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[Adam Blatner]

asgpp forum, just snuffing around on the forum to see what's there. 

    John Rasberry posted a listing of the committees  way back in February, who's on them---no email addresses--- and it's worthwhile going there to see how you are needed (this addressed to ASGPP members!)...   he did get some responses.. but again... I wonder how many... 
             I'm just trying to imagine how to increase the capacity for connecting, talking. There is a sociometric question here: Are any of the people on the executive committe interested in getting some email questions, like
         Hi, Joe, I'm John Doe, and I'm interested in the committee. Could we chat on the phone about what the duties would be? I'm at  (insert phone number), and I'll be available for a phone call   x time y time  or z time. 

          I'm seeing the need for reciprocity on everyone's part. Do you want to hear from me? Would you find my reaching out to be a bother, an annoyance?  Are you too busy for me?  It seems most folks are, or too anxious about the economy, or something.  So how does this dynamic play out? 
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  ooh, this just in!   10/05/2008 :   
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Southeast Conference on Addictive Disorders (SECAD)
Home and Conference page:http://www.secad09.com/Me2/Default.asp         

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would anyone be interested in this?  There are other conference announcements there, too. Not much more recently. 


 Conference page:http://www.asanet.org/cs/root/leftnav/meetings/2010_annual_meeting
Homepage:http://www.asanet.org/

105th ASA Annual Meeting 
August 14-17, 2010 
Hilton Atlanta and Marriott Marquis Hotel 
Atlanta, Georgia 


Theme:Toward a Sociology of Citizenship

At its most general level, citizenship refers to full membership in a community in which one lives, works, or was born. From a sociological perspective, two central and linked questions arise in relation to "membership": 
       Carefully analyzing such social practices and processes can help us overcome two tendencies that limit our understanding of citizenship:

(1)Viewing citizenship as a static bundle of rights, and (2) Viewing the ambit of citizenship as limited to the nation state. Instead, we view citizenship as a fluid and contested domain, operating in multiple overlapping communities, within and across nation states. 

The theme of the 2010 ASA meetings is intended to stimulate development of sociological approaches to a comparative transnational study of citizenship. The theme can be explored from the perspective of many areas of specialization in sociology, including family, immigration, labor, collective movements, criminology, political sociology, and religion, by asking, for example:

           How is citizenship distinct among various sociological forms of membership, and how does a formal institutionalization of rights interact with informal structures of participation, claims-making, and feelings of belonging? 
        How are social institutions (e.g., family, labor market, religion), in addition to the state, implicated in defining the boundaries of citizenship and in recognizing (or rejecting) rights? 
         How are status categories (e.g., gender, age, race) and affiliations (e.g., religion, language, culture) used to define different levels or degrees of citizenship? 
         How have major demographic, economic, technological, and social trends (e.g., transnational migration, ethnic and racial diversity, and conflict within nation states, reliance of some third-world economies on remittances from emigrants, use of the internet for information and maintenance of social ties) changed the meaning or relevance of citizenship? 
       How has the growth of supra-national entities (e.g., international human rights regimes, global banking and financial systems, and multi-national corporations) affected the role or significance of citizenship in sub-national, national, and supranational communities? 

Evelyn Nakano Glenn President-Elect  University of California-Berkeley
      Session Suggestions Call for Papers Program Committee 
Proposals for Thematic Sessions should be submitted by November 14, 2008. Proposals for other types of invited sessions are due by January 30, 2009. 
          The 2010 Call for Papers process will be open and available on the Annual Meeting Website in the Fall of 2009. The 2010 Program Committee is a voluntary group of ASA members, appointed by the President-Elect. 
     The Committee is charged with developing a timely program that will service our diverse discipline. 
              Anyone volunteering to review submissions to Regular Session Topics must be current members of the Association. The 2010 Program Committee will be reviewing volunteer proposals, as well as proposing its own nominees, when it considers assigning organizing tasks. Volunteers should be aware that submission of a proposal does not guarantee an invitation to organize. The deadline to volunteer is January 30, 2009.
          Homepage:http://www.asanet.org/ 
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