CALL FOR PAPERS
31st Conference of the International Association for Time Use Research (IATUR.org)
Leuphana University Lueneburg, Germany, 23 - 25 September 2009
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 30 April 2009.
With the conference motto "New Approaches and Results in Time Use Research" we encourage all papers addressing substantive and methodological issues also on a multinational level.
Contributions from economic, sociology and other sciences are welcome according to the timing, duration, frequency, sequence and impacts of daily life activities. They include all kinds of market and non-market activities with labour market aspects and unpaid work in the formal and informal economy, gender aspects and family and leisure activities, environmental behaviour, social networks and social contacts, geography, travel, child and elder care, new media and internet, adolescent and the youth, time poverty and stress and many more.
Please indicate if your submitted abstract is for a longer presentation (20 minutes + questions), a shorter presentation (10 minutes + questions), or a poster, and what main category from the list below your contribution belongs. Posters about new activities, new projects, new surveys etc. are welcome in particular. To give many participants the possibility of presenting a paper, the organizers reserve the right to turn down multiple submissions from the same person.
To submit your abstract (150-250 words), e-mail a file that includes the names, affiliation, address and country of the authors, title, abstract, key words, main category/issue link of the above list as well as an indication of the type of presentation you wish to make. Ideas for plenary sessions are welcome.
Please put "iatur2009 abstract your surname" in the subject line of the
e-mail to: iatur2009@leuphana.de
Papers are invited to address the following or other issues
1. Changing structure of paid and unpaid work
2. Social contacts, networks and volunteering
3. Family interaction, parental time and leisure
4. Environment, geography and travelling
5. Gender perspectives
6. Economic accounting, valueing non-market activities, macro aspects
7. New media and internet
8. Child and elder care
9. Adolescent, youth and education
10. Time poverty and stress
11. Extended well-being, happiness and inequality
12. Methodological issues, data collection and data quality
13. Others: your topic
IMPORTANT DATES
30 April 2009 Submission deadline
31 May 2009 Notification of abstract
acceptance
30 June 2009 Early bird registration
expires
23 - 25 September 2009 IATUR 2009 conference
REGISTRATION, CONFERENCE FEE
Please register via the conference website
www.leuphana.de/ffb/iatur2009.
Early bird and standard registration fees are
Early-Bird
Student or developing country IATUR member 100 EURO
Student or developing country NOT IATUR member 150 EURO
Other IATUR member
220 EURO
Other NOT IATUR member
255 EURO
Standard Registration
Student or developing country IATUR member 140 EURO
Student or developing country NOT IATUR member 190 EURO
Other IATUR member
260 EURO
Other NOT IATUR member
295 EURO
The conference fee includes conference material, conference dinner, three day lunches, coffee and tea breaks. Hotel and travel expenses are not included.
The conference will be organized by the Research Institute on Professions (Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe, FFB) of the Leuphana University Lueneburg and the German Federal Statistical Office together with IATUR.
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Prof. Dr. Joachim Merz, Chair of the Programme Committee, Leuphana University ( www.leuphana.de/ffb)
Prof. Dr. Manfred Ehling, German Federal Statistical Office (www.destatis.de)
Prof. Michael Bittman, International Association for Time Use Research (www.IATUR.org)
Dr. Kimberly Fisher, International Association for Time Use Research (www.IATUR.org)
CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Joachim Merz, Dipl.-Kfm. Tim Rathjen
Research Institute on Professions (Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe, FFB)
Leuphana University Lueneburg
Campus, Scharnhorststr. 1, Building 5
21335 Lueneburg, Germany
phone: +49(0)4131 677 2051
fax: +49(0)4131 677 2059
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