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***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** Just to add a bit to Dave & Alex's nice accounts. 1. The original name was The Sunbelt Social Network Conference. Various uni admins balked at paying for what was so obviously a holiday, so we put the word International up front, and let people know they could leave out the word Sunbelt when applying to their unis for reimbursement. The early Sunbelts had a 2-3 hour break at lunch, the bright thought of Russ Bernard, which was variously called Peak Tanning Time or Informal Networking Time. The weight of more sessions has killed that. For laughs, Bonnie Erickson and I would sometimes suggest we meet in Toronto in February, which always got shouted down. Even without PTT. 2. I recall that the first non-American Sunbelt was earlier than in London, but in Paris/Sorbonne -- courtesy of Alexis Ferrand, Alain Degenne, Karl van Meter, etc. Indeed, one of the things that I am most proud of as the founder of INSNA (and head for 12 years) is that with a lot of good will, we evolved a rotation system that kept European scholars as part of INSNA. Next year, we are not only in Hamburg but having our first Asian conference in Xi'an China thanks to the efforts of Yanjie Bian I think we have a good system now, with both the rotating unified conferences and regional conferences, altho it will be a challenge to work into the rota: Asia and Australasia. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social network researchers (http://www.insna.org). To unsubscribe, send an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message.