Reminder for those in and near Chicago:
My new book – Interrogating Ethnography: Why Evidence Matters — will be officially "launched" at a conference on October 20-21. All sessions will be held at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, Room 887, 350 East Superior Street, Chicago.
The Saturday morning session is approved for two general CLE credits, and the Saturday afternoon session is approved for pending approval of two professionalism CLE credts.
RSVP (for Saturday lunch purposes) here.
Here is the full schedule, featuring some major figures in ethnography and sociology:
Friday October 20, 4:00-6:00 Author Meets Critics
Presider, Gary Alan Fine, Northwestern University
Presenters:
Philip Cohen, University of Maryland
Colin Jerolmack, New York University
Shamus Khan, Columbia University
Mary Pattillo, Northwestern University
Responder: Steven Lubet, Northwestern University Pritzker Law School
Saturday October 21, 9:30-11:30, Ethnographic Evidence
Presider: Deborah Tuerkheimer, Northwestern University Law School
Presenters:
Christena Nippert-Eng, Indiana University
Claudio Benzecry, Northwestern University
Steven Mills, ProPublica
Laurence Ralph, Harvard University
Lunch (provided)
Saturday October 21, 1:00-3:00 Ethnography, Ethics, and Law
Presider: Juliet Sorensen, Northwestern University Pritzker Law School
Presenters:
Peter Moskos, John Jay College, CUNY
Robert Nelson, Northwestern University/American Bar Foundation
Robert Vargas, University of Chicago
The panels will be video recorded and posted on our law school website. A link will be posted here when available.