Dear Colleagues,

We are delighted to announce that the final program for the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society is now available at:

Final Program (2/9/2010)

Please read all of the information below and keep this in a safe place. It you are not wondering about some of these things now, you probably will be!

AV Support: Only PowerPoint/Laptop Projectors and screens will be available for all regular sessions. You must bring your own laptop(and the connection cord if you have an Apple computer) -- or arrange with someone else in your session to share. ROUNDTABLE SESSIONS WILL NOT HAVE AV EQUIPMENT. Use of handouts rather than machines should encourage interaction and also keep the clutter and noise down in the assigned room.

Internet access: The common space in the hotel will have internet access for free for meeting registrants. Internet access in the meeting rooms is, strangely enough, not automatic and fairly costly, so contact ess@wpunj.edu to talk about it if you really need it.

Membership and Registration: Unless you have received Presidential dispensation, ALL Presenters in the discipline must be ESS members and must register for the sessions. Undergrads whose institutions hold a Departmental Membership do not have to pay for membership (normally $30 for a student at the pre-conference rate) but all undergrads will have to register at the nominal $10 Undergraduate rate. (Ugrads, bug your chair to join – it is good for everyone and can be done online at our website). NON-SOCIOLOGISTS may opt for a "non-member" registration. Registration and Membership can be taken care of online in the Annual Meeting section of our website http://essnet.org.

Hotel Reservations: The conference hotel is the Boston Park Plaza Hotel and Towers. Room rate is $169 plus taxes per night for a standard single/double. ESS gets access to meeting space in the hotel by committing to a certain level of "room nights" from our attendees during the course of the conference. If we do not hit that number, we pay a hefty charge – so we ask that you support the society by staying in the hotel if at all possible. The cut off date for reservations is February 24, 2010 – but don't tarry; it will fill up. You can make your reservations through the Annual Meeting tab of the ESS website at http://essnet.org. A roommate matching service will be available through the hotel tab on our website shortly (http://essnet.org/AnnualMeeting_hotel.aspx ).

Welcome to the program! We look forward to seeing you in Boston!

Rosanna Hertz, ESS President, 2009-2010

2010 Program Committee:

Christopher Winship, Jonathan Imber, Anita Garey, Nazli Kibria and Bill Wilson, Program Committee

Clare Hammonds and Jennifer Girouard, Program Coordinators

Pamela Stone and Christine Bose, Author-Meets-Critics Co-chairs