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SSSP 2011 Annual Meeting

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2011 Annual Meeting Program Schedule

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Thursday, August 18
9:00 AM - 11:30 AM Committee Meeting: Budget, Finance, and Audit Committee, 2010-11
11:45 AM - 5:45 PM Committee Meeting: Board of Directors Meeting, 2010-11
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Other Event: Welcoming Reception
Friday, August 19
7:15 AM - 8:15 AM Other Event: New Member Breakfast
8:30 AM - 10:10 AM Committee Meeting: Editorial and Publications Committee 2010-11 & 2011-12 Committee Meeting: Graduate Student Meeting with Student Board Representatives Committee Meeting: Transnational Initiative Committee, 2010-11 Session 1: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Issues Among Military Personnel Session 2: Education and Attainment Session 3: Women and Girls in Sport Session 4: Intimate Relationships Across the Life Course Session 5: New Trends in Violence and Deviance Session 6: The Politics and Organization of Schooling and Food Policies in Four Institutional Ethnographies from Canada and the US Session 7: The Social Reconstruction After Natural and Unnatural Disasters I Session 8: Representations of Race and Ethnicity in the Media I: Frames and Public Discourse
10:30 AM - 12:10 PM Committee Meeting: Committee on Race and Racism, 2010-11 Committee Meeting: Council of Division Chairpersons, 2010-11 & 2011-12 Committee Meeting: Justice 21 Committee, 2010-11 (Open Meeting) Committee Meeting: Lee Student Support Fund Committee, 2010-11 CANCELLED Committee Meeting: Local Arrangements Committee, 2010-11 & 2011-12 CANCELLED Session 9: Service, Advocacy and Disabilities Session 10: Servicing Drug Users: From Harm Reduction to Drug Treatment Session 11: Critical Pedagogy and Service Learning Session 12: Sexual Minorities: Empowerment and Resisting Stigma Session 13: Sociology of Law and Public Policy Session 14: Culture and Health Session 15: The Social Reconstruction After Natural and Unnatural Disasters II Session 16: Representations of Race and Ethnicity in the Media II: Film, Popular Culture, and Celebrity
12:30 PM - 2:10 PM Committee Meeting: Nominations Committee, 2010-11 (Closed Meeting) Committee Meeting: Permanent Organization and Strategic Planning Committee, 2010-11 Committee Meeting: Racial/Ethnic Minority Graduate Scholarship Committee, 2010-11 CANCELLED Divisional Meeting: Community Research and Development Divisional Meeting: Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Divisional Meeting: Global Divisional Meeting: Law and Society Divisional Meeting: Poverty, Class, and Inequality Divisional Meeting: Racial and Ethnic Minorities Divisional Meeting: Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities Divisional Meeting: Social Problems Theory Session 17: Servicing Parenting and Children's Needs Session 18: Student Award Winning Papers I Session 19: Integrating Teaching, Research, and Service Session 20: New Research in Institutional Ethnography Part I Session 21: Building Greener Communities: Redefining Quality of Life Session 22: Toward a Sociology of Diagnosis: A Conversation Session 23: Settlement Sociology: Precursor of Service Sociology? Session 24: Teaching Service Sociology for Social Change
2:30 PM - 4:10 PM Committee Meeting: Accessibility Committee, 2010-11 Committee Meeting: Council of Division Chairpersons, 2010-11 Committee Meeting: Information Technology Options Committee, 2010-11 CANCELLED Committee Meeting: Open Discussion of Resolutions Proposed to the Board of Directors Session 25: Reproductive Health: Current Issues and Prospects for Change Session 26: Legal Highs Session 27: Serving Immigrant Students: Policy, Research, and Advocacy Session 28: Open Discussion of Resolutions Proposed to the Board of Directors Session 29: New Directions and Cutting Edge Approaches to Teaching Social Problems Session 30: New Research in Institutional Ethnography Part II Session 31: Sport Worlds/Sporting Cultures Session 32: Crime & Juvenile Delinquency Division - Lifetime Achievement Award Session 33: Beyond Service: Structural Solutions to Inequality Session 34: Immigration, Exclusion, and Human Rights: Changes in State and Local Policy
4:15 PM - 6:15 PM Committee Meeting: Board of Directors Meeting, 2010-11
4:30 PM - 6:10 PM Divisional Meeting: Disabilities Divisional Meeting: Educational Problems Divisional Meeting: Environment and Technology Divisional Meeting: Family Divisional Meeting: Health, Health Policy, and Health Services Divisional Meeting: Institutional Ethnography Divisional Meeting: Sport, Leisure, and the Body Divisional Meeting: Teaching Social Problems Session 35: Impact of Economic Recession on Housing and Work Careers Session 36: Mental Health Treatment and Community Care Session 37: Gender and Work Session 38: Social Movements and the Changing Politics of Austerity in Latin America CANCELLED Session 39: New Directions in Social Problems Theorizing Session 40: Sexuality on the Edge Session 41: Crime, Deviance, and Myth Session 42: Poor and Under the Gaze: Service or Surveillance? Session 43: Immigration, Exclusion, and Human Rights: American Perspectives
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Regular: Division Sponsored Reception Other Event: Mental Health Reception
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Committee Meeting: Board of Directors Dinner, 2010-11
10:00 PM - 11:00 PM Other Event: Graduate Student Happy Hour
Saturday, August 20
8:00 AM - 9:40 AM Committee Meeting: Revenue Generating Committee, 2010-11 Session 44: Community Problems and Community Organizations Session 45: "Non-Traditional" Students in Higher Education: Personal and Institutional Accommodations Session 46: Health Services and Health Disparities Session 47: Service Learning and Teaching: Experiences, Observations, and Reflections Session 48: Race and Undocumented Immigrants Session 49: Papers in the Round: Social Problems Theory in Scholarship and in Service Session 50: Environmental Activism: Race, Class, and Inequalities Session 51: Methodological Issues in Institutional Ethnography Session 52: Juvenile and Other Specialty Courts Session 53: Politics and Representation Session 54: Film Exhibit - Ain't I a Person with apologies to Sojourner Truth
9:50 AM - 11:00 AM Committee Meeting: SSSP Business Meeting, 2010-11 (Open Meeting) Session 55: SSSP Business Meeting (Open to SSSP Members)
11:10 AM - 12:20 PM Session 56: Presidential Address
12:30 PM - 2:10 PM Committee Meeting: Budget, Finance, and Audit Committee, 2011-12 Divisional Meeting: Conflict, Social Action, and Change Divisional Meeting: Drinking and Drugs Divisional Meeting: Labor Studies Divisional Meeting: Mental Health Divisional Meeting: Sociology and Social Welfare Divisional Meeting: Youth, Aging, and the Life Course Session 57: Getting Published in Social Problems Session 58: Student Award Winning Papers II Session 59: Workshop: The Scholarship of Critical Community Engagement CANCELLED Session 60: "Serving" Justice: Negotiating Inequalities Session 61: Institutional Ethnography and the Social Organization of Health Care Session 62: Celebrating the Work of Sev Bruyn Session 63: Issues in Technology and Sexuality Session 64: Sociology in the "Service" of Community Re-Entry: Re-Integrating Veterans and Others Involved in the Criminal Justice System Session 65: Service for Whom? Session 66: Film Exhibit - The Insular Empire: America in the Mariana Islands Session 67: Writing and Teaching Service Sociology
2:30 PM - 4:10 PM Committee Meeting: Membership and Outreach Committee, 2010-11 & 2011-12 Session 68: Deconstructing Homelessness: Contested Territories, Social Services, and Public Policy Session 69: Organizing for Educational Change Session 70: Sexuality and Race Session 71: Global Drug Issues Session 72: What Kind of a Problem is a "Mental Illness?" Session 73: Papers in the Round: Aging in Spaces/Places Session 74: Tables in the Round: Research Making a Difference in Communities Session 75: Papers in the Round: Youth Service and Activism for Social Justice Session 76: Open Meeting: Creating an Anti-Racist Agenda within SSSP Session 77: Non-human/Human Species and Inequalities Session 78: Victims and Victimization Session 79: Social Movements, Unions and Worker Rights Session 80: Film Exhibit: The Billionaire's Tea Party: How Corporate America is Faking a Grassroots Revolution Session 81: Ten Years Since 9/11: Research and Reflections
4:30 PM - 6:10 PM Session 82: Crime and Inequality in Communities Session 83: Understanding the Consequences of the Financial Crisis Session 84: Social Reaction to Mental Illness: The Continued Relevance of Stigma and Social Control Session 85: Drinking and Drugs Roundtables Session 86: Educational Policy Session 87: Author Meets Critics: JoAnn L. Miller and Donald C. Johnson, Problem Solving Courts: A Measure of Justice (2009, Rowman & Littlefield) CANCELLED Session 88: Big Time Blogging: The Secrets of Sociological Images Session 89: Author Meets Critics: Barbara G. Brents, Crystal A. Jackson, and Kathryn Hausbeck, The State of Sex: Tourism, Sex and Sin in the New American Heartland Session 90: Social Action - Highlight the Work of the Social Action Award Winner Session 91: Demonology as Propaganda: Frances Fox Piven, the Tea Party, and the Role of Intellectuals
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM Other Event: Drinking and Drugs Division Reception
6:45 PM - 7:45 PM Other Event: Reception Honoring our Past Presidents
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Other Event: Awards Banquet
Sunday, August 21
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM Committee Meeting: Board of Directors Breakfast & Meeting, 2011-12
8:30 AM - 10:10 AM Session 92: Neighborhoods and Neighborhood Effects Session 93: Sex and the Body Session 94: Making Social Constructionism Relevant for a Public Audience Session 95: Strategies and Constraints: Living with Chronic Illness in Diverse Settings and Communities Session 96: Workshop: How and Where to Publish Mental Health Research Session 97: Authors Meet Critics: Amory Starr, Luis Fernandez, and Christian Scholl, Shutting Down the Streets: Political Violence and Social Control in the Global Era, New York University Press Session 98: Critical Analysis of Governance: Institutional Ethnography and Global Studies Session 99: Judicial and Legislative Responses to Social Problems Session 100: Race, Family, and Criminal Justice Session 101: Student Award Winning Papers III
10:30 AM - 12:10 PM Session 102: Chicago Sociology: Service and Professionalization Session 103: Anti-LGBTQ Bullying and Harassment: Renewed Attention to an Old Problem Session 104: Conversation with Andrea Fontana: Life Through a Postmodern Lens Session 105: Community Engagement, Activism and Institutional Ethnography Session 106: Navigating the Academic Job Market and/or Tenure Process for Scholar/Activists Session 107: Racial Discourse and Diversity Rhetoric in Post-Civil Rights America Session 108: Higher Education: Policies and Practices Session 109: Globalization and Environmental Justice Session 110: Law and Domestic Abuse Session 111: Service Learning and Teaching: A More Macro-level Perspective
12:30 PM - 2:10 PM Committee Meeting: Editorial Board Luncheon, 2010-11 Committee Meeting: Program Committee, 2010-11 & 2011-12 (Closed Meeting) Session 112: Models of, and Barriers to, Social Participation among Older and/or Disabled People Session 113: Serving Families Through New Social Theory Session 114: Addressing Inequalities: Building Bridges Between Sociology and Social Work Session 115: Service Sociology: Connecting to Movement Building for Social Change Session 116: Workshop: Preventing Overdoses, Saving Lives Session 117: New Work in Sport, Leisure, and the Body Session 118: Toward a Public Sociology: Integrating Transnational Scholarship and Community Service Session 119: Teaching Environmental Sociology: Sharing Techniques and Perspective Session 120: Sexual Victims and Sexual Victimization Session 121: Health, Health Policy, and Health Services Tables in the Round Session 122: Service Work, Power, and Relationships
2:30 PM - 4:10 PM Committee Meeting: Council of Division Chairpersons and Program Committee, 2011-12 Session 123: Service Sociology as Public Sociology/Service In Communities Session 124: Serving Families and Communities through Marriage? Session 125: Global Citizenship and Equity Session 126: Youth, Health, and the Social Construction of Risk Session 127: Conversation with Claire M. Renzetti: Religious Commitment and Social Justice: Evolving Perspectives and Applications Session 128: Race, Identity and Institutions Session 129: Re-imagining Community Session 130: Migration, Work, and Racialization: Explorations in Institutional Ethnography Session 131: School Violence and Others Crimes of Mass Disaster Session 132: Student Award Winning Papers IV
4:30 PM - 6:10 PM Session 133: Meeting Community Needs Session 134: Sociology of Desire Session 135: Ethnic Identity and Indigenous Peoples' Human Rights Session 136: Meanings of Health Session 137: Sanctions and Punishment Session 138: Whiteness, White Privilege and the Continuing Significance of Racism Session 139: In Service of Empire: Knowledge Production and Globalization Session 140: Youth, Schools, Communities, and "Justice"