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Sunday, August 23 IVF. This session will address issues such as reluctance to admit the Sunday, August 23 need for medical help to conceive a child, the impact of infertility treatment on men’s and women’s sexuality and sexual relationships, religious views on procreation without sex, and attitudes toward The length of each daytime session/meeting activity sexuality as the underlying link between views on contraception, is one hour and forty minutes, unless noted abortion, and assisted reproductive technologies. It will also touch on otherwise. The usual turnover is as follows: views of sexuality, aging, and menopause through the topic of upper 8:30am-10:10am age limits on the use of donor eggs and reproductive technologies. 10:30am-12:10pm 138. Thematic Session. Sexual Minority Intimate 12:30pm-2:10pm Relationships and Health 2:30pm-4:10pm Session Organizer: Corinne Reczek, The Ohio State 4:30pm-6:10pm University Presider: Corinne Reczek, The Ohio State University Session presiders and committee chairs are Panelists: Debra Umberson, University of Texas requested to see that sessions and meetings end on Ilan H. Meyer, The Williams Institute time to avoid conflicts with subsequent activities Stephen T. Russell, University of Arizona scheduled into the same room. Discussant: Allen J. LeBlanc, San Francisco State 7:00 am Meetings University Community College Faculty Bagel Breakfast The relationship between intimate relationships and health has long been studied in sociology—with a body of research demonstrating that Section on Disability and Society Council Meeting marriage and even cohabitation is associated with enhanced health. Section on Environment and Technology Council However, the relationship between sexual minority intimate Meeting relationships and health is in its nascent stages. This thematic session Section on Inequality, Poverty and Mobility Council panel will provide a view of the emergent literature on sexual minority intimate ties and health. This panel will provide insight into the Meeting challenges and future directions of this research area. The focus of the Section on Peace, War and Social Conflict Council panelists will be on marriage, cohabitation, and other intimate Meeting relationships among sexual minorities (e.g., LGB or T identified intimate ties, same-sex unions) and will cover general health outcomes Section on Sociology of Religion Council Meeting including physical health, mental well-being, and health behavior. The goal of the session is to encourage and expand efforts and innovations 8:30 am Meetings in determining the relationship between sexual minority intimate Committee on Committees relationships and health. Committee on Publications Film/Vidoe Screening. Pornland: How the Porn Industry 139. Thematic Session. Sexual Practices and their has Hijacked Our Sexuality Regulations: The Long Historical View Social Psychology Quarterly Editorial Board Session Organizer: Estelle Freedman, Stanford Student Forum Advisory Panel University Task Force on Engaging Sociology, Subcommittee on Presider: Estelle Freedman, Stanford University Standards for Evaluating Public Sociology (SEPS) Panelists: Leila J. Rupp, University of California Task Force on Liberal Learning and the Sociology Major Rachel Jean-Baptiste, University of Chicago Tom Foster, DePaul University 8:30 am Sessions Discussant: Estelle Freedman, Stanford University A panel discussion of sexual behaviors and how they have been 137. Thematic Session. No Sex, Just a Baby: Birth regulated over the long sweep of history. without Sex Session Organizer: Julia McQuillan, University of 140. Thematic Session. Sexuality Movements Nebraska-Lincoln Session Organizer: Melanie Heath, McMaster University Presider: Rosalie A. Torres Stone, Clark University Beyond Same-Sex Marriage. Mary Bernstein, University Medicalization’s Marginalization: The Role of Gender, of Connecticut Class, and Sexuality in the Medicalization of Infertility. Sexuality and Right-Wing Activism: A Historical Ann V. Bell, University of Delaware Perspective. Tina Fetner, McMaster University Doing IVF for Pregnancy or for Profit: A Comparative Movements Against Sexual Violence: Feminists, Survey of Women’s Bodily Experiences. Rene Conservatives, and the Shaping of Institutional Almeling, Yale University Interventions. Nancy E. Whittier, Smith College Men, Masculinity and Infertility. Liberty Walther Barnes, Regulating Multiple Relationships: Future Directions for University of Cambridge Sexuality Movements. Melanie Heath, McMaster Discussant: Susan Markens, City University of New University The social landscape that sexuality movements encounter has York-Lehman College changed dramatically in recent decades. Public opinion on lesbian and Advances in medications and medical techniques in the 20th gay rights, especially same-sex marriage has improved. Exclusionary century have made human reproduction without sex a routinized and institutions such as the U.S. military have new inclusive policies. But at widely accepted practice. The first “test tube baby,” Louise Brown, was the same time, abortion rights are being chipped away by state born in 1978. In 2012, over 61,000 babies were born with the help of legislatures, and sexual violence and rape continue to be prevalent in institutions like the military and universities. This panel will consider 144. Policy and Research Workshop. Navigating IRB what is new in the contemporary landscape of sexuality movements, their ability to generate legal and social change, and the social Approval for Studies of Vulnerable Populations: consequences of the ferocious opposition they have faced. The Case of Children and Youth Session Organizer: Allison Pugh, University of Virginia 141. Special Session. Recent Trends in Mass Leader: Allison Pugh, University of Virginia Incarceration Co-Leaders: Amy L. Best, George Mason University Session Organizer: Becky Pettit, University of Texas Ana Campos-Holland, Connecticut College Presider: Becky Pettit, University of Texas Melissa Lynne Swauger, Indiana University- Panelists: Bruce Western, Harvard University Pennsylvania Hedwig Eugenie Lee, University of Washington Jessica Karen Taft, University of California-Santa Tyler McCormick, University of Washington Cruz Megan Lee Comfort, RTI International Ingrid E. Castro, Massachusetts College of Liberal Emily Wang, Yale University Arts A panel devoted to making sense of new developments in mass Brent Harger, Gettysburg College incarceration. The American criminal justice system has grown so The workshop will include short briefings by panelists and then a dramatically over the past 40 years that one in 100 adults now resides focused discussion about the primary challenges that scholars behind bars and one in three black men can expect to spend at least a conducting research with children/youth increasingly face in dealing year in prison during his lifetime. This panel highlights research on the with Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) and other institutional broad effects of criminal justice expansion with a focus on how the gatekeepers. IRBs are sometimes leery of permitting such research on criminal justice system has infiltrated the lives of people who the grounds that children are "vulnerable subjects." These bodies thus themselves have not been incarcerated and how such exposure is (sometimes unintentionally) impede children's participation in research, stratified by race and ethnicity, gender, and social class. even that which is ethically constructed, and thereby inhibit the contribution of children's perspectives to knowledge. This discussion 142. Special Session. The Impact of Katrina is a continuation of a conversation from the 2014 ASA annual Session Organizer: Kai Erikson, Yale University meetings. We will also pass around for comment working drafts of Presider: Kai Erikson, Yale University three briefing memos prepared in the wake of the 2014 conversation Coming to Terms with Katrina: The SSRC Task Force. that are intended to guide IRBs, schools and early career researchers. Attendees will then exchange information about their own experiences, Kai Erikson, Yale University common justifications that IRBs have used for their actions, any Disaster and Risk: Lessons and Legacies of the Post- strategies that have worked and other actions that the scholarly Katrina Rebuilding Process. Kevin Fox Gotham, community might take to ameliorate the situation. Tulane University Disparities in Recovery from Hurricane Katrina: The 145. Teaching Workshop. Why Won't They Talk? KATRINA@10 Program. Mark J. VanLandingham, Using Discussion and Active Engagement to Tulane University Facilitate Student Learning Discussant: Kathleen J. Tierney, University of Colorado- Session Organizer: Jay R. Howard, Butler University Leader: Jay R. Howard, Butler University Boulder Faculty often wish to engage students in class discussion, but This session will take place within a few days of the tenth sometimes our efforts fall flat and we give up the effort. Why should we anniversary of the disaster we call “Katrina.” It is widely appreciated by seek to engage students? What classroom norms sometimes now that Katrina is probably the most telling disaster in modern undermine students’ participation? Which students are most likely to American experience, not simply because of the number of people it participate and to choose not to participate? How can an instructor killed or the amount of damage it did but because it revealed so much manage both the dominant talkers and the non-talkers? We will engage about
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