Over too soon . . . but a resounding success!

CONFERENCE BY THE NUMBERS:
149 attendees
131 papers presented
  44 panels in 8 sessions over 2 days
    2 keynote presentations
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PLUS... 
COUNTLESS ideas exchanged, knowledge gained, networks expanded, friendships made (& wrong turns on the way to a session room)
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
Within the field of sociology, scholars have advanced various approaches to the interpretation of social life. While these approaches share a drive to uncover the deep meanings underlying human actions, events, and experiences, they draw on different theoretical traditions and often diverge in their core assumptions, methods, and levels of analysis. In an effort to build bridges among these approaches and advance the overall aims of interpretive sociology, we announce a two-day conference (immediately preceding the 2018 ASA meeting): The Roots and Branches of Interpretive Sociology: Cultural, Pragmatist, and Psychosocial Approaches. This will provide a unique space in which scholars from cultural sociology, symbolic interactionism/
​pragmatism, and psychoanalytic sociology can come together to discuss different approaches to common themes.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Saturday, August 11 | 5:00-6:30 pm

“Symbolic Interaction and the Productions
of Meaning in a Chaotic Post-Fact World”

Donileen Loseke 
Professor of Sociology, 
​​University of South Florida
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Friday, August 10 | 5:00-6:30 pm

“Taken for Granted: Phenomenology
 Meets Semiotics” 

Eviatar Zerubavel
Board of Governors and Distinguished
​Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University

 REGISTRATION IS CLOSED

All program participants were required to register for the conference by June 1; the deadline for others was July 1.