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***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** On 01/03/2012 9:58 AM, patrick doreian wrote: > ***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** On 3/1/2012 > 12:32 PM, Carl Johan Nordlund wrote: >> ***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** >> Sort of a silly question - but how come the upcoming Sunbelt >> conference is called "Sunbelt"? Hamburg is a bit off from the >> southern regions of the US, no? >> And see you there! >> Carl >> Carl Nordlund, PhD >> Post-doctoral research fellow >> Center for Network Science, Department of Political Science >> Central European University, Budapest >> Tel:+36 1 327-3000 Ext. 2242 >> Email: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> >> _____________________________________________________________________ >> 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. > hi carl, > the reason lies in the mists of time. the first sunbelt > gatherings were in the usa sunbelt. and the name had meaning in the > winter season which implied some nice marketing. but as soon as the > first vancouver sunbelt occured, the term lost its initial meaning. > with the merging of the european and sunbelt gathering occurred in > london in 1995, the term had even less descriptive merit. but the > tradition of naming it 'sunbelt' remained. i like it - but maybe when > all of the old farts who were at the beginning of sunbelt peg out, > then the name might change. but in the current rotation, the two in > the usa are in the sunbelt and to quote meatloaf "two out three ain't > bad". > with best wishes > pat Just in case someone gets the mistaken idea that Vancouver is not sunny most of the time, I will point out that the London meeting actually occurred before the Vancouver meeting. :-) Cheers, DBT Ps: ok ... I will admit that technically speaking, Vancouver has more rainy days, and more mm of rain each year even than London .... > > > -- > patrick doreian > professor emeritus > department of sociology > 2602 WWPH > university of pittsburgh > pittsburgh, PA 15260 > phone: 412 648 7537 > fax: 412 648 2799 > website:http://patrickdoreian.com > Social Networks > http://ees.elsevier.com/son/default.asp > > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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. _____________________________________________________________________ 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.