FYI. However, I have deleted the attachment, as per list practice. I say the usual "Apologies for cross-posting". Yet, every polite person knows that and sometimes it's advisable to cross-post. It's become minor spam masquerading as politeness. So I've said it now, but for the last time. Happy New Year from North America's Largest Chinese City, Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 To network is to live; to live is to network _____________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 10:50:27 -0500 From: Michael Schwartz <mschwartz@ms.cc.sunysb.edu> To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;> Subject: Fw: Ethnography Conference April 30th - Call for Papers/AbstracMilagros Pena <mpena@soc.ufl.edu>ts Dear All Please circulate this invitation to anyone who may be interested. Thanks. "Ethnographies of Practice: From Suburbia to the Globe" Call for Abstracts One page proposals for presentations are welcome from graduate students based on ethnographic methods, including field research, and in-depth interviews. If you are working on, or have completed an ethnographic project, consider making a presentation at this spring's conference. Preference will be given to papers that explore suburban life in a global context or other connections between the local and global, although papers of all topics are welcome. Keynote speakers for the event will be Jack Katz from UCLA, author of Poor People's Lawyers in Transition, Seductions of Crime: Moral and Sensual Attractions in Doing Evil, and How Emotions Work; and Marjorie Default from Syracuse University, author of Feeding the Family: The Social Organization of Caring as Gendered Work and Liberating Method: Feminism and Social Research. Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be received by March 1, 2004. The conference will be held on April 30th at SUNY- Stony Brook. Abstracts Due: March 1, 2004 If interested, please email your abstract, the title of your presentation, your university affiliation, and your contact information (name, mailing address, and email address) to sunysbethnography@yahoo.com Please specify whether there is any special equipment that you will need for your presentation (overhead projectors, power point capability, etc.)