Two calls: CfP: POLITICAL ECONOMY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST Critical Sociology is sponsoring a one-day conference Aug 18, 2014 to be held at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis, with a panel on Social Movements in the Middle East. Your disciplinary methodology is not important, as long as you consider yourself to be a critical scholar and have a sociological imagination. We welcome International and Global Studies scholars, political sociologists and economists, cultural theorists, LGBT scholars, Post-Colonial Studies researchers, and Black Studies scholars. Organizers of this Panel: Mark Gould, Haverford College, mgould@haverford<https://hootsuite.com/dashboard#> .edu Tugrul Keskin, Portland State University, tugrulkeskin@pdx<https://hootsuite.com/dashboard#> .edu Please email a paper abstract of 400-500 words to Tugrul Keskin by April 30, 2014. ========= CfP: HUMAN RIGHTS FROM CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES Critical Sociology is sponsoring a one-day conference Aug 18, 2014 to be held at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis, with a panel on Human Rights. Your disciplinary methodology is not important, as long as you consider yourself to be a critical scholar and have a sociological imagination. We welcome International and Global Studies scholars, political sociologists and economists, cultural theorists, LGBT scholars, Post-Colonial Studies researchers, and Black Studies scholars. Organizers of this Panel: Gerald Sussman, Portland State University, sussmag@pdx<https://hootsuite.com/dashboard#> .edu Tugrul Keskin, Portland State University, tugrulkeskin@pdx<https://hootsuite.com/dashboard#> .edu Please email a paper abstract of 400-500 words to Tugrul Keskin by April 30, 2014. -- Prof. David Fasenfest Dept of Sociology Wayne State University Editor, *Critical Sociology * crs.sagepub.com follow us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Critical-Sociology/109234272497897 Series Editor, *Studies in Critical Social Science* www.brill.nl/scss (Hardcover) www.haymarketbooks.org/category/scss-series (Paperback)