BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//International Social Capital Association (ISCA) - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.intsocialcapital.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for International Social Capital Association (ISCA) REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Africa/Johannesburg BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:SAST DTSTART:20240101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20240310T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20241103T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20250309T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20251102T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20260308T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20261101T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250813T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250813T163000 DTSTAMP:20260509T080427 CREATED:20250711T192757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250813T224940Z UID:10000404-1755097200-1755102600@www.intsocialcapital.org SUMMARY:WEBINAR: Out of a Crisis Comes Resilience: Community Schools Potential to Generate Social Capital DESCRIPTION:Home\n \n \n\n \n Events\n \n \n\nWEBINAR: Out of a Crisis Comes Resilience: Community Schools Potential to Generate Social Capital \nFree Public Webinar on Zoom and YouTubeWednesday\, August 13\, 2025 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm EDT \n \nInvited Speaker\nDr Jessica Shiller\nDirector of the Maryland Center for Community Schools\nTowson University \n https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-xgTGnBP1E \nThe global pandemic was traumatic for everyone\, and it revealed the vast inequity in public services to which people have access. Fortunately\, community schools in the United States had been coordinating services to meet the needs of their families prior to the pandemic\, and when schools closed in 2020\, they kicked into high gear to provide for those needs. In this session\, participants will learn about the concept of community schools and how their effort to meeting families’ basic needs (i.e. food\, shelter\, clothing) generated trusting relationships\, producing social capital in their neighborhoods. This is especially important in racially and economically isolated neighborhoods which many community schools serve. In the end\, this webinar will share examples of how community schools have worked in action and discuss their potential for converting the social capital they generate into further advocacy alongside the families with whom they work. \nTime converter at worldtimebuddy.com \nAbout the presenter:\nJessica T. Shiller\, Ph.D.\, is a professor of education at Towson University in Maryland and the director of the Maryland Center for community schools. She is the author of many publications including “Preparing for democracy: How community-based organizations build civic engagement among urban youth\,” and “The Transformative Capacity of Baltimore’s Community Schools: Limits and Possibilities in a Spatially Unjust Urban Context for Black Communities.” \nRegister for this webinar\n\nAbout Our Webinar Series\nThis event is part of our regular webinar sessions for social capital researchers including PhD/master students. These sessions include invited presentations from prominent scholars as well as presentations by PhD students and experts in professional practice.\nFor social capital researchers\, these sessions are an opportunity to hear about the latest social capital research and insights from scholars working on the concept. They can be a great way to connect with people\, to get advice\, discuss ideas or issues\, get suggestions for literature to read\, or you can just listen. \nAre you researching social capital and want to present your research? Click here for more information and to submit a proposal. \nGenerally\, presentations can be 20 to 30 mins. The content of your presentation will depend on your research stage. URL:https://www.intsocialcapital.org/event/community-schools-potential-to-generate-social-capital/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.intsocialcapital.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Event-template-Jessica-Shiller.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20250820T090000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20250820T103000 DTSTAMP:20260509T080427 CREATED:20250606T002837Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250822T024357Z UID:10000393-1755680400-1755685800@www.intsocialcapital.org SUMMARY:WEBINAR: Gbenopo as an expression of social capital in Badagry's Ogu musical culture. DESCRIPTION:Home\n \n \n\n \n Events\n \n \n\nWEBINAR: Gbenopo as an expression of social capital in Badagry’s Ogu musical culture\nFree Public Webinar on Zoom and YouTubeWednesday\, August 20\, 2025 @ 9:00 am – 10:30 am SAST \n \nInvited Speaker\nDr Joseph Kunnuji\nSenior Lecturer in African Music University of the Free State Bloemfontein\, South Africa \n https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBZ1rpaEII8 \nIn many postcolonial societies\, indigenous knowledge and systems are often at risk of being rendered obsolete\, especially with the introduction of formal education\, a change in the political structure and integration into the global economy. Yet certain aspects of indigenous knowledge and values have shown resilience\, sometimes being reimagined and recontextualised within postcolonial structures. In this webinar\, I will discuss gbenopo (a conviviality concept among Ogu people of Badagry\, Lagos\, Nigeria) as a form of social capital that has been preserved as a survival strategy within contemporary structures\, helping communities navigate layers of marginalisation and economic hardship. I will explore this concept by examining Ogu music and its performance settings as a case that animates Ogu philosophies and worldview. \nTime converter at worldtimebuddy.com \nAbout the presenter:\nJoseph Kunnuji is a Senior Lecturer in African Music at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein\, South Africa. His doctoral research examined Ogu music as a marginalised practice in Lagos. His recent projects continue to explore lesser-known African musical practices.  He is an associate editor with the Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa and has published in the Yearbook for Traditional Music and Popular Music and Society among others.  \nAbout Our Webinar Series\nThis event is part of our regular webinar sessions for social capital researchers including PhD/master students. These sessions include invited presentations from prominent scholars as well as presentations by PhD students and experts in professional practice.\nFor social capital researchers\, these sessions are an opportunity to hear about the latest social capital research and insights from scholars working on the concept. They can be a great way to connect with people\, to get advice\, discuss ideas or issues\, get suggestions for literature to read\, or you can just listen. \nAre you researching social capital and want to present your research? Click here for more information and to submit a proposal. \nGenerally\, presentations can be 20 to 30 mins. The content of your presentation will depend on your research stage. URL:https://www.intsocialcapital.org/event/webinar-gbenopo-as-an-expression-of-social-capital/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.intsocialcapital.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Event-template-Joseph-Kunnuji.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250827T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250827T163000 DTSTAMP:20260509T080427 CREATED:20250211T090944Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250827T220756Z UID:10000375-1756306800-1756312200@www.intsocialcapital.org SUMMARY:WEBINAR: Dynamics of Social Interaction in Technology Adoption: Social Capital versus Social Learning DESCRIPTION:Home\n \n \n\n \n Events\n \n \n\nWEBINAR: Dynamics of Social Interaction in Technology Adoption: Social Capital versus Social Learning\n\nFree Public Webinar on Zoom and YouTubeWednesday\, August 27\, 2025 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Central Daylight Time \n \nInvited Speaker\nDr Haluk Gedikoglu\nAssociate Professor of Agricultural Economics Konya Food & Agriculture University \n https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNO54PVbqSU \nThe objective of this paper is to analyze the influence of social interaction on adoption of new technologies to promote sustainable use of soil and water resources. We specifically aim to understand through which mechanism\, social capital versus social learning\, the social interaction is influencing the adoption of new technologies. We analyze the influence of social learning both in different social settings and various technological specifications. We specifically analyze it when there are social and moral norms and when the technology has location specific risk and uncertainties. To be able to evaluate the influence social learning in different social settings\, we used treatment effects framework and a hypothetical field experiment results that measured the existence of social and moral norms. Our results indicate both social capital and learning from neighbors can positively influence adoption of new technologies. However\, when the technology has location based risk and uncertainties (e.g. drip irrigation)\, there can be strategic delays and the influence of social learning could be low. In those cases the influence of social capital can be larger. Hence\, in these situations social capital can be used by policy makers more effectively to promote use of soil and water conservation practices. \nTime converter at worldtimebuddy.com \nAbout the presenter:\nDr. Haluk Gedikoglu is currently serving as an Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics at Konya Food & Agriculture University. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in agricultural economics from University of Missouri and his M.Sc. degree in economics from Iowa State University and his other M.Sc. degree in international agricultural sciences from Humboldt University of Berlin. Dr. Gedikoglu attended to Ankara University for his B.Sc. degree in agricultural economics. Prior to joining to Konya Food & Agriculture University\, Dr. Gedikoglu served as a faculty at Lincoln University of Missouri and University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. He is currently doing research on identifying the impact of social capital on farmers’ decision to use sustainable agricultural practices\, as previous research showed that the standard framework for technology adoption can’t fully explain the farmers’ decision to use conservation practices. Dr. Gedikoglu is also conducting research on consumers’ willingness-to-pay for new food products and labels. Dr. Gedikoglu served as the principal investigator on USDA-AFRI-Bioenergy\, USDA-Capacity Building Grants Program\, and TUBITAK (Scientific Research Counsel of Turkey) projects. \nAbout Our Webinar Series\nThis event is part of our regular webinar sessions for social capital researchers including PhD/master students. These sessions include invited presentations from prominent scholars as well as presentations by PhD students and experts in professional practice.\nFor social capital researchers\, these sessions are an opportunity to hear about the latest social capital research and insights from scholars working on the concept. They can be a great way to connect with people\, to get advice\, discuss ideas or issues\, get suggestions for literature to read\, or you can just listen. \nAre you researching social capital and want to present your research? Click here for more information and to submit a proposal. \nGenerally\, presentations can be 20 to 30 mins. The content of your presentation will depend on your research stage. URL:https://www.intsocialcapital.org/event/webinar-social-capital-versus-social-learning/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.intsocialcapital.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Event-template-Haluk-Gedikoglu-new.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250828T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250828T120000 DTSTAMP:20260509T080427 CREATED:20250112T060146Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250112T060146Z UID:10000369-1756378800-1756382400@www.intsocialcapital.org SUMMARY:Social Capital Research Design and Methods DESCRIPTION:A workshop discussing the research process with a focus on social capital research.\n\n\n\nAre you conducting research on social capital?\nWould you like to discuss or get some help with your research design?\nDo you have any problems or challenges with your research design?\n\nThese sessions are a supportive way to learn more about social capital research design and methods. You can connect with people\, ask questions\, get advice\, and discuss ideas or issues. \nWho is this for? \nAlthough this workshop is focused on PhD students\, we welcome anyone conducting research on social capital. \nWho will run the workshop? \nBeverly Sloan has a PhD in Organisational Leadership from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. She is a veteran of the United States Air Force with more than 32 years of service. Her leisure activity includes mentoring masters and doctoral candidates on research practices. \nHow will the session work? \nIn these sessions\, we aim to discuss the research process. This includes defining research; discussing research significance\, problems\, and purposes; examining your worldview and philosophical stance; developing research questions\, sub-questions\, and hypotheses; and your theoretical or conceptual framework. We will discuss the initial literature review and its purpose in helping you build your initial central research question. We will use the initial research question to guide the preliminary literature review. During the preliminary literature review\, we will consider defining your key concepts and how they will drive your overall literature review. As we discuss the literature review\, the goal is to refine the research question\, identify gaps in the literature\, and focus the literature review on the central aspects of your research question. This should also help us develop a good outline for our literature review and identify variables or sub-research questions. Once we understand how the literature review shapes our study\, we will move on to research methods and design or our roadmap for collecting data. Then we will move on to data analysis and conclude by combining all the pieces. This will not be a linear process\, but it will be a process. \nAccess requirements \nWe seek to make our events accessible\, and this is no exception. If there is something that will help you to engage more effectively in this session\, please email us on: events@intsocialcapital.org. Sometimes\, it’s the small things that make a big difference\, so do email us if you have an access request. We recognise that not all participants are able to attend all sessions for the full duration. You are free to join us and leave at any time during the session. We request that you have your name on Zoom (this can be just a first name) to make it easier for us to facilitate the session and address participants correctly. It helps to have cameras on\, but we recognise that sometimes this isn’t possible\, for a variety of reasons. URL:https://www.intsocialcapital.org/event/social-capital-research-design-and-methods-49/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.intsocialcapital.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/29996_image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250828T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250828T223000 DTSTAMP:20260509T080427 CREATED:20250112T055359Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250112T055359Z UID:10000359-1756414800-1756420200@www.intsocialcapital.org SUMMARY:Social Capital Research Design and Methods DESCRIPTION:A workshop discussing the research process with a focus on social capital research.\n\n\n\nAre you conducting research on social capital?\nWould you like to discuss or get some help with your research design?\nDo you have any problems or challenges with your research design?\n\nThese sessions are a supportive way to learn more about social capital research design and methods. You can connect with people\, ask questions\, get advice\, and discuss ideas or issues. \nWho is this for? \nAlthough this workshop is focused on PhD students\, we welcome anyone conducting research on social capital. \nWho will run the workshop? \nBeverly Sloan has a PhD in Organisational Leadership from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. She is a veteran of the United States Air Force with more than 32 years of service. Her leisure activity includes mentoring masters and doctoral candidates on research practices. \nHow will the session work? \nIn these sessions\, we aim to discuss the research process. This includes defining research; discussing research significance\, problems\, and purposes; examining your worldview and philosophical stance; developing research questions\, sub-questions\, and hypotheses; and your theoretical or conceptual framework. We will discuss the initial literature review and its purpose in helping you build your initial central research question. We will use the initial research question to guide the preliminary literature review. During the preliminary literature review\, we will consider defining your key concepts and how they will drive your overall literature review. As we discuss the literature review\, the goal is to refine the research question\, identify gaps in the literature\, and focus the literature review on the central aspects of your research question. This should also help us develop a good outline for our literature review and identify variables or sub-research questions. Once we understand how the literature review shapes our study\, we will move on to research methods and design or our roadmap for collecting data. Then we will move on to data analysis and conclude by combining all the pieces. This will not be a linear process\, but it will be a process. \nAccess requirements \nWe seek to make our events accessible\, and this is no exception. If there is something that will help you to engage more effectively in this session\, please email us on: events@intsocialcapital.org. Sometimes\, it’s the small things that make a big difference\, so do email us if you have an access request. We recognise that not all participants are able to attend all sessions for the full duration. You are free to join us and leave at any time during the session. We request that you have your name on Zoom (this can be just a first name) to make it easier for us to facilitate the session and address participants correctly. It helps to have cameras on\, but we recognise that sometimes this isn’t possible\, for a variety of reasons. URL:https://www.intsocialcapital.org/event/social-capital-research-design-and-methods-39/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.intsocialcapital.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/29996_image.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR