Please join us for the 83nd annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, March 22-25, 2012. The conference site is the Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina on Harbor Island. PSA has a tower exclusively for our use, and the rooms have views of the marina or San Diego Bay. Many restaurants are close by as is the Gaslamp District (2.5 miles) and Little Italy (1.8 miles). As always, San Diego offers PSA members, friends, and families a wide array of cultural and recreational attractions, and almost always, wonderful weather.
The conference theme, “Intersectionalities and Inequalities: Knowledge and Power for the 21st Century” is intended to be engaging to those of us both in and outside of academia, all-encompassing in its theoretical reach and empirical demonstrations. It provides multiple opportunities to examine a concept – intersectionality – and come to understand its history, its strengths and weaknesses, and its elaborations in knowledge production in the social sciences and humanities and in its applications for social change.
Past President Sharon Araji has announced the results of the Fall PSA Ballot. Congratulations to those newly elected and a special thanks to everyone for agreeing to run and to serve the PSA. Your participation is deeply appreciated by all.
Note: The preliminary program draft and index are available. To accommodate conflicting schedules, a few sessions have been moved to different time and day slots. Please be sure to check the current preliminary program draft. This is a preliminary version, and needs to be edited and formatted, and this will be done. We just thought that the PSA membership should have access to this draft, so that major scheduling problems can be solved.
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