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CFP: Out of the Ordinary: Urban Humdrum, Everyday Stuff, Public Things
Location: Ontario, Canada
Call for Papers Date: February 28, 2007
Panels are part of the annual meetings of the Canadian Sociological Association (CSA), in conjunction with the Congress for the Humanities and Social Sciences, in 2007 hosted by the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. The conference will take place between May 29 and June 1, 2007.
Out of the Ordinary: Urban Humdrum, Everyday Stuff, Public Things
Oblivious to grand theories, city dwellers go about their lives simply. They gamble and pray, drive and shop, work and rest: each routine taken for granted. Out of the ordinary emerges a study of urban culture. We are seeking Sociologies of Ordinary Culture that stop to consider humdrum habits as public acts, proposing that collective life is produced through everyday things that at first seem uninteresting. Done week-in-week-out: society is built upon the leisurely plod of the workaday. The collective rites of public life are, perhaps, precariously reliant on the mundane. Directly or indirectly, papers will rescue these routines from obscurity, transforming them instead into the tools city dwellers use to craft sense out of their milieu.
Papers may include but are not limited to the following topics:
- Driving and traffic
- Shopping and consumption
- Scanning, browsing, reading
- Fun and free time
- Cleaning, grooming, clothing
- Neighbors and strangers
- Watches, clocks and being on time
- Policing, inspecting, enforcing
- Maintenance and repair
- Garbage and recycling
- Lotteries and Prayers
- Coffee, Alcohol, and Cigarettes
Please submit your name, affiliation, paper title and a 300 word abstract to Paul Moore ([email protected]) or Diego Llovet ([email protected]) by February 28th, 2007. Confirmations will be given by March 5th, 2007.
Panels are part of the annual meetings of the Canadian Sociological Association (CSA), in conjunction with the Congress for the Humanities and Social Sciences, in 2007 hosted by the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. The conference will take place between May 29 and June 1, 2007.
Diego Llovet
Department of Sociology / York University
[email protected]
Paul S. Moore
Department of Sociology / Ryerson University
[email protected]
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CFP: Out of the Ordinary: Urban Humdrum, Everyday Stuff, Public Things
CFP: Out of the Ordinary: Urban Humdrum, Everyday Stuff, Public Things
Location: Ontario, Canada
Call for Papers Date: February 28, 2007
Panels are part of the annual meetings of the Canadian Sociological Association (CSA), in conjunction with the Congress for the Humanities and Social Sciences, in 2007 hosted by the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. The conference will take place between May 29 and June 1, 2007.
Out of the Ordinary: Urban Humdrum, Everyday Stuff, Public Things
Oblivious to grand theories, city dwellers go about their lives simply. They gamble and pray, drive and shop, work and rest: each routine taken for granted. Out of the ordinary emerges a study of urban culture. We are seeking Sociologies of Ordinary Culture that stop to consider humdrum habits as public acts, proposing that collective life is produced through everyday things that at first seem uninteresting. Done week-in-week-out: society is built upon the leisurely plod of the workaday. The collective rites of public life are, perhaps, precariously reliant on the mundane. Directly or indirectly, papers will rescue these routines from obscurity, transforming them instead into the tools city dwellers use to craft sense out of their milieu.
Papers may include but are not limited to the following topics:
- Driving and traffic
- Shopping and consumption
- Scanning, browsing, reading
- Fun and free time
- Cleaning, grooming, clothing
- Neighbors and strangers
- Watches, clocks and being on time
- Policing, inspecting, enforcing
- Maintenance and repair
- Garbage and recycling
- Lotteries and Prayers
- Coffee, Alcohol, and Cigarettes
Please submit your name, affiliation, paper title and a 300 word abstract to Paul Moore ([email protected]) or Diego Llovet ([email protected]) by February 28th, 2007. Confirmations will be given by March 5th, 2007.
Panels are part of the annual meetings of the Canadian Sociological Association (CSA), in conjunction with the Congress for the Humanities and Social Sciences, in 2007 hosted by the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. The conference will take place between May 29 and June 1, 2007.
Diego Llovet
Department of Sociology / York University
[email protected]
Paul S. Moore
Department of Sociology / Ryerson University
[email protected]
- Edited Book On Ethnography Of Material Culture, Technology, And Everyday Life
Edited book on Ethnography of Material Culture, Technology, and Everyday Life Deadline: September 1, 2007 I am seeking proposals of original writings for a forthcoming edited book tentatively titled: ?Mundane Stuff: Ethnographic Approaches to Technology...
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CALLS FOR PAPERS, PROPOSALS, AND PRESENTERS From ALA (October 27, 2006) http://www.ala.org/ala/alonline/datebook/datebook.htm#call By Oct. 31: Symposium on the Arts in Society seeks presentations for the symposium to be held Feb. 23?25, 2007, in New...
- Calls For Papers, Proposals, And Presenters (from Ala Datebook)
CALLS FOR PAPERS, PROPOSALS, AND PRESENTERS From ALA (October 27, 2006) http://www.ala.org/ala/alonline/datebook/datebook.htm#call By Oct. 31: Symposium on the Arts in Society seeks presentations for the symposium to be held Feb. 23?25, 2007, in New...
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