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AMMENDED CALL FOR PAPERS
We invite graduate students in all academic disciplines to present their original ethnographic research at the Eleventh Annual Chicago Ethnography Conference to be held at Northwestern University on Saturday, February 28, 2009. At this year's conference, we are pleased to host the following guest speakers: France Winddance Twine, Professor of Sociology at University of California, Santa Barbara and Frederick Wiseman, Award Winning Documentary Filmmaker.
Papers and/or short films may be based on a variety of ethnographic field methods, including but not limited to: field observation, in-depth interviews, focus group interviews, autoethnography, visual ethnography, and other forms of qualitative research. Papers and/or films in all substantive areas are welcome. In the past, presentation topics have included: culture, class, crime, education, ethnicity, gender, family globalization, health and illness, immigration, medicine, methodology, performance ethnography, race, religion, social movements, technology, urban poverty, and work and employment.
This conference is made possible through the collaboration of students from the departments of sociology at DePaul University, Illinois Institute of Technology, Loyola University, Northern Illinois University, Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Paper Submissions: Please send an abstract no longer than 250 words,
along with your contact information to NUEthngraphy09@gmail.com by January 5, 2009.
Film Submissions: Please submit an abstract no longer than 250 words to Dr. Greg Scott via email at gscott@depaul.edu by January 5, 2009. Films must be submitted on DVD, either in rough cut or final version, and mailed or hand delivered to Dr. Greg Scott directly. If mailed, submissions must be postmarked by January 5, 2009. Films should be 7-10 minutes total running time (including credits). Films may be stand-alone or the ethnodocumentary filmmaker may choose to show selected excerpts from a longer film. Please mail submissions to the following address:
Greg Scott, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Sociology
Director, Social Science Research Center
DePaul University
990 W. Fullerton Ave., Ste. 3100
Chicago, IL 60614
All paper and film submissions should include the following information:
Name
University
Department
Email Address
Phone Number
Please circulate this announcement to all those who may be interested.
For more information about the 11th Annual Chicago Ethnography Conference, please contact NUethnography09@gmail.com.
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