SSSP 2025 Annual Meeting

Plenary, Thematic, and Special Sessions

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Plenary Sessions
Thursday, August 7
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
Friday, August 8
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Session 009 SSSP Business Meeting
11:50 AM - 12:25 PM
Session 010 Town Hall: An Open Forum
Saturday, August 9
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Session 061 Presidential Address
5:45 PM - 7:00 PM
Session 062 Awards Ceremony
Thematic Sessions
Friday, August 8
8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Session 007 Insurgent Productions: The Use of Culture as a Vehicle for Social Change
12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Session 014 CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Co-constructing Methodologies Towards Just and Sustainable Futures
2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Session 023 CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Using IE to Explore Intersecting Crises: Climate, Social Justice, Housing, and Health
4:30 PM - 6:10 PM
Session 028 CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Power to the People: What is Insurgent Sociology?
Session 029 Disrupting the Norm: Mental Health, Illness, and the Law
Saturday, August 9
8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Session 033 CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Transformative Justice: Theory and Research in Pursuit of Emancipatory Power, Agency, Community, and Peacemaking
Session 034 Families in Crisis
10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Session 039 Category Crisis: South Asian Immigrant Experiences in the US
Session 041 Insurgent Sociology in Health Care
12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Session 047 Reparations, Reckoning, and Regeneration from Global and Local Contexts
Session 051 Insurgent Sociological Theory
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 057 Issues in Caretaking and Care Work
Sunday, August 10
8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Session 065 Environmental Activism as a Form of Insurgency
Session 068 Sociology, Social Work, and Social Welfare Institution Perspectives in Response to Recent or Current Crises I
10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
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
12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
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 083 Law in/as Crisis: Contemporary Problems
2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Session 086 CRITICAL DIALOGUE: The Everyday Work of Abolition
Session 087 CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Resistance on College Campuses
Session 089 Community-Based Solutions to Criminal Justice Problems
Special Sessions
Friday, August 8
12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Session 011 CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Connecting and Navigating SSSP as an Insurgent Scholar: Getting the Most Out of Conference and Academic Association Affiliations
Session 018 Workshop: Strategy Session for Current and Future Family Caregivers
Sunday, August 10
12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Session 081 Navigating Existence as an Insurgent Scholar: Work, Engagement, and Activism
2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Session 088 Publishing Tips from the Editors of Social Problems