List Denizens:

I ran across this item and thought some list members might possibily be interested in participating. See the note below.

Thad Van Bueren



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From: "Cathy Stanton/H-Public editor" <[log in to unmask]>

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Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 3:53 PM

Subject: CFP: "Everyday stuff: narrating the social lives of material

objects"

Everyday stuff: narrating the social lives of material objects

The Culture of Cities Project is pleased to announce its call for

papers for its panel "Everyday stuff: narrating the social lives of

material objects", to take place during the 2006 Annual Meeting of the

Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association (CSAA) at York

University, Toronto.

As silent protagonists of our everyday lives, mundane objects

simultaneously escape and fascinate the scholar, who seeks to turn

their apparent irrelevance, inertness and muteness into phenomena

worthy of detailed consideration. We are particularly interested in

contributions in the form of case studies from both graduate students

and established scholars who aim at discovering mundane things and

their (contested) use as occasions for research into the interpretive

complexity of the structure of everyday life. A list of topics

includes, but is not restricted to:

- Tools and technologies

- Architecture and infrastructure

- Landscapes and monuments

- Amenities

- Clothing, food and other consumer goods

- Domestic and public furniture

Paper proposals should include the title of the paper, name,

institutional affiliation and e-mail address of the author(s), as well

as an abstract of no more than 500 words. The deadline for proposals is

December 31st, 2005. Authors will be notified of their participation by

January 31st, 2006.

Please, direct submissions to:

Diego Llovet ([log in to unmask])

Department of Sociology, York University

Toronto, Canada