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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Special
Conference-Within-a-Conference on Negative Ties and Signed Graphs at Sunbelt
2019 Montréal, Canada (June 18-23)</span></b><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"></span></b></p>

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</span><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Note: This
session is open to anyone interested in presenting research on negative and
signed ties. There is no requirement to have submitted or been accepted for the
Special Issue. </span></i></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">The journal Social Networks will be
publishing a special issue on negative ties and signed graphs that focuses on
the co-existence of positive and negative ties in networks and the need to
study them together in order to better understand network content and dynamics.
To celebrate the special issue and to point the way forward to new research in
this burgeoning area, we invite anyone with an interest in the topic to submit
their work to a special mini-conference within the Sunbelt social network
conference.</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">In addition, we are asking authors of
manuscripts that are either already accepted for publication in the special
issue or that went through the revision process to present their work at the
conference. We hope to have a nice mix of presentations for work that has
already undergone a significant journal review process and more early-stage
projects.</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">The conference will take place over a
day to a day-and-a-half (to be determined based on the number of submissions)
during the normal course of the Sunbelt conference in Montreal, Quebec in June,
2019. </span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">In addition to presentations, the
conference will feature panels and discussions about the future of signed graph
research, as well as helpful tips on improving this work moving forward. </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Please submit your abstracts for this
conference through the session labelled:</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><br>
<br>
</span></p>

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Ties and Signed Graphs”<br>
</span></b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
at the 2019 Sunbelt Conference of the International Network for Social Network
Analysis (INSNA), June 18-23, 2019,  Montréal, Canada.</span></p>

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Session organizers:</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">        
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Filip
Agneessens, Surrey Business School, University of Surrey</span></p>

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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Samin
Aref, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research</span></p>

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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Nicholas
Harrigan, School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University </span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">        
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Giuseppe
(Joe) Labianca, LINKS Network Analysis Center, University of Kentucky </span></p>

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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Zachary
Neal, Michigan State University</span></p>

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</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">We encourage a wide range of submissions. 
Example works include (but are not limited to): Methods and measures pertaining
to negative ties and signed graphs; understanding the inner workings of
political and legal bodies such as legislatures or courts; understanding how
threats within a network create needs for allies, and the implications for
nodal power; examining where bullying emerges in schools or organizations; how
perception of negative ties poses unique challenges in organizational research;
examining how relational ambivalence affects relational trajectories; and how
subgroup fault lines affect intra- and inter-group conflict.</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Please submit your abstract before 1
February 2019 . Please limit your abstract to 250-500 words. If there is a full
manuscript associated with the abstract, please make note of this at the end of
your abstract.</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><br>
<br>
</span></p>

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</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">We look forward to your submissions.</span></p>

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Institute for Demographic Research</span></p>

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