Wednesday, July 30, 2008
 Time  Event Details
12:00pm – 2:30pm Meeting: Budget, Finance, and Audit Committee, 2007-08
2:45pm – 6:45pm Meeting: Board of Directors Meeting, 2007-08
7:30pm – 9:30pm Dinner: Board of Directors Dinner, 2007-08

 Thursday, July 31, 2008
 Time  Event Details
8:30am – 10:10am Meeting: C. Wright Mills Award Committee, 2007-08 - CANCELLED
  Meeting: Committee on Committees, 2007-08 & 2008-09
  Meeting: Erwin O. Smigel Award Committee, 2007-08
  Meeting: Retreat Implementation Committee, 2007-08
  Session 1: Working in the Health Care Sector
  Session 2: Beyond the Numbers: Challenging the Proclaimed Success of Welfare Reform, Part I
  Session 3: Outsiders Within Sociologists in the Late 2000’s: Achievements, Limitations, and Strategies - THEMATIC
  Session 4: Community, Sustainability and the Urban Environment: Part One
  Session 5: Workshop: Teaching Sexuality
  Session 6: Globalization: Theory, Ideology, and Practice
  Session 7: Midlife and Old Age: Identity and Experience
  Session 8: Crime Stories: Studies in Social Constructionism
  Session 9: Crossing Borders: Immigration and Family  - THEMATIC
  Session 10: Institutional Ethnography: New Research
8:30am – 12:10pm Meeting: Editorial and Publications Committee, 2007-08 & 2008-09
9:30am - 5:30pm Meeting: Boston Human Rights: Ideas and Action (open to SSSP Members)
10:30am – 12:10pm Meeting: Accessibility Committee, 2007-08
  Meeting: Lee Founders Award Committee, 2007-08
  Meeting: Lee Scholar-Activist Support Fund Committee, 2007-08  - CANCELLED
  Meeting: Lee Student Support Fund Committee, 2007-08
  Meeting: Standards and Freedom of Research, Publication and Teaching Committee, 2007-08
  Divisional Meeting (open to SSSP Members): Community Research and Development
  Divisional Meeting (open to SSSP Members): Conflict, Social Action, and Change
  Divisional Meeting (open to SSSP Members): Crime and Juvenile Delinquency
  Divisional Meeting (open to SSSP Members): Educational Problems
  Divisional Meeting (open to SSSP Members): Family Room
  Divisional Meeting (open to SSSP Members): Global Room
  Divisional Meeting (open to SSSP Members): Institutional Ethnography
  Divisional Meeting (open to SSSP Members): Law and Society
  Session 11: Telling Social Problems: Exploring the Role of Narrative and Dialogue in the Construction of Social Problems, I
  Session 12: Beyond the Numbers: Challenging the Proclaimed Success of Welfare Reform, Part II
  Session 13: New Directions in Disability Research and Theory - THEMATIC  
  Session 14: Issues in Environmental Justice
  Session 15: Labor, The Dems and the ‘08 Election: Prospects and Peril Roundtable
  Session 16: Sexual Expression at any Age
  Session 17: Linking Research and Action: Immigrant Organizations Collaborate for Social Change
  Session 18: Across the Borders of Space and Time: Women’s Negotiation of Identities and Citizenship
  Session 19: Boundaries of Race, Ethnicity, and Class: Inclusion and Exclusion in Health
  Session 20: Border Control/Social Control: Theorizing Immigration as a Social Problem - THEMATIC
12:30pm – 2:10pm Meeting: Council of Division Chairpersons, 2007-08 (1st Meeting-Nominating Committee)
  Meeting: Editorial Board Luncheon, 2007-08
  Meeting: Joseph B. Gittler Award Committee, 2007-08
  Session 21: Telling Social Problems: Exploring the Role of Narrative and Dialogue in the Construction of Social Problems, II
  Session 22: Parenting Culture
  Session 23: Family, Education, and Activism - THEMATIC
  Session 24: Community, Sustainability and the Urban Environment: Part Two
  Session 25: Workshop: Looking for Work in Academia: How to Navigate and Negotiate the Job Market
  Session 26: Transforming Inequalities: Social Justice Research with Immigrants and Native Minorities in South Florida
  Session 27: Open Discussion of Resolutions Being Proposed to the Board of Directors
  Session 28: Social Change and Participatory Research - THEMATIC
  Session 29: Violence, Victimization and Sexual Assault
  Session 30: Global Inequalities
  Session 31: Inter-sextions: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender: LGTBI Research
12:30pm – 4:10pm Meeting: Permanent Organization Committee, 2007-08
2:30pm – 4:10pm Meeting: Justice 21 Committee, 2007-08
  Meeting: Social Action and Social Action Award Committee, 2007-08
  Session 32: Constructions of Parenthood
  Session 33: Gender, Sexuality, and Identity
  Session 34: Academics and Political Campaigns - SPECIAL
  Session 35: Activism, Identity, and Idealism
4:15pm – 6:15pm Meeting: Board of Directors Meeting, 2007-08
4:30pm – 6:10pm Divisional Meeting (open to SSSP Members): Disabilities
  Divisional Meeting (open to SSSP Members): Environment and Technology
  Divisional Meeting (open to SSSP Members): Health, Health Policy, and Health Services
  Divisional Meeting (open to SSSP Members): Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities
  Divisional Meeting (open to SSSP Members): Social Problems Theory
  Divisional Meeting (open to SSSP Members): Sociology and Social Welfare
  Session 36: Hispanic Drug Use, Violence and Crime
  Session 37: Race, Policy, and Law
  Session 38: Getting Out of the Ivory Tower: Applying Scholarship to Activism - THEMATIC
  Session 39: Border Crossing: A Working Session on Immigration Research - SPECIAL
  Session 40: Teaching and Learning About Social Problems: Student Reflections on Immersive Learning Experience
  Session 41: Borderland: Human Rights and Animal Rights - THEMATIC  
  Session 42: The Social Organization of Everyday Life Across the Life Course
  Session 43: North/South Dialogue: Globalization and Human Rights: Contradictions and Opportunities - THEMATIC
  Session 44: Crossing Borders and Mental Illness - THEMATIC
5:30pm - 7:30pm Reception: ABS/SWS/SSSP Co-Sponsored Reception (open to SSSP Members)
  Reception: (Division-Sponsored) : Joint Reception
7:30pm – 9:00pm Reception: Graduate Student “Happy Hour”
9:00pm – 11:00pm Reception: 8th Annual AIDS Fundraiser and the Graduate Student and New Member Reception

 Friday, August 1, 2008
 Time  Event Details
8:00am – 9:40am Meeting: International Fellowship Committee, 2007-08
  Session 45: The Politics of Marriage
  Session 46: Images and Perceptions of Inequality
  Session 47: Youthful Indiscretions?: Youth Drinking in Context
  Session 48: Defining Borders: Race, Ethnicity and Place - THEMATIC
  Session 49: Health, Health Policy, and Health Services Roundtables
  Session 50: Claimsmaking Plus: Advancing the Constructionist Project by Building Bridges to other Approaches - THEMATIC
  Session 51: Participatory Research in the Labor Movement
  Session 53: Globalization, Migration, and Economic Diaspora - THEMATIC
  Session 54: Restorative Justice
  Session 55: Research Across the Borders of Community and Academy: Collaborative Institutional Ethnography
  Session 56: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching: Theorizing about Contemporary Educational Problems- CANCELLED
9:50am - 11:00am Meeting: SSSP Business Meeting (open to SSSP Members) - PLENARY
11:10am - 12:20pm Presidential Address: (open to SSSP Members) - PLENARY
12:30pm – 2:10pm Meeting: Budget, Finance, and Audit Committee, 2008-09
  Divisional Meeting (open to SSSP Members): Drinking and Drugs
  Divisional Meeting (open to SSSP Members): Labor Studies
  Divisional Meeting (open to SSSP Members): Mental Health
  Divisional Meeting (open to SSSP Members): Poverty, Class, and Inequality
  Divisional Meeting (open to SSSP Members): Racial and Ethnic Minorities
  Divisional Meeting (open to SSSP Members): Teaching Social Problems
  Divisional Meeting (open to SSSP Members): Youth, Aging, and the Life Course
  Session 59: Women, Prison and Violence
  Session 60: Conflicts in Caregiving
  Session 61: Tenure Workshop
  Session 62: HIV/AIDS: Population Studies
  Session 63: Disability Studies meets Sociology in Research, Teaching and Activism
  Session 64: Globalization and Models of Democracy
  Session 65: Film Exhibit: Imagine If You Were Poor Like Me
  Session 66: Social Determinants of Violence: A Public Health Approach
  Session 67: Social Organization of Knowledge Production Across National, Disciplinary, and Institutional Borders - THEMATIC
  Session 68: Legal Issues and the Environment
2:30pm – 4:10pm Meeting: Council of Division Chairpersons, 2008-09 (2nd Meeting-Nominating Committee)
  Meeting: Racial/Ethnic Minority Graduate Scholarship Committee, 2007-08
  Session 69: Family Policy and Institutions
  Session 70: Sociology of Disaster
  Session 71: Challenging Borders: Construction of ‘Health’ and ‘Pathologies’ - THEMATIC
  Session 72: Research Matters
  Session 73: Advocating for Justice across the Life Course - THEMATIC
  Session 74: Global and Domestic Labor: Race, Ethnicity and Gender Issues
  Session 75: Social Problems and Theories of Identities: The Global Borderlands of Race, Gender, and Sexuality - THEMATIC
  Session 76: Sexuality on the Edge I
  Session 77: Film Exhibit: Breakthrough
  Session 78: Law’s Violence
  Session 79: Theoretical Explorations
  Session 80: Moving Beyond the Traditional: Innovative Strategies in the Social Problems Classroom - THEMATIC
4:30pm – 6:10pm Meeting: Membership Committee, 2007-08
  Session 81: Law and Sexuality
  Session 82: Food and Inequality
  Session 83: Student Award Winning Papers I - SPECIAL
  Session 84: Border Crossing: A Working Session on Economic Justice Research - SPECIAL
  Session 85: Coordinating Families
  Session 86: Globalization and Women of the Global South: Resistance From Below
  Session 87: Film Exhibit: An Army of Labor: The Bracero Program
  Session 88: Katrina: Social Justice
  Session 89: The Human-Animal Bond: New Directions in Research - THEMATIC
  Session 90: Media Fact or Fiction: Teaching Social Problems in the Age of Popular Culture
  Session 52: Emerging and Cutting Edge Issues in Research on the Stigma of Mental Illness
6:45pm – 7:45pm Reception: Honoring our Past Presidents
8:00pm – 10:00pm Awards Banquet

 Saturday, August 2, 2008
 Time  Event Details
8:00am – 8:30am Meeting: Board of Directors Breakfast, 2008-09
8:30am – 10:10am Session 91: Author Meets Critics: Jack Levin, Serial Killers and Sadistic Murderers: Up Close and Personal
  Session 92: Borders, Boundaries, and Social Action
  Session 93: The Politics of Democracy
  Session 94: What is Race? Social Categorization vs Self Identity
  Session 95: Speaking to ‘The System’: Diagnosis, Access, and Services from Users’ Perspectives
  Session 96: Homelessness
  Session 97: Globalization, Environmental Crisis and Alternatives--I (International Issues)
  Session 98: Institutional Ethnographic Studies of New Modes of Governance
  Session 99: Community Research and Development Roundtable
  Session 100: The Reality of Cultural Capital in the Classroom
  Session 101: Substance Abuse and Mental Illness
  Session 102: What Are We Going to Do about It? Addressing the Structural Underpinnings of Poverty
  Session 103: Gender Inequality
8:30am – 12:00pm Meeting: Board of Directors Meeting, 2008-09
10:30am – 12:10pm Session 104: Mental Health Across the Life Course
  Session 105: Working Together To End Racism
  Session 106: Student Award Winning Papers II
  Session 107: Disability and Family
  Session 108: Sexuality on the Edge II
  Session 109: Globalization, Environmental Crisis and Alternatives--II (Theoretical and Practical Issues)
  Session 110: Institutional Ethnography: Focus on Methods
  Session 111: The Politics of the Global Commons - THEMATIC
  Session 112: Emerging Trends in Drug and Alcohol Research
  Session 113: Legitimacy and Bureaucracy
  Session 114: Medicalization and Its Discontents
12:30pm – 2:10pm Meeting: Program Committee, 2007-08 & 2008-09 (Closed Meeting)
  Session 115: Author Meets Critics: Luis Fernandez (2008 Rutgers University Press), Policing Dissent
  Session 116: Crossing Borders: New Immigrant Communities - THEMATIC
  Session 117: Ethnographies of Social Control
  Session 118: Diversity and Discrimination
  Session 119: Teaching Social Problems Theory in Social Problems Courses in the Core Curriculum
  Session 120: Class Issues
  Session 121: Globalization, Immigration, and Health - THEMATIC
  Session 122: Consumption, Sustainability and the Global-local Interface - THEMATIC
  Session 123: Community Health and Substance Use
  Session 124: Mediated Communication and Social Change
  Session 125: Crossing Borders of Gender and Sexuality - THEMATIC
  Session 126: Perspectives on Trauma and Stress
2:30pm – 4:10pm Meeting: Council of Division Chairpersons & Program Committee Meeting, 2008-09
  Session 127: Offender Reentry
  Session 128: Author Meets Critics: Cary Federman, The Body and the State: Habeas Corpus and American Jurisprudence - CANCELLED
  Session 129: Drugs, Alcohol, and Youth in Lifecourse Perspective
  Session 130: Health, Activism and Social Justice - THEMATIC
  Session 131: Inequalities: Constructing and Resisting Identities - THEMATIC
  Session 132: Social Services, Movements, and Justice: Supporting Families Through Activism - THEMATIC
  Session 133: Politics of Crossing: Labor Migration in Global/Transnational Context - THEMATIC
  Session 134: Activist Scholarship, Symbolic Politics and Environmental Struggles - THEMATIC  
  Session 135: Violence Within the Family
  Session 136: Latin American and Caribbean Immigration - THEMATIC
4:30pm – 6:10pm Session 137: Social Control and the Drug Economy
  Session 138: Schooling and Society
  Session 139: HIV/AIDS: Activism, Discrimination and Community Discourse
  Session 140: Sociology of Therapeutic Jurisprudence
  Session 141: Youth in Families
  Session 142: Global Institutional Ethnography: Crossing Spatial and Temporal Borders
  Session 143: Working Poor in the Global Economy
  Session 144: Cultural Studies in Sociology
  Session 145: Student Award Winning Papers III - SPECIAL
4:30pm – 7:00pm Session 146: Memorial Session for Brent K. Marshall: 1966-2008