SSSP 2026 Annual Meeting

2026 Annual Meeting Program Schedule

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  • Committee Meeting: Accessibility Committee, 2025-26
  • Committee Meeting: Anti-Harassment Committee, 2025-26 & 2026-27
  • Committee Meeting: Board of Directors Meeting I, 2025-26
  • Committee Meeting: Board of Directors Meeting II, 2025-26
  • Committee Meeting: Board of Directors Meeting, 2026-27
  • Committee Meeting: Budget, Finance, and Audit Committee, 2026-27
  • Committee Meeting: Council of Division Chairpersons and Program Co-Chairs, 2026-27
  • Committee Meeting: Editorial and Publications Committee, 2025-26 & 2026-27
  • Committee Meeting: Membership and Outreach Committee, 2025-26 & 2026-27
  • Committee Meeting: Program Committee, 2025-26
  • Committee Meeting: Program Chair(s), 2025-26 & 2026-27 (Closed Meeting)
  • Committee Meeting: Program Co-Chairs, 2026-27 Meeting with the President and Administrative Officer
  • Divisional Meeting: Educational Problems
  • Divisional Meeting: Family, Aging, and Youth
  • Divisional Meeting: Global
  • Divisional Meeting: Institutional Ethnography
  • Divisional Meeting: Poverty, Class, and Inequality
  • Divisional Meeting: Social Problems Theory
  • Divisional Meeting: Sociology, Social Work, and Social Welfare
  • Divisional Meeting: Sport, Leisure, and the Body
  • Special: Arrival Meet and Greet Reception
  • Special: Welcoming Reception
  • Special: New Member Breakfast
  • Special: Division-Sponsored Reception
  • Special: Student Social Hour
  • Panel with Panelists: Humanist Sociology: past, Present and Future
  • Critical Dialogue: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Where We Belong: Community Responses to Exclusion and Harm in 2026
  • Roundtables: PAPERS IN THE ROUND: Scholar Café: Building Collective Wisdom through Intergenerational Scholar Sharing
  • Critical Dialogue: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Teaching and Engaging with Reparations and Restorative Justice
  • Critical Dialogue: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Co-constructing Methodologies for Community-engaged, Participatory Action Research
  • Roundtables: PAPERS IN THE ROUND: Building Collective Wisdom through Intergenerational Scholar Sharing
  • Thematic: People Have the Power?: Community Power and Community Decision-making
  • Thematic: Rural Spaces and Services I
  • Thematic: Rural Spaces and Services II
  • Roundtables: WORKS IN PROGRESS / RESEARCH FEEDBACK: Media and Technology as Sites of Digital Contestation and Resistance
  • Regular: Racial Politics and Resistance in the Midst of Settler Colonialism I
  • Regular: Advocacy and Change
  • Critical Dialogue: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Teaching Social Problems through Experiential Learning
  • Thematic: Unequal Environments: Ecological Disparities and Violence
  • Critical Dialogue: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Decolonizing Solutions: Lessons from the Global South for the Global North
  • Regular: Racial Politics and Resistance in the Midst of Settler Colonialism II
  • Critical Dialogue: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Inventing Criminality across the Globe
  • Regular: Mass Incarceration and Perpetual Punishment I
  • Regular: State of Policing I
  • Regular: Algorithmic Injustices: Effect of AI on Vulnerable (Marginalized) Communities
  • Regular: Gender and Violence: International Perspectives
  • Regular: Weaponization of Child Welfare
  • Thematic: The Border Crossed Me: Shifting Lifeworlds of Immigration
  • Thematic: Beyond Therapeutic Regimes: Critiquing Traditional Medical and Criminal Legal Responses
  • Regular: Gender and Violence: Structural Issues
  • Regular: Gender and Violence: Institutional Perspectives
  • Regular: Mass Incarceration and Perpetual Punishment II
  • Regular: State of Policing II
  • Regular: Mass Incarceration and Perpetual Punishment III
  • Critical Dialogue: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Teaching and Engaging with Reparations and Restorative Justice
  • Regular: Racial Politics and Resistance in the Midst of Settler Colonialism I
  • Regular: Algorithmic Injustices: Effect of AI on Vulnerable (Marginalized) Communities
  • Regular: Colonial Racial Capitalism Today: Spectacularization, Dispossession, and Resistance
  • Critical Dialogue: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Right to Resist: Counter-Hegemonic Agency and Emancipatory Anti-colonial Political Praxis
  • Critical Dialogue: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Under Siege: Power, Resistance, and Solidarity in Higher Education
  • Panel with Panelists: NYC Immigrant Organizers in Conversations
  • Thematic: The Border Crossed Me: Shifting Lifeworlds of Immigration
  • Regular: Racial Politics and Resistance in the Midst of Settler Colonialism II
  • Regular: Disability, Mental Health, and Society
  • Critical Dialogue: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Exploring and Resisting Academic Ableism
  • Regular: Families in Distress: Caregiving for and with Family Members with Disabilities and/or Social Identity Challenges
  • Regular: Medicalization as a Social Problem: A Tool of Oppression and Resistance
  • Thematic: Beyond Therapeutic Regimes: Critiquing Traditional Medical and Criminal Legal Responses
  • Thematic: Community Approaches to Mental Health: Educators, Policy-Makers Activists, and Social Identities
  • Critical Dialogue: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Under Siege: Power, Resistance, and Solidarity in Higher Education
  • Critical Dialogue: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Exploring and Resisting Academic Ableism
  • Roundtables: WORKS IN PROGRESS: Problems and Issues in Medical Education, Policy, and the Health Professions in a Time of Social Backlash
  • Regular: WORKS IN PROGRESS: “Bring Your Own Brilliance”: Sharing Our Ideas That Have Been Successful in Teaching
  • Regular: Algorithmic Injustices: Effect of AI on Vulnerable (Marginalized) Communities
  • Regular: The Colonisation of Environmental Protection
  • Roundtables: WORKS IN PROGRESS: Environment, Inequality, and Marginalized Knowledge
  • Regular: Families in Distress: Caregiving for and with Family Members with Disabilities and/or Social Identity Challenges
  • Regular: Invisible Families
  • Thematic: Resisting Colonization of the Family
  • Regular: Gender and Violence: International Perspectives
  • Roundtables: GSBPC Works in Progress
  • Regular: The Politics of Disinformation and Gender
  • Thematic: Resisting Colonization of the Family
  • Critical Dialogue: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Resistance and Joy
  • Critical Dialogue: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Medicalization and Surveillance of Gender and Sex
  • Regular: Masculinities & Political Power
  • Regular: Gender and Violence: Structural Issues
  • Regular: Gender and Violence: Institutional Perspectives
  • Regular: The Biopolitics of LGBTQ+ Lives in the Age of Disinformation
  • Critical Dialogue: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Co-constructing Methodologies for Community-engaged, Participatory Action Research
  • Critical Dialogue: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: New Trends in Global Migrations and (Im)mobilities in Anti-immigration Contexts
  • Critical Dialogue: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Fighting Global Inequalities: Actions towards Social, Ethnoracial and/or Gender Justice
  • Critical Dialogue: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Decolonizing Solutions: Lessons from the Global South for the Global North
  • Thematic: Doing Research in Global/Transnational Contexts with Critical Decolonial Lenses: Tools and Epistemologies
  • Critical Dialogue: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Mapping Colonization of Lifeworlds: "How Institutions Invade Daily Life"
  • Roundtables: WORKS IN PROGRESS: Problems and Issues in Medical Education, Policy, and the Health Professions in a Time of Social Backlash
  • Regular: Disasters and Health
  • Regular: Caregivers, Care Recipients, and Health
  • Critical Dialogue: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Medicalization and Surveillance of Gender and Sex
  • Critical Dialogue: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Intersecting Margins: Comparative Health of African Diasporas and Racial Minorities in the Americas
  • Thematic: How Institutional/Systemic Factors Impact Family, Health & Well-Being
  • Regular: Advocacy and Change
  • Regular: New Directions in Institutional Ethnography
  • Critical Dialogue: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Mapping Colonization of Lifeworlds: "How Institutions Invade Daily Life"
  • Thematic: How Institutional/Systemic Factors Impact Family, Health & Well-Being
  • Roundtables: PAPERS IN THE ROUND: Building Collective Wisdom through Intergenerational Scholar Sharing
  • Critical Dialogue: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Contingency and the Professions
  • Critical Dialogue: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Labor and Class I
  • Thematic: The Border Crossed Me: Shifting Lifeworlds of Immigration
  • Critical Dialogue: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Labor and Class II
  • Regular: Gender and Violence: International Perspectives
  • Thematic: The Border Crossed Me: Shifting Lifeworlds of Immigration
  • Thematic: Beyond Therapeutic Regimes: Critiquing Traditional Medical and Criminal Legal Responses
  • Thematic: Law in/as Crisis: Spatial Mechanisms of Legal Control
  • Regular: Gender and Violence: Structural Issues
  • Regular: Gender and Violence: Institutional Perspectives
  • Thematic: Law in/as Crisis: Punishment and the Legitimacy of State Violence
  • Thematic: Law in/as Crisis: Legal Consciousness and Rights Mobilization
  • Panel with Panelists: Building Community at SSSP
  • Roundtables: WORKS IN PROGRESS: Environment, Inequality, and Marginalized Knowledge
  • Regular: Invisible Families
  • Critical Dialogue: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Fighting Global Inequalities: Actions towards Social, Ethnoracial and/or Gender Justice
  • Critical Dialogue: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Labor and Class I
  • Regular: Class Across the Lifecourse: Birth, Health, Aging, Death
  • Critical Dialogue: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Institutional Inequalities: Constraints on Communication, Research, Organizing, and Action
  • Critical Dialogue: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: American Colonization of the Sociological Imagination: The Intersection of Colonization and PCI
  • Critical Dialogue: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Labor and Class II
  • Panel with Panelists: Opening Plenary: Engaging Lifeworlds as Resistance through Organizing, Activism, and Scholarship-THEMATIC
  • Plenary: SSSP Business Meeting
  • Panel with Panelists: Town Hall: An Open Forum
  • Plenary: Presidential Address
  • Plenary: Awards Ceremony
  • Workshop: Teaching Research Methods and Sociology Fundamentals: A Workshop for Learning about Open-Access Resources and Crowdsourcing Tips for Teaching
  • Panel with Panelists: On Palestine
  • Author Meets Critics: Author Meets Critics: Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing by Rahim Kurwa, University of California Press, 2025
  • Author Meets Critics: Author Meets Critics: Anti-Racism as Communism by Paul Gomberg, Bloomsbury, 2024
  • Panel with Panelists: Publishing Tips from the Editors of Social Problems
  • Panel with Panelists: Navigating Graduate School: Stress, Support, and Student Well-Being
  • Panel with Panelists: Teaching Hope, Joy, and Justice: Reclamation of Lifeworlds
  • Thematic: No Man Behind the Curtain: The Post-Modern Imperial Power
  • Panel with Panelists: The Problem Pipeline: How Social Problems Become Research Agendas - Special Issue of Global Discourse
  • Panel with Panelists: Humanist Sociology: past, Present and Future
  • Workshop: Academic Freedom in the Current Climate: A Conversation with the Scholars at Risk Network
  • Regular: Medicalization as a Social Problem: A Tool of Oppression and Resistance
  • Regular: New Directions in Social Problems Theory
  • Panel with Panelists: Social Problems Theory: Past to Present
  • Critical Dialogue: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Decolonizing Solutions: Lessons from the Global South for the Global North
  • Thematic: All the Feels: Emotions as Acts of Resistance
  • Regular: Weaponization of Child Welfare
  • Regular: Caregivers, Care Recipients, and Health
  • Thematic: Rural Spaces and Services I
  • Thematic: Anticolonial Social Movements
  • Thematic: Rural Spaces and Services II
  • Thematic: Rural Spaces and Services I
  • Thematic: All the Feels: Emotions as Acts of Resistance
  • Thematic: Rural Spaces and Services II
  • Critical Dialogue: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Teaching Social Problems through Experiential Learning
  • Regular: WORKS IN PROGRESS: “Bring Your Own Brilliance”: Sharing Our Ideas That Have Been Successful in Teaching
  • Thematic: Colonization, Inequality, and the Changing Classroom