The University of Kassel was proud to host the 2nd European meeting of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction under the theme of

Everyday Life, Social Control and Ethnography

from July 21-July 24, 2011.

We now invite the submission of abstracts and papers for conference publication. Please go to the Call for Papers page for details.


Keynote Speakers (in alphabetical order)


John Borneman, Princeton University, NJ, US
Ethnography

Helge Peters, Universität Oldenburg, Germany
Social Control

Kenneth Plummer, University of Essex, UK
Everyday Life


Debate Panels


The Death of Deviance?

Joseph Kotarba, Texas State University, TX., US (Moderator)

with David Altheide, Arizona State University, AZ, US

Joel Best, University of Delaware, DE., US

Axel Groenemeyer, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany


The Future of Ethnography

Heinz Bude, Universität Kassel, Germany (Moderator)

with John Borneman, Princeton University, NJ, US

John Johnson, Arizona State University, AZ, US

Robert Prus, University of Waterloo, ON, Canada


Special Interactive Address


Parts and Wholes: Goffman and Cooley

with Thomas Scheff, University of California-Santa Barbara, Ca., US


Publication Workshop


A workshop on getting everyday life and ethnographic work published is offered with the participation of

Robert Dingwall Symbolic Interaction

Marybeth Stalp Journal of Contemporary Ethnography


Supporters


The conference is supported by and associated with

The Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction

Universität Kassel

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie

Sektion und Zeitschrift Soziale Probleme

VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften

Qualitative Sociology Review