To Those Interested in the Work of Arthur Vidich & Joseph Bensman:

This is an announcement for a conference to commemorate the legacy of Arthur Vidich and Joseph Bensman that will be held in New York City May 6-7, 2017. While Vidich and Bensman each made significant individual contributions to sociology, their lifelong collaboration resulted in two major books, several timely anthologies, and many articles. The purpose of the conference will be to explore their joint and individual legacies, their contribution to sociology and the influences they had on their collaborators, colleagues, and students. We welcome participants and presenters.

Thanks to the kind assistance of Dr. Philip Kasinitz, the conference will be held at CUNY Graduate Center, Dept. of Sociology, 365 Fifth Ave. between 34th & 35th Streets, New York, NY on May 6 & 7 (Saturday & Sunday), 2017. We may also have a get-together at CUNY on Friday evening May 5.

We need to know with some certainty who plans to attend and who plans to contribute a paper and/or serve as a discussant. With under a year until the scheduled date of the conference, we need to begin to have a sense of how many people intend to come and contribute.

Please reply via email to CJ Churchill, cjchurchi@yahoo.com, or by phone to Jerry Levy at 301.775.8840 (cell) or 802.254.8513 (landline). In either case, it will help if you could provide us with your phone numbers to facilitate communication as needed. 

We also suggest that you submit your email contact at this blog site so that you can receive automatic notifications of ongoing updates and announcements about this important conference.

Once again, if you would like to attend or present a paper please contact CJ Churchill, cjchurchi@yahoo.com, or call by phone to Jerry Levy at 301.775.8840 (cell) or 802.254.8513 (landline).

We look forward to hearing from you soon. Please feel free to forward this announcement to anyone you know who might be interested in the conference.

All Best,
CJ Churchill & Jerry Levy