A minor side note on the controversy over how to use our limted sessions is
that the regular session on world-sytems was cancelled because of lack of
interest. That's right, the session organizer did not get enough papers to
qualify for a session. When I heard about this I tried to get Bergesen's lost
session in the slot, but it was apparantly too late. Tom Hall has made some
good suggestions on how to reach out to people outside the "tent." We also
need to reach out to people inside the tent whom we don't know or who miss the
regular network. One of the ironies is that despite the current slowdown,
we have grown rapidly in the past decade to a size that word of mouth and the
usual networks are inadequate to inform about all the people interested in and
all the opportunities available for world-system research.