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ASA Collective Behavior & Social Movements @asa-cbsm.bsky.social · 2d

Dear sociology ABDs working on social movements, don't miss the deadline for ASA doctoral dissertation research improvement grants. Less than a month left to apply. FYI: The ASA DDRIG is not a federal program; the ASA DDRIG is not considered an NSF subaward (according to the FAQs page).

American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · 7d

ASA's DDRIG program awards up to $16K to support sociology doctoral students doing cutting-edge research w/ the potential to advance scientific knowledge & contribute to the public good. Deadline 11/3. Get FAQs and more: www.asanet.org/ddrig.

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ASA Collective Behavior & Social Movements @asa-cbsm.bsky.social · 2d

Dear grad student TAs/Instructors, sounds like this could be of interest to you.

American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · 5d

If you’re a sociology graduate student w/ teaching responsibilities, be sure to register for next week’s ASA proseminar, Teaching Tips & How to Balance Teaching with Graduate Studies. It’s free for student members! Oct. 9 at 3 pm Eastern. Register here: https://bit.ly/3IF7Qi4

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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · 23d

Take action for international students! Proposed DHS rule eliminating Duration of Status is detrimental for international students. Submit public comment (naming Docket No. ICEB-2025-0001) before 11:59 pm EDT, Sept. 29: https://bit.ly/3KoPB0w. Context: https://bit.ly/42nbq6Y.

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Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · Aug 10

@asa-cbsm.bsky.social #contentiousky #CBSM2025 🧵 Some take-aways about protest and social movements. (1) Protest movements have opponents, who will fight back if they lose, things are never settled. (2) You protest when you are in a losing position, of course protest does not always win 1/

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ASA Collective Behavior & Social Movements @asa-cbsm.bsky.social · Aug 9

Last but not least is the award for the dissertation

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ASA Collective Behavior & Social Movements @asa-cbsm.bsky.social · Aug 9

Congratulations for the best student paper!

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ASA Collective Behavior & Social Movements @asa-cbsm.bsky.social · Aug 9

Next, congratulations for the best article award!

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ASA Collective Behavior & Social Movements @asa-cbsm.bsky.social · Aug 9

Awards time at CBSM #ASA2025. First congrats to awesome books!

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ASA Collective Behavior & Social Movements @asa-cbsm.bsky.social · Aug 9

We wrapped up another successful mini conference yesterday. Many thanks to Edwin Amenta and all the organizers! We have more social movements research to discuss today. Our business meeting is also on the menu, hope to see you all at #ASA2025

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ASA Collective Behavior & Social Movements @asa-cbsm.bsky.social · Aug 8

All the social movements editors fit to #CBSM2025. Second day of the mini conference starts strong. #ASA2025

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ASA Collective Behavior & Social Movements @asa-cbsm.bsky.social · Aug 7

And last plenary session of the day just started. So nice to see such an engaged crowd throughout the day. More sessions to come tomorrow.

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Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · Aug 7

Opening plenary at the CBSM 2025 miniconference. Inspirational talks by Aldon Morris and Donnatella della Porta.

Aldon Morris speaking and Donnatella della Porta on the virtual screen

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ASA Collective Behavior & Social Movements @asa-cbsm.bsky.social · Aug 7

After the coffee break, we have concurrent sessions at 10.40: catch up with the latest on social movement strategies (room 105), movements and entertainment media (room 109),movement impacts on non-political institutions (room 348)& movement influence and research methods (room 309)🤓

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ASA Collective Behavior & Social Movements @asa-cbsm.bsky.social · Aug 7

It is a great day to get all nerdy about social movements research! Plenary session of the mini conference starts in half an hour at #CBSM2025. There is also coffee ☕! See you all soon #ASA2025

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ASA Collective Behavior & Social Movements @asa-cbsm.bsky.social · Aug 4

Count down to the CBSM mini conference #CBSM2025 begins. See you in 3 days in Chicago! For details: www.asanet.org/collective-b...

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CBSM Mini-Conference at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management

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ASA Collective Behavior & Social Movements @asa-cbsm.bsky.social · Jun 13

Anna Milewski receives honorable mention with "Diffuse Social Movement Organizations as Focal Points: Explaining Dynamic Demands Under Repression in East Germany’s Peaceful Revolution, 1989-1990."

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ASA Collective Behavior & Social Movements @asa-cbsm.bsky.social · Jun 13

Mayer N. Zald Student Paper Award winner is Keenan Wilder for "Colony and Class Struggle: Unionization and Empire in Egypt and Tunisia"! Congratulations🎉

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ASA Collective Behavior & Social Movements @asa-cbsm.bsky.social · Jun 13

CBSM Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Article Award goes to Tomás Gold
‪@tomasgold.bsky.social‬ and Ann Mische @amische.bsky.social‬ for “Channeling Anti-partisan Contention: Field Structures and Partisan Strategies in a Global Protest Wave (2008-2016).” Congratulations!

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ASA Collective Behavior & Social Movements @asa-cbsm.bsky.social · Jun 13

Book covers of Insurgency Communities : How protests create a filipino diaspora, Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in Sao Paulo and Johannesburg

ASA Collective Behavior & Social Movements @asa-cbsm.bsky.social · Jun 13

Congratulations to the CBSM Charles Tilly Book Awardees🎉: Sharon M. Quinsaat @sharonquinsaat.bsky.social for Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create a Filipino Diaspora, Benjamin H. Bradlow @bhbradlow.bsky.social for Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg

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ASA Collective Behavior & Social Movements @asa-cbsm.bsky.social · May 31

Preliminary schedule for our mini conference, "The Many Impacts of Social Movements:
Fifty Years after William Gamson’s The Strategy of Social Protest" is up! Check it out: www.asanet.org/collective-b...

Resources | American Sociological Association

CBSM Mini-Conference at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management

www.asanet.org

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ASA Collective Behavior & Social Movements @asa-cbsm.bsky.social · May 15

For those interested in a summer school on social movements.

Martín Portos @mportosg.bsky.social · May 15

💣💥2025 COSMOS Summer school: Studying protest. Methodological practices in social movement research
When? 8-13th Sept
Where? In beautiful Cortona, Italy
Deadline to apply: 31st May
NO TUITION FEES
Keynotes: Donatella della Porta & David A. Snow
All info: cosmos.sns.it/all-events/2...

2025 COSMOS Summer school: Studying protest. Methodological practices in social movement research

The Centre on Social Movement Studies

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ASA Collective Behavior & Social Movements @asa-cbsm.bsky.social · May 12

Join us tomorrow! 12:00-1:30PM Central/Chicago Time (GMT-5), Virtual Conversation on “Global Resistance to Democratic Backsliding”. Please register at bit.ly/CBSMevent
The conversation will focus on how social movements confront democratic backsliding esp re: immigration, higher ed. & gender issues

ASA Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements
Virtual Conversation on “Global Resistance to Democratic Backsliding”

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ASA Collective Behavior & Social Movements @asa-cbsm.bsky.social · Apr 29

Might be of interest to our colleagues @asapolisoc.bsky.social

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Sharon Quinsaat @sharonquinsaat.bsky.social · Apr 29

Join us in a Virtual Conversation on “Global Resistance to Democratic Backsliding” on May 13, 2025 (Tuesday), 12:00-1:30 Central Time organized by @asa-cbsm.bsky.social. Please register at bit.ly/CBSMevent. Let's have a conversation about the world we live in right now! @asanews.bsky.social

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