The submission deadline for SSS 2025 is approaching and we hope you are busy preparing to send us your work. As always, we welcome your submissions in whatever format suits your contributions – as oral presentations, as roundtable discussions, or in poster format. We invite papers that are consistent with this year’s theme: Sociology of the Future and the Future of Sociology, as well as papers from across our discipline.
We especially want to highlight poster submissions. This year, we will be bringing the Poster Reception back to SSS! The Poster Reception will be held in a large, lovely area on Thursday late afternoon – just before dinner. We would love to see loads of posters and loads of intellectual engagement. We expect this session to be one of the highlights of this year’s conference. There will be a cash bar and plenty of opportunities to get a drink and walk around to see the great work SSS scholars are doing. There will be prizes for the best posters. If you want opportunities to engage in discussions about your research, please consider submitting a poster.
Sessions Seeking Papers (as of October 14, 2024)
Re-Imagining the Future of Work
This session invites submissions for papers that extend our understandings of how contemporary workplaces can be reimagined to achieve greater equity. This includes, but is not limited to, illuminating the dynamics of workplace inequality, the impact of diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, and factors affecting labor market inequality. Submissions focused on any topic such as parental discrimination, burnout, and microaggressions are welcomed.
If you are interested in this session, please submit an extended abstract to Malissa Alinor (malinor@unc.edu) by October 30. In your submission please also include your name, title, and affiliation.
Raza/Racismo, Inmigración y Latinidad (en español)
(English below.) Esta sesión esta diseñada para investigaciones que estudian la raza y el racismo, la inmigración o la Latinidad. Todas las presentaciones orales se harán en español (las diapositivas pueden estar en español o en inglés). El objetivo es incluir presentadores que sean nativos o fluidos en español, así como estudiantes avanzados de español que quieran mejorar sus habilidades de presentación en español, por lo que no se requiere una fluidez perfecta.
Para ser considerado, envíe un documento en formato PDF o Word a Raj Ghoshal, rghoshal@elon.edu. Su envío debe incluir nombre, cargo, departamento, universidad o institución y correo electrónico de todos los autores, y resumen o resumen extendido (150-500 palabras). Se agradece información adicional, pero no es obligatoria. Incluya “SSS” en la línea de asunto del correo electrónico. Agradeciería mucho también si pudieran compartir la información de esta sesión con colegas que puedan estar interesados. Los envíos antes del 30 de octubre recibirán una consideración completa; los envíos antes del 1 de noviembre recibirán una consideración si el tiempo lo permite.
Race/Racism, Immigration, and Latinidad (in Spanish)
This session is for research that addresseses race and racism, immigration, or Latinidad, with all oral presentations in Spanish (slides may be in Spanish or English). The goal is to include presenters who are native/fluent in Spanish as well as advanced Spanish learners who want to improve their sociological presentation abilities in Spanish, so perfect fluency is not required.
To be considered, please submit a PDF or Word submission to Raj Ghoshal, rghoshal@elon.edu. Your submission should include name, title, department, university or institution, and email for all authors, and abstract or extended abstract (150-500 words). Additional information is welcome but not required. Please include “SSS” in the email subject line. Please share this session information with potentially interested colleagues. Submissions by Oct 30 will receive full consideration; submissions by November 1 will receive consideration if time permits.
Black Geographies, Black Futures, Black Imagination, Black Rurality: Doing Sociology in the South
Despite the historical legacy of racial, economic, and political oppression experienced by Black Americans living in the American South, the highest concentration of Black people still live in the Southern region of the United States.
How does sociological research contend with contemporary Black life in the South experienced under the legacies of slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights Movement? This session will examine the historical, intersectional and multifaceted relationship that exists between Black life and the South. We define relationships very broadly, acknowledging that these relationships could be unconscious, interracial, predatory, complimentary, oppressive, economic, cultural, artistic, artificial, religious, resistant or invisible. We welcome works that are completed, proposed, or in-progress. All art and writing forms are acceptable for submission. If you are interested in presenting in this session, submit an abstract (no more than 300 words) via email to Danielle Koonce (dkoonce5@umd.edu) by Friday, November 1, 2024.