Labnet: CFP: First call for proposals for How Class Works - 2010 conference at Stony Brook

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From: Matthew Birkhold <birkhold at gmail.com>

*FIRST CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS - DUE DECEMEBER 14, 2009 FOR CONFERENCE
JUNE
3-5, 2010*


*HOW CLASS WORKS - 2010 *
*A Conference at SUNY Stony Brook**
**June 3-5, 2010*
*CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS*


The Center for Study of Working Class Life is pleased to announce the
*How
Class Works* - *2010* Conference, to be held at the State University of
New
York at Stony Brook, June 3 - 5, 2010. *Proposals for papers,
presentations,
and sessions are welcome until December 14, 2009 according to the
guidelines
below.*

*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.
Presentations are 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. All presentations
should be accessible to an interdisciplinary audience.

*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, and
between
the middle class and the capitalist 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.

*Class and culture*: To explore ways in which culture transmits and
transforms class dynamics.

*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.

*How to submit proposals* *for How Class Works - 2010 Conference*

*Proposals for presentations must include* the following information: a)
title; b) which of the eight 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 poster sessions are welcome.  Presentations may be assigned to a
poster
session.

*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*  *-
2010*Conference, Center for Study of Working Class Life, Department of
Economics,
SUNY, Stony Brook, NY 11794-4384 or as an e-mail attachment to <
michael.zweig at stonybrook.edu>.

*Timetable: * *Proposals must be received by December 14, 2009*.
Notifications will be mailed on January 19, 2010. The conference will be
at
SUNY Stony Brook June 3- 5, 2010.  Conference registration and housing
reservations will be possible after February 15, 2010. Details and
updates
will be posted at
*http://www.workingclass.sunysb.edu*<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
*michael.zweig at stonybrook.edu* <michael.zweig at stonybrook.edu>