2027 PSA Annual Conference Information

Theme: Sociology In A Time Of Monsters 

Dates: March 18-21, 2027

Host City: Oakland, California

Host Hotel: Oakland Marriott City Center – Oakland, CA

Join us for the 98th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, PSA 2027. This year’s theme is, of course, taken from Antonio Gramsci’s famous quote about living through the end times of capitalism, “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”  Each of us has likely witnessed our share of monsters in the last several years, but we continue to be motivated by the hope that these presage the turbulence of a new and better world being born, the last gasps of a society in crisis, if you will. 

Sociology itself is a discipline that was born in crisis, as our founders attempted to understand and delineate the new world of capitalism and its various discontents.  It is only fitting then that we go back to our roots as we attempt to understand the new world struggling to be born. What monsters have emerged and how do we confront them?  What can sociologists do to steer the ship in the directions we collectively wish, between Scylla and Charybdis? 

This conference invites participants to address these questions and speak from our various experiences to this question of where we are as a society, how we got here, and – importantly – how we might proceed moving forward.

Registration information as well as information on our Call For Submissions will be coming soon. Keep checking our conference page for conference updates.