If you plan to attend a one-day workshop(s), purchase your ticket(s) while registering for the SSSP Annual Meeting. If you have already registered and would like to purchase a ticket, contact the IT Specialist directly.

The Challenges of Engaged Critical Scholarship                                          

Monday, August 11, 9:00am-12:15pm (Central Time)
Location: Palmer House, a Hilton Hotel
Registration Fee: Free with SSSP conference registration
Limit: 50 people

The Community, Research, and Practice Division is sponsoring a workshop led by the Center for Engaged Scholarship. The Center provides dissertation fellowships to Ph.D. students whose work can contribute to struggles for racial, gender, social, and environmental justice. There are, however, multiple types of engaged scholarship and such work presents a range of moral, political, and intellectual challenges for the researcher. This workshop will address different approaches to engaged scholarship and the best strategies for managing the specific challenges of doing this kind of work. The workshop will take place in two parts.

From 9:00am-11:15am, we will have a panel on the pitfall and promise of engaged scholarship. Four panelists: Melanie Brazell Post-doc, Harvard University, Angela Fillingim, Sociology, San Francisco State University, Joss Greene, Sociology, University of California, Davis, and Lucia Leon, Latino Studies, Dominican University will draw on their own research experience to illuminate the challenges of engaged research and their own strategies for meeting those challenges. After the panel and a coffee break, there will be breakout sessions where the speakers will meet with participants to engage in a deeper discussion.

In the second part, we will have two simultaneous sessions from 11:15am-12:15pm. One session will focus on preparing effective applications for research support. The second will address the problems of building productive relations with activist groups and strategies for disseminating research findings beyond academic publications.

Institutional Ethnography Workshop

Monday, August 11, 10:00am-3:30pm (Central Time)
Location: Palmer House, a Hilton Hotel
Registration Fee: $45 for employed registrants or Free for students/unemployed/underemployed registrants
Limit: 50 people

The Institutional Ethnography Division is hosting an interactive workshop for researchers who use or are interested in institutional ethnography – the method of inquiry developed by Dorothy E. Smith. The workshop features a keynote presentation as well as opportunities for large and small-group discussion and learning. The workshop will provide people with opportunities to engage directly with institutional ethnographies in the proposal, analysis, and final writing stages. People who are interested in sharing and receiving feedback on a research proposal, article manuscript, conference paper, or other piece of writing during the small-group discussions should submit one of these documents to Laura Parson (laura.parson@ndsu.edu), Anna Rockhill (rockhill@pdx.edu), or Hans-Peter de Ruiter (hans-peter.de-ruiter@mnsu.edu) by July 1. Researchers with a range of experience with IE are encouraged to attend. Workshop fee includes morning coffee.

Teaching Social Problems for Social Change: A One-day Experiential Workshop

Monday, August 11, 9:00am-4:00pm (Central Time)
Location: Palmer House, a Hilton Hotel (morning); field trip with local organizations in Chicago (afternoon)
Registration Fee: $30 for employed registrants or $25 for unemployed/activist/student registrants
Limit: 50 people

The Teaching Social Problems Division is hosting an interactive workshop for teachers, scholars, and activists who are interested to expand knowledge concerning strategies and techniques about teaching social problems in higher education. This workshop is an opportunity for junior and senior scholars, teachers, and activists to use sociological imagination to empower students and support them to make a better world.

The aim of this workshop is twofold: to develop new perspectives on how to teach social problems with optimism and how to develop a sensitivity towards the vulnerabilities that students can present about some social problems, and to provide examples, strategies and techniques to develop a new or improve already existing syllabi and case studies.

In the morning, the workshop features two keynote presentations on innovative ways to teach social problems positively as well as opportunities for large and small-group discussion and learning.

In the afternoon, the workshop will provide attendees with opportunities to engage directly with initiatives concerning social change with a fieldtrip organized together with local organizations and to discuss how to incorporate these case studies in syllabi and teaching.

Attendees who are interested in sharing and receiving feedback on a syllabus or a case study or other teaching materials during the small-group discussions should submit these documents to Pattie Thomas (pattie.thomas@csn.edu) and Morena Tartari (morena.tartari@northumbria.ac.uk) by July 1. Workshop fee includes morning coffee.