CALL FOR PAPERS

2011 Annual Meeting
Sheraton- Society Hill
Philadelphia, PA
February 24-27, 2011

The concept of intersectionality or an intersectional framework, introduced about twenty years ago, has enriched and transformed academic research across many disciplines. Its application allows scholars to explore the simultaneous and multiplicative interaction of class, race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, sexuality, disability, citizenship and other axes of inequality in people’s lives as mutually constructing systems of power. The 2011 Meeting will focus on how an intersectional approach has been developed and utilized in different ways across the subfields of sociology. What methodologies best help us do an intersectional analysis? In what areas have intersectional analyses been most successful? What is the most recent research in these areas? How has using an intersectional approach advanced our knowledge?

The concept of intersectionality challenges the various areas within sociology to develop detailed critical explorations of complex inequalities and their cumulative and interactive effects on individuals and social institutions. Although submissions on all sociological topics are welcome, the organizers are particularly interested in those related to the Meeting’s theme. We welcome submissions in such varied forms as:

• Individual papers (please include one-page abstracts; longer drafts are also welcome)
• Wholly constituted sessions (with names and affiliations of all presenters)
• Thematic Conversations (panels of two or more scholars engaged in debate or exchange)
• Workshops on specific topics and techniques (indicate the expert in charge)
• Master classes featuring a prominent scholar or Q & A sessions
• Roundtable and poster session presentations
• Mini-conferences

Details about electronic submission will be posted in the next ESS newsletter, announced electronically on the ESS Announce List, and available at the ESS website: http://www.essnet.org. Regular paper submissions for all sociological topics in any of the above formats are due by September 30, 2010.

It is never too early to start planning. Questions should be sent to: easterns2011@gmail.com

Program Committee: Gwen Moore (Chair), Christine E. Bose (President), Karen Hansen (Vice President), Zai Liang, Steven Messner, and Bandana Purkayastha.