Those Planning to Attend the Vidich-Bensman Conference

Joseph Bensman and Arthur Vidich in New York City, Circa 1980

December 15, 2016


To Those Planning to Attend the Vidich-Bensman Conference:

We met on Dec. 9, 2016, and we are happy to report that the conference is shaping up the way we had hoped. We already have commitments from a number of speakers. However, you should all know that we have received thousands of hits on our blog site reflecting great interest in the conference so we urge you to make your interest known to us so we can plan accordingly.

We have commitments from participants to write papers, participate in the Friday night session where we will be expressing more personal remembrances of Arthur and Joe, and the Saturday and Sunday sessions where we will discuss their substantive work. With your help, we have located colleagues and students of Bensman and Vidich some of whom we were not previously aware. We are still looking for people; we will be contacting individuals to ask them what panels they want to serve on.

The deadline for papers is March 15, but we will certainly accept work before then and will send to interested parties immediately.

We will have a final schedule for the conference with other instructions by early April. Please go to the following for the preliminary conference program: http://arthurvidich.blogspot.com

The dates of the conference are May 5-7, 2017, and it will be held at: 
CUNY Graduate Center
Dept. of Sociology
365 Fifth Ave. between 34th & 35th Streets
New York City.

For information about the conference, call Jerry Levy at his cell
number, (301) 775-8840 or his landline, (802) 254-8513 or contact us via email at 

bensmanvidichconference@gmail.com. 

All Best,
Jerry Levy & CJ Churchill