SSSP 2026 Annual Meeting

Plenary, Thematic, and Special Sessions

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Plenary Sessions
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Session 000 Opening Plenary: Engaging Lifeworlds as Resistance through Organizing, Activism, and Scholarship-THEMATIC
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Session 000 SSSP Business Meeting
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Session 000 Town Hall: An Open Forum
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Session 000 Presidential Address
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Session 000 Awards Ceremony
Thematic Sessions
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Session 000 People Have the Power?: Community Power and Community Decision-making
Session 000 Rural Spaces and Services I
Session 000 Unequal Environments: Ecological Disparities and Violence
Session 000 CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Decolonizing Solutions: Lessons from the Global South for the Global North
Session 000 The Border Crossed Me: Shifting Lifeworlds of Immigration
Session 000 Beyond Therapeutic Regimes: Critiquing Traditional Medical and Criminal Legal Responses
Session 000 Community Approaches to Mental Health: Educators, Policy-Makers Activists, and Social Identities
Session 000 Resisting Colonization of the Family
Session 000 CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Resistance and Joy
Session 000 CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Medicalization and Surveillance of Gender and Sex
Session 000 Doing Research in Global/Transnational Contexts with Critical Decolonial Lenses: Tools and Epistemologies
Session 000 CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Mapping Colonization of Lifeworlds: "How Institutions Invade Daily Life"
Session 000 CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Intersecting Margins: Comparative Health of African Diasporas and Racial Minorities in the Americas
Session 000 How Institutional/Systemic Factors Impact Family, Health & Well-Being
Session 000 Law in/as Crisis: Spatial Mechanisms of Legal Control
Session 000 CRITICAL DIALOGUE: American Colonization of the Sociological Imagination: The Intersection of Colonization and PCI
Session 000 All the Feels: Emotions as Acts of Resistance
Session 000 Anticolonial Social Movements
Session 000 Colonization, Inequality, and the Changing Classroom
Session 000 Teaching Hope, Joy, and Justice: Reclamation of Lifeworlds
Session 000 No Man Behind the Curtain: The Post-Modern Imperial Power
Session 000 Rural Spaces and Services II
Session 000 Law in/as Crisis: Punishment and the Legitimacy of State Violence
Session 000 Law in/as Crisis: Legal Consciousness and Rights Mobilization
Special Sessions
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Session 000 Author Meets Critics: Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing by Rahim Kurwa, University of California Press, 2025
Session 000 Author Meets Critics: Anti-Racism as Communism by Paul Gomberg, Bloomsbury, 2024
Session 000 Publishing Tips from the Editors of Social Problems
Session 000 Navigating Graduate School: Stress, Support, and Student Well-Being
Session 000 Academic Freedom in the Current Climate: A Conversation with the Scholars at Risk Network
Session 000 Building Community at SSSP