Friday, October 31, 2003
7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Reception, Baymont Inn (All are welcome whether or not staying at the hotel.)
Saturday, November 1, 2003
8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Registration, Fetzer Center
8:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:00 a.m. - 1 p.m. Book Displays
8:30 - 9:15 a.m. PLENARY SESSION
Panel discussion: Using Sociology to Change the World
Session Chair: Jay Weinstein, Eastern Michigan University
Panelists:
Michael Hamm, Michigan State University
Ron Westrum, Eastern Michigan University
Mary Cay Sengstock, Wayne State University
9:30 - 10:45 a.m. CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Media and Popular Culture
Session Chair: Cheryl Boudreaux, Grand Valley State University
Marshall Battani, Grand Valley State University:
"The 'Nature' of Melancholia: Advertising Jingles, Snapshots, and the
Desires of the Bourgeoisie."
Tim Bower and Janine Ralston, Western Michigan University:
"Creating the OTHER in Socio-political Cartoons"
Women and Activism
Session Chair: Karen Lang Krause, Saginaw Valley State University
Suzanne Spencer-Wood, Oakland University:
"Activist Strategies of Reform Women Around the Turn of the 20th Century."
Nicole Poma, Saginaw Valley State University:
"The Face of Feminist Activism in 2003."
Edna Ewell, Eastern Michigan University:
"On the Inside Looking In: The Outsider Within as a Social Activist."
Karen Schauman, Easter Michigan University, and
Sylvia Orduño, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor:
"From Civil Rights, to the League Of Revolutionary Black Workers to
Welfare Rights: A Tribute to Marion Kramer."
Discussant: Barbara Richardson, Eastern Michigan University
Student Paper Session
Session Chair: Nancy J. Herman-Kinney, Central Michigan University
Donna Giuliani, Central Michigan University:
"Content Analysis Confirms Elitist Male Bias in Michigan Newspapers."
Pakky Gerkin, Western Michigan University:
"European Football Fans and Hooliganism: An Ethnographic Investigation"
Colleen Wilson, Central Michigan University:
"Western Science or Capitalist Agenda?
An Investigation of Research Funding and Leading Scientific Literature"
Dan White, Western Michigan University:
"Norm-Breaking in a Faith-Based Youth Residential Treatment Facility"
Discussant: David A. Kinney, Central Michigan University
10:45 - 11:15 a.m. Coffee Break with Publishers' Representatives
We appreciate the support of publishers!
EVERYONE IS URGED TO VISIT THEIR TABLES.
11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Uni-planet e-zine
Session Chair: Cheryl Boudreaux, Grand Valley State University
Presentation: Devereaux Kennedy, Grand Valley State University
"Using Technology to Empower Undergraduates"
History of Women in Sociology and the Social Sciences
Session Chair: Barbara Richardson, Eastern Michigan University
Edna Ewell, Eastern Michigan University:
"Lucy Lane's Impact on Mary McLeod Bethune."
Karen Schauman, Eastern Michigan University:
"The European Left's Influence on the Women of Hull House."
Barbara Richardson, Eastern Michigan University:
"The Cambridge/Hull House Research Connection and the University of
Chicago."
Barbara Bilge, Eastern Michigan University:
"Jewish American Women Anthropologists: 1890-1941."
African-American Studies as Social Action
Session Chair: Bill Whit, Grand Valley State University
Panelists: Ronald Stephens, Grand Valley State University
Robert Newby, Central Michigan University
12:45 - 2:15 p.m. LUNCHEON AND PLENARY SESSION
Welcome
Award Presentations
Keynote Address
"Community-based Food Systems:
Components and Potential for Michigan"
Michael W. Hamm
C.S. Mott Chair of Sustainable
Agriculture
Michigan State University
2:30 - 3:45 p.m. CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Family, Gender and Social Action
Session Chair: Sarah Smith, Delta College
Sherrie Ladegast, Grand Valley State University:
"An Ethnographic Study of Antiwar Protesters"
Khalida P. Zaki, Michigan State University:
"Muslim Youth, Schools, and Parental Concerns among
Muslim Community of Greater Lansing Area - Michigan"
Littisha A. Scott, Grand Valley State University:
"Does the Number Matter? An Investigative
Study of the Relationship Between Household
Composition and Juvenile Delinquency"
Laura Colmenero-Chilberg, Marygrove College:
"Gender Boundary Transgression in Popular Fiction"
Roundtable with Cooley Award Winner,
Ron Westrum, Eastern Michigan University
Session Chair: Bob Thaler, Saginaw Valley State University
Teaching Sociology to Change the World
Session Chair: Jay Weinstein, Eastern Michigan University
Jay Weinstein, Eastern Michigan University
Mary Cay Sengstock, Wayne State University
Jennifer Stewart, Grand Valley State University:
"A Call to Action"
4:00 p.m. Business Meeting
6:00 p.m. Informal dinner - optional Location to be announced