2025 Conference
#ESS2025: "Building Solidarity to Break Cycles of Repression"
March 6-9, 2025; Boston, MA
Undergraduate Student Poster Schedule
Conference Hotel: Boston Park Plaza Hotel
2025 Mini-Conference Descriptions
Scheduled Presidential Plenaries and Other Conference Highlights:
Acting on Anti-Displacement Strategies
Loretta Lees, Willow Lung-Amam, and Dominic Moulden
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
Global Solidarities and Campus Activism on Palestine
Heba Gowayed, Areej Sabbagh-Khoury, Jeffrey Melnick, Jon Ben-Menachem, Cresa Pugh
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
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
Local Host Committee
Japonica Brown-Saracino, Boston University
Celeste Curington, Boston University
Liza Weinstein, Northeastern University
Co-Sponsors
