ASR News & Announcements

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Preparations for this summer’s 82nd Annual Meeting are in full swing. The meeting will be held August 7–9, 2020 at the Hotel Nikko San Francisco, located in Union Square and around the corner from the ASA hotel. We will begin with a Welcoming Reception on the evening of Friday, August 7. Similar to last year, we are planning a joint Closing Reception with the ASA Religion Section for the evening of Sunday, August 9. The Presidential Address will be given by James C. Cavendish, and the Furfey Lecture will be delivered by Kelsey Burke. The ASA Sociology of Religion Section day is Monday, August 10. The hotel reservation link, meeting registration page, and information about San Francisco are available on Annual Meeting page of the ASR website, www.sociologyofreligion.com. If you have not yet made your hotel reservations, please do so immediately. ASR’s discounted room rate is good only through July 16. Please double check the nights that you want to stay in the hotel. The ASR understands that the hotel may be expensive. Unfortunately, costs in San Francisco are generally very high. The $279 room rate is a discounted rate, and the ASR got the best deal that we could. Rest assured that although San Francisco may be more expensive than other places, costs in Chicago (including the hotel room rate) will be much lower. Also, the ASR doubled the amount of money we are devoting to the Gallagher Travel Grants for our student members and international colleagues. Please know that you are contributing to the vibrancy of the ASR by staying at the ASR hotel: