The University of Bergen, acting on behalf of the co-sponsors of CROP,  invites applications for the post of Advisor at the CROP Secretariat in Bergen, Norway. The Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP) is an international programme for building alternative and critical knowledge on preventing and eradicating poverty. CROP is jointly sponsored by the International Social [...]

The 17th World Congress of the International Economic Association (IEA) has been announced and is scheduled to take place on the 6th to 10th June 2014 at the King Abdullah Bin Talal Convention Center (KHBTCC), in the Dead Sea, Jordan. It will feature the work and findings of leading scholars in economics and related fields, and will [...]

Online registration for this year’s World Social Science Forum in Montreal in October of this year has now opened. The forum is scheduled to take place at Montreal’s stunning Palais des congrès from the 13th to 15th October. The Forum will bring together social scientists from across the world under the theme of Social Transformations and the Digital [...]

Laura Pereira, a Post-Doctoral Researcher from the Sustainability Science Program Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and one of our many talented “young scientists” who attended this month’s Networking Conference at Villa Vigoni blogs about her experience during the conference. “On April 15th 2013, 30 young post-doctoral scientists joined 10 senior scientists in the magnificent surroundings of Villa Vigoni on [...]

The ISSC is pleased to announce that Amitrajeet A. Batabyal has won this year’s Mattei Dogan Foundation Prize for excellence in interdisciplinary research. Amit Batabyal has been the  Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics at the Rochester Institute of Technology since 2000. He is the author of  7 books (mostly in the fields of ecological economics and [...]