SSSP 2024 Annual Meeting

[ Program Schedule ] [ Plenary, Thematic, and Special Sessions ]
[ Committee/Divisional Meetings ] [ Index of Sessions ] [ Index of Participants ]


Plenary, Thematic, and Special Sessions

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Plenary Sessions
Friday, August 9
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Session 006 SSSP Business Meeting
11:50 AM - 12:25 PM
Session 007 Town Hall: An Open Forum
Saturday, August 10
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Session 078 Presidential Address
5:45 PM - 7:00 PM
Session 079 Awards Ceremony
Thematic Sessions
Friday, August 9
8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Session 001 Gender-Based Violence: Institutional Issues
Session 005 Violent Environments: Empire and Colonial Legacies CANCELLED
12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Session 009 Bodies for Sale: Use of Humans and Animals for Entertainment
Session 015 Racism, Policing, and Policy Change
Session 017 Research Under Neoliberal Regimes: Peace, Human Rights, and Social Justice CANCELLED
2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Session 019 Curricular Violence: White Supremacist Silencing in Education
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
4:30 PM - 6:10 PM
Session 030 Sex and Violence
Session 033 Understanding the Sociology of Violence in a Quebecois Context/Comprendre une "sociologie de la violence" dans un contexte québécois/
Session 036 Reckoning with Institutional Violence: Perspectives across Organizational Contexts
Session 037 Culture in Conflict, Action, and Change I: Mobilization, Organizing, Resistance, and Politicization
Saturday, August 10
8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
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
10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Session 048 Critical Perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Session 049 Disability Embodiment: The Way Out of a System of Violence
Session 051 CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Guns and Gun Violence
Session 055 Youth, Violence, and Inequality
Session 057 Feminist Abolitionism and Collective Resistance to State Control and Violence
12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
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
2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Session 069 Gender-Based Violence: Perceptions and Applications
Session 077 Culture in Conflict, Action, and Change II: Narrative, Community, Discourse, and Identity
Sunday, August 11
8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Session 080 Gender-Based Violence: Women and Victimization
Session 083 Necropolitics: The Death Worlds of Drug Wars
Session 086 Institutional Inequalities and Violence
10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Session 090 Criminalizing Immigration
Session 094 Trauma and the Life Course
Session 096 Policing Environmental Problems: Who is Responsible and Who is Accountable
Session 097 Theorized versus Everyday Experiences of Violence
12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Session 099 Intersections of Health, Criminal Justice, and Harm Reduction
Session 103 Violence and Theory
2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Session 108 The Social Construction of Violence
Session 109 Systemic Vulnerabilities and Technology
Session 111 The Social Organization of Medical Violence
Session 112 Imagining, Building and Sustaining Alternative Forms of Justice
Session 114 Repertoires of Violence: Countermovement, Repression, Oppression, and Social Control
Session 115 State and Interpersonal Violence against Contemporary Family Structures
Special Sessions
Friday, August 9
12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Session 011 Networking and Navigating at SSSP: Getting the Most Out of Conference Attendance
2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Session 020 CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Agenda for Social Justice: Active Agents for the Future
Saturday, August 10
8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
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 043 Making the Most of Mentoring Opportunities
12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Session 021 CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Sociology on the Ropes: Recent Attacks on the Discipline
Session 058 Publishing Tips from the Editors of Social Problems
2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Session 068 On the Market: Strategies for Landing a Job
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
Sunday, August 11
8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Session 082 GIFTS: Good Ideas for Teaching Sociology and Publishing in TRAILS
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Session 116 Life in Sociology Lecture: Born a Sociologist by Dr. Barbara Katz Rothman