The multidisciplinary Program in Science, Technology, and Society (STS) and the Department of Sociology at Vassar College invite applications for a joint tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in one or more of the following fields: science studies, environment and technology, queer/trans studies, or other areas that intersect explicitly between STS and Sociology. The position begins in fall of 2017. A Ph.D. in Sociology or related field is required.

Teaching load in the first year is 4 courses; after that it is 5 courses per year, split 2/3 and 3/2 in alternating years, between the STS Program and the Sociology Department. The person in this position will teach courses, normally to be cross-listed between STS and Sociology, at all levels in their fields of sociological expertise. Within the STS Program, interest and ability to teach the core course in STS (‘Conceptualizing STS: Theories and Practice’) would be beneficial, although not required. Within the Sociology Department, the person in this position will be expected to teach the department’s theory-based Introductory Sociology course.

The Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the area of family and gender. It seeks a methodologically and substantively diverse applicant pool. Applications are encouraged from candidates with expertise in the study of gender and family processes as well as their intersection with social stratification and inequality, race and ethnic relations, work and occupations, or education. We seek candidates who are committed to undergraduate and graduate teaching in topics related to the family and gender.

The Department of Sociology at Syracuse University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position to begin Fall, 2017. It seeks a scholar with a strong background and interest in African American/Black American issues, with emphasis on qualitative methods.

Preference will be given to candidates who can contribute to other strengths in the sociology department as well as to Maxwell School-wide priorities. Candidates must have a Ph.D. in Sociology or a related discipline by the time of appointment and must show success in or a strong promise of scholarly achievement and productivity, as well as a commitment to graduate and undergraduate teaching. Faculty members have the opportunity to affiliate with one of the Maxwell School’s research institutes or a number of other interdisciplinary centers and programs.

The Extension Family and Community Health (FCH) Program, and the Division of Outreach & Engagement (O&E) at Oregon State University, invite applications for a full-time (1.0 FTE), 12-month, fixed-term (non-tenuretrack) Extension Assistant Professor (Practice) position in social demography. The individual in this position will develop a statewide Extension program to study population dynamics in Oregon, and will work with colleagues in Extension and O&E to build programs that serve Oregon communities.

This position is at the rank of Assistant Professor of Practice, located on the OSU campus in Corvallis. The Professor of Practice is an academic series at Oregon State University that is expected to develop a creative, original professional program that contributes to the goals of Extension programming as well as the evidence base for effective community programming. As a fixed-term position, it is renewable annually. The position is not tenured, but it allows for advancement through the ranks of Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor of Practice, following procedures described in the OSU Promotion and tenure guidelines.

Position responsibilities include obtaining external funding and leading grant projects. At present, this individual will be the Principal Investigator for several ongoing grant projects (currently estimated at .35 FTE), which support 2.5 additional FTE.

The 2016 Blackwell-Tapia Conference and Award Ceremony on October 28-29, 2016, will include scientific talks, poster presentations, panel discussions, ample opportunities for discussion and interaction, and the awarding of the Blackwell-Tapia Prize to Dr. Mariel Vazquez. Participants will come from all career stages and will represent institutions of all sizes across the country, including Puerto Rico.

Conference goals are to:

• Recognize and showcase mathematical excellence by minority researchers
• Recognize and disseminate successful efforts to address under-representation
• Inform students and mathematicians about career opportunities in mathematics, especially outside academia
• Provide networking opportunities for mathematical researchers at all points in the higher education/career trajectory

Urban political ecology to date has shown a limited capacity to creatively appropriate the better insights emerging from planning and design literatures to move the debate forward.

In a session from April 5-10, 2017, the American Association of Geographers would like to invite a wide variety of contributions from colleagues who are seeking to think about the design-politics of green urbanism, planning and urban political ecology. They would like to consider:

• Interventions which account for the intellectual/political and strategic impasses reached by green urbanism design/green urban planning/urban political ecology;
• Papers which investigate ongoing pathologies and problems (from green gentrification to green governmentality) that are emerging with the materialization of green urban strategies across the planet;
• Conceptual and political interventions which might point to more robust modes of integrating urban political ecology, green urban design and architecture, and planning for resilience;
• Explorations of the utopian and dystopian geographies of historical and contemporary modes of eco-design and design activism–from counterculture ventures to contemporary forms of community design and architecture;
• Examples and discussions of urban social movements and eco-urban social movements and other design activist movements that might help us productively rethink the design politics of urban ecological futures; and
• Ways of developing a more political and strategic design politics of urban sustainability.

To apply to present, please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words via email to Hannah Teicher hteicher@mit.edu and Damian White dwhite01@risd.edu.

As part of the Eighth International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2016) on November 14-17, this workshop aims to bringing together researchers and practitioners to explore how they can apply urban data science to the challenges of urban homelessness in cities across the nation. If smart cities emphasize infrastructure and efficiency, wise cities emphasize improving services to in turn improve the lives of citizens. This workshop aims to shift the discussion from smart to wise cities. The interdisciplinary focus aims to welcome diverse researchers from across the computational, urban, and social sciences.

The workshop leaders seek multi-disciplinary contributions that reveal interesting aspects that advance understanding of homelessness and efforts to address this critical challenge in cities across the nation and the world. They welcome a broad range of contributions, including insights gained from new data sources, new applications of computational methods to existing data sources, new applications of social science methodologies to understand the effectiveness of socio-technical systems, or new use of social concepts in the design of relevant information systems.

September 30 is the last day to submit abstracts for the Population and Public Policy Conference at JW Marriott in Houston, Texas from January 6-8, 2017. Early submission is encouraged and important for planning purposes.

Please submit your abstract to take advantage of this opportunity to network and share your research with colleagues and students. An additional bonus of this conference is the publication of your research as a book chapter.

The 2016 International Conference on Systems and Informatics–held from November 19-21, 2016, in Shanghai–aims to be a premier international forum for scientists and researchers to present the state of the art of systems engineering and information science. Topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

Systems

• Control and Automation Systems
• Power and Energy Systems
• Intelligent Systems
• Computer Systems and Applications

Informatics

• Communications and Networking
• Image, Video, and Signal Processing
• Data Engineering and Data Mining
• Software Engineering

All papers in conference proceedings will be submitted to both IEEE Xplore and EI Compendex for indexing. Substantially extended versions of best papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of a SCI-indexed journal.

To promote international participation of researchers from outside the country/region where the conference is held, researchers outside of China’s mainland are encouraged to propose invited sessions. The first author of each paper in an invited session must not be affiliated with an organization in China’s mainland. All papers in the invited sessions can be marked as “Invited Paper”. The organizer(s) for each invited session with at least 6 registered papers will jointly enjoy an honorarium of US*D 400. Invited session organizers will solicit submissions, conduct reviews and recommend accept/reject decisions on the submitted papers. Invited session organizers will be able to set their own submission and review schedules, as long as a list of recommended papers is determined by 10 October 2016. Each invited session proposal should include: (1) the name, bio, and contact information of each organizer of the invited session; (2) the title and a short synopsis of the invited session. Please send your proposal to icsai2016@sdju.edu.cn. Papers already submitted in the previous round should not be re-submitted.

The East-West Center invites graduate students from around the world to submit abstracts for the 16th International Graduate Student Conference (IGSC) on the Asia Pacific region, taking place in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA from February 16-18, 2017. The Conference provides an opportunity to share interdisciplinary perspectives through presenting and attending panel presentations in a warm and supportive environment.

An abstract up to a maximum of 500 words is all that is required for the submission – no full paper needed at this time. Authors can submit more than one abstract. A limited number of merit-based travel grants are also available.