BU Sociology at #ESS2025 next week
#ESS2025: “Building Solidarity to Break Cycles of Repression”
March 6-9, 2025; Boston, MA
The annual Eastern Sociological Society (ESS) conference will be in Boston this year and it starts next week! It will include scheduled sessions, mini conferences, author-meets-critics, and more.
BU Sociology faculty and students, both graduate and undergraduate, will be represented throughout the four day conference. Here’s where you can find us:
FACULTY
Japonica Brown-Saracino:
- Date: Friday, March 7th at 9:30AM. Presidential Panel: The Complexities of Gentrification: Slow Violence or Uplift? Dr. Derek Hyra, Prof. Japonica Brown-Saracino, Dr. Amanda Boston, Dr. Lawrence Vale
- Date: Friday, March 7th at 3:30PM. The Politics of the Elite: Ideological Orientations, Mothering, and Social Mobilities in Neoliberal Chile. Prof. Annette Lareau, Prof. Florencia Torche, Prof. Japonica Brown-Saracino, Prof. Jody Agius Vallejo, Prof. Jonathan Mijs, Dr. Shay O’Brien, Prof. Maria Luisa Mendez
Celeste Curington:
- Friday, March 7th , 11:00AM. Long Live Queer Nightlife. Amin Ghaziani, Prof. Frederick Wherry, Prof. Jonathan Wynn, Dr. Celeste Curington, Prof. Ellen Berrey
- Saturday, March 8th, 2:00PM. AMC: Laboring in the Shadow of Empire: Race, Gender, and Care Work in Portugal. Jean Beaman, Dr. Mary Romero, Dr. Tufuku Zuberi, Dr. Michelle Christian, Dr. Celeste Curington, Dr. Annie Hikido
Saida Grundy:
- Friday, March 7th, 2:00PM. Brotherhood University: Black Men’s Friendships and the Transition to Adulthood by Brandon Jackson
- Stephane Andrade, Dr. Saida Grundy, Dr. Joseph Guzman, Dr. Brandon Jackson, Dr. Freeden Blume Oeur, Ms. Sagen Kidane, Dr. Matthew Alemu
Joseph Harris:
- Friday, March 7th at 12:30PM. Author Meets Critics panel for Emergency: Covid19 and the Uneven Valuation of Life
Nazli Kibria:
- Thursday , March 6th , 2:30PM. Injuries of inequality, trust, and health-seeking behavior among Bihari population in Bangladesh. Kazi Md Mukitul Islam, Dr. Muhammad Hamid Zaman, Dr. Nazli Kibria
- Friday, March 7th, 11:00AM. Claiming Citizenship: Race, Religion, and Political Mobilization among New Americans. Prema Kurien, Dr. Nazli Kibria, Dr. Robert Smith, Dr. Ken Sun, Dr. Sofya Aptekar
- Friday, March 7th, 2:00PM. Author Meets Critics: Aptekar, Sofya. 2023. Green Card Soldier: Between Model Immigrant and Security Threat. MIT Press. Shannon Gleeson, Dr. Emily Brissette, Dr. Nazli Kibria, Dr. Atiya Husain
Loretta Lees:
- Thursday, March 6th, 1:00PM. Privileging Place: How Second Homeowners Transform Communities and Themselves, Meaghan Stiman (William & Mary). Dr. Robin Bartram (organizer), Dr. Richard Ocejo (critic), Dr. Loretta Lees, Dr. Jennifer Sherman (critic)
- Thursday, March 6th, 5:00PM. Acting on Anti-Displacement Strategies. Derek Hyra, Dr. Loretta Lees, Mr. Dominic Moulden, Dr. Willow Lung-Amam
Jonathan Mijs:
- Friday, March 7th, 3:30PM. The Politics of the Elite: Ideological Orientations, Mothering, and Social Mobilities in Neoliberal Chile. Annette Lareau, Prof. Florencia Torche, Prof. Japonica Brown Saracino, Prof. Jody Agius Vallejo, Prof. Jonathan Mijs, Dr. Shay O’Brien, Prof. Maria Luisa Mendez
- Saturday, March 8th, 11:00AM. Wealth and Global Elites, Session VI Beacon Hill Chaired by: Prof. Jonathan Mijs
Sarah Miller:
- Friday, March 7th at 9:30am. Navigating Educational Challenges, II. “Bullying Doesn’t Happen to Kids Like Me”: Youth, Inequality, and the Paradox of Anti-Bullying Policy
Vance Puchalski:
- Friday, March 7th, 8:48AM. Lottery Play as Meaningful Social Action
Ana Villarreal:
- Saturday, March 8th at 12:30PM. Celebrating Elizabeth Korver-Glenn and Sarah Mayorga’s book A Good Reputation: How Residents Fight for an American Barrio (Chicago, 2024) in an Author-Meets-Critics session
Pamela Zabala Ortiz:
- Friday, March 7th, 2025, at 2PM. CSERR Spotlight II: Afro-Latine Identity and Intersectional Racial Hierarchies
- Saturday, March 8th, 2025, at 3:30PM. Author Meets Critics: The Color of Asylum: The Racial Politics of Safe Haven in Brazil
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Taylor Beauvais:
- Friday, March 7th 8:00AM. Echoes of Glory: How Culture Shapes the Political Narratives of Nostalgia. Yasemin Girgin, Mr. Taylor Beauvais, Ms. Ekaterina Novozhilova
- Friday, March 7th, 3:45PM. Algorithmic Regulatory Capture
Elif Birced:
- Saturday, March 8that 12:30PM All One Million Views Are Not Equally Worthy: Classed Assessment of Influence in the Creator Economy.
Kim Dongyoung:
- Friday, March 7th at 12:30PM. Subjects of Sexuality: Filipino Tomboy Migrants in South Korea and Hong Kong and the Divergent Paths to Female Masculinity
Yasemin Girgin:
- Friday, March 7th, from 8:00 to 9:15 AM. “Echoes of Glory: How Culture Shapes the Political Narratives of Nostalgia”, a paper co-written with Taylor (Beauvais), at the ESS Mini-Conference “From Polarization to Solidarity”. My presentation is part of the panel “Culture, Identity, and Emotion in Divided Times”.
Kazi Mukitul:
- Thursday, March 6th at 2:30PM. Health in International Settings
Jace N Rios Rivera:
- Saturday, March 8th at 8AM. Decolonizing Sociology Mini-Conference, presenting at the Decolonizing Academia, Decolonizing Knowledge Structures My paper is titled “Decolonizing Academic Mentorship: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Power Structures.”
Friday March 7, 8:00am-9:15am – Undergraduate Student Poster Session I
- 1241 Constructing Queer Presents & Futures: How Young Adults Navigate LGBTQ+ Community Care, Tia Perkins, Boston University
- 1218 Exploring Motherhood: Policy, Feminism, and Self-Interest in Chinese Women’s Fertility Intentions, Lingxin Lu, Boston University
- 1210 Gentrification and Cultural Displacement in Spanish Harlem, New York City, Angelina Silva-Perez, Boston University
- 1221 How Do Women Athletes Understand their Bodily Capital, Place, and Value at Boston University?, Matt Lutkins, Boston University
- 1147 Understanding Mental Health Stigma: A Comparative Study Between the United States and China and the Influence of Mental Illness Knowledge, Wenhui Chen, Boston University