Announcements
Mark
Your Calendars
THE CONTESTED TERRAIN
OF CONSUMPTION STUDIES
Consumer Studies Mini-Conference (website)
Thursday, July 31st 2008 Boston
College, Boston
 The
Consumer Studies Research Network (CSRN)
is sponsoring a one-day mini-conference on “The
Contested Terrain of Consumption Studies,” to
be held at Boston College, immediately prior to
the American Sociological Association (ASA) annual
meeting in Boston.
Building on the momentum
of our highly successful mini-conference in
August 2007 in New York City, the 2008 conference
seeks to engage critical and polemical differences
within the field of consumption studies.
>>> CSRN
Conference-Preliminary Program (html)
or printable
pdf version 
>>> ASA
Consumers and Consumption Sessions
Interested in Forming
a New Research Group?
The American
Sociological Association’s Section
on Aging and the Life Course sponsors several
Research Groups that function as interest
groups and informal networks within the Section. There
are plans to form a new Research Group on Age
and Consumption in 2008. The collective welcomes
scholars:
- with an interest in age and all phases of
the consumption cycle: markets, production,
acquisition, possession, and disposal;
- who study all manner of commodities and goods,
such as housing, financial services, leisure
and travel, fitness, and self-care, but also
a host of other consumer items;
- who focus on consumption from the perspective
of the enterprise, the consumer, or both;
- who theorize the intersection of life course,
identity, and consumption.
Whether you are a
Section member or not, student or faculty,
the organizer, David Ekerdt, would welcome
a note of inquiry. If there is sufficient
interest, the Research Group could have its first
meeting at the ASA meeting in Boston, in conjunction
with the Aging and Life Course section’s
Roundtable session on August 1, 2008. Possible
presentations at that session would be eligible
for listing in the ASA meeting program.
Again, please direct inquiries and expressions
of interest to David Ekerdt at the University
of Kansas (dekerdt@ku.edu). Is
there a market for this?
Do We Need to Update
Your Information?
 Members, please
check whether the information about you
is correctly listed on the CSRN
Members page.
If not, please drop
us a short email that we can update
the listing on our website. Thank you. |
