Final Conference Program

An annotated final program with paper abstracts is available here.

Last updated February 8, 2005

5:00 - 7:00 pm

Conference Registration and Welcome Reception
At the Bugaboo Room, Marriott Hotel Downtown

7:15 – 8:15 am

Ongoing Conference Registration: UMC 382-386

1. Bodies and Symbolic Interactionism: UMC 382-386
Organized by Rebecca F. Plante, Ithaca College

Not a Pretty Site: Gendered Bodies, Endangered Selves, and Eating (Dis)Orders
Phillip Vannini, University of Victoria, Canada
Martha McMahon, University of Victoria, Canada
Aaron McRight, Michigan State University

There are No Victims Here: Determination vs. Disorder in Pro-Anorexia
William Ryan Force, University of South Florida

The Makeup of 'Plain' Women: Beauty and the Body in the Amish
Andrea Wagganer, University of South Florida

Created Bodies: Experiences of Selves and Sexualities for Trans People
Rebecca F. Plante, Ithaca College
Braeden Sullivan, Santa Clara University School of Law

2. Self and Other: UMC 415-417
Organized by Erica Owens, Marquette University

The Air We Breathe: Subject-Object versus Interpretant-Representant
Hans Bakker, University of Guelph, Canada

Democracy in the Workplace: The Lessons of Donald Trump and The Apprentice
Elizabeth Franko, University of Colorado at Boulder

Unstable Social Relationships and the Fragile Self
Dan E. Miller, University of Dayton

The Not-Self
Paul Colomy, University of Denver

3. Emotions and Symbolic Interactionism: UMC 382-386
Organized by Jason Rosow, Indiana University

Finding the Emotion of Fear: Fears of Minority Women in an Urban Neighborhood
Laura Hanson, University of South Florida

"I Get so Emotional Baby!": Emotions as Construct, Strategy, Motivation, and Labor in Social Movement Organizing
Mary C. Burk, University of Connecticut

Anger and Anguish in Maternity Care: Experiences of Women in Prenatal Services for the Poor
Linda E. Francis, State University of New York at Stony Brook

4. Workshop: Interactionists on the Academic Job Market: UMC 382-386
Organized by Peter Adler, University of Denver

5. Roundtable on Cyber-methods: UMC 415-417
Organized by Patricia A. Adler, University of Colorado at Boulder

6. Language and Interaction: UMC 415-417
Organized by Phillip Vannini, University of Victoria, Canada

Establishing the Moral Stance for Blame and Blaming in Narrative
Erica Owens, Marquette University
Gale Miller, Marquette University

Memories of Everyday Life in Communist Bulgaria: Negotiating Identity in Immigrant Narratives
Nadia Kaneva, University of Colorado at Boulder

Pitting Language Against Silence and Death: Representing the Worlds of Late-Stage Dementia Sufferers
Pauline Savy, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia

Protecting an Image: How Political Candidates Strategically Respond to Degrading Questions Posed During a Televised Political Debate
Stephen Ostertag, University of Connecticut

We-feelings in the UniverCity: A Semiotic Study of How Media Constructs a Sense of Community
Gordon Gauchat, University of Connecticut

7. New Empirical Studies I: UMC 382-386
Organized by Angus Vail, Willamette University

Learning to Dance while Becoming a Dancer
Matt Caudill, University of South Florida

Hooking-up in 'Fun in Games'
Scott Renshaw, Arizona State University

Ethreal Members and Real Interaction: The Internet and Online Organizations
Matt Lust, Southern Utah University

Perps and Junkies: Normalizing Stigma in the Mass Media
David L. Altheide & Katie DeVries
Arizona State University

Friendly Force: Ambivalence in the K-9 Officer/Patrol Dog Relationship
Clinton R. Sanders, University of Connecticut

8. Panel on Innovations in Communication Ethnography: UMC 415-417
Organized by Bryan C. Taylor, Department of Communication University of Colorado at Boulder

The Exchange of Social Support among Graduate Students
Linda Horwitz, University of Colorado at Boulder

The Stories We Tell: Investigating Firefighter Culture
John McClellan, University of Colorado at Boulder

Narrative as Vernacular: Constituting Community among Transients, Tourists, and Locals
erin underwood, University of Colorado at Boulder

Making Place of Cyberspace: The Use of Spatial Metaphors in an Introductory and Intermediate HTML Classroom
Jason Lesko, University of Colorado at Boulder

Open Space: Free Time to Explore Boulder

Special Note: Donna Haraway to speak

Donna Haraway will be speaking on Friday February 11, 2005, 5-6:30 p.m. on the University of Colorado campus in Duane Physics G1B20. Dr. Haraway will be presenting a paper entitled "We Have Never Been Human: Companion Species in NatureCultures, based on topics from her recent book The Companion Species manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness.

Meet in Marriott Hotel lobby to go to Banquet

Banquet at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art
1750 13th Street, Boulder, CO 80302

7:15 – 8:00 am

Ongoing Conference Registration: UMC 425

9. Panel on Qualitative Studies in Media Research: UMC 382-386
Organized by Stewart Hoover, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Colorado at Boulder

Narratives of Self in Qualitative Media Audience Studies
Stewart Hoover, University of Colorado at Boulder

Quilting Identities: Threading the Researcher Self with the Informant Other in the Construction of Interpretations
Lynn Schofield Clark, University of Colorado at Boulder
Monica Emerich, University of Colorado at Boulder

Narratives of Family, Meaning, and Values: Field Research on Family Identity through Children’s Eyes
Lee Hood, University of Colorado at Boulder

Mothering, Commodities, and Symbols in the Social Practice of Scrapbooking
Kendra Gale, University of Colorado at Boulder

10. Understanding Violence: UMC 415-417
Organized by Eleanor Lyon, University of Connecticut

But This Interview Isn't "About" Violence: Navigating Unexpected Trauma Talk in Participant Narratives
Erica Owens, Marquette University

Rehab for Hookers: Normalizing, Establishing Control and Perceiving Family in a Total Institution
Katherine Neary, Willamette University

“What’s Wrong with Violence?”
John Johnson, Arizona State University

The Silence/Violence Pattern: A Theory of Male Emotions
Thomas Scheff, Unoversity of California, Santa Barbara

11. Race and Ethnicity: UMC 382-386
Organized by Lori Peek, University of Colorado at Boulder

Environmental Justice and Social Power Rhetoric: A Case Study of the Makah Whaling Movement and Anti-Whaling Counter-Movement
Julia Miller-Cantzler, University of Colorado at Boulder

Chicanos Structured by the Barrio and Whites Feeling Postmodern in the Suburbs
Robert Duran, University of Colorado at Boulder

The ‘Interaction Order’ and Racial Segregation: Implications From the Civil Rights Movement
Jean Van Delinder, Oklahoma State University

Beloved Strangers: Intersections of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Experiences of White Mothers of Biracial Children
Serena Wadlington, University of Colorado at Boulder

12. House and Home: UMC 415-417
Organized by Melinda Milligan, Sonoma State University

Supporting Community by Breaking Rules
Susan Kremmel, University of South Florida

Stuff Stories
Eugene Halton, University of Notre Dame

Re-Enchantment of the Home: Homeschooling as Practice-Oriented Spirituality
Rebecca A. Allahyari, School of American Research

13. Goffman's Model of Context: Deciphering Frame Analysis: UMC 382-386
A Special Feature Presentation by Thomas Scheff
Organized by GSRC, University of Colorado at Boulder

14. Cultural Studies: UMC 415-417
Organized by Simon Gottschalk, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

The Accelerated Self: Rushing Through Cyberspace
Simon Gottschalk, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

The Heroic Process and Pat Tillman
David L. Altheide, Arizona State University
John M. Johnson, Arizona State University

Signs of Control: Social Problems Billboards in Nebraska
Kurt Borchard, University of Nebraska, Kearney

"My Shit Don't Stink": Moral Order/Moral Odor
Dennis Waskul, Minnestota State University, Mankato

15. Sex Spaces: UMC 382-386
Organized by Matthew C. Brown, University of Colorado at Boulder

The New Bump n' Grind: Drag, Identity, and the Politics of Performance in the New Burlesque
Natalie M. Peluso, University of Connecticut.

While My Subjects Were Masturbating: Reflections on the Naivete of a Chaste Scholar
Dennis D. Waskul, Minnesota State University, Mankato

The Pink Flag of Sex: Sociology, Ethics, and Queer Sexualities
Jeffery Webre, University of Colorado at Boulder

In the Bush: Sexual Participation in the Field, Epistemology, and Methodology
Matthew C. Brown, University of Colorado at Boulder

Dragging Gender Politics onto Center Stage: The Alter Boys at Club 2101
Kirsten Spielman, University of Colorado at Boulder

16. Sports and Symbolic Interaction - UMC 415-417
Organized by Rob Benford, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

Body Work: Personal Trainers, Interactional Strategies, and Respect
Molly George, University of California, Santa Barbara

The Intercollegiate Sports Reform Movement: Framing Academic Corruption in College Sports
Rob Benford, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

The Foxes and the Hen House: College Coeds, Sexual Assaults, the Absence of Social Control and the Deliberate Use of Institutional Impression Management by College Officials
Howard Robboy, The College of New Jersey

The Rhetoric of the NCAA and Corporate Erosion of Higher Education
Linda Bensel-Meyers, University of Denver

17. Feminism and SI: Doing Gendered Identities: UMC 415
Organized by Rebecca A. Allahyari, School of American Research

Performing Empowerment: State Expectations of Mothers Attempting to Regain Custody of their Children from the Child Welfare System
Jennifer Reich, University of Denver

Home Alone: Negotiating Gender on the Urban Frontier
Melinda Milligan, Sonoma State University

18. Music and Symbolic Interaction: UMC 417
Organized by Robert Gardner, Linfield College

Every Club Will Have Its D.J.: Club D.J.'s and the Semiotics of Counter-Cultural Music Genres
Hans Bakker, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Social Identity and Its Effects on University Students' Musical Preferences
Patricia Perez, University of California, Santa Barbara

19. New Empirical Studies II: UMC 382-386
Organized by Dianne Kraft, University of Houston

Disrupting the (Social) Body: Acute Illness, Injury and the interruption of the Mundane
Dana Rosenfeld, Colorado College

I Must Have Said Yes: A Journey Into the Abyss
Colleen Hall-Patton, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

The Ground I Walked on Then: Situating Myself in a Memory
Diane Ketelle, Mills College

20. Plenary Session – Special Location: Building HALE 270
Organized by the Graduate Student Research Collective, University of Colorado at Boulder

Big Profits, Big Risks, Big Action: Land 'Gamblers' and the Human Habitat
Lyn Lofland, University of California, Davis

The Globalization of Intimacies: From Intimate Citizens to Intimate Inequalities
Kenneth Plummer, University of Essex, UK and Visiting Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara

New Visions of the Old Head in the American Inner-City: A Commentary on Self and Social Purpose
Alford Young Jr., University of Michigan

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