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| Thursday, August 6 |
| 11:30 AM - 4:30 PM
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5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
- Session 001: Opening Plenary: Engaging Lifeworlds as Resistance through Organizing, Activism, and Scholarship-THEMATIC
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6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
- Special: Arrival Meet and Greet Reception
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| Friday, August 7 |
8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
- Committee Meeting: Program Committee, 2025-26
- Session 002: The Biopolitics of LGBTQ+ Lives in the Age of Disinformation
- Session 003: Advocacy and Change
- Session 004: Doing Research in Global/Transnational Contexts with Critical Decolonial Lenses: Tools and Epistemologies
- Session 005: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Contingency and the Professions
- Session 006: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Inventing Criminality across the Globe
- Session 007: Colonial Racial Capitalism Today: Spectacularization, Dispossession, and Resistance
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| 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
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| 11:50 AM - 12:25 PM
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12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
- Committee Meeting: Editorial and Publications Committee, 2025-26 & 2026-27
- Divisional Meeting: Social Problems Theory
- Divisional Meeting: Sociology, Social Work, and Social Welfare
- Divisional Meeting: Sport, Leisure, and the Body
- Session 010: Law in/as Crisis: Spatial Mechanisms of Legal Control
- Session 011: On Palestine
- Session 012: GSBPC Works in Progress
- Session 013: WORKS IN PROGRESS: Problems and Issues in Medical Education, Policy, and the Health Professions in a Time of Social Backlash
- Session 014: Teaching Research Methods and Sociology Fundamentals: A Workshop for Learning about Open-Access Resources and Crowdsourcing Tips for Teaching
- Session 015: Building Community at SSSP
- Session 016: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Institutional Inequalities: Constraints on Communication, Research, Organizing, and Action
- Session 017: Algorithmic Injustices: Effect of AI on Vulnerable (Marginalized) Communities
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| 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
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| 4:15 PM - 6:15 PM
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4:30 PM - 6:10 PM
- Session 024: Families in Distress: Caregiving for and with Family Members with Disabilities and/or Social Identity Challenges
- Session 025: Weaponization of Child Welfare
- Session 026: PAPERS IN THE ROUND: Scholar Café: Building Collective Wisdom through Intergenerational Scholar Sharing
- Session 027: WORKS IN PROGRESS / RESEARCH FEEDBACK: Media and Technology as Sites of Digital Contestation and Resistance
- Session 028: The Problem Pipeline: How Social Problems Become Research Agendas - Special Issue of Global Discourse
- Session 029: Humanist Sociology: past, Present and Future
- Session 030: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Fighting Global Inequalities: Actions towards Social, Ethnoracial and/or Gender Justice
- Session 031: Gender and Violence: International Perspectives
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| 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
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| 7:45 PM - 8:45 PM
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| Saturday, August 8 |
| 7:15 AM - 8:15 AM
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8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
- Committee Meeting: Anti-Harassment Committee, 2025-26 & 2026-27
- Committee Meeting: Program Co-Chairs, 2026-27 Meeting with the President and Administrative Officer
- Session 032: Invisible Families
- Session 033: Law in/as Crisis: Punishment and the Legitimacy of State Violence
- Session 034: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Decolonizing Solutions: Lessons from the Global South for the Global North
- Session 035: Disasters and Health
- Session 036: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Resistance and Joy
- Session 037: Teaching Hope, Joy, and Justice: Reclamation of Lifeworlds
- Session 038: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Under Siege: Power, Resistance, and Solidarity in Higher Education
- Session 039: Mass Incarceration and Perpetual Punishment I
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10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
- Committee Meeting: Membership and Outreach Committee, 2025-26 & 2026-27
- Session 040: Academic Freedom in the Current Climate: A Conversation with the Scholars at Risk Network
- Session 041: PAPERS IN THE ROUND: Building Collective Wisdom through Intergenerational Scholar Sharing
- Session 042: WORKS IN PROGRESS: Environment, Inequality, and Marginalized Knowledge
- Session 043: Anticolonial Social Movements
- Session 044: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Medicalization and Surveillance of Gender and Sex
- Session 045: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Exploring and Resisting Academic Ableism
- Session 046: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Right to Resist: Counter-Hegemonic Agency and Emancipatory Anti-colonial Political Praxis
- Session 047: Mass Incarceration and Perpetual Punishment II
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12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
- Committee Meeting: Budget, Finance, and Audit Committee, 2026-27
- Divisional Meeting: Institutional Ethnography
- Session 048: Law in/as Crisis: Legal Consciousness and Rights Mobilization
- Session 049: Author Meets Critics: Anti-Racism as Communism by Paul Gomberg, Bloomsbury, 2024
- Session 050: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Teaching Social Problems through Experiential Learning
- Session 051: Medicalization as a Social Problem: A Tool of Oppression and Resistance
- Session 052: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Intersecting Margins: Comparative Health of African Diasporas and Racial Minorities in the Americas
- Session 053: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Labor and Class I
- Session 054: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Where We Belong: Community Responses to Exclusion and Harm in 2026
- Session 055: State of Policing I
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2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
- Committee Meeting: Accessibility Committee, 2025-26
- Session 056: Unequal Environments: Ecological Disparities and Violence
- Session 057: New Directions in Institutional Ethnography
- Session 058: Publishing Tips from the Editors of Social Problems
- Session 059: The Politics of Disinformation and Gender
- Session 060: NYC Immigrant Organizers in Conversations
- Session 061: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Labor and Class II
- Session 062: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Co-constructing Methodologies for Community-engaged, Participatory Action Research
- Session 063: State of Policing II
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| 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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| 5:45 PM - 7:00 PM
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7:15 PM - 8:15 PM
- Special: Division-Sponsored Reception
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| Sunday, August 9 |
| 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
- Session 066: Class Across the Lifecourse: Birth, Health, Aging, Death
- Session 067: Resisting Colonization of the Family
- Session 068: No Man Behind the Curtain: The Post-Modern Imperial Power
- Session 069: People Have the Power?: Community Power and Community Decision-making
- Session 070: Racial Politics and Resistance in the Midst of Settler Colonialism I
- Session 071: Social Problems Theory: Past to Present
- Session 072: Colonization, Inequality, and the Changing Classroom
- Session 073: Mass Incarceration and Perpetual Punishment III
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10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
- Session 074: Disability, Mental Health, and Society
- Session 075: New Directions in Social Problems Theory
- Session 076: Author Meets Critics: Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing by Rahim Kurwa, University of California Press, 2025
- Session 077: Rural Spaces and Services I
- Session 078: The Colonisation of Environmental Protection
- Session 079: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: New Trends in Global Migrations and (Im)mobilities in Anti-immigration Contexts
- Session 080: The Border Crossed Me: Shifting Lifeworlds of Immigration
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12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
- Session 081: Community Approaches to Mental Health: Educators, Policy-Makers Activists, and Social Identities
- Session 082: How Institutional/Systemic Factors Impact Family, Health & Well-Being
- Session 083: Rural Spaces and Services II
- Session 084: Racial Politics and Resistance in the Midst of Settler Colonialism II
- Session 085: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: American Colonization of the Sociological Imagination: The Intersection of Colonization and PCI
- Session 086: WORKS IN PROGRESS: "Bring Your Own Brilliance”: Sharing Our Ideas That Have Been Successful in Teaching
- Session 087: Gender and Violence: Structural Issues
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2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
- Committee Meeting: Council of Division Chairpersons and Program Co-Chairs, 2026-27
- Committee Meeting: White Anti-Racist Sociologists - Meeting
- Session 088: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Mapping Colonization of Lifeworlds: "How Institutions Invade Daily Life"
- Session 089: Gender and Violence: Institutional Perspectives
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