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• 98th Annual PSA Conference (PSA 2027)

  • Start
    March 18, 2027
  • End
    March 21, 2027
  • Location
    Marriott Oakland City Center - Oakland, CA

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  PSA 2027

  Pacific Sociological Association 98^th Annual Meeting

  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, "Sociology In A Time Of Monsters", 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.

  
  

  
  

   

  Allison Hurst, Oregon State University

  2026-2027 PSA President 

  
  

  
  

  Leontina Hormel, University of Idaho

  2026-2027 PSA Program Chair

  
  

  
  

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• 99th Annual PSA Conference (PSA 2028)

  • Start
    March 23, 2028
  • End
    March 26, 2028
  • Location
    Westin Long Beach - Long Beach, CA

  
  

  Pacific Sociological Association 99^th Annual Meeting

  Thurs. March 23rd - Sun. March 26th, 2028

  Puvungna, Tongva/Gabrieleño and Acjachemen Homelands

  Westin Long Beach - Long Beach, California

  
  

  Please join us at the 99^th Annual Pacific Sociological Association (PSA 2028) Conference as we gather brilliant minds and work in powerful community to address critical problems of our time and offer generative pathways forward in our shared futures.

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