#ESS2025: "Building Solidarity to Break Cycles of Repression"

March 6-9, 2025; Boston, MA​

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ESS2025 Conference Program

ESS2025 Mobile App

 

​​​Undergraduate Student Poster Schedule

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Conference Hotel: Boston Park Plaza Hotel

 

Hotel Conference Room Map

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2025 Mini-Conference Descriptions​

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​Scheduled Presidential Plenaries and Other Conference Highlights:
Acting on Anti-Displacement Strategies
Loretta Lees, Willow Lung-Amam, and Dominic Moulden

 

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The Complexities of Gentrification: Slow Violence or Uplift?
Amanda Boston, Japonica Brown-Saracino, and Lawrence Vale

 

 

The Politics of Dissent
Heba Gowayed, James Jones, and Diane Wong

 

 

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Global Solidarities and Campus Activism on Palestine

Heba Gowayed, Areej Sabbagh-Khoury, Jeffrey Melnick, Jon Ben-Menachem, Cresa Pugh 

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Presidential Address
Slow and Sudden Violence: Breaking the Cycle of Racial & Spatial Repression, Derek Hyra

 

 

Robin M. Williams Jr. Lecture
Old Problems in New Places: Gentrification and Race in Small City America, Richard Ocejo

 

 

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Program Committee

Presidential Plenaries: Heba Gowayed and James Jones

Mini-Conference Organizer: Tania M. Jenkins

Author-Meets-Critics: Tanya Golash-Boza and Daniel Laurison

​Undergraduate Poster Organizer: Barbara Prince

General Program: Richard Ocejo and Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana

Committee Showcase: Ingrid Castro

Journal Showcase: Tammy Anderson, Ann Bell, and Asia Friedman

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Local Host Committee

Japonica Brown-Saracino, Boston University​

Celeste Curington, Boston University

Liza Weinstein, Northeastern University

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Co-Sponsors​​