Ethnographies of Conferences and Trade Fairs: Shaping Industries, Creating Professionals

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