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The Sociology Graduate Conference is an annual event hosted by Sociology students at The New School for Social Research. For years, this gathering has fostered intellectual exchange and showcased emerging research in our discipline, creating a vibrant space for dialogue and academic growth.
This year's conference explores the plural nature of sociology and its capacity to understand multiple social worlds. In an era marked by contested truths and challenges to democratic ethics, we examine how sociological pluralism helps us navigate and understand contemporary social complexities. We invite reflections on what pluralism means for sociology, both in theory and practice, and how it manifests in our discourse, methods, innovations, contradictions, and collaborations.
While we particularly welcome work engaging with plurality, we encourage submissions across all sociological domains. Contemporary issues such as race, gender, climate change, media, migration, urban life, labor, and power structures can all be enriched through diverse sociological perspectives. The conference aims to showcase this variety of approaches, fostering discussions that highlight the breadth and depth of sociological inquiry.
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Abstracts should be no longer than 750 words and must be submitted through our Google form by February 14, 2025. For any inquiries, please contact lopea571@newschool.edu.
Funded in part by the NSSR Dean's Conference Fund
Day 1 — Friday, April 4, 2025
14:00 - Opening
14:15 Panel 1:Â Creative resistance
Comments by Benoit Challand
Noah Kupper – Pluralism in Liberation Movements: Jewish, Black, Haitian, and Palestinian Struggles
Risako Yang – Confronting, Not Avoiding, the Plurality of Creativity
Imre Szijarto – Hungary’s Welfare and Family Policy: Racialized Impacts and Neoliberal Workfare
Alonso López – Subjective Auto-construction: Ethnographic Study of Informal Settlement Dwellers in Santiago, Chile
16:00 Coffee Break
16:15 Panel 2: Political Economy and Social Inequalities
Comments by Rachel Sherman
Robby Murphy – Bringing Business Back In: Finance’s Political Power and US Income Concentration
Addison Patel – Blood Banks: Plasma Centers as Financial-Service Providers and Technologies of (Extractive) Exchange
Dalit Zakaim – Manufacturing Ignorance: Semi-Education and the Crisis of Critical Thought in Late Capitalism
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Day 2 — Saturday, April 5, 2025
10:00 Panel 3:Â Media, Knowledge Production, and Cultural Representation
Comments by Julia Sonnevend
Jenny Jiyoung Bae – Iridescence on Screen: LGBTQ+ Representation in South Korean Television Dramas
Adam Koehler Brown – Of Libraries and Dumpsters: Theoretical Accounts of the Book
Andrea Kim & Risako Yang – Plurality of "Knowing": Knowledge Production in Sociological Research
Violet Handforth – SKY WOMAN, The Haudenosaunee Creation Story: Oral Tradition as Embodied Spirituality​
11:45 Coffee Break
12:00 Panel 4: Migration and Plural Identities
Comments by Jack Jin Gary Lee
Faith Northern – Between Borders and Belonging: Afro-Caribbean Students and the Plurality of Blackness in Higher Education
Renata Zampronio – Between the Private and the Public: Venezuelan Immigrant Mothers in São Paulo’s Labor Market
Sameer Jamal – The Racial Pyramid: A historical study of race relations between Africans and Indians in colonial and postcolonial East Africa
Aanchal Manuja – Success Frames of Second-Generation Indian American Graduate Students
13:45 Lunch Break
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14:30 KEYNOTE SPEAKER -Â COURTNEY BENDER -Â After pluralism
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16:00 Think and Drink
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