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Home : Meetings : 2008 Special Sessions
   
 

2008 Special Sessions

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 18 Special Sessions:

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      Discourse Processes in the War on Terrorism

Exploitation at Work and in Society

If Rome is Burning…Sociological Perspectives on Global Climate Change

Kerner Commission Report on race in cities

Manufacturing Gender in the Media (co-sponsored by the ASA Committee on the Status of Women in Sociology)

Minority Fellowship Program 35th Anniversary Celebration: Contributions and Challenges

Navigating the Drug Abuse Research Grant Process (part of the Research Support Forum)

Open Community Forum: Greening the ASA

Open Forum: The Status of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Persons in Sociology

Partnering for Change: How Researchers are Helping Shelter Workers and Religious Leaders Create a Shared Discourse About Domestic Violence (co-sponsored by Association for the Sociology of Religion)

Public Sociology through Film: Honoring the Contributions of Filmmaker Michael Apted

Racism Today: Perspectives from France, Brazil, South Africa and United States

Religious Practices in a Secular World (co-sponsored by the Association for the Sociology of Religion)

Rethinking the Scholarship on Black Families 40+ Years Post-Moynihan

Rethinking Uncertainty, Risk, and Order

Setting Agendas for the Comparative and Historical Sociology of Latin America

Sociology and the Post-Communist Condition

Sociology of Religion and Science

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