I received a letter from Professor Peter Bearman of the Department of
Sociology at the University of North Carolina today, and an announcement
of an upcoming conference in Chapel Hill. It is called the "1995 Howard
W. Odum Graduate Symposium -- Time Matters: History in the Sociology of
Work." I will not list the entire text and "call for papers" from this
announcement. But the purpose of the conference is to examine how "the
nature of history and time can hep to inform and enrich research on work
and organizations." Key questions to be addressed include: "How do
changes in social organization create new possibilities for the way work
is organized? How in turn do changes in the structure of work modify
other social contexts? How does recognizing that "time matters" help us
to distinquish between a sociology of the past and historical sociology? To
what extent to different methodological
approaches used in the study of work succeed in capturing the dynamic of
history and time? Can we generalize from case studies?" The conference
will be held on Saturday, March 18, 1995 at the UNC campus.
Keynote speakers at the conference will be Andrew Abbott (Prof.,
Sociology, U. of Chicago) and Tamara Hareven (Prof., Family Studies, U.
of Deleware).
Graduate students working in this area and interested in presenting a
paper are encouraged to submit an 500-750 word abstract by February 15, 1995:
Odum Graduate Symposium
c/o Graduate Student Association
Department of Sociology
CB# 3210
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210
or via e-mail:
gasconf@uncmvs.oit.unc.edu
(In order to assure anonymous judging of prospectuses, abstracts should
include title only, with name, address and telephone number on a separate
sheet.)
GRADUATE STUDENT AUTHORS WHOSE PAPERS ARE ACCEPTED WILL RECEIVE FUNDS TO
SUBSIDIZE THEIR TRAVEL EXPENSES TO NORTH CAROLINA!!!
dave smith
sociology, UCI