Annual Meeting Schedule

The official days of the 2016 SSSP Annual Meeting are Friday, August 19 to Sunday, August 21. Program sessions are scheduled on all three days of the meeting.

Most daytime program sessions are 1 hour and 40 minutes in length, followed by a 20 minute break. Exceptions are clearly noted in the detailed program schedule.

Sessions, committee meetings, and special events will be held at the Westin Seattle Hotel, located at 1900 5th Avenue.

The turnover schedule is as follows:

On Friday, the 6:30pm-7:30pm time slot is allocated for the Welcoming Reception and the 10:00pm-11:00pm time slot is allocated for the Graduate Student Happy Hour. On Saturday, the 4:15pm-5:25pm time slot is allocated for the SSSP Business Meeting, the 5:30pm-6:30pm time slot is allocated for the Presidential Address, the 6:45pm-7:45pm time slot is allocated for the Awards Ceremony, and the 7:45pm-8:45pm time slot is allocated for the Division-Sponsored Reception. On Sunday, all sessions end at 6:10pm.

Please refer to the Preliminary Program Schedule for a daily listing of all sessions, meetings, and special events. Session presiders and committee chairs should ensure that sessions and meetings end on time to avoid conflicts with subsequent activities scheduled in the same room and to allow participants time to transit to the next session.

Acknowledgment

On behalf of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Michele Koontz, Administrative Officer & Meeting Manager, wishes to thank President David A. Smith; Program Committee Chair Yvonne A. Braun and her committee R.A. Dello Buono, David Fasenfest, and Evelyn J. Patterson; Local Arrangements Committee Chair Sarah Diefendorf and her committee Patrick A. Denice, Hedwig Lee, and Andrea Robin Reisman; Executive Officer Héctor L. Delgado; Information Technology Specialist Sharon Shumaker; Administrative Assistant Marisa Stone; and Graduate Research Associate and Webmaster Douglas Oeser for their contributions to the program. Additional thanks to artist Pam Kachel, Mariner Art and Design, who created the program cover and the conference bag design.

A special thanks to the University of California, Irvine School of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology, Center for the Study of Democracy, and the Blum Center for Poverty Alleviation and the University of Oregon College of Arts and Sciences and Department of Women’s and Gender Studies for their financial contributions to program activities and to Oxford University Press for its financial contribution to the conference bags.