Date: Thursday, August 7

Time: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

PLENARY

Session 001: Opening Plenary: SSSP at 75 and the Reorder of Things: From Oppositional Beginnings to Resisting Elite Capture
Room: Chicago Room

Sponsor: Program Committee

Organizer &

Presider: Rose M. Brewer, University of Minnesota

Description: 

It is the 75th Anniversary of SSSP and while it is a time of commemoration, it must be a time of introspection about the road ahead. A conversation among activists, revolutionaries, and scholars around the necessity of joint struggle anchors this opening plenary. The session is centered in the critical question posed by one of the founding Presidents, Alfred McClung Lee: Sociology for Whom? This question is important to the history of SSSP and the current threats, contradictions, and transformational possibilities of the Organization. In a time of multiple crises what must be done is the issue of the day.

Panelists:

R.A. Dello Buono, Manhattan University

Anna Maria Santiago, Michigan State University

Jerome Scott, League of Revolutionaries for a New America

Angie Beeman, Baruch College, CUNY

Assata Zerai, The University of New Mexico

Asha Ransby-Sporn, Chicago Organizer & Writer

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