Our Annual Conference

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The Eastern Sociological Society will soon invite abstract submissions for our 2024 Annual Meeting. The meeting’s theme is “The Social Side of the Climate Crisis.” While abstracts on topics around broad issues related to climate change and the climate crisis, including (but not limited to): societal drivers, attitudes, decision-making, migration, activism, misinformation, and solutions of all sorts are appreciated, we welcome paper abstracts on any topic using any methodology that is of interest to sociologists.

As scientific consensus about the effect humans have on the climate is indisputable, increasing attention is being given to understanding the role that society plays in both creating the climate crisis and solving it (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group 1 2021; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group 2 2022; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group 3 2022; also see Oreskes 2004).
 
Our presidential plenaries will bring together prominent policymakers, journalists, community leaders, and sociologists to discuss a range of issues related to the societal causes, consequences, and solutions to the climate crisis. Across these plenaries we will focus on the important role that society and sociology plays in our shared understanding of the climate crisis.

Program Committee:
Colin Jerolmack (NYU), Andrew Jorgenson (Boston College/UBC), Rachel Shwom, (Rutgers University), Rubin Patterson (Howard University), Myron T. Strong (Community College of Baltimore County), and Fernando Tormos-Aponte (University of Pittsburgh), with President Dana R. Fisher serving ex-officio and Tania Jenkins (UNC) serving as the mini-conference liaison. This committee will make decisions on the mini-conferences, workshops, and conference panels.

Dana R. Fisher, Ph.D.

Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland

Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

President, Eastern Sociological Society