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SSSP 2025 Annual Meeting

2025 Annual Meeting Program Schedule

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Committee Meeting: Program Chair(s), 2024-25 & 2025-26 (Closed Meeting)
Thursday, August 7
11:30 AM - 4:30 PM Committee Meeting: Board of Directors Meeting I, 2024-25
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Session 001: Opening Plenary: SSSP at 75 and the Reorder of Things: From Oppositional Beginnings to Resisting Elite Capture
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Other Event: Arrival Meet and Greet Reception
Friday, August 8
8:30 AM - 10:10 AM Session 002: The Perpetual Crisis of Mass Incarceration Session 003: Global Solidarities for Climate Justice in the Age of Climate Chaos Session 004: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Gender, Sexualities, and Class during Capitalist Crises Session 005: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Institutional Ethnographies of Family Welfare Session 006: The Impact of Trauma on Mental Health Mental Illness and Disability Session 007: Insurgent Productions: The Use of Culture as a Vehicle for Social Change Session 008: Roundtable Discussion on Marital Satisfaction and Sex Testing
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM Session 009: SSSP Business Meeting
11:50 AM - 12:25 PM Session 010: Town Hall: An Open Forum
12:30 PM - 2:10 PM Committee Meeting: Editorial and Publications Committee, 2024-25 & 2025-26 Divisional Meeting: Crime and Justice Divisional Meeting: Institutional Ethnography Divisional Meeting: Social Problems Theory Session 011: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Connecting and Navigating SSSP as an Insurgent Scholar: Getting the Most Out of Conference and Academic Association Affiliations Session 012: Intersectionality in the Classroom: Theory and Practice Session 013: Militarization, Forced Migration, and Authoritarianism Session 014: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Co-constructing Methodologies Towards Just and Sustainable Futures Session 015: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Community-Based Sexual and Reproductive Care Session 016: Environmental Injustice, Policing, and Inequalities Session 017: Author Meets Critics: Funk the Clock: Transgressing Time while Young, Perceptive, and Black Session 018: Workshop: Strategy Session for Current and Future Family Caregivers Session 019: PAPERS IN THE ROUND: Doing the Work of Education
2:30 PM - 4:10 PM Committee Meeting: Permanent Organization and Strategic Planning Committee, 2024-25 & 2025-26 Divisional Meeting: Community, Research, and Practice Divisional Meeting: Sociology, Social Work, and Social Welfare Session 020: Pursuing Racial Justice to Improve Health Inequities in Historically Marginalized Groups Session 021: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Diverse Families at the Margins/LGBTQ+/Parents and Children with Disabilities Session 022: Resistance and Survival Session 023: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Using IE to Explore Intersecting Crises: Climate, Social Justice, Housing, and Health Session 024: New Directions in Social Problems Theory
4:15 PM - 6:15 PM Committee Meeting: Board of Directors Meeting II, 2024-25
4:30 PM - 6:10 PM Session 025: Juvenile Justice and Systems of Surveillance Session 026: Pursuing Racial Justice to Improve Health Inequities in Historically Marginalized Groups II Session 027: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Revolutionary Possibilities: Confronting Capitalist Crises and Fascist Forces with Transformative Theory and Practice Session 028: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Power to the People: What is Insurgent Sociology? Session 029: Disrupting the Norm: Mental Health, Illness, and the Law Session 030: Workshop: U.S.A.I.D. and the Global South
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Other Event: Welcoming Reception
7:45 PM - 8:45 PM Other Event: Student Social Hour
Saturday, August 9
7:15 AM - 8:15 AM Other Event: New Member Breakfast
8:30 AM - 10:10 AM Committee Meeting: Anti-Harassment Committee, 2024-25 & 2025-26 Session 031: Shared Identity Making and Social Perceptions Session 032: Emerging Threats and Responses to an Increasingly Dangerous, Adulterated Drug Supply Session 033: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Transformative Justice: Theory and Research in Pursuit of Emancipatory Power, Agency, Community, and Peacemaking Session 034: Families in Crisis Session 035: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Teaching Social Problems through Institutional Ethnography Session 036: New Books of Interest to SSSP cosponsored by Gender, Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities Session 037: Mobility, Affluence, and the Aspirational Class in a Time of Crises
10:30 AM - 12:10 PM Committee Meeting: Membership and Outreach Committee, 2024-25 & 2025-26 Divisional Meeting: Conflict, Social Action, and Change Session 038: Community Approaches to Mental Health: Educators, Policy-Makers and Social Identities Session 039: Category Crisis: South Asian Immigrant Experiences in the US Session 040: Current Issues of Anti-DEI Rhetoric in the United States Session 041: Insurgent Sociology in Health Care Session 042: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Intersecting Technological, Healthcare, and Social Relations Session 043: Social Problems Theory and Decarceration/Abolitionist Movements in Prison Studies Session 044: Universities Confronting their Past: Social Justice Approaches to Confront and Address Complex Legacies of Harm
12:30 PM - 2:10 PM Committee Meeting: Budget, Finance, and Audit Committee, 2025-26 Session 045: Workshop: Building Communities of Praxis: Insurgent Sociology at the Center CANCELLED Session 046: Immigration and Transnational Blackness Session 047: Reparations, Reckoning, and Regeneration from Global and Local Contexts Session 048: PAPERS IN THE ROUND: Reproductive Autonomy, Justice, and the Law Session 049: WORKS IN PROGRESS: “Bring Your Own Brilliance”: Sharing our Ideas That Have Been Successful in Teaching Session 050: Racial Disparities in CJ/CL System Session 051: Insurgent Sociological Theory Session 052: Engaged Sociology and Activism: Crisis Narratives, Lived Experiences and Poverty Abolition
2:30 PM - 4:10 PM Session 053: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Right to Resist I - Insurgent Counter-Hegemony and Agency of the Unapologetic, Emancipatory, Revolutionary, and Transformative Kinds Session 054: Pushed to the Brink: Insurgencies, Emergency Responses, Societal Neglect and Vulnerability of People with Disabilities Session 055: Regulating Risk: Law, Crime, and Social Control in Uncertain Times Session 056: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Precarity, Contingency, and Non-Standard Relations of Labor Session 057: Issues in Caretaking and Care Work Session 058: Teaching about Conflict and Inequalities in Challenging Times Session 059: Workshop: The Insurgency will not be De-Radicalized: Resisting Counterinsurgent Forces Inside and Outside the University Session 060: We All Play: Unequal Recognition of Human in Sport and Leisure
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Session 061: Presidential Address
5:45 PM - 7:00 PM Session 062: Awards Ceremony
7:15 PM - 8:15 PM Other Event: Division-Sponsored Reception
Sunday, August 10
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM Committee Meeting: Board of Directors Meeting, 2025-26
8:30 AM - 10:10 AM Session 063: Breaking Free from Liberal White Supremacy to a Radical Feminist Collective: The Journey towards Building Intentional Community-Based, Insurgent Spaces in Sociology Session 064: New Directions in Institutional Ethnography Session 065: Environmental Activism as a Form of Insurgency Session 066: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: How to Teach Social Change in the Classroom Session 067: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Insurgent Transnational Feminism and the Question of Empire Session 068: Sociology, Social Work, and Social Welfare Institution Perspectives in Response to Recent or Current Crises I Session 069: PAPERS IN THE ROUND: Problems in Schools Session 070: Social Movements for Legal Change
10:30 AM - 12:10 PM Session 071: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Critical Reflections on Mutual Aid and Anticapitalist Approaches to Community and Care Session 072: Intersectionality in Action: Bridging Mental Health and Social Problems Theory to Address Complex Social Issues Session 073: Teaching Social Problems in a Time of Crises: Challenges and Opportunities Session 074: Sociology, Social Work, and Social Welfare Institution Perspectives in Response to Recent or Current Crises II Session 075: Works-in-Progress Session 076: Performing Reflections: Art-based Praxis as a Resource for Self-reflection
12:30 PM - 2:10 PM Session 077: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Handbook of Social Justice, edited by Former SSSP President Corey Dolgon Session 078: Collective Healing: Insurgent Strategies for Community Wellness and Social Justice Movements Session 079: Youth in Crisis Session 080: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Right to Resist II - Insurgent Counter-Hegemony and Agency of the Unapologetic, Emancipatory, Revolutionary, and Transformative Kinds Session 081: Navigating Existence as an Insurgent Scholar: Work, Engagement, and Activism Session 082: Victimization and Victims Session 083: Law in/as Crisis: Contemporary Problems
2:30 PM - 4:10 PM Committee Meeting: Council of Division Chairpersons and Program Chair, 2025-26 Session 084: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Sociologists as Workers and Political Actors in Today’s Multiracial and Multigendered Working Class Struggle Session 085: Technology, Surveillance and Access to Health Services Session 086: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: The Everyday Work of Abolition Session 087: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Resistance on College Campuses Session 088: Publishing Tips from the Editors of Social Problems Session 089: Community-Based Solutions to Criminal Justice Problems
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Committee Meeting: Feminist Collective Meeting