Chicago is out. What does the blogging lobby have to say about where ASA 2011 should be? Des Moines?
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22 Comments
Detroit. Or New Orleans.
West Coast, please.
Regardless of the location, I hope they decide soon. Otherwise, how am I going to know whether or not to submit a paper?
Somewhere where its not hot and humid as all hell in august. that eliminates anywhere in the south, texas and the east coast. Portland, Seattle, or Detroit would be great.
I wonder how many decent options ASA will really have, given that many other conferences claimed hotels/weekends in cities around the country a long time ago.
This is a serious problem for the CBSM section, which has a workshop scheduled in Chicago just before ASA.
If it’s Atlanta again, I’m shredding my membership and going rogue.
I vote Vegas. If I can’t have Vegas, give me Montreal or Quebec. But I have this sinking feeling we’re looking at Madison. Or Detroit.
It’s hard not to support ASA Vegas given that something like this is just about the only way it would happen.
Otherwise: Minneapolis!
indeed, it could be the California recall election of academic conferences
ASA was once held in Atlantic City in the 1930s, we can do it again.
I’m lobbying for Nashville.
I’m hoping for Detroit because it’s still Midwest and a easy place to fly/drive into. They could really use us, too.
Do you suppose ASA is going to reimburse CBSM for deposits and such if they have to cancel their mini-conference? And if they don’t cancel (or move it), would anyone go?
CBSM conference plans scuppered because of successful collective action. Oh, the Alanis.
there are lots of other mini-conferences too: consumer studies, comparative-historical,etc. Also, SSSP simultaneous to ASA and draws from same crowd…
Tina, on a more serious point, this is why I am a little wary of moving conferences, even if we sympathize with workers. Moving a major event on short notice causes many problems. Multiple conferences coordinate with us.
Also, we’ve done this twice now in recent memory. Will vendors charge us more in the future because we have a reputation for not doing what we say?
I agree that it’s a major logistical problem. However if, in fact, there are legitimate moral or ethical grounds, it seems they trump logistics.
Incurring higher prices is also an ethical issue. By having higher prices for conference services, we’ll drive away people at the margin – usually graduate students and people of low income.
True enough but in this case “low income” is generally higher, at least in a life-course sense, than the hotel workers we’re discussing.
Indianapolis, here we come.
Madison, Wisconsin. I’m serious about it.