Wednesday, August 8
Registration
Thursday, August 9
8-9 a.m. Breakfast
9-10:45 a.m. Plenary Session I: Strategy: Conceptual Foundations and Agendas
11 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Thematic Workshops I (6 concurrent workshops)
- Mobilization: Does Collective Identity Matter?
Organizer: Belinda Robnett (UC Irvine)
- Building Bridges Over Great Divides? Social Inequalities and Movement Strategies
Organizers: Ellen Reese, Jane Ward, Christine Petit, and Shoon Lio (UC Riverside)
- Hip Hop Culture and Social/Global Change
Organizer: Mark Wilson (UC Berkeley)
- Law and Social Movements
Organizer: Anna-Maria Marshall (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
- Reforming "Immigration Reform": Strategies for Redefining the Terms of the Immigration Policy Debate
Organizers: Gregory Maney (Hofstra) and Nadia Marin Molina (Workplace Project)
- Transnational Linkages and Movement Cultures
Organizers: Anna-Liisa Aunio, Suzanne Staggenborg, and Kathleen M. Fallon (McGill)
1-2:30 p.m. Lunch
- Bridging the Activist-Academic Divide
Organizers: Char Ryan and Bill Gamson (Movement & Media Action Research Project)
2:45-4 p.m. Concurrent Panel Sessions (5 panels)
- Identity Deployment, Movement Culture, and Political Strategy
Organizers: Kristine Olsen and Mary Bernstein (University of Connecticut)
- The World Social Forum Process and Global Social Change: Prospects and Challenges
Organizer: Jackie Smith (Notre Dame)
- The New Immigration Politics: Movements for Reform, Rights, or Restrictions
Organizers: Rhys Williams (U. of Cincinnati)
- Open Panel: Topic TBA
- Open Panel: Topic TBA
4:15-5 p.m. Plenary Session II: The Formation and Development of Strategy
5:15-7:45 p.m. Dinner Reception and Evening Entertainment
Friday, August 10
8-9 a.m. Breakfast
9-10:45 a.m. Concurrent Panel Sessions (5 panels)
- Labor and the "New Social Movements": Differences in Strategy, Organization and Perspective
Organizers: Paul Mishler (Indiana University at South Bend) and Marc Dixon (Florida State)
- Neoliberal Reforms and Popular Movement Strategies in the Global South
Organizer: Paul Ameida (Texas A&M)
- Resisting Political Repression
Organizers: Kelly Moore (U. of Cincinnati) and Christian Davenport (U. of Maryland)
- Open Panel: Topic TBA
- Open Panel: Topic TBA
11 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Thematic Workshops I (6 concurrent workshops):
- Engaged Scholarship: How Public & Policy Sociology Can Affect Movement Cultures, Strategies & Outcomes
Organizers: Robert Kleidman (Cleveland State) and Jackie Smith (Notre Dame)
- The Politics of Feminist Framing
Organizers: Lyndi Hewitt and Holly McCammon (Vanderbilt)
- Social Movement Publicity
Organizers: Ashley Currier and Kathleen Blee (University of Pittsburgh)
- Narratives and Health Social Movements
Organizers: Matthew E. Archibald and Charity Crabtree (Emory)
- War without End?: Evaluating Peace Movement Strategies
Organizers: Lynne Woehrle (Mount Mary College) and Patrick Coy (Kent State)
- Insider Activism: Blurring the Lines Between Institutions and the Grass-Roots
Organizer: Benita Roth (Binghamton)
1-2 p.m. Lunch
Caucus meetings and informal networking
2:45-4 p.m. Concurrent Panel Sessions (5 concurrent panels)
- Strategy, Tactics, and Collective Identity
Organizer: Lee Smithey (Swarthmore College)
- Authors Meet Activists!
Organizer: Gregory Maney (Hofstra)
- The Morality of Food as a Social Movement
Organizers: Gary Alan Fine and Michaela DeSoucey (Northwestern)
- Open Panel: Topic TBA
- Open Panel: Topic TBA
4:15-5 p.m. Plenary Session III: Strategy and the Cultural and Political Consequences of Movements