Good day SSSers.
I would like for you to consider the ways you can make your work, your programs, and your organizations visible at SSS 2025. There are a variety of ways, and, indeed, we are always open to new ideas for working with members, their publishers, and a myriad of organizations.
First, though, I would like to take a moment to remind you to submit your work to SSS 2025 in Charlotte, NC (April 9-12, 2025 at the Sheraton Charlotte and Le Meridien). The annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society is constructed entirely from members’ scholarship, ideas, energies and participation. And, if there is one thing my SSS experience has proven time and time again, SSSers bring the scholarship, ideas, energies and participation each and every year and the annual meeting always showcases this collective effervescence!
You can submit your abstracts, sessions, and ideas here.
Now, on to the opportunities at SSS 2025!
Tabling/Exhibiting/Advertising at SSS 2025
If you have an organization or are connected to a publisher who may wish to table/exhibit at SSS 2025, we have several possibilities for such exposure.
For publishers or non-SSS organizations, tables are $500 each. For SSS-related organizations, we are certainly willing to work with those entities with lower tabling rates.
Publishers or individuals wishing to take part in a combined exhibit/table can send up to seven (7) books as well as flyers/pamphlets/cards to the below address along with $250, and we will display these in a combined exhibit. Payment can also be made online here.
We will also accommodate and work with other organizations of course if they wish to table/exhibit at SSS 2025.
If you have recently published a book and/or wish to have a book of yours highlighted, all authors should feel free to contact me and/or send this email to their editors/publishers and have them contact David L. Brunsma.
We accept individual, organizational, publisher and/or departmental advertisements to be included in the program (Departmental Members get a free advertisement as part of the membership tier – see below). The deadline for ads is February 1, 2025. You can purchase a full-page advertisement (8.5″ x 11″) for the program and a logo for the mobile app that links to a webpage of your choice for $150. You may send your ad and logo to the Executive Office in .pdf or .jpg in the highest possible resolution. When you do so, please purchase the advertisement online by clicking here or send a check made payable to the Southern Sociological Society to:
Southern Sociological Society
560 McBryde Hall – MC 0137
225 Stanger Street
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061
Opportunities for Graduate Programs
Graduate departments are an integral part of the society. There are three key ways for graduate departments to increase visibility and engagement in the annual meeting. First, as per the above, you can advertise in the conference program and mobile app. Second, you can take part in the graduate program informational session along with many other graduate departments – contact David L. Brunsma if you are interested in participating in this event during the annual meeting. Third, you can become a Departmental Member which comes with perks for your department and your students. I turn to the latter issue next.
SSS Departmental Membership
We encourage your department to become a Departmental Member of the Southern Sociological Society. Departments who choose to do this are listed in the annual meeting program (with your institutional logo), receives our amazing journal, Social Currents, to display for their faculty and students in their front office, receive a full-page advertisement in the conference program and receives a discount for presenting undergraduate students: undergraduate students at a Departmental Member who are on the program will get their annual membership dues waived (undergraduate conference registration fees would still be required). The following rates secure such a membership: 1) $150 for PhD-granting institutions; 2) $100 for MA-granting institutions; and, 3) $50 for BA/AA-granting institutions. We hope your department will consider becoming a Departmental Member of SSS. Our website has more information at southernsociologicalsociety.org/join.
Membership Dues
Please be sure to renew your membership dues for 2025 if you have not done so already: join.southernsociologicalsociety.org.
Conference Registration and Booking Your Room for #SSS2025
You will not want to miss the upcoming annual meeting April 9-12, 2025 at the Sheraton Charlotte and Le Meridien Charlotte in, go figure, Charlotte, NC. This year President Dawn Robinson’s theme “Sociology of the Future and the Future of Sociology,” together with their Program Committee (Chair, Lisa Walker) will assemble a full-to-bursting program of exciting Sessions, Authors-Meets-Curious-Readers, Panels, Workshops, and so much more covering the spectrum of sociological inquiry – built almost entirely from membership submissions!
Information about registering for #SSS2025 is on our website: southernsociologicalsociety.org/meeting/. Those who pre-register by March 1, 2025 will pay significantly lower fees than those who wait to register after this date.
BOOK YOUR ROOM NOW! To book your hotel room, click here to receive the conference rate.
This will be my last year as your Executive Officer. It has been a deep honor to serve the Southern Sociological Society for some 13 years!
I look forward to seeing you all in Charlotte!
Sincerely,
David L. Brunsma
Executive Officer
Southern Sociological Society