Ben Merriman

Essay on Kansas at n+1

My essay on Kansas politics is now live at n+1, have a look:

http://nplusonemag.com/the-matter-with-kansas-again

Paper Accepted for SSHA

My paper, “Spatial Scales as Social Processes: Propositions for an Ecology of Scales,” has been accepted for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association. I’ll be presenting on a panel on “Social Networks in Space and Time.” The meeting will be in Chicago from November 21-24.

http://www.ssha.org/

Buy Chicago Review 57:3/4

Issue 57:3/4 of Chicago Review is out at long last. It features an introductory essay on the photography of Vivian Maier, written by me and my friend Andrew Seeder. More importantly, it features a number of terrific writers, including Helen DeWitt:

http://www.chicagoreview.org

Paper Accepted for ASA

My paper, “The Dilemma of Openness: Risk to Populations in the International HapMap and 1000 Genomes Projects,” written with my colleague Santiago J. Molina, has been accepted for the regular session on Ethics and Science at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. The meeting will be held in New York City in August of 2013.

http://www.asanet.org/am2013/am2013.cfm

Paper accepted for “Zeitgeist” workshop

My paper on “Duels in the European Novel: Class, Status, and the Limits of Bourgeois Sensibility” has been accepted for presentation at a workshop at the Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung in Bielefeld, Germany this September. The subject of the meeting is “Zeitgeist: An inquiry into the media of time-specific cultural patterns.”

Buy The Lifted Brow #15

Issue #15 of The Lifted Brow, featuring my story “Richters,” is now available:

http://www.theliftedbrow.com/

Buy Portland Review 58.1

The Spring 2012 issue of Portland Review, which contains my story “A Failed Siege, has finally appeared after many snags. I wish them smooth editorial sailing in the coming year!

http://portlandreview.tumblr.com/

Buy Black Warrior Review 39.1

Issue 39.1 of Black Warrior Review, featuring my story “DMV,” is out now:

http://bwr.ua.edu/

Paper Accepted for MSS

My paper, “Epistemic Orphans and the Construction of Risk in Studies of Human Population Genetics: The Case of the International HapMap Project,” written with my colleague Santiago J. Molina, has been accepted for the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society.  The meeting will be held Chicago in March of 2013, and we’ll be presenting on the session on Constructing Social Problems.

http://www.themss.org/annualmeetings.html

I interview myself at the Versal blog

Versal has just published an interview or interview-like document wherein I talk a little about writing:

http://versaljournal.blogspot.nl/2012/10/contributor-notes-ben-merriman.html