<div dir="ltr"><div>[apologies for cross-posting]</div><div><br></div><div>Call for abstracts - Networks 2021: organized session on Negative Ties and Signed Graphs - Deadline: 24 January</div><div><br></div><div><b>Networks 2021 </b></div><div>A Joint Sunbelt and NetSci Conference will take place in Washington D.C. (hybrid in-person and virtual conference) on July 6-11, 2021. We expect this to be the largest networks conference ever held. It will combine the annual meeting of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (Sunbelt XLI), and the annual meeting of the Network Science Society (NetSci 2021).<br></div><div>Conference website:
<a href="https://networks2021.net/">https://networks2021.net/</a>
</div><div><br></div><div><b>Networks 2021 - organized session on Negative Ties and Signed Graphs</b></div><div>This organized session focuses on the co-existence of positive and negative ties in networks across different domains and the need to study positive and negative ties together in order to better understand network dynamics, as well as processes and outcomes within these networks. We invite anyone with an interest in the topic to submit abstracts (by 24 January) to this special session of the Networks2021 conference, which is taking place both in-person and online from July 6-11, 2021.<br></div><div><br>Please submit your abstracts for this conference and select the session labelled: “Negative Ties and Signed Graphs” (Session 18).<br><br>The submissions website can be accessed here: <a href="https://www.openconf.org/networks2021/openconf.php">https://www.openconf.org/networks2021/openconf.php</a><br><br>Session organizers:<br>· Filip Agneessens (Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento; and Nuffield College, University of Oxford)<br><br>· Samin Aref (Laboratory of Digital and Computational Demography, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research)<br><br>· Ernesto Estrada (Institute of Mathematics and Applications, University of Zaragoza and ARAID Foundation, Government of Aragon, Spain) <br><br>· Nicholas Harrigan (Department of Sociology, Macquarie University)<br><br>· Giuseppe (Joe) Labianca (LINKS Network Analysis Center, University of Kentucky; and Exeter Business School, University of Exeter)<br><br>· Zachary Neal (Psychology Department, Michigan State University)<br><br>· Andreia Sofia Teixeira (School of Public Health and IU Network Science Institute, Indiana University Bloomington) <br><br>We encourage a wide range of submissions. Example works include (but are not limited to): Methods and measures pertaining to signed networks (in social, economic, political, biological, financial, informational, or physical contexts); modeling and analysis of negative ties; understanding how structural balance affects volatility in financial markets; explaining the inner workings of political and legal bodies such as legislatures or courts; understanding how threats within a network create needs for allies, particularly in international relations; examining where bullying emerges in schools or organizations; exploring how positive and negative emotion are structured within our cognitive semantic networks; how perceptions 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>Acceptance of abstract submissions for Networks2021 is competitive. You must select this session and your abstract must be accepted to the conference in order to be included in this special session. <br><br>Please submit your abstract within the submission window (Deadline: Sunday, January 24th). 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. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Looking forward to seeing you virtually or in-person.</div><div><br>Regards,</div><div>Samin (on behalf of the organizers)<br></div><div><br></div><div><a name="SignatureSanitizer__MailAutoSig"><b><span style="font-size:8pt">Samin Aref, Ph.D.</span></b></a><br></div><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">
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