ÂÜÀòÉç¹ÙÍø

: : : Posting : : content

Related ARContent:

---

Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 13:59:59 -0400
From: "Ratner, Rebecca" <Rebecca_Ratner@unc.edu>

Seventh Annual ACR Doctoral Symposium

Co-Chairs:    Steve Nowlis, Arizona State University
        Rebecca Ratner, University of Maryland

The seventh annual ACR doctoral symposium will be held on Thursday, September 28th and Sunday, October 1 at the Renaissance Orlando Resort in Orlando, FL. This year, we are excited to try a new format for the doctoral symposium.  In past years, the symposium began Wednesday night and ended Thursday late afternoon before the ACR evening reception. This year, we will begin the symposium with sessions after lunch on Thursday afternoon, September 28th, and then resume and conclude the symposium with two sessions Sunday morning, October 1st.  We hope that this schedule change will make it easier on both faculty and students who want to attend the doctoral symposium but minimize mid-week conflicts. In addition, we are enthusiastic about developing a doctoral symposium format that will allow for discussion both before and after the ACR conference. This allows us to take advantage of the new ACR schedule that concludes at the end of the day on Saturday.

The formal Doctoral Symposium program will begin Thursday afternoon at 1 p.m., beginning with a plenary session to be followed by a breakout session.  The speakers for the plenary session will include exemplary junior and senior scholars in the field of CB. The breakout sessions (four topical areas per session) will include presentations by a collection of the most active CB scholars from a range of methodological paradigms. The emphasis of these breakout sessions will be identifying and discussing research opportunities in the topical areas covered. 

After the Thursday evening ACR opening reception, symposium participants will have the opportunity to join their Ph.D. student and faculty colleagues in a small group for dinner at a local restaurant. 

The conversations started in the Thursday afternoon breakout sessions will resume Sunday morning with breakout sessions that share the same topical areas but involve several new faculty participants.  A primary goal of the Sunday morning breakouts will be to consider key questions about how to do consumer behavior research within the topical area in light of talks presented at this year’s ACR conference.  Student participants will be encouraged to come to the session ready to critique and discuss research presented at this year’s conference and to share ideas about future directions.

This symposium is open to all Ph.D. students.  More details of the symposium along with a registration form will be available on the ACR website () by mid-June.

We look forward to the symposium and thank you for spreading the word among doctoral students in your program,

Rebecca Ratner and Steve Nowlis

Rebecca K. Ratner
Associate Professor of Marketing
Kenan-Flagler Business School
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Campus Box 3490, McColl Building
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3490
ratnerr@bschool.unc.edu (email)
(919) 962-8215 (office phone)
(919) 962-7186 (fax)
(until June 30, 2006)

Rebecca K. Ratner
Associate Professor of Marketing
Robert H. Smith School of Business
University of Maryland
3307 Van Munching Hall
College Park, MD 20742-1815
rratner@rhsmith.umd.edu (email)
(301) 405-2175 (office phone)
(301) 405-0146 (fax)
(after July 1, 2006)