The Society for the Study of Social Problems | 2024 Committee and Divisional Meetings Schedule

SSSP 2024 Annual Meeting

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2024 Annual Meeting Program Schedule

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Thursday, August 8
11:45 AM - 4:45 PM Committee Meeting: Board of Directors Meeting I, 2023-24
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Other Event: Arrival Meet and Greet Reception
Friday, August 9
8:30 AM - 10:10 AM Committee Meeting: Council of Division Chairpersons, 2023-24 & 2024-25 Session 001: Gender-Based Violence: Institutional Issues Session 002: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Teaching Institutional Ethnography Session 003: Empowered People: Local Regeneration Session 004: Inequalities and Abilities Session 005: Violent Environments: Empire and Colonial Legacies CANCELLED
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM Session 006: SSSP Business Meeting
11:50 AM - 12:25 PM Session 007: Town Hall: An Open Forum
12:30 PM - 2:10 PM Committee Meeting: Joseph B. Gittler Award Committee, 2023-24 CANCELLED Divisional Meeting: Community Research and Development Divisional Meeting: Environment and Technology Divisional Meeting: Institutional Ethnography Divisional Meeting: Youth, Aging, and the Life Course Session 008: Addressing the Mental Health Crisis in K-16 Session 009: Bodies for Sale: Use of Humans and Animals for Entertainment Session 010: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: I Choose You: What Constitutes Family in the 21st Century Session 011: Networking and Navigating at SSSP: Getting the Most Out of Conference Attendance Session 012: PAPERS IN THE ROUND: Gender, Religion, and Social Control Session 013: The Sociology of Psychedelics Session 014: Structural Bias and Inequalities Session 015: Racism, Policing, and Policy Change Session 016: Experiencing the Law Session 017: Research Under Neoliberal Regimes: Peace, Human Rights, and Social Justice CANCELLED
2:30 PM - 4:10 PM Committee Meeting: Council of Division Chairpersons, 2023-24 Committee Meeting: Permanent Organization and Strategic Planning Committee, 2023-24 & 2024-25 Session 018: Critical Analysis of Measurements of Poverty Session 019: Curricular Violence: White Supremacist Silencing in Education Session 020: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Agenda for Social Justice: Active Agents for the Future Session 022: PAPERS IN THE ROUND: Sexualities Session 023: Alternatives to Policing Session 024: Institutional Ethnographies of Everyday Experiences of State Violence Session 025: Teaching about Violence: How to Navigate Trust and Disclosure with Students Session 026: Contingent/Precarious Work Session 027: The Neoliberal Nonprofit-Trapped in a Conundrum of Care Session 028: Decolonizing the Canon: Global South Scholarship and Countering Western Hegemony in Social Problems Theory and Research
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Committee Meeting: Feminist Collective Meeting
4:15 PM - 6:15 PM Committee Meeting: Board of Directors Meeting II, 2023-24
4:30 PM - 6:10 PM Divisional Meeting: Crime and Justice Divisional Meeting: Health, Health Policy, and Health Services Divisional Meeting: Labor Studies Divisional Meeting: Social Problems Theory Session 029: Cross-Generational Sociological Lessons Session 030: Sex and Violence Session 031: PAPERS IN THE ROUND: Critical Methods for Studying Law and Society Session 032: Who Speaks for the Community? Complicating Power, Representation and Decision Making Session 033: Understanding the Sociology of Violence in a Quebecois Context/Comprendre une "sociologie de la violence" dans un contexte québécois/ Session 034: Teaching Social Problems with a Transnational Perspective Session 035: Global Health, Climate, Inequality and Environment I Session 036: Reckoning with Institutional Violence: Perspectives across Organizational Contexts Session 037: Culture in Conflict, Action, and Change I: Mobilization, Organizing, Resistance, and Politicization
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Other Event: Welcoming Reception
7:45 PM - 8:45 PM Other Event: Student Social Hour
Saturday, August 10
7:15 AM - 8:15 AM Other Event: New Member Breakfast
8:30 AM - 10:10 AM Committee Meeting: Anti-Harassment Committee, 2023-24 & 2024-25 Session 038: Beyond Outrage, What Do We Do Now? Peace, Reconciliation, and Global Conflict Session 039: How to Get Published: Learning the Language of Academic Writing Session 040: Who Speaks for the Community? Complicating Power, Representation and Decision Making II Session 041: New Directions in Institutional Ethnography Session 042: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Work Policies and the Family Session 043: Making the Most of Mentoring Opportunities Session 044: Health Justice: Addressing Discrimination in Health and Health Care Session 045: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Critical Perspectives on Law and Violence Session 046: Unraveling the Complex Relationship between Poverty, Class, Inequality and Violence Session 047: Environmental Activism: Local to Global
10:30 AM - 12:10 PM Committee Meeting: Annual Review Committee of the Executive Officer, 2023-24 CANCELLED Committee Meeting: Membership and Outreach Committee, 2023-24 & 2024-25 Divisional Meeting: Conflict, Social Action, and Change Divisional Meeting: Family Divisional Meeting: Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities Session 048: Critical Perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Session 049: Disability Embodiment: The Way Out of a System of Violence Session 050: New Directions in Institutional Ethnography II Session 051: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Guns and Gun Violence Session 052: PAPERS IN THE ROUND: Experiential Learning as a Way to Teach about Social Problems Session 053: Global Health, Climate, Inequality and Environment II CANCELLED Session 054: Social Problems in the Digital Age Session 055: Youth, Violence, and Inequality Session 056: Gender and Work Session 057: Feminist Abolitionism and Collective Resistance to State Control and Violence
12:30 PM - 2:10 PM Committee Meeting: Budget, Finance, and Audit Committee, 2024-25 Committee Meeting: Committee on Social Action, 2023-24 CANCELLED Session 021: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Sociology on the Ropes: Recent Attacks on the Discipline Session 058: Publishing Tips from the Editors of Social Problems Session 059: Criminalizing Vulnerable Populations Session 060: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Anti-Violence and Violence: Counter-hegemony from Subversive to Revolutionary Session 061: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Womxn's Bodies as Sites of Statist Violence: A Critique of Imperialist, Heteropatriarchal Politics Session 062: PAPERS IN THE ROUND: Bodily Autonomy and Health Session 063: New Work in Social Problems Theory Session 064: Student Mental Health on Campus: Who Isn't F*cking Crazy? Session 065: Teaching Sexualities in the Classroom and Community Session 066: Doing Fieldwork in the Global South
2:30 PM - 4:10 PM Session 067: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Living Wage and the Challenges of the Working and Nonworking Poor across Various Ethnic, Racial, and Migratory Profiles Session 068: On the Market: Strategies for Landing a Job Session 069: Gender-Based Violence: Perceptions and Applications Session 070: Structural Determinants of Health and Legal Needs Session 071: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Decolonizing the Academy using Institutional Ethnography and Other Approaches: From Theory to Praxis Session 072: Author Meets Critics: Murder Town, USA: Homicide, Structural Violence, and Activism in Wilmington by Yasser Arafat Payne, Brooklynn K. Hitchens, & Darryl L. Chambers, Rutgers University Press, 2023 Session 073: PAPERS IN THE ROUND: Educators at Work Session 074: PAPERS IN THE ROUND: Teaching about Environmental Social Problems Session 075: Understanding Stigma and Responses to Drug Use Session 076: Race, Class, Gender, and Mental Health Session 077: Culture in Conflict, Action, and Change II: Narrative, Community, Discourse, and Identity
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Session 078: Presidential Address
5:45 PM - 7:00 PM Session 079: Awards Ceremony
7:15 PM - 8:15 PM Other Event: Division-Sponsored Reception
Sunday, August 11
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM Committee Meeting: Board of Directors Meeting, 2024-25
8:30 AM - 10:10 AM Session 080: Gender-Based Violence: Women and Victimization Session 081: Shared Identity Making and Mental Illness Session 082: GIFTS: Good Ideas for Teaching Sociology and Publishing in TRAILS Session 083: Necropolitics: The Death Worlds of Drug Wars Session 084: Violating Norms: Unlawful Bodies in Public Spaces Session 085: Migration, Mobility, and Place in Global Context Session 086: Institutional Inequalities and Violence Session 087: Ethnography/Institutional Ethnography and the Environment Session 088: PAR and Organizing in Social Movement Spaces
10:30 AM - 12:10 PM Session 089: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: The Changing Impact of Technologies on Mental Health Session 090: Criminalizing Immigration Session 091: Activism for Social Change CANCELLED Session 092: Organizing in the Workplace Session 093: Problematizing the Medicalization of Addiction Session 094: Trauma and the Life Course Session 095: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Identity Matters: How an Instructor's Subjectivity Influences the Way They Teach about Race Session 096: Policing Environmental Problems: Who is Responsible and Who is Accountable Session 097: Theorized versus Everyday Experiences of Violence Session 098: Accessible Cities
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Session 116: Life in Sociology Lecture: Born a Sociologist by Dr. Barbara Katz Rothman
12:30 PM - 2:10 PM Session 099: Intersections of Health, Criminal Justice, and Harm Reduction Session 100: Teaching Social Problems in Time of Polarization Session 101: Reproductive Justice Session 102: Institutional Ethnographies of Law, Crime, and Justice Session 103: Violence and Theory Session 104: The Costs of Higher Ed Session 105: Patterns and Practices of Resistance, Solidarity, and Organizing vis-à-vis the Conditions of Poverty and Inequality Session 106: Crisis and Globalization(s)
2:30 PM - 4:10 PM Committee Meeting: Council of Division Chairpersons and Program Chair, 2024-25 Session 107: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Critical Race and Rural Studies Session 108: The Social Construction of Violence Session 109: Systemic Vulnerabilities and Technology Session 110: Author Meets Critics: Behind Crimmigration: ICE, Law Enforcement, and Resistance in America by Felicia Arriaga, The University of North Carolina Press, 2023 Session 111: The Social Organization of Medical Violence Session 112: Imagining, Building and Sustaining Alternative Forms of Justice Session 113: Immigrant Youth and Education Session 114: Repertoires of Violence: Countermovement, Repression, Oppression, and Social Control Session 115: State and Interpersonal Violence against Contemporary Family Structures