2008 Program Scheduling

The scheduling of the activities of the Annual Meeting is the responsibility of the ASA Executive Office. The tentative schedule of general ASA activities and plenary sessions for 2008 is as follows. No other activities may be held during the plenary times noted below.

(Thursday) July 31	(Friday) August 1	(Saturday) August 2	(Sunday) August 3	(Monday) August 4

Thursday, July 31 7:00-9:00 p.m., Opening Plenary 9:00-10:00 p.m., Welcoming Reception Friday, August 1 6:30-8:15 p.m., Section Receptions 9:30-11:00 p.m., Departmental Alumni Night Saturday, August 2 4:30-6:15 p.m., ASA Awards Ceremony & Presidential Address 6:30- 7:30 p.m., Honorary Reception 8:00-10:00 p.m., Activities of Other Groups 9:30-11:00 p.m., Just Desserts, a TEF Benefit Reception Sunday, August 3 6:30-8:15 p.m., Section Receptions 9:30-11:00 p.m., MFP Benefit Reception Monday, August 4 7:30-8:15 a.m., ASA Business Meeting Due to the complexities of scheduling a program with over 600 sessions and more than 4,000 participants, it is not possible to avoid all conflicts of individual obligations. Participants with multiple commitments may contact their session organizers or ASA Meeting Services staff anytime before March 14, 2008 and request scheduling consideration. Meeting Services staff will try to accommodate reasonable requests, but no guarantees can be given. Information on the program schedule in general will not be available before May 15.

Section Scheduling

Section activities are pre-assigned to specific days following a four-year rotation schedule. Section session times on those days will not be finalized until the overall program schedule is completed. The rotation schedule for Section activities in 2008 results in the groupings on assigned days shown below.

All Section program sessions and Council/Business meetings will be scheduled on the assigned days. Those Sections whose programs are larger than the time slots available on their days will have sessions scheduled on adjacent days, as noted below.
Section Council/Business meetings must be held on the assigned days.

(Friday) August 1	(Saturday) August 2	(Sunday) August 3	(Monday) August 4

Friday, August 1 Aging and the Life Course Asia and Asian America Children and Youth Crime, Law, and Deviance Culture, Sociology of** Economic Sociology Labor and Labor Movements Marxist Sociology Methodology Social Psychology Teaching and Learning in Sociology **two sessions must be scheduled on the following day Saturday, August 2 Community and Urban Sociology Ethnomethodology & Conversational Analysis History of Sociology Latina/o Sociology Law, Sociology of Mathematical Sociology Mental Health, Sociology of Political Sociology* Population, Sociology of Science, Knowledge, and Technology Sex and Gender** Human Rights+ *one session must be scheduled on the following day **two sessions must be scheduled on the following day +section-in-formation Sunday, August 3 Alcohol, Drugs, and Tobacco Comparative and Historical Sociology Environment and Technology Family, Sociology of the* Organizations, Occupations, and Work** Peace, War, and Social Conflict Racial and Ethnic Minorities* Rationality and Society Religion, Sociology of Sexualities, Sociology of Sociological Practice Disability and Society+ *one session must be scheduled on the following day **two sessions must be scheduled on the following day +section-in-formation Monday, August 4 Animals and Society Collective Behavior & Social Movements~~ Communication & Information Technologies Education, Sociology of~~ Emotions, Sociology of Evolution and Sociology International Migration Medical Sociology~~~ Political Economy of the World System Race, Gender, and Class~~ Theory~~ ~one session must be scheduled on the preceding day ~~two sessions must be scheduled on the preceding day ~~~three sessions must be scheduled on the preceding day

Section Receptions

Receptions sponsored by ASA Section may be held on the first and third evenings of the meeting. For 2008, sections whose assigned program day is August 1 or 2 will have access to reception space at 6:30 p.m. on the evening of August 1. Sections that meet on August 3 or 4 will have reception space made available at 6:30 p.m. on the evening of August 3.
Requests from Section Chairs for reception space at the ASA hotels are due in the ASA Executive Office by March 14, 2008.