against poverty to tell us of the lasting and severe harm it inflicts on people’s lives.
Find out more and register to attend.
Horizon Europe Roadshow
Join the Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment and EURAXESS in October for the next series of Horizon Europe events. Roadshow events will be held in Auckland on 15 October, Hamilton on 16 October, Wellington on 21 October, and Christchurch on 23 October.
The 2024 roadshow events will include:
- General information about how to participate in Horizon Europe
- In-depth practical information and guidance
- Presentations from some of New Zealand’s successful Horizon Europe recipients
- Thematic workshops with New Zealand’s National Contact Points
There is no cost to participate but spaces are limited.
Register here.
Call for Proposals: Encounters with Sara Ahmed
Drs. Rachel Silverbloom (Visiting Assistant Professor at Vassar College) and Claire Lockard (Teaching Assistant Professor at Marquette University) are putting together a proposal for a co-edited anthology on the work of Sara Ahmed, tentatively titled Encounters with Sara Ahmed. Ahmed herself has generously agreed to contribute a piece to the book.
Call for Proposals and more information. Submissions due 1st November, 2024.
Rachel and Claire hope to attract submissions across a broad range of disciplines, approaches, and life experiences, within and beyond academia, and within and beyond traditional academic style. Their aim is for this book to reflect the truly expansive impact of Ahmed’s work and to the pluralities contained within killjoy communities.
Networking Grants
Applications are now open for Networking Grants of up to £25,000 over one year to support the formation of interdisciplinary networks between researchers in the UK and other countries, including Aotearoa New Zealand.
The scheme is a partnership between The Academy of Medical Sciences, the British Academy, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society (the four UK National Academies).
Grants are open to researchers in any area within the remit of the four UK National Academies, including humanities and social sciences.
More information here. Applications due 23rd October 2024.
Call for Nominations: WDS-ECR Network Co-Chair Position
Are you passionate about data stewardship and early career development?
The World Data System Early Career Researchers (WDS-ECR) Network invites nominations for the role of co-chair.
This is an exciting opportunity to develop leadership skills while fostering a global community dedicated to advancing research data management and shaping the future of early career researchers.
WDS-ECR co-chairs serve a term of three years.
For more information about the network and the responsibilities of the co-chairs see here.
Associate Editor positions
Sociology Compass is inviting applications for two Associate Editors for the journal’s new sections on “climate change, environmental and social futures” and “technology and social change”.
Read more here.
Call for Papers
American Behavioural Scientist is currently accepting submissions for a themed issue entitled: “Pre-Internet Networked Operations.”
They invite essays that explore the landscape of military operations during the 1960s-1970s, such as COINTELPRO (US), CHAOS (US), Phoenix (Vietnam), Condor (South America), ORDEN (El Salvador), Jakarta (Indonesia), OBAN (Brazil), and other similar operations that networked societies prior to the Internet era.
- Focus areas include:
- The nature of communications supporting these operations
- Staffing and hardware involved
- Utilization of operations
- Contributions to social and financial inequality, and political polarization in monitored populations
For more details, abstract submission portal, and timeline, please visit the CFP list link.
PhD Scholarship in Ethnicity, Citizenship and Te Tiriti o Waitangi
The University of Waikato is offering a full-time research scholarship for a PhD student to undertake an interdisciplinary study on the topic of ‘ethnic communities, citizenship and Tiriti o Waitangi’.
Find more information here.
Applications for the scholarship will be received on a rolling basis until the position is filled.