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Business meetings Please find attached the photo of the SoRU network meeting in Glasgow Minutes
Attendance Protocol Report of networks activites
(Jens Zinn) An email list was developed. There are currently 60 subscribers on the list. Two streams for the current conference and two shared sessions with the biographical network were organised. Of the original over 80 abstracts received approximately 60 papers were presented in 15 sessions. Current Plans The network-members agreed to have the next intermediate conference together with TG04 Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty of ISA at Barcelona, 5-8 September 2008. Jens Zinn is currently preparing the call for papers for this conference. Ideas and suggestions for further sessions are welcome. Election of networks' board The attendees elected Jens Zinn (j.zinn@kent.ac.uk) for Chair. The attendees elected Andy Alaszewski (a.m.alaszewski@kent.ac.uk) for Vice-Chair of the network. The attendees elected All elections were unanimous. Others Sytze Kingma reported that
he is currently organizing a stream on risk as part of European Group
for Organisational Studies (EGOS) conference, to be held in Amsterdam
in July 2008. Papers on risk perceptions, the institutional construction
of risks and risk management are welcomed as well as more theoretical
and methodical papers dealing with risk etc. The conference generally
focuses on risk issues but there is also a specific interest in crises
management and disasters with the hope to connect sociologists and organizational
scientist's perspectives on risk. Conference website: http://www.egosnet.org/conferences/collo24/sub_29.shtml
Next meeting Jens Zinn
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