BU Sociology at ASA 2024
119th Annual Meeting: Intersectional Solidarities
August 9-13, 2024 | Montreal, Quebec | #ASA2024
The 119th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA) starts this week! This year’s ASA will be in Montreal from August 9th to the 13th. It provides the opportunity for professionals involved in the scientific study of society to share knowledge and new directions in research and practice.
BU Sociology faculty and graduate students will be represented throughout the 600 programmatic sessions that provide a scholarly outlet for more than 3,000 research papers, over 4,500 presenters, and 5,000 attendees. Here’s where you can find us:
FACULTY
Ana Villarreal:
Group Book Party featuring Ana’s new book The Two Faces of Fear and several other authors
Saturday, August 10th 9:00-11:00pm at Le Vieux Dublin Pub & Restaurant, 636 Rue Cathcart
Jane Pryma:
I am presenting my paper, “Stratified Access to Disability Rights: Biomedical Privilege and Social Trauma” at a Disability in Society Section Disability and Health Roundtable
Monday, August 12, 4 to 5 PM.
Sarah Miller:
I’m presenting on a panel Saturday morning: 20220 – Intersectional Approaches to Power, Contexts, Institutions and Transitions in Childhood and Youth
Sat, August 10, 8:00 to 9:30am, Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Floor: Level 5, 513D
Alya Guseva:
I am presenting “Fertility Preservation and Posthumous Reproduction in Wartime Ukraine” in the following panel: Fertilities and Infertilities: War, Work, and Reproductive Desire
Sat, August 10, 4:00 to 5:30pm, Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Floor: Level 5, 512E
Jyoti Puri:
The first panel is the one that I’ve organized, and I am participating in the second panel. Both are thematic panels:
40231—How We Die and Live: Toward Another Sociology of Death Mon, August 12, 8:00 to 9:30am
30231—In-solidarity: Centering Joy in Theorizing Intersectionality Sun, August 11, 8:00 to 9:30am
Pamela Zabala Ortiz:
I will be presenting at ASA in the following session:
30602 – Solidarity, the Color Line, and Backstage Racism in “Social Justice” Organizations
Sun, August 11, 12:00 to 1:30pm, Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Floor: Level 5, 510A
I will be receiving an award during the following meeting:
50334 – Section on International Migration Business Meeting
Tue, August 13, 9:00 to 9:30am, Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Floor: Level 5, 517A
Japonica Brown-Saracino:
I’m presenting at the SSSP annual meeting (meets at same time as ASA in Montreal):
Session 039: “How to Get Published: Learning the Language of Academic Writing”
Saturday, August 10, from 8:30 am – 10:10 am @ Salon #5 at Le Centre Sheraton Montreal Hotel.
Joe Harris:
I am part of a Special Session. Intersectional Approaches to Societal Health, Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Level 5, 516D
Saturday, August 10, 10:00-11:30am
Neha Gondal:
I am organizing the regular session on Social Mobility to be held on Sun, August 11, 2:00 to 3:30pm.
I am also presenting a paper titled, “Social Focus Two-Mode Networks: From Affiliation to Interpersonal Closure” at the session, “Formal Models of Duality in Culture and Society” (Co-sponsored by Section on Sociology of Culture) on Sun, August 11, 8:00 to 9:30am.
Saida Grundy:
Awards ceremonies and book salons where I will be featured:
Respectable: Politics and Paradox in Making the Morehouse Man Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Level 5, 516A, Sat, August 10, 2:00-3:30pm
Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities Business Meeting Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Level 5, 517A, Sat, August 10, 5:00-5:30pm
Section on Race, Gender, and Class Business Meeting Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Level 5, 510C, Tue, August 13, 8:00-9:30am
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Allison Wigen:
I am presenting at grad student roundtable 10 “Culture and Environment” from 4-5:30 on Saturday 8/10. Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Level 7, 710A
I am also receiving an honorable mention for a grad student paper at the Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility business meeting on Saturday 8/10 from 3-3:30. Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Level 5, 517B
Taylor Beauvais:
I will be presenting a paper on August 13th at 12:00pm. My paper is: Demographic Decibels: how large language models reproduce social stratification using data volume.
Ya-Ching Huang:
My presenting session is scheduled on Aug 10, Sat, 4-5:30 pm at Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Level 5 – 513D.
Landon Lauder:
I will be on the “Sex, Sexualities, and Technologies” panel that is on 8/12 at 10am in Palais des Congres de Montreal, room 513D. I will also be accepting the honorable mention for the Martin P. Levine Dissertation Award at the Sexualities Business Meeting on 8/12 at 5pm at Palais des Congres Montreal in room 710A.
Leping Wang:
I will be presenting at the Section on Aging and the Life Course / Section on Aging and the Life Course Roundtables and Research Working Groups (Table 8).
Time: Sat Aug 10 2024, 4:00 to 5:30pm
Place: Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Level 5 – 517B
Elinore Avni:
I will present my research paper “Being Kinless and Friendless in Later Life: The Effects of Social Isolation on Social Well-being and Loneliness” at the Section on Aging and the Life Course Roundtables- Table 7, that will take place on Saturday August 10 between 4-5:30pm.
Elif Birced:
August 13th, 10-11:30 am, Autonomy and Wellbeing of Workers Panel: Between Audiences and Brands: How Multiple Monetization of Audience Engagement Re-Shapes Control and Worker Autonomy (Elif Birced)
August 13th, 12-1 pm, CITAMS Roundtables: Keeping Secrets in the Information Age: Magicians and the Changing Rules of Art Online (Ashley Mears, Elif Birced)
Blaine Smith:
I’ll be presenting my paper “She got the booking: Drag, labor, and precarity in the era of RuPaul’s Drag Race” during a paper session in gender/sexuality:
30203 – Gender through Social Performance and Relations
Sun, August 11, 8:00 to 9:30am, Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Floor: Level 5, 510B