Conflict, Social Action, and Change Division Newsletter Society for the Study of Social Problems Spring/Summer 2015 Notes from the Division Chair At the 2015 SSSP meeting in Chicago, our division is hosting a range of panels and critical dialogues relating to conflict, social action, and change. The preliminary program is available on the SSSP website, or directly via this link: http://www.sssp1.org/index.cfm/m/639/Preliminary_Program/ Several of our ten allotted division sessions align with this year’s theme, including a co-sponsored session titled “Conflict & Social Welfare in the 21st Century: Neighborhoods, Cities, and Nations” and our own panel on “21st Century Community Based Social Justice Activism.” We are also hosting a special invited panel that will address “What is Scholar Activism?” Please join us for a *new* interactive, informal session! Meet, Mingle, & Share: Academics and Activism in an Age of Social Problems. We co-sponsored this panel with the Labor Division in response to member requests for more time and space to actually talk with one another. Our divisions are a strong network for bouncing new ideas, connecting over shared passions, and finding solidarities in our struggles and successes. Saturday, 8/22, 8:30 am, Session 63 (Caspian Room)- bring your breakfast and get inspired, connected, and invigorated! Many thanks to everyone who helped set the panels and find organizers for the 2015 meeting. I am also happy to announce the incoming chair of our division, Jenny Heineman! Please join us at our division meeting on Friday, August 21st, 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM, to share your ideas for the 2016 program and discuss other activities for our division. Crystal A. Jackson, Chair Conflict, Social Action, and Change Division, SSSP   Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY New York, New York   The Society for the Study of Social Problems 65th Annual Meeting August 21-23, 2015 The Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel, Chicago, IL REGISTER TODAY! ONLINE REGISTRATION IS AVAILABLE UNTIL MIDNIGHT (EDT) ON JULY 15. I encourage new members to check out “Questions that you may have about the SSSP Annual Meeting....but are too embarrassed to ask” by visiting http://tinyurl.com/SSSPnewmtgqs Visit the website http://www.sssp1.org/ and go to “Annual Meetings” for more details about transportation, hotels, and other information. Our division meeting is Friday, August 21st, 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM in Atlantic C. I welcome all to attend the division meeting. When we meet, we discuss panels that you would like to see next year. In fact, I encourage you to contact me before the 2015 meeting with ideas for panels for 2016! I also encourage everyone to attend our fun, informal, interaction session called Meet, Mingle, & Share: Academics and Activism in an Age of Social Problems on Saturday, August 22nd, 8:30 am, Session 63, in the Caspian Room. The CSAC Division is seeking sessions for the 2016 Summer Meeting Would you like to organize a session in your area of study? Do you have colleagues who would like present together “in the round” or as a full panel? Please email the division chair, Crjackson@jjay.cuny.edu before the meeting and/or attend our Division Meeting (note that attendance is not required to volunteer as a session organizer). CSAC Division co-/sponsored panels Session #10 Law, Conflict, and Social Change Presider: Jay Borchert Room: Pacific 1 Friday, August 21, 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM Conflict, Social Action, and Change co-sponsored with: Law and Society Session #20 Deconstructing Privilege to Encourage Social Action Room: Pacific 1 Presider: Matthew E. Wilkinson Friday, August 21, 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM Session #42 Conflict and Social Welfare in the 21st Century: Neighborhoods, Cities, and Nations Presider: Alissa Klein Room: Pacific 1 Friday, August 21, 2:30 - 4:10 PM Conflict, Social Action, and Change co-sponsored with: Community Research and Development Sociology and Social Welfare Session #52 Communities and Environmental Presider: Mark Salvaggio Room: Pacific 1 Friday, August 21, 4:30 - 6:10 PM Conflict, Social Action, and Change co-sponsored with: Environment and Technology Session #103  Working for Social Justice: A Dialogue on Scholar-Activism In and Beyond the Academy Presider: Hephzibah Strmic-Pawl Room: Bering Saturday, August 22, 2:30 - 4:10 PM Session #123 LGBTQ Activism and Education Presider: Maralee Mayberry Room: Pacific 2 Sunday, August 23, 8:30 - 10:10 AM Conflict, Social Action, and Change co-sponsored with: Educational Problems Session #138 (Thematic) 21st Century Community Based Social Justice Activism Room: Pacific 2 Presider: Julie B. Wiest Sunday, August 23,10:30 - 12:10 PM Session #152 Family and Social Movements Presider: Wendy Simonds Room: Pacific 2 Sunday, August 23, 12:30 - 2:10 PM Conflict, Social Action, and Change co-sponsored with: Family Session #156 (papers in the round) Gambling & Society Presider: Sarah St. Room: Atlantic C Sunday, August 23, 2:30 - 4:10 PM Conflict, Social Action, and Change co-sponsored with: Health, Health Policy, and Health Services Sport, Leisure, and the Body Celebrating CSAC Member Achievements Angie Carter, Betty Wells, Jessica Soulis, and Ashley Hand. “Building Power  Through Community: Women Creating and Theorizing Change” in Women in Agriculture Worldwide: Key Issues and Practical Approaches, edited by Amber J. Fletcher and Wendee Kubik. London: Gower Publishing. Forthcoming in 2016. Angie Carter, Claudia M. Prado-Meza, and Jessica Soulis. “Learning to Transgress: Creating Transformative Spaces In and Beyond the Classroom" in Learning and Food in a Changing World, edited by Jennifer Sumner.  London: Palgrave Macmillan. Forthcoming in 2016. Matthew Kearney. 2015, April. “Are We Married Yet?” The Progressive. 79(4):16-20. (Feature article in national news magazine) Louis Kriesberg, Realizing Peace: A Constructive Conflict Approach, Oxford Press. *Order online at www.oup.com/us with promotion code ASFLYQ6 to save 30% Louis Kriesberg, “Negotiating Conflict Transformations,” Handbook of International Negotiation: Interpersonal, Intercultural and Diplomatic Perspectives,  Mauro Galluccio, ed. Springer Press, 2015, pp. 109-122.   Louis Kriesberg, “A Constructive Conflict Approach to World Struggles,” Brown Journal of World Affairs, 21 (2) Spring/Summer 2015, pp. 22-36.   Beth Roy, “Struggling in the Streets and at the Table,” co-authored with John Burdick, Negotiation Journal, April 2015. Beth Roy, The Bernal Story: Mediating Class and Race in a Multicultural Community (Syracuse University Press, 2014) Joachim J. Savelsberg. Representing Mass Violence: Conflicting Responses to Human Rights Violations in Darfur. Berkeley: University of California Press, August 2015 (paperback and open access online) Solving Social Problems: Call for proposals Solving Social Problems provides a forum for the description and measurement of social problems, with a keen focus on the concrete remedies proposed for their solution. The series takes an international perspective, exploring social problems in various parts of the world, with the central concern being always their possible remedy. As such, work is welcomed on subjects as diverse as environmental damage, terrorism, economic disparities and economic devastation, poverty, inequalities, domestic assaults and sexual abuse, health care, natural disasters, labour inequality, animal abuse, crime, and mental illness and its treatment. In addition to recommending solutions to social problems, the books in this series are theoretically sophisticated, exploring previous discussions of the issues in question, examining other attempts to resolve them, and adopting and discussing methodologies that are commonly used to measure social problems. Proposed solutions may be framed as changes in policy, practice, or more broadly, social change and social movement. Solutions may be reflective of ideology, but are always pragmatic and detailed, explaining the means by which the suggested solutions might be achieved. If you would like to submit a proposal for this series please email the Series Editor, Bonnie Berry, Solving@SocialProblems.org or the Commissioning Editor, Neil Jordan: NJordan@ashgatepublishing.com For more information on submitting a proposal please visit www.ashgate.com/authors Call for Papers: Research in Social Movements, Conflicts & Change, Volume 40 Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, a peer-reviewed volume published by Emerald Group Publishing, encourages submissions for Volume 40 of the series. This volume will include research in two areas: (1) submissions focused on analytical analyses of identity and narratives of identity in conflict outbreaks, dynamics, resolution and/or post-conflict peacebuilding and transitional justice; and (2) general submissions appropriate to any of the three broad foci reflected in the Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change series title. The Volume Editor is Landon E. Hancock (Kent State University). Submissions may focus on single or comparative case studies or may explore other avenues of analysis, but all submissions should be data-driven and theoretically informed. RSMCC boasts quick turn-around times, generally communicating peer reviewed-informed decisions within 10-12 weeks of receipt of submissions. Submission guidelines To be considered for inclusion in Volume 40, papers should arrive by September 15, 2015, earlier submissions are welcomed as well. Queries about possible submissions are also welcomed by the Volume Editor in advance of the submission due date. Send submissions as a WORD document attached to an email with the subject line “RSMCC” to Landon Hancock, guest RSMCC editor for volume 40 at: lhancoc2@kent.edu For more information, please visit the RSMCC website: www.emeraldinsight.com/series/rsmcc Job opening Visiting Assistant Professor, Coastal Carolina University The College of Science at Coastal Carolina University invites applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology position beginning in August 2015. This position is a one year appointment. The ideal candidates should have a Ph.D in Sociology by the time of their appointment (ABD will be considered). In addition to teaching general sociology courses, the successful candidate must have teaching and research experience in social inequality (i.e., Race, Class, and Gender). Preference will be given to candidates who can contribute to course offerings in the Social Justice concentration (i.e., Poverty, Environmental Sociology, Community Development and Social Change, Social Policy, or Social Movements). Prior experience with distance learning would be beneficial. Applicants must submit a letter of application stating their teaching and research interests, current curriculum vitae, copies of academic transcripts, teaching evaluations, and contact information of three references electronically at: http://jobs.coastal.edu. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. Coastal Carolina University is committed to building a diverse faculty and encourages applications from women and underrepresented minorities. Coastal Carolina University is an EO/AA employer. https://www.higheredjobs.com/search/details.cfm?JobCode=176064920&Title=Visiting%20Assistant%20Professor%20of%20Sociology