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HOW CLASS WORKS - 2004
CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
A Conference at SUNY Stony Brook
June 10-12, 2004
The Center for Study of Working Class Life is pleased to announce the How
Class Works ? 2004 Conference, to be held at the State University of New
York at Stony Brook, June 10-12, 2004. Proposals for papers, presentations,
and sessions are welcome until December 15, 2003 according to the
guidelines below. For more information, visit our Web site at
http://www.workingclass.sunysb.edu.
Purpose and orientation. The conference seeks to explore ways in which an
explicit recognition of class helps to understand the social world in which
we live, and ways in which analysis of society can deepen our understanding
of class as a social relationship. Presentations should take as their point
of reference the lived experience of class; proposed theoretical
contributions should be rooted in and illuminate social realities. All
presentations should be accessible to an interdisciplinary audience.
While the focus of the conference is in the social sciences, presentations
from other disciplines are welcome as they bear upon conference themes.
Presentations are also welcome from people outside academic life when they
sum up social experience in a way that contributes to the themes of the
conference. Formal papers will be welcome but are not required.
Conference themes. The conference welcomes proposals for presentations that
advance our understanding of any of the following themes.
The mosaic of class, race, and gender. To explore how class shapes
racial, gender, and ethnic experience and how different racial, gender,
and ethnic experiences within various classes shape the meaning of
class.
Class, power, and social structure. To explore the social content of
working, middle, and capitalist classes in terms of various aspects of
power; to explore ways in which class and structures of power interact,
at the workplace and in the broader society.
Class and community. To explore ways in which class operates
outside the
workplace in the communities where people of various classes live.
Class in a global economy. To explore how class identity and class
dynamics are influenced by globalization, including experience of
cross-border organizing, capitalist class dynamics, international labor
standards.
Middle class? Working class? What's the difference and why does it
matter? To explore the claim that the U.S. is a middle class
society and
contrast it with the notion that the working class is the majority; to
explore the relationships between the middle class and the working
class.
Class, public policy, and electoral politics. To explore how class
affects public policy, with special attention to health care, the
criminal justice system, labor law, poverty, tax and other economic
policy, housing, and education; to explore the place of electoral
politics in the arrangement of class forces on policy matters.
Pedagogy of class. To explore techniques and materials useful for
teaching about class, at K-12 levels, in college and university
courses,
and in labor studies and adult education courses.
Proposals for How Class Works ? 2004 Conference
Proposals for presentations must include the following information: a)
title; b) which of the seven conference themes will be addressed; c) a
maximum 250 word summary of the main points, methodology, and slice of
experience that will be summed up; d) relevant personal information
indicating institutional affiliation (if any) and what training or
experience the presenter brings to the proposal; e) presenter's name,
address, telephone, fax, and e-mail address. A person may present in at
most two conference sessions. To allow time for discussion, sessions
will be limited to three twenty-minute or four fifteen-minute principal
presentations. Sessions will not include official discussants.
Proposals for sessions are welcome. A single session proposal must
include proposal information for all presentations expected to be part
of it, as detailed above, with some indication of willingness to
participate from each proposed session member.
Submit proposals as hard copy by mail to the How Class Works - 2004
Conference, Center for Study of Working Class Life, Department of
Economics, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY 11794-4384 or as an e-mail attachment
to <[log in to unmask]>.
Timetable. Proposals must be postmarked by December 15, 2003. Notifications
will be mailed on January 15, 2004. The conference will be at SUNY Stony
Brook June 10-12, 2004. Conference registration and housing reservations
will be possible after February 15, 2004. Details and updates will be
posted at http://www.workingclass.sunysb.edu.
Conference coordinator:
Michael Zweig
Director, Center for Study of Working Class Life
Department of Economics
State University of New York
Stony Brook, NY 11794-4384
631.632.7536
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