Pacific Sociological Association 2023 Conference Program
(as of March 28, 2023) For more current information, use the program app (on the Whova platform) or the webbased program posted on the PSA website March 30-April 2, 2023, at the Hyatt Regency Bellevue, WA The Green Room is available for persons observing Ramadan. The Executive Boardroom is available as a quiet space, for prayer, rest, meditation, lactation, etc. The Maple room is available as the PSA Lounge, with space to sit, work, chat, drink coffee, charge devices, etc.
Thursday, March 30 8:30 am-5:30 pm PSA Registration | Regency Ballroom Foyer 12:30 pm-2:00 pm 1. [Panel with Presenters] Teaching Modalities and Academic Freedom in the Covid-19 Era, sponsored by the Committee on Freedom of Research and Teaching | Auditorium This panel will discuss challenges related to teaching modalities, curriculum delivery, or other teaching challenges that arise (or have intensified) as we return to campuses in the era of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Organizer: Jennifer Strangfeld, California State University Stanislaus Presider & Discussant: Richelle Swan, California State University San Marcos Panelists: Janet Armentor, CSU Bakersfield; Ann Strahm, CSU Stanislaus; Ayanna Yonemura, CSU Sacramento
2. [Paper Session] Prisons, Collateral Consequences, and Justice | Balsam Organizer: Valerie Jenness, UC Irvine Presider: Sam Harrell, Portland State University • The National Association of Training Schools: Unstable Discourses of Progressive Era Prisonwork. Sam Harrell, Portland State University • Understanding the Connection between Time-Served and Multi-Crime Histories on Recidivism. Mark Leymon, Portland State University • Colorado Prison Radio: The Theater of the Mind and Restorative Justice. Desire Anastasia, Metropolitan State University of Denver • Alternatives to the Carceral State: Prison Abolition as Sustainable Development. Evan Shenkin, Linfield University 3. [Paper Session] Marginalized Work and Labor Market | Birch Organizer: Hyeyoung Woo, Portland State University Presider: • Barriers in Social Mobility Among the Formerly Incarcerated. Laura Murray, North Carolina State University • Multidimensional Borderlands: The Impacts of Municipal Boundary-Making and Climate Change on California Women Farmworkers. Evelyn Pruneda, California State University Chico • Emotional Labor in Creative Careers: Romance Novel Writers and the Three Trials of Artistic SelfDoubt. Jennifer Lois, Western Washington University 1