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Home : Meetings : Meeting Archives : 2007 Annual Meeting : 2007 Annual Meeting | Special Sessions
   
 

2007 Annual Meeting | Special Sessions

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Special Sessions

The category of “Special Sessions” often encompasses member suggestions for invited panels as well as permits the Program Committee to co-sponsor sessions with sister societies. These sessions may be on topics that further investigate the meeting theme or they may focus on other timely and interesting issues. Here is a quick rundown of this year’s roster of 35 Special Sessions:

Listing of Special Sessions  [Details]
 
  Alpha Kappa Delta Distinguished Lecture

Another Latin America Is Possible: From Neoliberalism to?
Between Punishment and Cure: The Crisis of Mental Illness in the Criminal Justice System

Blogs as a Forum for Public Sociology
Body Weight and Obesity
Borders, Boundaries, and Consumption in Post-Socialist Space
Challenges Facing Sexualities Researchers: IRBs, Federal Funding Agencies, and the Politics of Sexual Knowledge
Civic Engagement in an Era of Diversity and Immigration
Comparative-Historical Methods: Longitudinal Case Analysis
Cultural Criminology: Encountering Crime and Deviance in Late Modernity
Dialogue on the Future of Black Liberation: Activists and Scholars Talk
Disrupting Race: Racial Domination without Races?
Expansion, Variation, and Change in Special Education
Graduate Student Unions and University Response(s)
Ideas For Action: Gouldner, Riessman, and S.M. Miller
Intersectional Approaches to Citizenship, States, and Politics
Is Civil Society Possible in East Asia?
Money in Movement: Markets, Circuits, and Networks
The "Otherness" of Jewish Perspectives (co-sponsored by the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry)
Outsiders: Breaking Institutional Barriers in the US (co-sponsored by the ASA Rose Series in Sociology)
The Politics of Muslim Immigrant Communities
Possible and Impossible Multiple-Identity Politics
Preparing a Scientifically Literate Public and the Nation's Science Workforce
Public Sociology and the Media: Honoring the Contributions of Malcolm Gladwell
Public Sociology and the Press
Racism, Nationalism, and Citizenship
Reclaiming Democracy (co-sponsored by Sociologists Without Borders)
Revolutions and Democracy
Sexuality over the Life Course
States, Human Rights, and Global Security
Sub-Saharan Africa, Social Organization and Resilience
Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? (sneak preview film screening)
Wal-Martification: Shaping Place and Space for the 21st Century
War Crimes and the Trials of Abu Ghraib
Women In (and out of) Academia: Why Women Leave (co-sponsored by the ASA Committee on the Status of Women in Sociology)
And more…

Please refer to the online Searchable Program for details on all Special sessions.