Jussi Laine, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Multidisciplinary Border Studies Docent of Human Geography Karelian Institute of the University of Eastern Finland Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies E-mail: jussi.laine@uef.fi
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The deadline to submit proposals for the 2022 conference will be January 20, 2022. To submit
an individual paper,
a panel of papers,
a roundtable,
or a workshop/demonstration/professional development event,
choose, below, the section for which you think your contribution would be most appropriate, click on the drop-down arrow, read the section-specific information, and the format definitions, then click on the "Start Submission" button. That will take you to the submission system. Sign in, if you already have a user account, or create a user account and then sign in. You will then fill out the submission form and submit it.
If your section did not previously meet the definition of an affiliate or associate group, but has now met those definitions, please contact the Communications Director, Kate Herke to have your description changed in the list below.
Who Must Register ?
Everyone who will attend the conference must register, including all presenters. See our "Registration" page for instructions on how to register, information about refunds, and the links to the on-line registration form.
This section adds to a commitment of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary academic excellence by highlighting Contemporary theories and research of African and African Americans. Scholarly discussions are presented on academic, social, economic, and historical issues that impact the African and African American experience in the United States. We accept contributions from any discipline that facilitates intellectual discussion on the history, culture, religion, politics, economics, arts, sociology, health, and the Diaspora of peoples of African descent as developed from experiences in both the old and new worlds.
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This section presents perspectives from sociocultural anthropology on the diversity and the dynamics of collective human life. Topics examine the subfields of archaeology, biocultural anthropology, and sociocultural anthropology through the examination of selected problems in human physical, cultural, and social evolution.
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Arid Lands Studies & Geography is designed to emphasize the importance of, and coordinate the efforts for, studying human adaptation to the world’s arid and semiarid lands. As a multidisciplinary section, we welcome submissions from a diverse set of disciplines such as economics, anthropology, geography, history, agriculture, and hydrology. Our goal is to encourage and increase the general awareness of the problems and potentials of the arid and semiarid lands of the world, and of human adjustment to and impact upon them.
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This section presents studies on issues, concerns and perspectives of Asia and Asians. Topics can be in the areas of communication, economics, education, health, politics and sociology.
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A community of border scholars and practitioners committed to the interdisciplinary understanding of borders and transborder communities. â—Ź Únete a una comunidad de académicos y expertos comprometidos con el estudio interdisciplinario de las fronteras y las comunidades fronterizas.
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ALACLIS, an affiliated organization to WSSA, receives proposals for panels or individual papers based on completed research or with partial results, as well as theoretical reflections and interventions on social, economic and cultural problems in Latin American/Chicano/Latinx/Iberian studies. Proposals may be within the regions and in their relationships and/or with the rest of the world, featuring presentations from any discipline which include dynamics addressing those targeted identities, no matter how they are defined, whether politically, ethnically, linguistically or otherwise, but all with a scientific, interdisciplinary and transregional perspective, based on the social sciences and the humanities. Latin America is considered both in its traditions that are prolonged in the present and in its aspirations for integration and autonomy under construction, not only in the economic field, but in the ideological, cultural, political, and more.
Among others, we welcome proposals on
Economics & Sustainable Regional Development
Educational Systems & Intersectorial Social Policies
Public Administration & Business
Culture, Ethnicity & Social Inequalities
Human Rights and Mobility
Genres, Identities & Subjectivities
Chicano, Latinx & Iberian
Latin America - Global South
International Politics, Regional Integration and Geopolitics
Reflexivity, Critical Thinking & Social Sciences
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This section accepts proposals for papers, panels and roundtables relating to any disciplines or areas of Canadian Studies, not just the social sciences. Usually the Canadian Studies Section has an emphasis on the Canadian West and comparisons between the Canadian and American West, and also Mexico, however, the section covers all aspects of Canadian Studies and is happy to have panels on Canadian Literature, Arts, and Humanities as well as panels on Canadian Geography, History, Anthropology, Economics, Politics, Business, Environment, Public Policy, etc. etc. The Canadian Studies Section is eager to have panels appropriately cross-listed with other WSSA Sections, such as Borderland Studies, Political Science, Native Studies, etc.
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The section encourages research on policies,problems,cultural representations,
health issues,and experiences that involve people with chronic disease and disabilities.
This section encourages graduate students and junior professors to present their
work in a supportive setting. Experienced and advanced scholars also are very
welcome to share their work. In the late 1980s the WSSA Section on Chronic
Disease and Disability developed the national and international professional
organization,Society for Disability Studies. Sociologists Ivrving K.Zola,Barbara
Altman and Devva Kassnitz were among the leaders of this pioneering effort.
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This section accepts papers on all aspects of criminological theory, research and practice. This includes both the practice of criminal justice administration and the critical study of this practice. Areas range from the micro study of criminal behavior and victimology through the meso study of both criminal and criminal justice organizations to the macro study of the social implications of crime and the administration of criminal justice through the police, courts and correctional systems.
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A.F.I.T. is an Associate disciplinary group of WSSA. With recognition of the role of culture in organizing economic activity, institutional work draws its inspiration from messy reality-- the overlap of disciplinary boundaries, the interaction between diverse intellectual traditions, and the conflict and cooperation between social groups within and between societies. Possible themes for papers and/or panels could include the influence of other social science traditions on institutional economics, the application of interdisciplinary work in pragmatic policy analysis, the connection or overlap between diverse elements within heterodox economic theory, and the relevance of cultural norms and cross cultural conflict in the study of economic systems.
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This section presents perspectives for general economics on the allocation of scarce resources among competing ends. Topics include, but are not limited to, the subfields of labor economics, public finance, health economics, demographic economics, international trade and economic development.
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The Environmental Policy and Natural Resources Management section accepts covers the full array of environmental social science disciplines, subfields, and topics. Topics include but are not at all limited to: land management; public resource management; technology and policy related to food, energy, and water; animal studies; environmental values; consumption studies.
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Click here to submit a paper proposal, with abstract, or a roundtable proposal, with description of topic and names of all participants. Start Submission
Click here to submit a paper proposal, with abstract, or a roundtable proposal, with description of topic and names of all participants. Start Submission
History takes in the whole scope of the human condition so long as the action or event has occurred in the past. Thus, while historians may focus on such questions as political, social, or women's history, and periodization remains important, any aspect of human action or thought is in the historian's purview.
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The LGBTQ section examines research, theory development, policy, and practice issues that contribute to the social and cultural construction of the LGBTQ community, social status, and legal issues involving empowerment, oppression, and social injustice.
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Click here to submit a paper proposal, with abstract, or a roundtable proposal, with description of topic and names of all participants. Start Submission
Click here to submit a paper proposal, with abstract, or a roundtable proposal, with description of topic and names of all participants. Start Submission
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This section is multidisciplinary and encompasses nonprofit administration, strategy, social enterprise, social entrepreneurship and philanthropy. The section encourages submission for the inaugural year to include topics related to the impact of the Covid pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement, and social justice strategies. Submissions from all disciplines relating to nonprofit, philanthropy, social enterprise and entrepreneurship will be considered
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Click here to submit a paper proposal, with abstract, or a roundtable proposal, with description of topic and names of all participants. Start Submission
Click here to submit a paper proposal, with abstract, or a roundtable proposal, with description of topic and names of all participants. Start Submission
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Rural & Agricultural Studies is an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary section. Studies of rural areas or agriculture, in their broadest definitions and in any part of the world, are welcome. Varying in scope, approach, and method, and ranging from sociology to literature, participants' works have addressed small towns, extraction-based economies, population change, game management, food policy, rural women's literature and social and environmental history.
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The Western Association for Slavic Studies (WASS) meets annually as the Slavic and Eurasian Studies Section of the Western Social Science Association. Unfortunately, the Western Association of Slavic Studies will not be holding any meeting or conference in 2021. This is because of the instability still lingering from COVID-19, including university funding of events, fatigue from continued online learning environments, and a general difficulty for members to produce scholarship while juggling work and home life. However, because we value our collaboration with the WSSA we are dedicating this next year to networking and planning for the 2022 meeting in Denver. If you would still like to present at the WSSA conference in 2021, please look at the descriptions of other sections, and submit to the section in which your presentation is most likely to fit. If you wish to have that presentation noted in the Western Association for Slavic Studies files, please notify Dr. Niebuhr (contact information below) when/if your presentation is accepted. Those wishing to present papers in future meetings of the Slavic and Eurasian Studies Section need not be members of the Western Association of Slavic Studies, but are welcome to join. The Slavic and Eurasian Studies Section is interested in all aspects of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe along with the territories of the former Soviet Union, including, but not limited to: Anthropology, History, Literature, Political Science, Music, Religious Studies, and Sociology.
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This section presents a range of perspectives on social life. Subfields include gender, race, ethnicity, religion, culture, family, organizations, education, politics, sexuality, globalization, social movements, stratification, consumption, law, medicine, and technology.
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Founded in 1968, The Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE) is an interdisciplinary membership organization of academics and of activists. Its mission is to promote the study, development and application of radical political economic analysis to social problems. Concretely this involves a continuing critique of both the capitalist system, and of all forms of exploitation and oppression. URPE’s mission also includes, coming out of this critique, helping to construct a progressive social policy, and a human-centered radical alternative to capitalism. Please go towww.urpe.org for more information about URPE, including how you can join.
URPE is a national and international organization, but it has to date provided very few conference opportunities for our western members. We seek to rectify that by becoming a regular part of the WSSA. In particular, we hope to bring together academics and activists working to try to build a better, fairer, more sustainable society. As an interdisciplinary organization, we see the WSSA as a natural partner and we look forward to many years of fruitful collaboration.
We would welcome proposals for joint sessions from other WSSA associations.
URPE is interested in proposals from any perspective that incorporates or is sympathetic to Radical Political Economy. Submissions could involve individual papers, entire sessions, round tables on important topics or books, and sessions and workshops on teaching. Submissions by graduate students, activists and academics are encouraged.
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This section examines the human condition in relationship to the physical, cultural, social, and environmental aspects of community. It promotes the study of urban environments in the disciplines of Urban Design, Planning, Architecture, Housing, Urban Art, Transportation, History of the City, Parks, Landscapes, and other research pertaining to the advancement of the urban condition.
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This section accepts papers, panels, and round tables from this interdisciplinary field that examine gender as a social and cultural construction, the social status and contributions of women, and the relationships between power and gender. Areas range from gender and sexuality, to queer studies, to feminist theory.
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