<div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr" 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"><font face="arial, sans-serif">[apologies for cross-posting]</font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b style="">Sunbelt 2022 Social Networks Conference (</b><b>12-16 July, online and in-person in </b><b>Cairns, Australia) </b><a href="https://www.sunbelt2022.org/">https://www.sunbelt2022.org/</a></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b style="">Call for abstracts – organized session on Negative Ties and
Signed Graphs </b>(Deadline: February 6, 2022)</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-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 an abstract of their work
to a special track of the Sunbelt 2022 conference, which is taking place both
<b>in-person and online</b> from <b>July 12-16, 2022</b>.<br>
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Please submit your work for this conference through the session labeled:</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> <b style=""><span style="color:black">“Negative Ties and Signed Graphs”</span></b></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif">The easychair submissions website can be accessed here:<span style="color:black"> </span> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://easychair.org/account/signin?l=KWx5OOmHdwDuh2feZqboQ2#" target="_blank" style="">https://easychair.org/account/signin?l=KWx5OOmHdwDuh2feZqboQ2#</a><br></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Session organizers:</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 45pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:black">·</span><span style="color:black"> </span>Filip Agneessens (Department of Sociology and
Social Research, University of Trento; and Nuffield College, University of
Oxford)</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 45pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:black">·</span><span style="color:black"> </span> Samin Aref (Department of
Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto) </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 45pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:black">·</span><span style="color:black"> </span> Ernesto Estrada (Institute for
Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems, University of the Balearic
Islands and the Spanish National Research Council)</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 45pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:black">·</span><span style="color:black"> </span> Nicholas Harrigan (Department of
Sociology, Macquarie University)</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 45pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:black">·</span><span style="color:black"> </span>Giuseppe (Joe) Labianca (University of Massachusetts
Amherst; and Exeter Business School, University of Exeter)</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 45pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:black">·</span><span style="color:black"> </span>Zachary Neal (Psychology Department, Michigan
State University)</font></p>
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and LASIGE, University of Lisbon)</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>We encourage a wide range of submissions.</b> 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>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Please submit your work within the submission
window (Deadline: February 6, 2022). Additional information on submissions is available at: <a href="https://www.sunbelt2022.org/abstracts" style="" target="_blank">https://www.sunbelt2022.org/abstracts</a></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="">We look forward to your participation!</font></p>
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