57th Annual Conference

April 8-11, 2015
Portland, Oregon

Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront
1401 SW Naito Parkway
Portland, OR 97201

The General Program Coordinator for the conference is President-Elect:

Heather Albanesi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Sociology
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Phone: 719-255-4137
Email: halbanes@uccs.edu

Conference Information

Deadline for proposals is December 1, 2014.

Scholars willing to serve as moderators or discussants should also indicate their interest to the appropriate section coordinator. All participants (presenters, moderators, discussants, etc.) are required to register for the conference prior to March 1, 2015.

For additional information, please consult the Fall 2013 WSSA newsletter or contact the Program Coordinator.

Click here for past newsletter archive

Conference Registration:

  • Regular Online Pre-Registration, at the discounted rate (by $30 for regular registrants and  $15 for students and retirees) will be available untilMarch 21, 2015.
  • Late Online Pre-registration, at the regular rate, will be available from March 22, 2015 through April 1, 2015.
  • There will be no registration activity between midnight, EST, on April 1 and 3:00pm PST, on April 7, when On-Site Registration opens at the conference site.

Online Conference Registration

Click here for ON-LINE pre-registration

Click here for ON-LINE pre-registration for Past-Presidents
(prior to 2004 only)

Offline Conference Registration

If you wish to send a paper registration instead of an online registration:

Click here to print out the form

Please be aware that paper registration forms must be received, not just postmarked, by March 26, 2015.

Membership Only

IF you cannot attend the conference, but wish to retain your subscriptions to the Social Science Journal and the WSSA News, click here to go to theSubscription Membership-only online form, or click here(Coming Soon) to download the paper Subscription Membership-only form to mail, with a check or money order.

Local Links

New & Renewing Members: Please Note

Membership will be automatically included in conference registration, making all conference registrants members of the Association. As always, membership will continue to include subscriptions to the Social Science Journal and the WSSA News.

Vendors

Publishers and others who would like to join the conference’s book exhibit should contact Scott Carson, the Social Science Journal’s Editor, at:

Scott Carson
University of Texas, Permian Basin
4901 East University
Odessa, TX 79762
Phone : 432-552-2195
432-552-2174
E-mail: carson_s@utpb.edu

Vendors of other merchandise are also welcome to apply. Please contact either Dr. Carson, above, or Conference Manager Kate Herke, atWSSA.Admin@nau.edu, to discuss the possibility of having a table in the conference’s vendor section.

Related Announcements

If your organization would like to post an announcement about an upcoming event or conference that will be of interest to WSSA members, please contact the Communications Director, Kate Herke.

 

Future Conferences

2016 Reno, Nevada – Grand Sierra Resort and Casino, April 15, 2016 through April 13, 2016 through April 16, 206

2017 San Francisco, California Hyatt Regency San Francisco (Embarcadero), April 12, 2017 through April 15, 2017

2018 San Antonio, Texas – Hyatt Regency — April 4, 2018 through April 7, 2018

2019 San Diego, California – Manchester Grand Hyatt – April 24, 2019 through April 27, 2019