International Justice, War Crimes, and Terrorism: The U.S. Record
10th Social Research Conference April 25-27, 2002 International Justice, War Crimes and Terrorism: The U.S. Record, a three-day...
Privacy in Post-Communist Europe, Part II
9th Social Research Conference March 23-24, 2001 Eastern Europe has emerged from a recent communist past where everything was officially...
Altered States of Consciousness
8th Social Research Conference February 22-24, 2001 Drugs, meditation, hypnosis, ecstasy, dreaming, hallucination, mass hysteria: There...
Privacy in the U.S. and Europe, Part I
7th Social Research Conference October 5-7, 2000 The distinction between what is public and what is private is becoming more and more...
Food: Nature and Culture
6th Social Research Conference November 5-7, 1998 What we eat; the ceremonies surrounding it; how food marks our sameness and difference;...
Technology and the Rest of Culture
5th Social Research Conference January 16-18, 1997 This conference was devoted to the thesis that technology is not separate and apart...
In the Company of Animals
4th Social Research Conference April 6-8, 1995 Animals have been hunted and domesticated, befriended and eaten, worshiped and feared,...
Rescue: The Paradoxes of Virtue
3rd Social Research Conference November 17-18, 1994 Confronted with the suffering of others, whether caused by natural disaster or...
Home: A Place in the World
2nd Social Research Conference October 25-27, 1990 We live in a time when the idea of home has become problematic. We are confronted...
In Time of Plague: The History and Social Consequences of Lethal Epidemic Disease
The conference was organized with the expectation that an open discussion among scientists and scholars might help to place the current...