<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">++++ </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">apologies</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> for cross postings ++++</span> <br></div><div><br></div>Please consider submitting an abstract to the special track of the Sunbelt conference in Paris, France, in June, 2020 on “<b>Negative Ties and <span class="gmail-il">Signed</span> Graphs</b>” .<br> <br>Submission URL: <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__easychair.org_conferences_-3Fconf-3Dsunbelt2020&d=DwMFaQ&c=sJ6xIWYx-zLMB3EPkvcnVg&r=yQQsvTNAnbvDXGM4nDrXAje4pr0qHX2qIOcCQtJ5k3w&m=1P-K29DOLWkNuHddDKpZCUJVc0wIMJLra91JrfY3KT4&s=N56dzob-bnBAABbCC-N4KiDyUguAQ881Mj1hE1paNWk&e=" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sunbelt2020</a><br> <br>Session organizers:<br>· Filip Agneessens (University of Trento, Italy)<br>· Samin Aref (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany)<br>· Nicholas Harrigan (Macquarie University, Australia)<br>· Giuseppe (Joe) Labianca (LINKS Network Analysis Center, University of Kentucky)<br>· Zachary Neal (Michigan State University)<div><br></div><div><b>Submission deadline: January 31, 2020</b> (23.59 hrs. CET time)</div><div>Acceptance notification: February 28, 2020<br></div><div><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(25,25,25);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:1.42857;font-family:Baskerville,serif;letter-spacing:0.25px"></ul> <br><b>Organised Session Description:</b><br>This organized session 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. We encourage a wide range of submissions. Example works include (but are not limited to): Methods and measures pertaining to negative ties and <span class="gmail-il">signed</span> 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.<br> <br>Please don't forget to choose the 'Negative Ties and <span class="gmail-il">Signed</span> Graphs' organised session when submitting your abstract.<br><br>For more information use the following link: <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.insna.org_call-2Dfor-2Doral-2Dpresentations-2Dand-2Dposters&d=DwMFaQ&c=sJ6xIWYx-zLMB3EPkvcnVg&r=yQQsvTNAnbvDXGM4nDrXAje4pr0qHX2qIOcCQtJ5k3w&m=1P-K29DOLWkNuHddDKpZCUJVc0wIMJLra91JrfY3KT4&s=UXUQqdGIiPil-YKaGalBkJiNCXvxP8PwVBTHTmeu25o&e=" target="_blank">https://www.insna.org/call-for-oral-presentations-and-posters</a><br><br>Looking forward to seeing you in Paris!<br><br>Best <div>Samin (on behalf of the organizers)</div><div> <br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><a name="SignatureSanitizer__MailAutoSig"><b><span style="font-size:8pt">Samin Aref, Ph.D.<span></span></span></b></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8pt">Lab of Digital and Computational Demography, </span><span style="font-size:8pt">Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research</span></p>
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