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Mike, I don't know of any intellectual traditions here but at least some people who go into event planning/special events often have a theatre management or theatre production background. In small organizations, the position is often tied to development (fundraising) and/or public relations/communication. It's a highly stressful, complex job that requires good "relationship-building" and "communication skills" (I've helped a few people obtain these positions). Lois Don't forget to check out the latest at http://loisholzman.org Lois Holzman, Ph.D. Director, East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy 104-106 South Oxford St. Brooklyn NY 11217 Chair, Global Outreach for All Stars Project UX tel. 212.941.8906 ext. 324 fax 718.797.3966 lholzman@eastsideinstitute.org eastsideinstitute.org performingtheworld.org loisholzman.org allstars.org http://esicommunitynews.wordpress.com/ On Feb 12, 2013, at 6:57 PM, mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com> wrote: > Ah! Well, I started to send this note to all of you, then decided to send > to daughter, but ended up sending to all of you after all, so here is the > problem. Delete if this is an intrusion on your time. > > I am teaching a class where students are interest in an activity called > "event planning" for which people are sometime paid enough to make a > living. The difficulty is that the students do not > appear to have been taught anything they can remember about > events and this is a senior class. So I am doing some digging with them, > and now with you. > > The dictionary is of limited use: > * * > *a. * Something that takes place; an occurrence. > *b. * A significant occurrence or happening. See Synonyms at > occurrence<http://www.thefreedictionary.com/occurrence> > . > *c. * A social gathering or activity. > > > A philosophical dictionary lays out the problem territory in greater > detail: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/events/#EveVsObj > > For events of type c, which the students are most concerned with of course, > my thought was to turn to the work of Turner, Goffman..... but I cannot use > an entire book. > > I would appreciate suggestions for sources that would help me and my > students to think about events, especially as they relate > to a process called communication. > > mike > __________________________________________ > _____ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca