We wish to invite proposals and participation from all segments and interests within the interactionist tradition. We are also inviting proposals for full, or almost full, sessions.
We are inviting papers, ethnographic or conceptual, that fit the broad themes of the conference, including, but not limited to:

Ethnographies of Everyday Life;
Music in Everyday Life;
Language and Everyday Life;
Sexuality;
Motive Accounts;
Emotions;
Everyday Rituals;
Deviance and Social Control;
Health and Social Control;
The Construction of Social Problems;
Social Selves;
Conceptional Work in Interactionism;
Empirical Work in Interactionism.

Please let us know the subject of your paper and give us a summary of its anticipated content. The deadline for paper and session proposals is February 15, 2011. No full paper has to be ready at the time of application: Please hand in a title and abstract. You are not limited to a set number of words here: Use whatever space you deem appropriate. Mail your proposal to

sssi@uni-kassel.de

Visit the website for details. Especially, there is a special student host program where local students will host students visiting the conference free of charge,

The conference program will be available in March 2011.