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AHS PRogram chair James M. thomas
Biography:
James M. Thomas (JT) is associate professor of sociology at the University of Mississippi. To date, he is the author or co-author of four book-length monographs, and over twenty peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and invited essays on the causes and consequences of race and racism in America, and abroad. His scholarship is wide-ranging in its coverage: from comparative and historical analyses of the medicalization of racism in Western Europe and in the United States; to theorizing the complex interplay between race, citizenship, and affect along the US-Mexico border; to critical investigations of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives on college campuses. His newest book-length project, The Souls of Jews, centers the role of late nineteenth century German antisemitism in the development of W.E.B. Du Bois’s intellectual project. |
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THEME
How to transform our world into a beloved community?
The 2020 meeting theme is “Power, Politics, People, and Knowledge.” In an age when many college professors, politicians, and activists are cautious about their political views and lifestyles, it is important to reflect upon people as historical and social actors. We must be resolute in the face of a changing world and generous enough to recognize change is an outcome of people’s actions. We most certainly can unmake what people create. Therefore, it is essential for social scientists, activists, and artists to direct our attention to the great struggles and issues of our time. “It is” as C. Wright Mills’s once said, “one thing to talk about general problems . . . , and quite another to tell an individual what to do. Most ‘experts’ dodge that question. I do not want to.” The aim of the meeting is to ask how sociology and other academic disciplines are following Mills lead to help transform our world into a beloved community. What are the contributions of actors and epistemologies of regions in the nation and around the world? What are the main obstacles we face to tackle the struggles and issues of today? How can innovative sociological analyses contribute to grasping and to facing our common global problems?
HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:
Plenary featuring Jackson, MS Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba
Activist café featuring organizers with United Campus Workers
Members organizing with the United Campus Workers (UCW) are transforming university communities across the US South. In this activist cafe, UCW organizers will present powerful stories of successful wall-to-wall worker organizing campaigns in southern states, where workers are busy building mutiracial working class organizations in states without collective bargaining rights. Participants will be exposed to UCW’s methodology, rooted in US industrial organizing traditions, and tailored for survival and resistance in labor-hostile states like Mississippi, Texas, and Tennessee. After a brief presentation and discussion, everyone will be invited to participate in an activity to help develop a campaign framework to unite housing justice and labor organizing in university communities.
Tickets for this luncheon have been generously paid for by United Campus Workers of Mississippi (local #3565). To reserve a free seat at this lunch, please add it when you pay for registration
Activist café featuring Rukia Lumumba, Executive Director of the People’s Advocacy Institute
The People’s Advocacy Institute (PAI) is a non-profit community resource, training and capacity-building incubator for transformation justice in the South. PAI serves as a vehicle for true democracy, harnessing the collective wisdom of southern communities that have been directly impacted by a divestment from key community systems such as mass criminalization and incarceration and economic inequality. By engaging communities in electoral justice efforts, People's Assemblies, Alternatives to Incarceration Initiatives, and an intentional grassroots process for cultivating ideas and developing solutions PAI, builds community capacity, inspires self-determination and community-driven solutions to violence, punitive legal systems and social injustice facing far too many communities.
Tickets for this luncheon are included for all conference registrants. To reserve a free seat at this lunch, please add it when you pay for registration
How to transform our world into a beloved community?
The 2020 meeting theme is “Power, Politics, People, and Knowledge.” In an age when many college professors, politicians, and activists are cautious about their political views and lifestyles, it is important to reflect upon people as historical and social actors. We must be resolute in the face of a changing world and generous enough to recognize change is an outcome of people’s actions. We most certainly can unmake what people create. Therefore, it is essential for social scientists, activists, and artists to direct our attention to the great struggles and issues of our time. “It is” as C. Wright Mills’s once said, “one thing to talk about general problems . . . , and quite another to tell an individual what to do. Most ‘experts’ dodge that question. I do not want to.” The aim of the meeting is to ask how sociology and other academic disciplines are following Mills lead to help transform our world into a beloved community. What are the contributions of actors and epistemologies of regions in the nation and around the world? What are the main obstacles we face to tackle the struggles and issues of today? How can innovative sociological analyses contribute to grasping and to facing our common global problems?
HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:
Plenary featuring Jackson, MS Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba
Activist café featuring organizers with United Campus Workers
Members organizing with the United Campus Workers (UCW) are transforming university communities across the US South. In this activist cafe, UCW organizers will present powerful stories of successful wall-to-wall worker organizing campaigns in southern states, where workers are busy building mutiracial working class organizations in states without collective bargaining rights. Participants will be exposed to UCW’s methodology, rooted in US industrial organizing traditions, and tailored for survival and resistance in labor-hostile states like Mississippi, Texas, and Tennessee. After a brief presentation and discussion, everyone will be invited to participate in an activity to help develop a campaign framework to unite housing justice and labor organizing in university communities.
Tickets for this luncheon have been generously paid for by United Campus Workers of Mississippi (local #3565). To reserve a free seat at this lunch, please add it when you pay for registration
Activist café featuring Rukia Lumumba, Executive Director of the People’s Advocacy Institute
The People’s Advocacy Institute (PAI) is a non-profit community resource, training and capacity-building incubator for transformation justice in the South. PAI serves as a vehicle for true democracy, harnessing the collective wisdom of southern communities that have been directly impacted by a divestment from key community systems such as mass criminalization and incarceration and economic inequality. By engaging communities in electoral justice efforts, People's Assemblies, Alternatives to Incarceration Initiatives, and an intentional grassroots process for cultivating ideas and developing solutions PAI, builds community capacity, inspires self-determination and community-driven solutions to violence, punitive legal systems and social injustice facing far too many communities.
Tickets for this luncheon are included for all conference registrants. To reserve a free seat at this lunch, please add it when you pay for registration
NOTE: Our conference will be held at the Jackson Convention Complex not the hotel. The complex is within walking distant. Here’s the link to Convention Complex: https://downtown-jackson.com/listing/jackson-convention-complex/
AHS Open board meeting is tentatively scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 4, from 9:45 am -11:45 am.
HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS IN JACKSON, MS
Book your room now for the Association for Humanist Sociology Annual Meeting!
You will find the information for your online reservation link below. If you have questions or need help with the link, please do not hesitate to ask. We appreciate your business and look forward to a successful event.
Event Summary:
Association for Humanist Sociology
Start Date: 2021 Nov 4, Wed
End Date: 2021 Nov 6, Sun
Last Day to Book: Oct 13, Wed
Special group rate:
The Westin Jackson @ $149.00 USD per night (rates apply to dates Nov 3-6)
Book your group rate for Association for Humanist Sociology
AHS Open board meeting is tentatively scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 4, from 9:45 am -11:45 am.
HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS IN JACKSON, MS
Book your room now for the Association for Humanist Sociology Annual Meeting!
You will find the information for your online reservation link below. If you have questions or need help with the link, please do not hesitate to ask. We appreciate your business and look forward to a successful event.
Event Summary:
Association for Humanist Sociology
Start Date: 2021 Nov 4, Wed
End Date: 2021 Nov 6, Sun
Last Day to Book: Oct 13, Wed
Special group rate:
The Westin Jackson @ $149.00 USD per night (rates apply to dates Nov 3-6)
Book your group rate for Association for Humanist Sociology
AHS CONFERENCE REGISTRATION INFORMATION
AHS Conference Registration Rates (Advance Registration Deadline Oct. 8)
Membership Types & Member Perk!
Members save up to $20 on registration rate.
*Parenthesis refers to registration rates after October 8th
MEMBERS
Regular Member $130 ($150)
Contingent Faculty (Part-Time) $50 ($70)
Retired Sociologist $50 ($70)
Student $50 ($70)
Low Income $50 ($50)
NON-MEMBERS
Sociologists $165 ($185)
Contingent Faculty (Part-Time) $65 ($85)
Student $65 ($85)
Low Income $65 ($65)
Guest $75 ($95)
Registration Policies
• All conference participants are required to register.
• Membership discount applies prior to registration only. No refund will be provided if membership is changed after registration. First-time attendees who elect join AHS will have their membership extended through 2022.
• The "Guest" registration category is for non-participants/non-sociologists attending with a registered attendee.