USI to host 95th annual Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences Conference October 4

For the first time since 1986, the University of Southern Indiana will host the annual Meeting of the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences (IASS) from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, October 4 in Carter Hall, located in University Center West.

Dr. Melissa Stacer, Professor of Criminal Justice Studies and the Director of Master of Arts in Criminal Justice, is the current President of IASS and championed for the location of the 2024 conference to be at USI.

"The Annual Meeting is a wonderful opportunity to present scholarship, a time to get together with old friends and make new friends and is a comfortable, safe space for our undergraduate and graduate students to present posters and interact with scholars," says Stacer. "The Annual Meeting is intimate and vibrant with scholarship from a large variety of disciplines."

The conference theme is A Beacon of Hope: Social Science Providing Light in Turbulent Times. Registration check-in and a continental breakfast starts at 7:30 a.m., and concurrent sessions, including poster presentations, will be held in the morning and afternoon. The keynote address, titled Mobilizing Discord on the U.S.'s Many Borders: Critical Social Science and Geopolitical Complexity,will be given by Dr. Margath Walker, Professor of Geography and Geosciences at the University of Louisville at 10:45 a.m. in Carter Hall D.

The USI Criminal Justice Department and College of Liberal Arts are co-sponsoring this event.

For more information about specific presentations, schedule updates and registration, visit https://www.iass1.org/home.