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.