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this will be of interest to some. AB From: International Social Science Council [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of International Social Science Council Sent: 12 November 2013 09:21 To: Andrew Baldwin Subject: ISSC Newsletter N°1 Strengthening the social sciences to help solve global priority problems Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser<http://us7.campaign-archive2.com/?u=dc5c70c5a27af763c6e19ec99&id=2d74bc0677&e=4491b69876>. [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/dc5c70c5a27af763c6e19ec99/images/Issc_logo_PNG_web.1d1b13e3802ef.png]<http://worldsocialscience.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dc5c70c5a27af763c6e19ec99&id=cd9fcd2976&e=4491b69876> ISSC Newsletter N°1 [http://gallery.mailchimp.com/dc5c70c5a27af763c6e19ec99/images/test_front_cover.1.jpg] World Social Science Report 2013 Launch The World Social Science Report 2013 issues an urgent call to action to the international social science community to collaborate more effectively with each other, with colleagues from other fields of science, and with the users of research to deliver solutions-oriented knowledge on today’s most pressing environmental problems. It calls for a transformative social science that is bolder, better, bigger, different: * bolder in reframing and reinterpreting global environmental change as a social problem * better at infusing social science insights into real-world problem-solving * bigger in terms of having more social scientists to focus on global environmental change * different in the way it thinks about and does research that helps meet the vexing sustainability challenges faced today. The Report will be released on the 14th November and be available to read online via the OECD iLibrary<http://worldsocialscience.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dc5c70c5a27af763c6e19ec99&id=d09d1adf15&e=4491b69876>. Risk Interpretation and Action Fellows selected The ISSC has selected is proud to announce the selection of 25 new, talented Fellows<http://worldsocialscience.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dc5c70c5a27af763c6e19ec99&id=7373a0079f&e=4491b69876>, who will work on creative, interdisciplinary perspectives on risk interpretation and action at a seminar co-sponsored by the ISSC's World Social Science Fellows programme, the Risk Interpretation and Action working group of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) programme, the IRDR International Center of Excellence, Taipei, the international START Secretariat, and the Royal Society of New Zealand. Relive the Forum World Social Science Forum 2013, Montréal [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/dc5c70c5a27af763c6e19ec99/images/10266049963_3d118904bb_o.1.jpg] The World Social Science Forum concluded in Montréal, garnering wide-spread media attention<http://worldsocialscience.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dc5c70c5a27af763c6e19ec99&id=374058086a&e=4491b69876> from journalists and bloggers. Selected photos are available via the ISSC's Flickr page<http://worldsocialscience.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dc5c70c5a27af763c6e19ec99&id=5394b51bd3&e=4491b69876>. World Social Science Prizes This year's winner of the Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research and the Fondation Mattei Dogan-ISSC Prize for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Research were honoured at a special ceremony<http://worldsocialscience.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dc5c70c5a27af763c6e19ec99&id=332e708bf2&e=4491b69876> taking place in Montréal at the World Social Science Forum. Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Pepper D Culpepper, Dorothee Bohle and Béla Greskovits were all honoured. Eyes towards Durban The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) and the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) are pleased to announce the third World Social Science Forum which will take place on African soil in 2015<http://worldsocialscience.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=dc5c70c5a27af763c6e19ec99&id=98135e190e&e=4491b69876>. Call for Nominations: Stein Rokkan Prize The ISSC is pleased to welcome nominations for this year’s Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research. Invitations are welcome from high-calibre candidates whose original work makes a substantial and original contribution in comparative social science research. The work can be an unpublished manuscript of book length, a printed book, or collected works published within the two years preceding the award ceremony. For more information on the nomination procedure can be obtained from the ECPR website<http://worldsocialscience.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dc5c70c5a27af763c6e19ec99&id=adb8967236&e=4491b69876>. New Executive Committee [http://gallery.mailchimp.com/dc5c70c5a27af763c6e19ec99/images/10266005173_f57fb3a311_o.1.jpg] On October 12 in Montréal, at the ISSC's General Assembly meeting, a new Executive Committee was elected<http://worldsocialscience.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=dc5c70c5a27af763c6e19ec99&id=84919eb970&e=4491b69876>. Office Bearers: President: Alberto Martinelli Vice President for Scientific Planning and Review: Elisa Reiss Vice President for Information and Communications Outreach: Saths Cooper Treasurer: Michel Sabourin Ordinary Members: Ruth Fincher Li Hanlin Gudmund Hernes Jose Alvaro Moises Thomas Reuter Yasuhiko Saito Ebrima Sall Amaryllis Torres Renee van Kessel-Hagesteijn Wanda Ward Olive Shisana (the retiring President shall remain a voting member of the Executive Committee until the next regular meeting of the General Assembly in 2016). Partnered Activities Future Earth has announced its Interim Engagement Committee<http://worldsocialscience.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dc5c70c5a27af763c6e19ec99&id=a0ddf27a37&e=4491b69876>. "We need an Engagement Committee to understand what the key research needs are for the full range of stakeholders," said Robert Watson, the Chair of the committee. Member spotlight The International Arctic Social Science Association: promotes and stimulates international cooperation increases the participation of social scientists in national and international Arctic research. The Eighth International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS VIII) will be held at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada from the 22-26 May 2014. The call for papers and posters<http://worldsocialscience.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dc5c70c5a27af763c6e19ec99&id=7ae73e9cce&e=4491b69876> has been launched. Event Calendar World Social Science Report Launch: 15 Nov 2013, UNESCO, Paris, France Risk Interpretation and Action: 8-15 Dec 2013, Wellington and Christchurh, New Zealand ISSC New Executive Committee Meeting: 27-29 May 2014, Munakato, Japan 2nd Networking Conference on Integrated Science: 25-31 May 2014, Villa Vigoni, Italy Copyright © 2013 International Social Science Council, All rights reserved. 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