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Graduate Student Lunch - Grad Mentoring Lunch.
Jobs - Announcements of current job openings.
Fellowships - Announcements of fellowship opportunities.
Conferences - Calls for upcoming conferences.
Publications - Announcements of publishing opportunities.

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INVITATION TO GRAD STUDENTS

Greetings, Grads - Are you interested in discussing your research, meeting like-minded peers, and discussing the latest academic developments with senior scholars?

The Global & Transnational and Comparative & Historical sections of the ASA are jointly sponsoring a grad mentoring and networking lunch at the August meetings, Monday the 12th. Venue tba.

The meeting will feature brief commentaries by senior scholars on the intellectual lay of the land, followed by conversation in small groups surrounding topics of mutual research interest. Lunch to be served!

The gathering is open to all interested. To participate, please send your name, affiliation, email and a one or two paragraph description of your research interest(s), whether ongoing or prospective, to:

Chris Muller -- mullerchristoph@gmail.com

Nick Wilson -- n.wilson@yale.edu

Julia Adams -- julia.adams@yale.edu

Julian Go -- juliango@bu.edu

Everyone is welcome, and we look forward to August 2013 in NYC!

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JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS

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FELLOWSHIPS

Abe Fellowship (SSRC, CGP)

The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP) announce the annual Abe Fellowship competition. The Abe Fellowship is designed to encourage international multidisciplinary research on topics of pressing global concern. The Abe Fellowship Program seeks to foster the development of a new generation of researchers who are interested in policy-relevant topics of long-range importance and who are willing to become key members of a bilateral and global research network built around such topics.

For more information on fellowship research themes, eligibility, and the application process, visit http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/abe-fellowship or contact SSRC staff at abe@ssrc.org.

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CONFERENCES

CFP: CAPITALISM, THE POLITICS OF INEQUALITY, AND HISTORICAL CHANGE

Columbia University New York City August 14, 2013

The Comparative and Historical Sociology and Political Sociology sections of the ASA announce a special mini-conference on "Capitalism, the Politics of Inequality, and Historical Change" to be held in New York City on August 14, following the annual ASA meeting at Columbia University. Building on this year's ASA's theme of "Interrogating Inequality," we invite paper submissions, which examine historical and contemporary processes of capitalist growth and expansion that heighten or attenuate various forms of inequality, including national, regional, ethno-racial, class, and gender. We are particularly interested in research that explores the political and historical bases.

Please submit papers by May 15, 2013 to the appropriate session organizer listed below. We expect submissions to be competitive. We will notify submitters of the status of their submissions by June 15th, 2013. Further details on registration and venue are forthcoming.

Please see CHS Mini-Conferences page for further details.

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PUBLICATIONS

Working Paper Series: National Culture and National Habitus

Editors: Andreas Pickel and Gad Yair

The contributions to this series attempt to zero in on this misunderstood and undertheorized area by providing theoretical, conceptual, and/or empirical arguments and evidence with the aim of creating a broader debate on the significance of national culture and national habitus in the global age. Contributions are invited from scholars who would like to participate in such a debate.

More information is available here: http://trentu.ca/globalpolitics/publications.php

Call for Papers, Center for EU-Russia Studies (CEURUS), University of Tartu, Estonia, 13-14 June 2013

Religion, Law and Policy Making: European Norms and National Practices in Eastern Europe and the Russian Federation

Topics: The goal of the Workshop is to advance the multidisciplinary study of the processes—cultural, economic, political, and legal—of European integration related to the patterns of interaction among ‘religion, policies and law’ in post-communist countries of Eastern Europe.

Deadline: 11 February 2013. Abstracts of 300-600 words as well as a short bio (100 words).

More information is available here