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Invitation to Sociology Editors Forum 2010 at this year's ASA

Wiley-Blackwell will host a Sociological Editors Forum at ASA in Atlanta and a community site has been created to complement the event. The Forum will give journal editors an opportunity to discuss hot topics in sociology publishing with peers. Please visit the community site for more information and valuable resources – http://asaeditorsforum.wordpress.com. If you are a journal editor and would like to attend the event, please email scanney@wiley.com. We look forward to seeing journal editors in Atlanta and/or on the...

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Virtual Conference Report: Day Four (22 Oct, 2009)

The conference today has taken on a distinctly environmental feel. First up was Mark Macklin’s (University of Wales, Aberystwyth) keynote address entitled ‘Floodplain Catastrophes and Climate Change: Lessons from the Rise and Fall of Riverine Societies.’ In his paper, Macklin observes that ‘[w]e are not the first society to face the threat of environmental catastrophe,’ although he stresses that the current threat has unique features. Susan Morrison (Texas State University – San Marcos) has taken a highly interdisciplinary approach to...