My article "The Spatial Structure of Transnational Human Activity", published at Social Science Research, will receive this year's Best Publication by an International Scholar Award of the American Sociological Association's Global and Transnational Sociology section. According to ASA, the award "will recognize an outstanding article published in 2015 or 2016 in the area of Global and Transnational Sociology". The award will be presented at the ASA Annual Meeting in Montreal, Canada in August. Previous recipients include Max Haller, Sir Roger Jowell, Tom W. Smith, Min Zhou, Grégoire Mallard, and Monika Krause.

Volkswagen Foundation will fund three "BIGSSS Summer Schools in Computational Social Science: Data-Driven Modelling of Conflicts, Migration, and Social Cohesion" in the framework of its call for International Research in Computational Social Sciences. The project is a joint endeavor of Jan Lorenz, Klaus Boehnke, and Adalbert Wilhelm from Jacobs University Bremen (Germany), Andreas Flache from University of Groningen (Netherlands), Francesco Mola from Università di Cagliari (Italy), and myself. The three summer schools will focus consecutively on conflict, migration, and social cohesion and are scheduled to take place in Bremen, Groningen, and Cagliari in 2018, 2019, and 2020, respectively.  More information will follow soon.