GMU Workshop on Theory, Culture and Method

The GMU Workshop on Theory, Culture and Method provides a unique opportunity for authors to present innovative and creative approaches to theory, culture, and method from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The presentations may be organized around completed papers, papers-in-progress, or ideas-in-progress. Workshops will be held monthly, occasionally bimonthly, and papers and positions to be discussed will be made available on this website a week prior to the Workshop presentation or in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology Office at Robinson B 305. Those wishing to receive notification of future Workshops are asked to add their names to the Workshop's e-mail list by contacting Rutledge M. Dennis (rdenni1@gmu.edu). or Susan Trencher (strenche@gmu.edu).

Workshops for Spring 2006 will include:

• Elijah Anderson, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
  • "Young, Male and Black: The Case for National Action."
  • Feb 14th, 10.30-12.00 *  Place TBA
  • (Sponsored by African American Studies and Sociology/Anthropology

• Mitch Duneier, Department of Sociology, Princeton University/CUNY Graduate Center
  • Showing of Documentary Film on *Sidewalk*
  • March 7th, 4.30 pm, Harris Theater

The following workshops were held in Fall 05:

• Amy L. Best, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Geo Mason University
  • "Sexin' the Car: Gender, Inequality and Agency in Car Cruising Culture"

• James Snead, "War and Place: Towards a Social Archaeology of Conflict."

Spring 2005:

• Alex Benitez, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Geo Mason University

  "Ancient Obsidian Economies and Politics in Ancient Mesoamerica"

• Ben Carton, Department of History, Geo Mason University

  "Historicizing the Unspeakable: Bad Death in South Africa"

• Mark Jacobs, Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Geo Mason University

  "The Culture of Scandal in the No-Fault Society"