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Save the Date: Work and Family Researchers Network Conference June 14-16, 2012

  • 1.  Save the Date: Work and Family Researchers Network Conference June 14-16, 2012

    Posted 02-23-2011 11:43

    *Apologies for cross-posting*


    Work and Family Researchers Network

    Inaugural Conference

    JUNE 14-16, 2012

    SAVE THE DATE



    Please save the date for the inaugural meeting of the new Work and Family
    Researchers <http://workfamily.sas.upenn.edu/index.html>  Network.

    The theme of the conference will be Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Work
    and Family.

    The conference will feature cutting-edge research along with synthetic
    overviews of different topic areas.  The program will include invited papers
    as well as those accepted via an open-submission process. A call for papers
    will be sent out later this spring with a September 2011 deadline.

    Confirmed speakers include:

    *         Peter Cappelli, Professor of Management; Director, Center for
    Human Resources,

    Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania



    *         Kathleen Christensen, Program Director, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation




    *         Nancy Folbre, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts,
    Amherst



    *         Ellen Galinsky, President, Families and Work Institute



    *         Arne Kalleberg, Professor of Sociology, University of North
    Carolina, Chapel Hill



    *         Suzan Lewis, Professor of Organizational Psychology, Middlesex
    University Business School, London



    *         Joan Williams, Professor of Law; Founding Director of the Center
    for WorkLife Law,

    University of California, Hastings College of the Law



    Date: June 14-16, 2012



    Place: Philadelphia, PA

    We hope to see you there!  Please help us to spread the word by forwarding
    this announcement to colleagues, students and especially to appropriate
    listservs and distribution lists. 

    Jerry A. Jacobs <mailto::jjacobs@sas.upenn.edu> , Executive Officer,
    University of Pennsylvania

    Judi Casey <mailto:judith.casey@bc.edu> , Director, Boston College



    About the Work and Family Researchers Network

    The new Work and Family Researchers Network (WFRN), formerly the Sloan Work
    and Family Research Network, will be an international membership
    organization that seeks to advance, promote and disseminate
    interdisciplinary research on work and family.

    The Work and Family Researchers Network's mission, a natural evolution from
    the former Sloan Network, will be to facilitate virtual and face-to-face
    interaction among academic work and family researchers from a broad range of
    fields as well as engage the next generation of work and family scholars.
    The WFRN also will welcome the participation of policy makers and workplace
    practitioners as it seeks to promote knowledge and understanding of work and
    family issues among the community of global stakeholders.

    The new Work and Family Researchers Network will be unique in utilizing
    cutting-edge technology to create the next generation of opportunities for
    information sharing and networking including an open access work and family
    subject matter repository and a news tagging component among other features.



    WFRN Steering Committee



    . Tammy Allen, Professor of Psychology, University of South Florida

    . Lotte Bailyn, Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management

    . Kathleen Gerson, Professor of Sociology, New York University

    . Janet Gornick, Professor of Political Science & Sociology, Graduate
    Center, City University of New York

    . Heidi Hartmann, President, Institute for Women's Policy Research

    . Monique Valcour, Professor of Management, EDHEC Business School, Nice,
    France



    PS.  Our apologies if you received this announcement more than once. 

    If you want to be added to the WFRN mailing list, or update your contact
    information, please contact Patricia Miller:  <mailto:pmiller@pop.upenn.edu>
    pmiller@pop.upenn.edu



    Monique Valcour, PhD
    Professor of Management
    EDHEC Business School
    393 Promenade des Anglais, BP 3116
    06202 Nice cedex 3
    FRANCE
    Mobile: +33 (0)6 48 79 85 56
    E-mail: Monique.VALCOUR@edhec.edu