About the panel/roundtable/bof (Birds of a Feather) on space: Might be interesting to try to do more than a single roundtable. Last year, the turnout for the qualitative methods roundtable was so good, we all wished we a) had a longer time slot or b) had a follow up roundtable. What about organizing two "Birds of a Feather" sessions early in the conference (which hopefully won't be relegated to the crack of dawn part of the day.....), followed by a roundtable late in the conference that brings it together? In the spirit of dialogue, the nature of the roundtable discussion would emerge from the BOF sessions. The emergent format might yield shorter opening statements and therefore more discussion, something Lori Kendall mentioned which I agree with (my logic is that participants will have altered their thinking by engaging in dialogue earlier, so they won't have as much prepared, but I could be completely wrong in this line of thought) annette **************************** Annette N. Markham, Ph. D. Department of Communication University of Illinois at Chicago 1007 W. Harrison St (m/c 132) Chicago, IL 60607-7137 amarkham@uic.edu http://ascend.comm.uic.edu/~amarkham/ ******************************