2012 Annual Meeting:
July 26-29, 2012
By this time pretty much everybody knows that 2012 is the 75th Anniversary of the founding of the Rural Sociological Society and that our meetings will be held in the same hotel where the RSS was launched in 1937.
What you may not realize is that 2012 is also the 150th Anniversary of the founding of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the federal agency that has primary responsibility for the quality of life in rural America. This confluence should encourage us to use the annual meetings as a time of reflection not only of the path traveled but the road ahead. What policies – public and otherwise – have contributed to the patchwork of uneven prosperity we find at home and abroad and how can we do better?
Keiko Tanaka as Program Chair is mobilizing enormous energy and ideas ranging from the silly to the profound (for such is life) to help us both to celebrate and to think.
Have a brainstorm, a wild hare, or just an interesting rabbit hole to explore? Let Keiko know! And be ready for a meeting that is fun and thought provoking, because that is a combination that no other group can pull off as well as we can!
Conner Bailey
President
75th Anniversary Meeting in Chicago at the Palmer House Hilton
2011 Annual Meeting References:
Annual Meeting Program
Updates and Changes (occuring at Boise,ID)
Website updated:
December 22, 2011
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Welcome
The Rural Sociological Society (RSS) welcomes you to our place in cyberspace. The RSS is a professional social science association that promotes the generation, application, and dissemination of sociological knowledge. The Society seeks to enhance the quality of rural life, communities, and the environment. This website is intended to serve all those interested in rural people and places.
Upcoming Annual Meeting Schedule:
2013, New York City (just before ASA in the same hotel)
Sheraton Towers, August 4 - 9
2014, New Orleans, LA
Roosevelt Waldorf Astoria, July 30 - August 3
2015, Columbus, OH
Hyatt Regency, July 30 - August 2
2016, Seattle, WA
Hyatt Regency Bellevue, Auguest 16 - 21
Announcements:
- Rural Studies Series has a new publisher - West Virginia Press
- Latest issue of International Review of Social Research is now up.Read
- Ron Wimberly- Memorial Contributions. Read
- New Assistantship for Graduate Students. Read
- New Rural Establishment Survey.Read
- New Sociology app from Wiley-Blackwell. Read
- New book by Kenneth Tunnell - Once Upon a Place
- Gerald Klonglan to receive alumni award from Iowa State University. Read
- White House Council Rural Council Feedback Report. Read
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