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Past SSSP Virtual Events

Concerned About Traveling to Chicago for the Annual Meeting? Join Us!

We invite you to a free virtual session on Tuesday, July 29, from 11:30am–1:00pm ET, hosted by SSSP Executive Officer Elroi J. Windsor.

Attendees will receive resources based on the latest advice available.

• Border crossings & immigration concerns
• Dealing with ICE in Chicago
• Travel resources, with special attention to international travel

Register now and access the flyer here: https://www.sssp1.org/file/2025/SSSP_Virtual_Support_Session_Travel_Concerns_for_the_Chicago_Annual_Meeting.pdf

SSP Institutional Ethnography Workshop

Monday, August 11, 10:00am-3:30pm (Central Time)
Registration Fee: Free

The Institutional Ethnography Division is hosting a virtual, 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 as part of small group discussions should submit one of these documents to Laura Parson (laura.parson@ndsu.edu), Anna Rockhill (rockhill@pdx.edu), and 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. The workshop is free, but attendees must register for the 2025 Annual Meeting.

SSSP Teaching Social Problems for Social Change: A One-Day Experiential Workshop

Monday, August 11, 9:00am-4:00pm (Eastern Time)
Registration Fee: $30 for employed registrants or $25 for unemployed/activist/student registrants

The Teaching Social Problems Division is hosting an interactive, virtual workshop for teachers, scholars and activists who are interest 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 four keynote presentations on innovative ways to teach social problems positively as well as opportunities for group discussion and learning. 

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

Some video-presentations and materials will be made available to the participants some weeks before the workshop on the SSSP YouTube Channel.

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.

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