The 2005 ASA meeting in Philadelphia brought together new and old members of the section.

First there was the section reception...

Sharing an array of international cheeses....

Les Kurtz, James Fenelon, Helen Fein, Laura Miller, and Allen
Grimshaw smile for the camera.

Morten Ender and Lynne Woehrle share a joke.

Mathew Johnson and Les Kurtz catch up on old times.

Helen Raisz waits patiently for the photographer to go away.

The next morning the Section officers began work early with a breakfast council meeting.....

Meredith Gould, Meyer Kestnbaum, Morten Ender confer at
the council meeting.

Secretary-Treasurer John Crist makes a point.

New Council member Yuko Kurashina and new Chair-Elect
Lee Smithey listen intently.

Later, at the business meeting...

Chair-Elect Morten Ender points out that he is not outgoing
Chair Sharon Erickson Nepstad.  Morten filled in for Sharon
who could not attend because she had just adopted a daughter,
Linnea Xiomara, from Guatemala.  Congratulations, Sharon!

Lynne Woehrle gives an update on the Section's Membership Committee.

Juanita Firestone announces the winners of the Elise Boulding
Student Paper Award.  The undergraduate winner was
Rachel Beck of the US Military Academy at West Point and
the graduate winner was Katherine McCoy of the
University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Morten, filling in for Sharon, presents the Robin S. Williams
Distinguished Career Award to Les Kurtz from the University of Texas.

Les Kurtz plugs the journal Nonviolence.

At the end of the meeting, Chair-Elect Morten, filling in for
outgoing Chair Sharon Erickson Nepstad, hands himself the gavel
and welcomes himself as the incoming Chair. 

After the meeting, Meyer Kestnbaum chats with Katherine McCoy,
who won the graduate student paper award.

The boys from Texas.  PWSC sociologists from three different eras
at the University of Texas-Austin get together after the meeting: 
Daniel Ritter, Les Kurtz, and Lee Smithey.

Some pictures from the panels and the Roundtables that day.....

One of six PWSC roundtable sessions.

Josh Klein tells a roundtable group it's time to wrap it up.

Greg Maney gives his reactions to the papers on the panel on
"Factors Fostering or Inhibiting Violence in Social Conflicts."

Laura Miller presides over the panel on "Peace, War, and
Military Institutions: Implications for Practitioners and Policy.

While Laura Miller presides, Brigitte Neary looks at her notes.