Tuesday, January 4, 2022

[DMANET] Fwd: Sunbelt 2022 Networks Conference_Call for Submissions – Negative Ties and Signed Graphs

[apologies for cross-posting]

*Sunbelt 2022 Social Networks Conference (**12-16 July, online and
in-person in **Cairns, Australia) *https://www.sunbelt2022.org/


*Call for abstracts – organized session on Negative Ties and Signed
Graphs *(Deadline:
February 6, 2022)

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 *in-person
and online* from *July 12-16, 2022*.

Please submit your work for this conference through the session labeled:

*"Negative Ties and Signed Graphs"*

The easychair submissions website can be accessed here:

https://easychair.org/account/signin?l=KWx5OOmHdwDuh2feZqboQ2#

Session organizers:

· Filip Agneessens (Department of Sociology and Social Research,
University of Trento; and Nuffield College, University of Oxford)

· Samin Aref (Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering,
University of Toronto)

· Ernesto Estrada (Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and
Complex Systems, University of the Balearic Islands and the Spanish
National Research Council)

· Nicholas Harrigan (Department of Sociology, Macquarie University)

· Giuseppe (Joe) Labianca (University of Massachusetts Amherst; and
Exeter Business School, University of Exeter)

· Zachary Neal (Psychology Department, Michigan State University)

· Andreia Sofia Teixeira (Faculty of Sciences and LASIGE, University
of Lisbon)

*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.


Please submit your work within the submission window (Deadline: February 6,
2022). Additional information on submissions is available at:
https://www.sunbelt2022.org/abstracts


We look forward to your participation!

*Samin Aref, Ph.D.*
*Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering*
Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering | University of Toronto
5 King's College Rd., Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G8, Canada | saref.github.io

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