Call for Papers : Everyday Life, Social Control and Ethnography (July 21-24, 2011, Kassel University, Kassel, Germany)
février 6th, 2011We wish to invite proposals and participation from all segments and interests within the interactionist tradition (Society for the study of symbolic interaction, SSSI). We are also inviting proposals for full, or almost full, sessions.While there are some emphases and many sugestions for topics by our fine session moderators, the conference does not limit participants to any specific subject area.
To present a rough map, we are inviting papers, ethnographic or conceptual, that fit the broad themes of the conference, including, but not limited to:
Ethnographies of Everyday Life;
Music in Everyday Life;
Language and Everyday Life;
Sexuality;
Motive Accounts;
Emotions;
Everyday Rituals;
Deviance and Social Control;
Health and Social Control;
The Construction of Social Problems;
Social Selves;
Conceptional Work in Interactionism;
Empirical Work in Interactionism.
The deadline for paper and session proposals is February 15, 2011. No full paper has to be ready at the time of application: Please hand in a title and abstract. Also, there is no set length for your proposal: Use whatever space you feel is necessary to make your point. The conference program will be available in March 2011.
Please send all proposals to:
Program
The conference will feature a welcome day and three themed days. On the first night (we’re going to call it “Day 0″), we will welcome you to Kassel and Kassel University. The three conference days that follow will be, respectively, themed “everyday life,” “social control,” and “ethnography.” They will include anchoring speeches, paper presentations in discussion sessions, a publication workshop, and two debate panels. The following is a preliminary announcement. The exact program, including presentation titles and participants, will be made avilable on this page in mid-March.Day 0: Welcome to Kassel; get settled
On the welcome night, we will treat you to warm words and cold food.
Day 1: Everyday Life
The first full conference day follows an everyday life theme and offers a keynote lecture, a debate panel, and paper presentation sessions. It is rounded off by a barbecue on the department lawn after the sessions are over to give everyone ample opportunity to socialize, meet and greet.
Day 2: Social Control
The second day sports a “social control” theme and offers a keynote lecture, a debate panel, a publication workshop and paper presentation sessions. It culminates in our banquet night, which has become traditional at SSSI meetings: Please reserve seats for this event.
Day 3: Ethnography
The final conference day treats visitors to our final keynote address and paper presentation sessions. The conference ends in another barbecue on the department lawn, where everyone’s invited to see the conference off.