Calls for Papers
ARNOVA’s 39th Annual Conference: GOVERNMENTS AND THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR: REDEFINING THE RELATIONSHIPS?
Scholars have documented how the relationships between governments and voluntary or nonprofit organizations have varied over time and in different national contexts. Governments and NGOs often pursue their work with little direct interaction. At other times they are collaborators with shared goals. Sometimes nonprofit agencies are contractors for or grantees of governments. And, of course, voluntary and nonprofit entities have often been adversaries of government, striving to change public policies. Recently there has been much talk of public-private partnerships involving government and nonprofits. At the same time, many nonprofits have become more and more dependent on public funding.
Now many governments around the globe are under severe financial stress, making the needs of many nonprofits for public funding increasingly problematic. Yet, as societal needs grow, the roles and services of nonprofit and voluntary entities may be of rising importance. Hence, we must wonder:
- What will the relationships between government and nonprofit or voluntary organizations be like in the landscape emerging after the recent global economic crisis? What should it be?
- Have those relationships already changed where governments have scaled back funding for nonprofits? If so, along what lines?
- Are NGOs and other voluntary entities taking on new or different roles to serve their communities or advance their causes in this new environment?
- What models show promise for implementation in other countries?
Voluntas: Thematic Issue on: Governance in CSOs: Future Challenges and Perspectives
In recent years the notion of governance has gained increasing importance across academic fields as well as within public policies in many countries. In general terms, governance may be defined as the set of measures through which either societies or organizations are governed or directed. An essential characteristic of governance at the current state is that it is takes place in complex and fluid environments. Financial scandals and mismanagement by executives in civil society organisations (CSOs) as well as the behaviour of public sector institutions in many countries have created a renewed interest in the governance of CSOs. Two main areas of research may be identified related to CSO governance. External governance research poses the question of how public governing strategies change and include new collaborative strategies and relations to CSOs. Internal governance research, on the other hand, aims at a better understanding of governance within CSOs, with a particular focus on how internal conditions change as a result of broader societal processses of change.
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10th Biennial Australia New Zealand Third Sector Research Conference
University of Technology, Sydney
Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centre
15th and 16th November, 2010
“The Third Sector as Civil Society in Australia: Identity, Role and Influence in the New Century”
As we move into the next decade of a rapidly changing and challenging world, we need to constantly revisit our role for ANZTSR. This is a good opportunity, not only to continue our interest in third sector organizations and their governance, but to reassess the wider role of civil society in our region. Accordingly we invite papers along the following, or related themes:
Major Themes
- Social, Political and Economic Issues/Theorisations of the Role and Function of the Third Sector
- Entrepreneurship and the Third Sector – From Grassroots to Corporate
- Third Sector Organizations – Value and Role in Civil Society
- Practice-Based Research in Third Sector Organisations
- Sector Capacity Building (teaching and learning)
This is a preliminary call for papers. We invite individual papers, workshop proposals and special issue panels. Practitioner papers welcome.
Submissions should include an abstract of 200 words, with option of review of full papers. Submission due Friday April 16.
For submissions visit: http://cosmopolitancivilsocieties.com/ and click on the ANZTSR conference link.
Further inquiries to conference convenor: Melissa.Edwards @uts.edu.au
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ANSER/ARES 2010 CONFERENCE
Social Innovations for a New Era: Contributions from Nonprofits and
the Social Economy.
Third Annual Conference
June 2 to 4, 2010
Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
Proposal Submission Deadline: January 11, 2010
ANSER/ARES is a dynamic growing association that is organizing its
third annual conference as part of the Congress of the Humanities and
Social Sciences. ANSER brings together leading academic researchers,
practitioners, consultants, policymakers and community organizations
from Canada and internationally to discuss current and emergent
issues, debates and challenges in the fields of civil society, social
economy, and nonprofit research and practice. Join us for what
promises to be an engaging and provocative conference. The theme for
the third conference at Concordia is: Social Innovations for a New
Era: Contributions from Nonprofits and the Social Economy.
ECPR Joint Session of Workshops, 22-27 March 2010, Münster
Deadline for proposals: December 1, 2009.
WORKSHOP ON THE GOVERNANCE OF PARTNERSHIPS
Matthias Freise (University of Münster)
Taco Brandsen (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Partnerships between the state and private actors are increasingly being used across Europe as local governance tools. Commonly those partnerships are employed for the provision of various types of public services and infrastructure such as transportation, energy, water treatment or healthcare. While this type of co-operation between state and private actors is usually referred to in relation to for-profit businesses, there are also partnerships that involve civil society actors and nonprofit organisations. Some of these are new partnerships, others transformed versions of traditional bonds. At any rate, partnerships are very much en vogue in the political debate. This relevance not only derives from the increasingly widespread occurrence of partnerships, but also from a public discourse which highlights the benefits of co-operation. Additionally, they occur as one typical form within the ongoing governance debate. Nevertheless, the number of successfully and sufficiently evaluated partnership approaches in Europe is still small and we do not know much about the dynamics and configurations of these governance instruments across the various states.
The workshop is open for papers which aim to contribute to a better understanding of governance arrangements based on co-operation between state and private actors. The following topics are of special interest:
- Which challenges to democratic theory arise from partnerships in service provision?
- Which challenges do public and private partners, as well as their stakeholders, face within such partnerships?
- What are the conditions that make partnerships successful or likely to fail?
The workshop is open to all specialists – from graduate students to experienced professors – working on the topic of the workshop, and we are particularly interested in innovative submissions within the field. The workshop will have a combination of theoretical and empirical papers.
Please send abstracts to Taco Brandsen (t.brandsen@fm.ru.nl) or Matthias Freise (freisem@uni-muenster.de).
For more information on the conference, please consult www.ecprnet.eu.
A Research Conference on Voluntary Action: Volunteering Counts
1st and 2nd March 2010
Chancellor Hotel Conference Centre, Manchester, UK
There is growing discussion and debate within the public, private and third sectors about the role and impact of voluntary action and the difference volunteers are making to individuals and local communities. Policy makers are increasingly focusing on the role that volunteers can play in helping to deliver services and promote community cohesion, whilst organisations and groups grapple with how best to demonstrate the impact their services and volunteers are having.
Alongside this are ongoing debates around the definition and measurement of voluntary action. National, regional and local government and agencies are increasingly looking to measure levels of volunteering whilst discussions continue around the concept and definition of volunteering with debates on ‘compulsory’ voluntary service, incentives for volunteers and paying trustees.
This conference will bring together researchers, policy makers and practitioners to share and debate current research on these issues. It will aim to help advance knowledge and understanding on these topics and identify an agenda for future research. The event is being organised by the UK Volunteering Forum Research Group, a consortium of researchers from the Institute for Volunteering Research (IVR), Volunteer Development Agency Northern Ireland, Volunteer Development Scotland (VDS) and Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA).
Research papers from researchers, policy makers and practitioners will be welcomed at the conference under the following broad themes:
- Defining and conceptualising volunteering- Papers might include: New ways of thinking about volunteering and who volunteers are; what is and what is not included in definitions of volunteering; the position and role of volunteers within policy discourse; and the challenges of undertaking research on volunteering as it is defined.
- Measuring volunteering and counting volunteers- Papers might include: methods and approaches to measuring levels of voluntary action at national, regional or local level; comparative research on levels of volunteering; the issues of measuring informal and ‘below the radar’ volunteering.
- The value and impact of volunteering- Papers might include: the social, cultural or economic impact of volunteering on volunteers, service users or the wider community; the role and contribution of voluntary action on different policy agendas; and methods, tools and approaches for assessing the impact of volunteering.
Each paper should be presented in a 20 minute lecture format, with an additional 10 minutes for discussion on the policy and practice implications of the research. We would also welcome themed sessions in which researchers, practitioners and policy makers will discuss one of the above themes, with audience participation. Each session will last 1.5 hours.
Abstract submissions should be emailed to Christine Reilly research@vds.org.uk by 5pm on October 22nd 2009
You can submit a proposal for either a single paper presentation or for a themed session. In all submissions, please be sure to include the name, organisation and email address of the presenting author(s) and the names of any co-authors.
1. SINGLE PAPERS (30 minutes): Please send us a 400 to 600 word summary of your research. We welcome submissions discussing preliminary findings as well as those on completed projects.
2. THEMED SESSIONS (1.5 hours): Please submit a 400 to 600 word proposal for a whole session, giving a clear overview of the topic and structure of the discussion which lists those who will be involved in delivering it. This may be structured as a panel, workshop, debate etc. on a particular theme, or a suite of two or three papers on related topics. Please specify the approach you plan to adopt.
If your abstract has been accepted to the conference you will be notified by mid November, 2009. Full papers (2000 to 2500 words) should be submitted by January 29th 2010.
If your proposal is accepted you will need to book and pay for a place at the conference. Booking forms will be available in mid November.
The Transnationality of Social Movements
Conference organized by the History department, Free University of Brussels (VUB) & MoSA research unit, Catholic University of Leuven (K.U.Leuven)
21.05.2010 - 22.05.2010, Leuven (Belgium)
In recent years, an interdisciplinary community of scholars has engaged in a debate about the transnational scope of social movements with an international focus. The anti-apartheid movement is considered by some as a trailblazer of present-day protest against neoliberal globalization, climate change, etc. Many of the current “anti-globalization” movements’ features, such as transnational cooperation, the use of media, and the mobility of activists, are said to have been prefigured by this important social movement of the Cold War era. Others argue that the nation state was, and still remains, the primal context of social movement mobilization. Despite common political
goals, cultural symbols, patterns of protest, and synchronization of mobilization waves, and antipathy against the U.S., the peace movements in the 1980s, for instance, are presented by many as primarily national phenomena. The solidarity movements that were sparked by the crisis of the Polish communist regime are discussed in similar terms.
15th NCVO/ VSSN Researching the Voluntary Sector Conference
7- 8 September 2009, University of Warwick, UK
The NCVO/VSSN Researching the Voluntary Sector Conference is the primary UK conference for the voluntary sector research community. It brings together over 120 academics, practitioners and policymakers with a shared interest in the voluntary sector and voluntary action. Many of our delegates are from overseas, providing a real opportunity for shared learning with researchers from different countries and contexts.
Our aim is simple: to build the evidence base by sharing new, emerging research, and then to make the most of that evidence base by connecting researchers with the policymakers and practitioners who use research.
The conference is your ‘open space’ to share new or existing research, so this call for papers is an open invite to all researchers working on or with the sector. This includes new researchers (such as PhD students) wishing to present for the first time.
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The 38th Annual ARNOVA Conference
“Philanthropy in Communities: Finding Opportunity in Crisis”
Cleveland, Ohio
November 19-22, 2009
Deadline for submissions, March 23, 2009
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Call for Papers
CHANGES, CHALLENGES, AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES
FOR THE THIRD SECTOR
THE 6th ISTR ASIA AND PACIFIC REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE THIRD SECTOR, NOVEMBER 2-4, TAIPEI, TAIWAN
The world is under great transformation. Globalization has become a trend that is very difficult to resist. The result of it could be some countries or a few special locations receive great benefits, and living standards in those areas are greatly lifted. On the other hand, globalization has also brought many serious social problems for the world, especially in those underdeveloped and developing countries. For example, the problems include poverty, inequalities, social exclusiveness, community dissolution, unsustainable environment, ethnic conflict, and cultural tensions among others. Accompanying the recent economic crisis around the world, it shows that globalization does not keep its promise to bring a better life for the entire world. Click for more information
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2nd International CIRIEC Research Conference on Social Economy
Östersund, Sweden
1-2 October 2009
Theme "The Social Economy in a World Facing a Global Crisis."
http://www.socek.se/ciriec_research_2009
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Tourism and the Third Sector is the theme of ETFs inaugural conference, which will be held in the beautiful
lakeside city of Neuchatel, Switzerland in September 2009. This conference will bring together representatives
from a diverse range of organizations including those from the third sector, public authorities, policy makers,
industry and community representatives, tourism researchers and others who recognize the potential for positive
outcomes from Tourism Sector – Third Sector interaction.
Please visit the conference web page for regularly
updated information regarding the conference.
All enquiries regarding this event should by directed to: William G. Feighery PhD. Email: wgf@tourism21.com
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