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10th Annual Chicago Ethnography Conference
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, Illinois
Keynote speaker:
Jack Katz
Professor of Sociology
UCLA
Jack Katz received his J.D. degree from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. in sociology from Northwestern. He has written Poor People's Lawyers in Transition (Rutgers, 1982), Seductions of Crime (Basic, 1988), and How Emotions Work (University of Chicago, 1999). Recent essays include "Provocative Looks: Gang Appearance and Dress Codes in an Inner-City Alternative School," "The Criminologists= Gang," "On the Rhetoric and Politics of Ethnographic Methodology," "Everyday Lives and Extraordinary Research Methods," "Ethical Escape Routes for Underground Ethnographers," and "Toward a Natural History of Ethical Censorship." His current research is an ethnographic study of how residents of 6 contrasting neighborhoods in Hollywood develop income streams, shape household relations, establish routines in their local area, and live with fear of crime.
Conference sponsors include:
DePaul University
Illinois Institute of Technology
Loyola University
Northern Illinois University
Northwestern University
University of Chicago
University of Illinois at Chicago
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SPECIAL NOTICE: Registration closes at midnight, April 11. Registrants after that time will not be able to reserve a meal.
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