<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">[apologies for cross-posting]</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Call for abstracts - Networks 2021: organized session on Negative
Ties and Signed Graphs - Deadline: 24 January - Extended versions invited for
publication in the <a href="https://academic.oup.com/comnet" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext">Journal of Complex Networks</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Networks 2021 </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Conference website: <a href="https://networks2021.net/" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext">https://networks2021.net/</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Networks 2021 - organized session on Negative Ties and Signed
Graphs</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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.</span></p>
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Please submit your abstracts for this conference and select the session
labelled: “Negative Ties and Signed Graphs” (Session 18).<br>
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The submissions website can be accessed here: <a href="https://www.openconf.org/networks2021/openconf.php" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext">https://www.openconf.org/networks2021/openconf.php</span></a><br>
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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>
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· 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>
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· Andreia Sofia Teixeira (Hospital da Luz Learning Health,
Luz Saúde, Lisboa, Portugal) <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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The extended version of accepted submissions are invited for publication
in the <a href="https://academic.oup.com/comnet" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext">Journal of Complex Networks</span></a>. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><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. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Looking forward to seeing you virtually or in-person.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a name="m_872433663839021587_SignatureSanitizer_"><b><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Samin Aref, Ph.D.</span></b></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"></span></p>
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| Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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