Ethnographies of Conferences and Trade Fairs

Hege Høyer Leivestad is a researcher in the Department of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University, Sweden.  Anette Nyqvist is Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University, Sweden.

• 1. Individuals and Industries: Large-Scale Professional Gatherings as Ethnographic Fields.- 2. Scheduled Schmoozing: Notes on Interludal Practices at Responsible Investors’ Conferences.- 3. White Corporate Feminine Spirituality: The Rise of Global Professional Women’s Conferences in the New Millennium.- 4. The Therapeutic Square: The Psychotherapy Fair from an Anthropological Perspective.- 5. Establishing the Complexity of Obesity: The Conference as a Site of Understanding Obesity as a Medical Condition.- 6. The Biennial of Dakar: Scales of Art Worlds-Networks.- 7. Beyond Informality: Intimacy and Commerce at the Caravanning Trade Fair.- 8. Traversing Trade Fairs and Fashion Weeks: On Dependence and Disavowal in the Indian Fashion Industry.