SSSP 2026 Annual Meeting

[ Program Schedule ] [ Plenary, Thematic, Keynote Speaker, and Special Sessions ]
[ Committee/Divisional Meetings ] [ Index of Sessions ] [ Index of Participants ]

Plenary, Thematic, and Special Sessions

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Plenary Sessions
Thursday, August 6
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Session 001 Opening Plenary: Engaging Lifeworlds as Resistance through Organizing, Activism, and Scholarship-THEMATIC
Friday, August 7
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Session 008 SSSP Business Meeting
11:50 AM - 12:25 PM
Session 009 Town Hall: An Open Forum
Saturday, August 8
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Session 064 Presidential Address
5:45 PM - 7:00 PM
Session 065 Awards Ceremony
Thematic Sessions
Friday, August 7
8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Session 004 Doing Research in Global/Transnational Contexts with Critical Decolonial Lenses: Tools and Epistemologies
12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Session 010 Law in/as Crisis: Spatial Mechanisms of Legal Control
2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Session 019 All the Feels: Emotions as Acts of Resistance
Session 023 Beyond Therapeutic Regimes: Critiquing Traditional Medical and Criminal Legal Responses
Saturday, August 8
8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
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 036 CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Resistance and Joy
Session 037 Teaching Hope, Joy, and Justice: Reclamation of Lifeworlds
10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Session 043 Anticolonial Social Movements
Session 044 CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Medicalization and Surveillance of Gender and Sex
12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Session 048 Law in/as Crisis: Legal Consciousness and Rights Mobilization
Session 052 CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Intersecting Margins: Comparative Health of African Diasporas and Racial Minorities in the Americas
2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Session 056 Unequal Environments: Ecological Disparities and Violence
Sunday, August 9
8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
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 072 Colonization, Inequality, and the Changing Classroom
10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Session 077 Rural Spaces and Services I
Session 080 The Border Crossed Me: Shifting Lifeworlds of Immigration
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 085 CRITICAL DIALOGUE: American Colonization of the Sociological Imagination: The Intersection of Colonization and PCI
2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Session 088 CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Mapping Colonization of Lifeworlds: "How Institutions Invade Daily Life"
Special Sessions
Friday, August 7
12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Session 015 Building Community at SSSP
2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Session 021 Navigating Graduate School: Stress, Support, and Student Well-Being
Saturday, August 8
10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Session 040 Academic Freedom in the Current Climate: A Conversation with the Scholars at Risk Network
12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Session 049 Author Meets Critics: Anti-Racism as Communism by Paul Gomberg, Bloomsbury, 2024
2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Session 058 Publishing Tips from the Editors of Social Problems
Sunday, August 9
10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Session 076 Author Meets Critics: Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing by Rahim Kurwa, University of California Press, 2025