WSU hosts Michigan Sociological Association Annual Conference

Nearly 200 sociologists from across Michigan will visit Midtown this week for the Michigan Sociological Association's 2019 Annual Conference.

Wayne State's Department of Sociology will host this year's conference on Oct. 19 in the Student Center Building.

Identity, Place and Power: Interrogating Borders in the 21st Century is the theme of this year's conference. Sessions will examine the meaning of place and how we interact within these constructs.

Wayne State sociology faculty and students alike will present on topics ranging from sexual violence within Arab American immigrant communities to educational inequality.

Kristine Ajrouch, professor of sociology, anthropology and criminology at Eastern Michigan University, is the keynote speaker. Ajrouch's research focuses on Arab Americans in the U.S. and ethnic identity formation among adolescent children of immigrants. She also studies the experience of aging from the perspective of older adults in the metro-Detroit Arab American community.

Wayne State students from all departments are welcome to attend conference sessions.