[RACI-list] RACI opportunities: Conferences, symposiums, PhD positions

Dear colleagues,

I am forwarding these interesting academic invitations.

Vesna

(see below for: www.nsuweb.org &
https://symposium.openforumeurope.org )


===

"Educational commons and active social inclusion"
May 26-28, 2023, Volos, Greece
https://smooth-ecs.eu/conference/

===

ACM SIGPLAN conference on
Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity
22 - 27 October 2023 Cascais, Portugal
https://2023.splashcon.org

===

From: Eric (eric.deibel at nsuweb.org)

This is the call for the summer symposium, "What a waste: surplus art, 
theory and tékhnē", which will be the first summer session of our three 
year symposium series called:

"Cybioses – life in the future imperfect"

You can find a longer description of our symposium series and the 
abstract submission at the link below. It also includes all the details 
and background information:

https://www.nsuweb.org/study-circles/circle-2-cybioses-life-in-the-future-imperfect/

The symposium is part of the Nordic Summer University (NSU), which 
organizes Nordic networks for interdisciplinary study and research, 
pioneering topics like technology, environmentalism, feminism within its 
tradition (see www.nsuweb.org). During the summer symposium there are 
many different symposia that are held at the same location, where all 
participants stay during its entire duration (see the link above for 
more information and the costs).


Date & Place of the Symposium: July 27th– August 3th, 2023, Palanga 
Lithuania

We invite scholars, artists, students, technologists, theorists and 
other professionals working or writing on topics related to "waste" to 
submit. Are approaches to "waste" as a meaningful intellectual category. 
Accordingly, the title "What a waste", begs the question of how to act 
with a less obvious lack of care and to act with purpose, which also 
extends to (our own) intellectual concerns and related practices. Which 
ones should have value, which should not? How do we decide what about 
art, theory and tékhnē are a waste, and what not?

We welcome experimental approaches to presenting and collaborating and 
we hope this topic will deepen and re-new our collaboration, with 
previous and new participants. Feel free to contact us if you are 
wondering how you would fit in.

Please send your abstracts with a short motivation letter and bio to us 
by the 12th of May to eric.deibel at nsuweb.org. And, please, help us 
spread the word.

We look forward to your submissions and ask questions if you have them,

Eric Deibel, (Assistant Professor/Lecturer, Bilkent University STS program),

also on behalf of:

Palle Dahlstedt (Professor of Interaction Design, University of 
Gothenburg / Chalmers) and

Maru Mushtrieva (Researcher and text- and sound-artist with a background 
in literature and based between Berlin and Brussels.)

===


Subject: Vacancies for 4 PhDs and 1 Postdoc on community economy, 
sustainability, resilience


From: Tine De Moor <demoor at rsm.nl>

Dear colleague,

Do you know of master-students and/or PhDs who are (nearly) finished and 
want to continue in Academia? We are looking for four PhD-students and 
one postdoc on the community economy for sustainability and resilience 
to complete our team (see information below). Deadline for all 
applications is 15th of May 2023.  The envisioned starting date is 
September 2023. Many thanks for sharing these vacancies widely! If you 
wish to be updated on future vacancies (more to come this fall), do let 
us know via this email-address.



Many thanks!


Dr. Thomas Bauwens & Prof. Dr. Tine De Moor
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University

------------------------------------------

Building the Community Economy for Sustainability and Resilience


Are you passionate about building sustainable futures for the planet and 
humanity, and about understanding the roles communities can play in the 
process? Do you want to be a part of cutting-edge research projects that 
address the ways communities and citizens can expand their impact to 
accelerate societal transformations towards sustainability? Then these 
exciting research opportunities are for you!

Across the world, new bottom-up and self-governing enterprises are 
increasingly being set up by citizens and local communities in the 
fields of sustainable energy, the circular economy, shared mobility, 
food, care, and many others. Citizens hereby collectively govern and use 
resources as commons, through self-governance, according to the rules 
they decide upon as a group. How can such community and citizen-based 
enterprises scale their impact and transform society beyond markets and 
states? This is a critical and timely challenge, as scholars and 
policymakers have high expectations on the roles of communities and 
citizens to advance sustainability and resilience. Community and 
citizen-based enterprises are widely known to foster collective action 
locally. But what are the mechanisms through which they can achieve 
wider transformations to tackle urgent sustainability challenges such as 
climate change? What is the role of group size and heterogeneity for the 
resilience of – both historical and present-day – organisations and of 
society as a whole? These PhD and postdoc positions offer unique 
opportunities to delve into these fascinating topics and work together 
with other team members with expertise from various disciplines.



     PhD 1: Scaling community enterprises for sustainability: 
understanding challenges and solutions to organizational tensions
     PhD 2: Scaling community enterprises for sustainability: 
understanding the drivers and challenges for resource mobilization 
strategies
     PhD 3: Scaling community enterprises for sustainability: 
understanding the roles of social networks
     PhD 4: Institutions for collective action: link between size, 
heterogeneity, resilience
     Postdoc: Scaling the Societal Impact of Community Enterprises for 
Sustainability: an Analysis of the success factors of community 
enterprises’ scaling strategies



Through these positions, the researchers will get the opportunity to 
work on key sustainability fields, including sustainable energy, the 
circular economy, the sharing economy, and natural resource management. 
The PhDs get a full-time salaried employment (not in the form of a 
scholarship) for 4 years without teaching obligations, with the option 
of a conditional 5th year. There are however opportunities to be 
involved in teaching. All positions are embedded within a group of 
researchers focussing on the Community Economy and  Institutions for 
Collective Action at the Business-Society-Management department of RSM, 
where sustainability is central to all research and cooperation with 
other disciplines is key (see 
https://collective-action.info/_ctc_main/_tea_main/ for an overview of 
the group at the moment). They are part of different sub-projects:



     PhD 1, PhD 2, PhD 3 and the Postdoc-position are part of the new 
ERC Starting Grant project SCENSUS, led by Dr. Thomas Bauwens. SCENSUS 
stands for “Scaling the Societal Impact of Community Enterprises for 
Sustainability”). Click here for further information about the project 
or contact bauwens at rsm.nl for further information.



     PhD4 is part of the NWO-VICI-project UNICA, led by Prof. Tine De 
Moor. UNICA stands for “Building a UNified theory for the development 
and resilience of Institutions for Collective Action for Europe in the 
past millennium”. Click here for further information about the project 
or contact collective-action at rsm.nl for further information.



Please note that there will be more vacancies -for postdocs and 
tenure-track positions- coming up soon. If you would like to stay 
up-to-date on these vacancies, send a mail to collective-action at rsm.nl.



Thanks for sharing!

  Tine De Moor

Professor Social Enterprise and Institutions for Collective Action
	
Rotterdam School of Management
Erasmus University
demoor at rsm.nl

www.collective-action.info | www.collectievekracht.eu

========


We are excited to invite you to the
OpenForum Academy Symposium 2023
The CfP is now open until 29 May

Hosted by TU Berlin, the OpenForum Academy Symposium will, on 28 
November 2023, bring together researchers and practitioners from all 
walks of the Open Source research ecosystem at an interdisciplinary 
conference.

Submit a proposal, register to attend and save the date
Website and CfP
https://symposium.openforumeurope.org

As of today there is no academic conference covering questions relating 
to the social, political and economic impact of Open Source. This 
hampers the linking of research agendas, growth of the research area, 
and the societal understanding of the value of the Open Source ecosystem 
as a whole. The OpenForum Academy Symposium (OFA) fills this space.

After a successful first, virtual edition in 2021, the OFA Symposium 
2023 will bring together an interdisciplinary set of researchers, 
practitioners, and policymakers from around the world to Berlin, in 
order to explore the transformative power of Open Source Software and 
Hardware.

At the OFA Symposium, we will examine the social, political, and 
economic implications of open source. We will explore how open source is 
changing the way we work, communicate, and interact with each other, and 
how it is shaping the future of technology and society.

The Symposium will feature a diverse and group of speakers and 
participants, including researchers, policymakers, developers, and 
activists. We believe that the OFA Symposium will provide a unique and 
valuable opportunity for learning, collaboration, and networking.

We hope you will join us for this exciting event, and look forward to 
exploring the social, political, and economic impact of Open Source 
together.

https://symposium.openforumeurope.org




-- 
Senior Community Builder, RIPE NCC
https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/