ASA ANNUAL MEETING 2019

The ASA 114th Annual Meeting will be held August 10-13, 2019 in New York. 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.

SUNDAY AUGUST 11
Graduate Student and Postdoc Mentoring Event Sunday, August 11th, 4:30-6:30 PM Latitude Bar and Grill (783 8th Avenue) Co-Sponsored by the Global & Transnational and Comparative Historical Sections

MONDAY AUGUST 12
Decolonizing Global Sociology Mon, August 12, 10:30am to 12:10pm, New York Hilton, Fourth Floor, East

A Panel Discussion with…

Zine Magubane, Boston College
Gurminder Bhambra, University of Sussex
Anaheed Al-Hardan, American University of Beirut
Jose Itzigsohn, Brown University

Organizer and Presider: Julian Go

Theory and Research in Global and Transnational Sociology
Mon, August 12, 4:30 to 6:10pm, New York Hilton, Fourth Floor, East

“Cinderella on the Pearl River Delta: who has the power to translate?” Claudio Ezequiel Benzecry, Northwestern University
“Circuits of Commodification: Imagination and Evaluation in National Destination Marketing” Tim Rosenkranz, New School for Social Research
“Cosmopolitan Nationalism, Esperanto, and Consent in State-Socialist Eastern Europe: The Case of Bulgaria” Ana Velitchkova, University of Mississippi
“Scale Shifting: Explaining Migration Between National, Trans-regional, and Global Literary Fields” Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College

Presider: Jennifer Bair, University of Virginia
Discussant: Shai M. Dromi, Harvard University
Organizer: Monika Krause, LSE

Our Reception!
Joint Reception: Section on Global & Transnational Sociology; Peace, War & Social Conflict; Political Economy of the World System; Sociology of Development
Mon, August 12, 6:30 to 8:00pm, Sheraton New York, Third Floor, New York Ballroom West

TUESDAY AUGUST 13
Global and Transnational Approaches to Culture and Power (Cosponsored with the Section on Global and Transnational Sociology)
Tue, August 13, 8:30 to 10:10am, Sheraton New York, Lower Level, Madison Square
“In America, I’m Just Black: Black American Experiences with Privilege and Oppression in Paris” Sonita Moss, University of Pennsylvania
“Inclusion and Alterity: An analysis of American flag hijab discourse” Deniz Uyan, Boston College
“In the Shadow of Hollywood: The Racial Politics of Independent Filmmakers of Color in Los Angeles” Michael Tuan Tran, UCLA
“Race-ing Across the Border: Comparative Constructions of Race and Inequality in Mexico and the U.S.” Sylvia Zamora, Loyola Marymount University
“The Dark Side of a Golden Ticket” Onoso Ikphemi Imoagene, University of Pennsylvania; Elizabeth Jacobs, University of Pennsylvania

Organizer: Chinyere Osuji, Rutgers University-Camden
Presider: Chinyere Osuji, Rutgers University-Camden

Gender and the Crises of Global Capitalism
Tue, August 13, 10:30am to 12:10pm, Sheraton New York, Lower Level, Murray Hill
“Dilemma of the Foxconn Moms: Gender, Migrant Labor, and the Crisis of Social Reproduction in China” Yige Dong, Johns Hopkins University
“Forgotten Boys, Idle Men: Using Gender to Talk about Poverty in Kenya” Isabel Pike, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“From the Proletariat to the Precariat: Transformations in Masculinities in the the Neoliberal Period in Mexico” Mariana Manriquez, University of Arizona
“Outsourcing Feminism: Hegemonic Femininity and the Symbolic Politics of Supply Chains” Eileen M. Otis, University of Oregon; Larissa Petrucci, University of Oregon
Presider: Raka Ray, UC-Berkeley
Organizer: Jordanna Chris Matlon, American U.
Section on Global and Transnational Sociology Refereed Roundtables (1 hour)
Tue, August 13, 12:30 to 1:30pm, Sheraton New York, Third Floor, New York Ballroom West Section on Global and Transnational Sociology Business Meeting
Tue, August 13, 1:30 to 2:10pm, Sheraton New York, Third Floor, New York Ballroom West Global Historical Sociology
Tue, August 13, 2:30 to 4:10pm, Sheraton New York, Lower Level, Flatiron
“A Global Historical Sociology of Revolution” George Lawson, LSE
“Apprehending Otherness: The Global Historical Dimensions of Colonial Medicine” Alexandre White, Johns Hopkins University
“The Occlusion of Empire in the Race vs. Class Inequality Debate in the Sociology of Race” Julia Bates, Gonzaga University
“Transnational State Shaming and the Origins of ‘Evidence-Based Policymaking,’ 1994 – 2017” Andrew Keefe, Harvard University
Discussant: Nicholas Hoover Wilson, Stonybrook
Organizer: Julian Go, Boston University
Methodological and Empirical Advances in Global and Transnational Sociology
Tue, August 13, 8:30 to 10:10am, Sheraton New York, Lower Level, Murray Hill
“African Gender Relations in the New Era of Chinese Development” Robert Wyrod,University of Colorado Boulder
“Mapping Diasporic Discourses on Social Media” Olga Boichak, Syracuse University
“Raising Global Families: Transnational Relational Analysis of Class Inequality” Pei-Chia Lan, National Taiwan University
“The Relationship between Assimilation and Cultural Transnational Ties among New Immigrants in the U.S.” Sou Hyun Jang, University of Washington; Sejung Sage Yim, The Graduate Center

Presider: Monika Krause, LSE
Discussant: Nicole Angotti, American University
Organizer: Jennifer Bair, U of Virginia