Second Call for Papers Qualitatives 2008: The Chicago School & Beyond May 21st - 24th 2008 Abstract Deadline Saturday, March 1st 2008

http://www.unbf.ca/arts/Soci/qualitatives2008.php

The 25th Qualitative Analysis Conference will be jointly hosted by the Department of Sociology, University of New Brunswick and the Atlantic Centre for Qualitative Research and Analysis, St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada from May 21st to May 24th 2008. The 2008 Qualitatives will celebrate both the 25th anniversary of the conference and the 85th anniversary of the publication of Nels Anderson’s The Hobo, one of the first Chicago School ethnographies. In order to celebrate this special anniversary, we have significantly expanded the themed portion of the program and have confirmed the participation of an exciting array of speakers (described in detail below). Exciting as they are, the themed sessions compose only a small part of the program. The conference remains the major Canadian venue for the presentation of qualitative research of all types and across diverse disciplines. The conference theme, The Chicago School & Beyond, pays homage to the Chicago School roots of the conference while remaining open to research using other forms of qualitative inquiry.

We welcome papers from both novice and veteran qualitative researchers on:

! any substantive topic ! qualitative research design and methodology ! the history and impact of the Chicago School of Sociology ! the life and contribution of Nels Anderson

The deadline for submission of abstracts is Saturday, March 1, 2008. Please submit your abstract electronically to [email protected] as either plain text, Corel WordPerfect, or Microsoft Word (make sure to put ‘Qualitatives 2008 abstract’ in the subject line of your email). Please provide the following information:

1. Presenting author’s fam ily name, given nam e, initials 2. Institutional affiliation and department 3. Title of paper 4. Brief abstract 150-200 words. Include a clear statement of the research design employed and the methods of data collection used in the study on which your paper is based. 5. Full names and contact information for all authors (phone, fax, email, post).

If you have any questions regarding the 2008 Qualitatives please contact Dr Jacqueline Low [email protected] or Dr Gary Bowden [email protected] Preliminary Program

Qualitatives 2008: The Chicago School and Beyond 25th Anniversary of The Qualitatives and 85th Anniversary of Nels Anderson’s The Hobo

Time May 21 May 22 May 23 May 24

7:30 - Breakfast: McConnel Hall Breakfast: McConnel Hall Breakfast: McConnel Hall 8:45

9:00 - Themed Session: Robert Park Themed Session: Herbert Blumer Themed Session: Ethnography 10:30 featuring George Park TBA + 7 Other Concurrent Sessions featuring Robert Stebbins + 7 Other + 7 Other Concurrent Sessions Concurrent Sessions

10:45 - Themed Session: Nels Anderson Themed Session: Anselm Strauss Themed Session: Contemporary 12:15 and the First Chicago School and Grounded Theory Urban Ethnography featuring TBA featuring Roger Salerno featuring Uta Gerhardt + 7 Other Concurrent Sessions + 7 Other Concurrent Sessions + 7 Other Concurrent Sessions

12:15- Lunch: McConnel Hall Lunch: McConnel Hall Lunch: McConnel Hall 1:45

2:00- Themed Session: George Themed Session: Everett Hughes Themed Session: Erving 3:30 Herbert Mead featuring Gary Cook featuring Richard Helmes-Hayes Goffman featuring Gregory Smith + + 7 Other Concurrent Sessions + 7 Other Concurrent Sessions 7 Other Concurrent Sessions

4:00- Nels Anderson Keynote Address Chicago School Plenary The Founder’s Plenary 5:30 Gary Alan Fine Mary Jo Deegan Robert Prus, William Shaffir, Introduction by Will van den Rolf Lindner Florence Kelner, Mary Lou Dietz, Hoonaard Gary Alan Fine and Gottfried Paasche

5:45- Informal Social: A. Nolan House Informal Social: A. Nolan House Informal Social: A. Nolan House 6:45

7:00- Opening Group Dinners: Sign up for dinner Banquet: Old Government House Closing Soiree at York Sunbury 9:30 Reception out at local restaurants. Lieutenant Governor’s Mansion Museum A. Nolan House Audio-visual retrospective Noel Iverson: Remem bering Nels Nels Anderson Keynote Address

We are very happy to announce, on the occasion of the 85th anniversary of the publication of Nels Anderson’s The Hobo, that we will inaugurate the Nels Anderson Lecture Series at the 2008 Qualitatives. The nels Anderson keynote address will be the first in a series of annual lectures devoted to the ethnographic study of social life that will be continued by the Department of Sociology at UNB. We are equally pleased that the first Nels Anderson Key note speaker will be Gary Alan Fine.

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Gary Alan Fine (Northwestern University, USA)

As keynote speaker, Gary Alan Fine will give the inaugural Nels Anderson Lecture. Dr Fine is winner of the George Herbert Mead Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (2003), and is one of the world’s premier ethnographers. He is the author of over 20 books dealing with ethnography, ethnographic method, and sym bolic interactionism in a diverse range of substantive areas, most recently: Authors of the Storm: Meteorology and the Production of the Future (2007).

Chicago School Plenary

This plenary celebrates the Chicago School roots of the Qualitatives. The panel features Mary Jo Deegan who will speak on the early Chicago School, Rolf Lindner who will talk about Nels Anderson’s contribution to the Chicago School, and Gary Alan Fine as discussant.

Dr. Mary Jo Deegan (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)

Professor Deegan specializes in the history of sociology, especially the roles of women in sociology, the Chicago School, George Herbert Mead and symbolic interactionist theory. W inner of the Distinguished Scholarly Career Award from the History of Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association, she has published over 100 journal articles and authored or edited roughly twenty books including, most recently, Self, War and Society: George Herbert Mead’s Macrosociology (2007). Dr. Rolf Lindner (Humboldt University, Berlin)

Professor Lindner is an expert on urban cultural anthropology and has written widely on the image and culture of the city. Of particular relevance to the conference is his book The Reportage of Urban Culture: Robert Park And The Chicago School (1996) in which he explores the birth of the Chicago School approach and Nels Anderson’s role in it.

Founders’ Plenary

The Founders Plenary will be a significant highlight of the 25th anniversary of the Qualitative Analysis Conference. We are very pleased to announce that the panel will include: Robert Prus, W illiam Shaffir, Mary Lou Deitz, Florence Kelner, and Gottfried Paasche who represent the five original hosting universities of the Qualitatives. Collectively they will speak about their expericnes in organizing the early days of the conference as well as the socio-historical context out of which The Qualitatives emerged.

Dr Robert Prus (University of Waterloo)

Professor Prus is one of the foremost scholars of symbolic interactionist theory today. He is the author of ten books on Symbolic Interactionism , ethnographic research methods, and a variety of substantive topics, including: Subcultural Mosaics and Intersubjective Realities: an Ethnographic Research Agenda for Pragmatizing the Social Sciences, Symbolic Interaction and Ethnographic Research: Intersubjectivity and the Study of Human Lived Experience, and Beyond the Power Mystique: Power As Intersubjective Accomplishment. His current work focuses on the origins of pragmatism in ancient Greek philosophy and prom ises an even deeper elucidation of the symbolic interactionism perspective. Dr William Shaffir (McMaster University, Canada)

Equally distinguished is Dr William Sahffir, Professor of Sociology at McMaster University, who has written countless papers and reports on deviance, identities, and religious communities. He is also author and/or editor of such key texts in the areas of qualitative methods and the ethnographic study of social life as: Experiencing Fieldwork: An Inside View of Qualitative Research and Fieldwork Experience: Qualitative Approaches to Social Research.

Dr Mary Lou Dietz (University of Windsor, Canada)

Professor Dietz has been winner of m any scholarly awards including the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI) Feminist Mentor award. She is first editor along with Willam Shaffir and Robert Prus of Doing Everyday Life: Ethnography as Human Lived Experience.

Dr Florence Kelner (Carleton University, Canada)

Florence Kelner is a Professor of Sociology at Carleton University, represents the third in the trio of universities to initially host the Qualitatives. She has conducted extensive research on substance abuse and addiction in addition to working with the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse; an association demonstrating the relevancy of qualitative research for social policy. Im portant publications include: “Describing and predicting alcohol use-related harm: An analysis of the Yukon Alcohol and Drug Survey” and “The Need for a Woman-Centred Approach to Substance Abuse Issues." In Manuella Adrian, Colleen Lundy & Marc Eliany (Eds.) Women's Use of Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs in Canada.

Dr Gottfried Paasche (York University, Canada)

Professor Gottfried is a Professor of Sociology at York University. He is author of important ethnographic works including “Interactive Ethnography: Leather Veils” (Southern Sociological Society, 2002) and is co-editor of Opportunity and Uncertainty: Life Course Experiences of the Class of ’73 (University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2000). Chicago School Themed Sessions

The themed sessions are organized chronologically to correspond to the historical phases of the Chicago School. Thus the first day of the conference focuses on the early Chicago School, with sessions devoted to Robert Park, Nels Anderson, and George Herbert Mead. The second day’s themed sessions focus on selected theorists of the ‘Second’ Chicago School (Everett Hughes, Anselm Strauss, and Herbert Blumer).On the third day are themed session on the seminal work of Erving Goffman in addition to issues in contemporary ethnography.

On Robert Park

George K Park (Professor of Anthropology, retired, Memorial University, Canada) The grandson of Robert Park, he is also the author of The Idea of Social Structure (1974), The Flying Armchair: Anthropology to Think With (1990) and The Marke of Power: Helgeland and the Politics of Omnipotence (1998).

On Nels Anderson and the Early Chicago School

Roger Salerno (Professor of Sociology, Pace University, New York) has written widely on the history of the early Chicago School. Among his works are Sociology Noir: Studies at the University of Chicago in Loneliness, Marginality and Deviance, 1915-1935 (2007), Beyond the Enlightenment: Lives and Thoughts of Social Theorists (2004), Landscapes of Abandonment: Capitalism, Modernity, and Estrangement (2003) and Louis Wirth: A Bio-Bibliography (1987).

On George Herbert Mead

Gary Cook (Professor of Philosophy, Beloit University, USA), a noted Mead scholar, recently delivered the 2007 Distinguished Lecture at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Sym bolic Interaction. Along with numerous journal articles on Mead, he is the author of George Herbert Mead: The Making of a Social Pragmatist (1993).

On Everett C. Hughes

Richard Helmes-Hayes (Sociology, University of Waterloo, Canada) focuses on the history of Canadian social thought. With an intellectual biography of John Porter finished and forthcoming, he is now extending his earlier work about Everett C. Hughes, the noted Canadian member of the Second Chicago School, into a monograph. Among his relevant publications are: "The Concept of Social Class: The Contribution of Everett Hughes" (Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 36(2) 2000:127-47); "Everett Hughes: Theorist of the Second Chicago School". (International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society 11 (4) 1988: 621-73); and "The Sociology of `Going Concerns': Everett Hughes' Interpretive Institutional Ecology". In L. Tomasi, ed., The Tradition of the Chicago School of Sociology. Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 1998:217-49. On Anselm Strauss and Grounded Theory

Uta Gerhardt is one of Germany’s leading social scientists. She is the author of roughly 200 scholarly publications, among them these books available in English: Talcott Parsons: An Intellectual Biography (2002), Talcott Parsons On National Socialism (1993), Stress and Stigma: Explanation and Evidence in the Sociology of Crime and Illness (1985), and Ideas about Illness: Intellectual and Political History of Medical Sociology (1989). Her article “Ambivalent Interactionist: Anselm Strauss and the "Schools" of Chicago Sociology” appears in The American Sociologist (31: 34-64, winter 2000).

On Erving Goffman

Gregory Smith (Sociology, University of Salford, UK) is one of the world’s leading experts on the thought of Erving Goffman. His books include: Erving Goffman (Key Sociologists Series) (2006); Erving Goffman, 4 vols, (editor, with G A Fine) (2000); Introducing Cultural Studies (with E. Baldwin, B. Longhurst, S. McCracken, M. Ogborn) (1999, revised 2004); and Goffman and Social Organization: Studies in a Sociological Legacy, (editor) (1999).

On Contemporary Ethnographies

Robert Stebbins (Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Calgary, Canada) is the world’s foremost ethnographer of 'serious leisure.' The author of over 30 books, his major publications and ethnographies include Serious Leisure: A Perspective for Out Time (2006); Challenging Mountain Nature: Risk, Motive, and Lifestyle in Three Hobbyist Sports (2005); Volunteering as Leisure/Leisure as Volunteering: An International Assessment (2004); Amateurs, Professionals, and Serious Leisure (1992); and The Laugh-Makers: Stand-Up Comedy as Art, Business, and Life-Style (1990).