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, please consider making a presentation at this Spring's third annual ethnography conference.

Keynote speaker for the event will be Gary Alan Fine from Northwestern University, author of Everyday Genius: Self-Taught Art and the Culture of Authenticity, Kitchens: The Culture of Restaurant Work, and Difficult Reputations: Collective Memories of the Evil, Inept, and Controversial.

Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be received by February 1, 2006. The conference will be held on Friday, March 31, 2006 at SUNY-Stony Brook.

Abstracts Due: February 1st, 2006

If interested, please e-mail your abstract, the title of your presentation, your university affiliation, and your contact information (name, mailing address, and e-mail address) to sunysb_ethnography@hotmail.com. Please specify in your email what stage you expect your research to reach by the time of the conference.

Please specify whether you will need any special equipment for your presentation (overhead projector, Power Point capability, etc.).