The 113th ASA Annual Meeting will take place August 11-14, 2018 in Philadelphia. Sessions will be held at both the Pennsylvania Convention Center and the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown. The Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association provides the opportunity for professionals involved in the scientific study of society to share knowledge and new directions in research and practice. Approximately 600 program sessions are convened during the four-day meeting held every August to provide participation venues and networking outlets for nearly 3,000 research papers and over 4,600 presenters.

SATURDAY
Graduate Student and Postdoc Mentoring Event.
August 12th, 4:30-6:30 PM. The lobby of the Ritz-Carleton Hotel, in Philadelphia’s historic Girard Trust Co. Building, located at 10 Avenue of the Arts. (This takes place directly before our reception.)

1686. Joint Reception: Section on Comparative-Historical Sociology; Section on History of Sociology; Section Global and Transnational Sociology; and Section on Human Rights
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Salon J, Level 5, 6:30- 8:10pm

MONDAY
3183. Meeting. Section on Global and Transnational Sociology Business Meeting
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Salon G, Level 5, 9:30- 10:10am

3267. Section on Global and Transnational Sociology. Methodological Innovations in Studying Globalization and Transnational Social Relations
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Franklin Hall 3, Level 4, 10:30am-12:10pm Session Organizer: Zsuzsa Gille, Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
▪ Reflections on Incorporated Comparison and its Application in Global Food Regime. Analysis Philip D. McMichael, Cornell University
▪ Mobilities and the Relational Turn for a Transnational Sociology Mimi Sheller, Drexel University
▪ Theorizing Beyond Nation-States Julian Go, Boston University
▪ De-Nationalizing the Transnational, Historicizing the Global: Methodological Issues in Migration and Diaspora Studies Radhika Mongia, York University Discussant: Zsuzsa Gille, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign

Description:
As we’re approaching the 30th anniversary of the explosion of globalization onto the sociological scene, it is time to take stock and critically evaluate what we have learned from our efforts to meet the methodological challenges of studying the global and the transnational. This panel showcases a range of methodological innovations in sociology, such as incorporated comparison; mobility studies, the transnationalization of the Bourdeusian concept of the field, and the study of transmigrants and people on the move, among others. Concrete empirical examples will demonstrate creative ways of identifying the unit(s) of analysis, designing data collection, and models of connecting parts to wholes and theory to data.

3467. Section on Global and Transnational Sociology. Racial Slavery, Colonialism, and Global White Supremacy
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Franklin Hall 3, Level 4, 2:30-4:10pm
Session Organizer: Moon-Kie Jung, University of Massachusetts
Presider: Cedric de Leon, Tufts University
Panelists: Participants:
▪ Andy Clarno, University of Illinois at Chicago
▪ Crystal Fleming, Stony Brook University
▪ Jae Kyun Kim, University of Southern California
▪ Zine Magubane, Boston College
Discussant: Cedric de Leon, Tufts University

Description:
We live in a world which has been foundationally shaped for the past five hundred years by the realities of European domination and the gradual consolidation of global white supremacy," philosopher Charles Mills writes. The temporal and geographical scope of sociological inquiries into this racialized world has been, to understate the obvious, less extensive. Papers on this panel represent cutting-edge research on racial slavery, colonialism, and other topics that pushes us to think about racism more historically and globally.

3567. Section on Global and Transnational Sociology. Financial Crisis and the City: A Transnational Perspective
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Franklin Hall 3, Level 4, 4:30-6:10pm
Session Organizer: Michael R. Goldman, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
▪ Predatory Formations Dressed in Wall Street Suits and Algorithmic Math
Saskia Sassen, Columbia University
▪ Pushing the Urban Frontiers: Infrastructure Funding and Local Growth Coalition in China’s Relocation Programs
Yue Du, University of Wisconsin Madison
▪ The Vultures are Circling: Real Estate's Tryst with Global Finance in India
Michael R. Goldman, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities; Devika Narayan, University of Minnesota
▪ Where Credit is Due: Formalization of Urban Credit Markets for the Poor in India
Rishi Awatramani, Johns Hopkins

Description:
Whereas it is common knowledge that housing and real estate were at the heart of the 2008 financial crisis, scholars and activists are beginning to better understand broader changes occurring at the nexus of urban government, finance capital, and large-scale urban infrastructure. The focus of this panel is on the relational conjunctures (Sheppard et al. 2015) occurring within these disparate sectors, acknowledging that financing infrastructure is not only the fastest growth sector of the global economy but also reflects the most prevalent global policy compelling countries to transform cities into “worldclass” global cities. This panel hopes to go beyond presenting and comparing individual case studies to new scholarship on the transnational forces and relations in and across sites and processes. What new transnational configurations have emerged since the financial crisis, for example, that reflect co-constitutive practices of state and capital in financializing cities and urbanizing finance? In regions of the global North, ageing infrastructure is being refinanced by private equity firms as part of securitized asset portfolios linked across continents; how are these risky investments disrupting social relations and governance of public urban spaces, services, and goods? In regions of East and South Asia, investors are being handsomely rewarded through their equity and structured debt deals in new ‘global’, ’green’, and ‘smart’ cities, transforming the notion of urban government while displacing millions from the rural economy. How can we understand these volatile, transnational processes of urban government, finance, and sociality?

3183. Section on Global and Transnational Sociology Refereed Roundtable Session
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Salon G, Level 5, 8:30- 9:30am
Table 01. Agency and Citizenship
Table 02. Borderlands and 'Ungoverned' Areas
Table 03. Citizenship and Identity
Table 04. Climate and Environmentalism
Table 05. Cross-National Comparisons
Table 06. Diffusion in Knowledge, Law, and Fashion
Table 07. Economic Practices and Institutions
Table 08. Global Migrants
Table 09. Informal Work in the Global South
Table 10. Media and Social Media
Table 11. Middle East and North Africa
Research Clusters:
Table 12. Arts, Culture, and Religion
Table 13. Gender and Sexuality
Table 14. Global Environmental and Climate Crisis
Table 15. Global Human Rights
Table 16. Global Populism
Table 17. Social Movements

TUESDAY
4358. Section on Global and Transnational Sociology. Global Ethnographies
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, 413, Level 4, 12:30- 2:10pm
Session Organizer: Zsuzsa Gille, Univ of Illinois-UrbanaChampaign
▪ Ethnographic Toolkit: Ways to Navigate, Understand, and Theorize the Field
Victoria Reyes, University of California, Riverside
▪ Global Ethnography: Bringing in a Feminist Perspective
Cinzia Solari, University of Massachusetts Boston
Tracing the "Traffic in Women": An Ethnography of a Discourse
Elizabeth Bernstein, Barnard College, Columbia Univ
▪ Beyond Global Experts: Local Experts and Expertise in Globalization Processes
Tim Rosenkranz, New School for Social Research

Description:
This session aims to advance innovations in ethnographic methods for studying globalization. If globalization is characterized by borderlessness, ever-increasing mobility and processes unmoored from concrete locations, what role is there for a traditionally place-bound methodology, such as ethnography? Can fieldwork demonstrate how the collective actions of individuals and particular institutions partake in producing globalization “from below”? What is the relationship between ethnography and a global and transnational theoretical lens? What can ethnography tell us about transnational flows of people, capital, goods, and knowledge? How does comparative and multi-sited research interrogate the dynamic relationships between individuals and organizations in specific locals and broader economic, political, and social forces? How might global ethnography help us name power relations that span countries? Ultimately, how do we construct and reconstruct theory based on empirical findings in global ethnography? The panel will showcase both methodological and data-driven papers.