Analytical Software Workshops, London, Jan 14-18, 2013

The University of Greenwich Centre for Business Network Analysis is hosting a set of Analytical Software Workshops in January 2013. The workshops will provide an introduction to a range of software used for quantitative, qualitative and social network analysis research. Each workshop is taught by an academic with extensive experience in using the software for their own research.

We are running a different workshop each day from Monday 14 January to Friday 18 January 2013, 10am to 5pm.

Introduction to Social Network Analysis, Monday 14 January
Introduction to Statistical Analysis with STATA, Monday 14 January
Organisational Network Analysis with PAJEK, Tuesday 15 January
Introduction to Social Network Analysis with UCINET, Wednesday 16 January
Introduction to Statistical Analysis with R, Thursday 17 January
Longitudinal Network Analysis with RSIENA, Friday 18 January
Qualitative Data Analysis with NVIVO, Friday 18 January


When: Monday 14 - Friday 18 January 2013
Where: Hamilton House, University of Greenwich, 15 Park Vista, Greenwich, London SE10 9LZ
Time: 10am-5pm
Fees: Student: £70 Other: £120

To register your place and for further details on the workshops please visit the workshop website. We look forward to welcoming you to the University.

Kind Regards

Bruce Cronin
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Dr Bruce Cronin MA MSc PhD MCMI
Reader in Economic Sociology
Head of the Department of International Business
Director of the Centre for Business Network Analysis
University of Greenwich Business School
Park Row, London SE10 9LS
Ph: +44(0)20-8331-9786
Fax: +44(0)20-8331-9005
Centre for Business Network Analysis:
http://www2.gre.ac.uk/about/schools/business/research/groups/cbna ________________________________________

Call for Papers - Migrants and their Networks

*Call for Papers*

Session: Migrants and their Networks
at the XXXIII. Sunbelt Conference, May 21-26, 2013 University of Hamburg, Germany Session organizer: Boris Heizmann, University of Hamburg

Migrants crossing nation state borders usually are often faced with significant changes with regard to their social networks. While they often maintain ties to their area of origin they also establish new relationships in the receiving context. Both of these networks can act as opportunities or constraints for individual or collective action in various ways, and they may precipitate further migratory movements in the form of chain migration. In this session we want to explore how migrant networks emerge, evolve over time, and what effects they have on a variety of pertinent issues. Possible venues for approaching this topic may deal with questions about how social relations change during the process of migration, the relative importance of intra- and interethnic networks for various forms of integration, and the ways in which social relations can be put to use in order to overcome some of the economic, social and emotional hardships that migration may entail. Submissions from any discipline and methodological background are welcome.

Submission will be closing on December 31 at 11:59:59 EST. Please limit your abstract to 250 words.

Proceed to abstract submission: http://www.abstractserver.com/sunbelt2013/absmgm/ When submitting your abstract, please select “Migrants and their Networks” as session title in the drop down box on the submission site. To be extra sure please put a note in the "additional notes" box on the abstract submission form that states Boris Heizmann as the session organizer.

For further information on the venue and conference registration see http://hamburg-sunbelt2013.org"

Kind Regards,
Boris Heizmann

Call for Papers - 9th UK Social Networks Conferenc

Dear Colleagues

The 9th UK Social Networks Conference will be held in Greenwich, London, June 27-29th 2013. This is a lively, multi-disciplinary, annual event, with participation from across Europe and beyond and a vibrant social programme. The venue is the superb, baroque maritime campus of the University of Greenwich.

Conference Website: http://www2.gre.ac.uk/about/schools/business/services/events/events/current/nusnc

Call for papers
We invite submissions of extended abstracts on theories, methods, or applications of social network analysis.

Topics include, but are not limited to:
• Policy, political and governance networks
• Business and organisational networks
• Knowledge, innovation and communication networks
• Interlocking directors and elite networks
• Economic and entrepreneurial networks
• Citations and scientific networks
• Social capital, brokerage and structural holes
• Models of network analysis
• Geographical networks
• Theory of relational sociology
• Cross-sectional and longitudinal network datasets
• Computational models and agent-based simulations of networks
• Information diffusion and innovation through social networks
• Online communities and social networking
• Methods for interrupting clandestine and terrorist networks
• Epidemiological networks
• Professional practice in network analysis.


Deadline for submissions: 19 April, 2013.

Bruce and Dimitris

Call for papers “Historical Network Research” at the XXXIII. Sunbelt Conference

Call for papers “Historical Network Research” at the XXXIII. Sunbelt Conference, May 21-26, 2013 – University of Hamburg, Germany

The concepts and methods of social network analysis in historical research are recently being used not only as a mere metaphor but are increasingly applied in practice. In the last decades several studies in the social sciences proved that formal methods derived from social network analysis can be fruitfully applied to selected bodies of historical data as well. These studies however tend to be strongly influenced by concerns, standards of data processing, and, above all, epistemological paradigms that have their roots in the social sciences. Among historians, the term network has been used in a metaphorical sense alone for a long time. It was only recently that this has changed.

We invite papers which successfully integrate social network analysis methods and historical research methods and reflect on the added value of their methodologies. Topics could cover (but are not limited to) network analyses of correspondences, social movements, kinship or economic systems in any historical period.

Submission will be closing on December 31 at 11:59:59 EST. Please limit your abstract to 250 words. Please submit your abstract here: http://www.abstractserver.com/sunbelt2013/absmgm/ and select “Historical Network Research” as session title in the drop down box on the submission site. Please put a note in the "additional notes" box on the abstract submission form that states Marten During and Martin Stark as the session organizers.

For further information on the venue and conference registration see: http://hamburg-sunbelt2013.org/, for any questions regarding the panel, please get in touch with the session organizers.

Session organizers: Marten During, Radboud University Nijmegen, martenduering@gmail.com Martin Stark, University of Hamburg, martin.stark@wiso.uni-hamburg.de

Check https://sites.google.com/site/historicalnetworkresearch/ for a detailed bibliography, conferences, screencasts and other resources.

XXXIII Sunbelt Registration now open

XXXIII Sunbelt Social Networks Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA), May 21 - 26, 2013 in Hamburg, Germany

We are pleased to inform you that Registration for Sunbelt 2013, including registration for Pre-Conference Workshops, is now open!

Please follow this link provided by INSNA:https://insna.memberclicks.net/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=form_132482

Early Conference Registration: before 11 February 2013
Regular Conference Registration: 11 February – 15 April 2013
Late/On-Site Conference Registration: after 15 April 2013


Find out more about the pre-conference workshops: http://hamburg-sunbelt2013.org/workshops/

Find out more about the venue and conference registration http://hamburg-sunbelt2013.org/

Email address for local organizers of the Sunbelt 2013 conference is: sunbelt2013@uni-hamburg.de

See you in Hamburg, the organizing committee:

Betina Hollstein
Sonja Drobnic
Michael Schnegg

Call for Abstracts for 3rd Track on “Words and Networks”

Call for Abstracts for 3rd Track on “Words and Networks” at 2013 Sunbelt Social Network Conference

We are soliciting abstracts for a special theme track dedicated to interdisciplinary, cutting edge research that brings together text analysis and network analysis. This track is part of the Sunbelt conference, which will be held in Hamburg, Germany, May 21-26, 2013 (http://hamburg-sunbelt2013.org/).

While text analysis and network analysis have evolved into mature yet still quickly advancing fields, work at their intersection is less prevalent. We are looking for theoretical, empirical, methodological and computational contributions that jointly utilize natural language text data and network data. By jointly considering text data and network data we can analyze networks along multiple dimensions of human behavior. This has facilitated eminent work on language change, the adoption of beliefs and sentiments, and collective problem solving through information propagation, to name a few areas. Presentations of innovative technical solutions that are freely available to researchers are also welcome. We invite submissions at the intersection of information/ semantic and social networks, for instance addressing questions such as:
• Who is talking to whom (social network) about what (semantic network)?
• How do information, opinions and rumors emerge, spread and vanish in society and online?
• How can we extract and model the structure of socio-technical networks based on text data?

 - The overarching goal with this workshop is to bring together people that bridge the gap between text analysis and network analysis, and to discuss current advances and challenges in this area.

How to submit an abstract:
Deadline: December 31 at 11:59:59 EST.
Length: 250 words or less. This does not include the title.
Where: http://www.abstractserver.com/sunbelt2013/absmgm/. When submitting your abstract, please select “Words and networks” as session title in the drop down box on the submission site (this comes up during your last step of submitting). To be extra sure please put a note in the "additional notes" box on the abstract submission form that states "Diesner/ Gloor" as the session organizers. For more information about abstract submission and conference registration see http://hamburg-sunbelt2013.org/conference-registration-abstract-submission/

Track organizers:
- Jana Diesner, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Peter Gloor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology


We are looking forward to your contributions. Email any questions to jdiesner@illinois.edu or pgloor@mit.edu.

Regards, Jana

Jana Diesner, PhD
Assistant Professor
The iSchool (Graduate School of Library and Information Science) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Cell: 412 519 7576
Web: http://people.lis.illinois.edu/~jdiesner/

Call for Papers - Session on "Mechanisms of Change in Organizational Networks"

Call for Papers - Session on "Mechanisms of Change in Organizational Networks"
XXXIII. Sunbelt Conference, May 21 - 26, 2013 in Hamburg, Germany


Session organizers:
Henning Hillmann, University of Mannheim, Germany (hillmann@uni-mannheim.de) Valery Yakubovich, ESSEC Business School, France (yakubovich@essec.fr)

One of the most exciting areas in recent studies of organizational networks concerns the emergence of new organizational forms (e.g. the volume on Emergence of Organizations and Markets, by John Padgett and Woody Powell): where do markets and organizations come from? What social structural conditions and contexts are particularly favorable to facilitate innovation in organizations and elsewhere? Social science research tends to be attracted to newness. Yet, just as important are questions about the persistence of established organizational networks: why exactly are some organizational networks more likely to survive than others? What social mechanisms may account for their long-run survival and the spill-over effects they may have into other areas of organizational life? At the same time, we routinely observe organizational change. Does such change emerge endogenously, from within organizational networks? Or, is it more likely to be triggered by exogenous shocks? We believe that a promising approach to answering these questions seeks to identify the micro-foundations and causal mechanisms that give rise to various organizational macro-structures (e.g. Peter Hedstrom and Peter Bearman, eds., Handbook of Analytical Sociology).

We invite submissions that advance our understanding of the emergence, persistence and change of organizational networks. We particularly welcome contributions that try to solve interesting empirical puzzles and advance theory through mechanism-based explanations.

Submission will be closing on December 31 at 11:59:59 EST. Please limit your abstract to 250 words.

Proceed to abstract submission:http://www.abstractserver.com/sunbelt2013/absmgm/ When submitting your abstract, please select “Mechanisms of Change in Organizational Networks” as session title in the drop down box on the submission site. To be extra sure please put a note in the "additional notes" box on the abstract submission form that states Henning Hillmann as the session organizer.

For further information on the venue an1d conference registration see http://hamburg-sunbelt2013.org

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Henning Hillmann
Professor of Economic and Organizational Sociology
School of Social Sciences
University of Mannheim
D-68131 Mannheim, Germany
Phone: +49.(0)621.181.3942
Fax: +49.(0)621.181.1983

Call for papers for a session on "Large Scale Networks Analysis"

Call for papers for a session on "Large Scale Networks Analysis"
at the 33rd Sunbelt Conference, May 21-26 2013 in Hamburg, Germany

Session organizers:
Jürgen Pfeffer, Carnegie Mellon University Uwe Nagel, University of Konstanz

The ubiquity of electronic communication, e.g., via telephone networks, Facebook or Twitter, induces a growing interest in the analysis of networks derived from such settings. The vast size of the involved data sources and the ease of creating network data from them lead to networks that are of substantially larger scale than "traditionally" considered data sets, i.e. large scale networks.

From the basic questions "how to get the data" (download), "how to handle the data" (network representation), "what to do with it" (research question and method) and "how to perform the corresponding analysis" (algorithms and visualization), this session is interested in methodic aspects of all these questions. In particular, we invite submissions concerned with

- Algorithms widening the applicability of network measures to networks of larger scale.
- New methods of analysis tailored to large scale networks.
- Network visualization with a focus to large scale networks.
- Data-to-network processes for large scale dynamic networks.


Please submit your abstract by December 31 using the following link to the conference's abstract submission system:
http://www.abstractserver.com/sunbelt2013/absmgm/

Please limit your abstract to 250 words. During the submission process, you will be asked to select a session title from a drop-down box; please select "Large Scale Networks Analysis". Please also place a note in the "additional notes" field referring to "Juergen Pfeffer and Uwe Nagel" as the session organizers.

The conference website (http://hamburg-sunbelt2013.org) provides additional information on Hamburg and the 33rd Sunbelt conference.

We look forward to your submissions.

--- Juergen Pfeffer, Assistant Research Professor School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University Wean Hall 4218