Award ceremonies
Thurs, Mar 28, 2:30 pm, Ballrooms 1-2Distinguished Book Award / Early Career Scholarship Award
- Fri, Mar 30, 10:00 am, Ballroom 4Social Action Awards / Jane Addams Service Award
- Fri, Mar 30, 3:45 pm, Ballroom 4 Student Paper Awards / Student Poster Competition Award
General meeting schedule - below.
Keynote Speaker:
Meet the Authors
MSS member-authors are cordially invited to sign up for "Meet-the-Authors" to be held at the MSS Annual Meeting, 11:45 - 12:30 on Saturday, March 31. Authors will be provided with lunch; and will be assigned a table in the exhibits hall. During the event, meeting participants may sit down with the author for conversation about using the author's book in teaching; or any subject of their mutual choice. This event is open only to MSS member-authors and participants who are registered attendees at the annual meeting.
Authors: To sign up, send your name, book title, publisher name, year of publication
to MSS Exec Office.
SSSI Banquet - info to come
MSS 75th Anniversary Events
- Presidential reception and 75th Anniversary Celebration - 5:30, Friday Mar 30
- MSS and TSQ: A Panel Discussion on History and Future Prospects [time, day TBA]
- Retrieving Our Past, Creating Our Future, co-sponsored by MSWS, [time, day TBA]
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2012 Annual Meeting
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Irwin Deutscher Will Give Keynote Address at Annual Meeting
For an international scene troubled by ethnic conflict,
Dr. Irwin Deutscher has some suggestions. His
2002 volume, Accommodating Diversity: National
Policies That Prevent Ethnic Conflicts (Lexington
Books) describes a set of national policies which have
successfully avoided ethnic conflict. Among these are
two remarkable pieces of legislation dating back to the
mid-1970’s– one in Sweden and the other in Ghana.
A central theme of the book is the debate about the
desirability of national unity versus national diversity,
an issue with special resonance for our current national angst.
A long-time member of MSS, Dr. Deutscher is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Akron. He holds the BA (Philosophy), MS (Statistics), MA (Sociology) and PhD (Sociology) from the University of Missouri. He has held professorships at Syracuse University, Case Western Reserve University, and the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands as well as visiting professorships at Ohio State University, The University of California at Berkeley, The University of California at San Diego, and Calcutta University in India. He is past president of two national and two regional sociological societies and is the author of nine books and more than a hundred articles and book reviews.Dr. Deutscher holds the Annondale Memorial Medal for distinguished service to Indian Anthropology. Among his other honors and awards are the American Sociological Association’s Distinguished Career Award for the Practiceof Sociology (1997) and the Lee Founders Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems (1997). He is perhaps best known for What We Say/What We Do: Sentiments and Acts (1973).
Deutscher served in the South Pacific with the Marines in World War II and holds two distinguished flying crosses and nine air medals. He has been a single-handed sailor for most of his life and has sailed both North American coasts as well as the Great Lakes and the Baltic Sea. He plays clarinet and saxophone in several Wshington area ensembles. As a volunteer with Amnesty International, he served as Legislative Coordinator for Washington, DC. He currently serves as a volunteer docent at the U.S. Library of Congress.With the assistance of Professor Linda Lindsey, an upated teaching edition of Accommodating Diversity: National Policies That Prevent Ethnic Conflicts was published in 2004 under the title: Preventing Ethnic Conflict: Successful Cross-National Strategies. Deutscher and Lindsey are currently working on a new edition of that volume.Deutscher resides in Washington DC with his wife Verda. His current work deals with national policies that are successful in reducing conflict among ethnic groups.
prizes!! fun!! food!!
INAUGURAL MSS Trivia Night
THURSDAY 6:45 - 9:00 pm
Is it a social event?
An ice-breaker? A stress-reducer?A strictly-for-fun competition?YES! It’s all that - with food, prizes, and cash bar thrown in, too!
MSS’s first-ever Trivia Night is open to anyone attending the MSS annual meeting. Reserve a table for 8, and recruit friends and colleagues to be part of your Trivia Team. Or purchase a table or an individual ticket - and we’ll find you a team. Meet people, have supper, and have fun!
Sign up for Trivia Night when you register for the 2012 annual meeting.
Watch the MSS website and upcoming email blasts for more information- -and brush up on your sociological knowledge of all things trivial!
Tickets: $5 for students / $10 for adjuncts / $15 for regular, non-adjunct MSS members.
Or buy a table for $85. See you there!
