Sixth Contemporary Drug Problems Conference. La Trobe University & the Journal of Contemporary Drug Problems, Paris, France. September 2023. Paper: “Weapon-Body-Drug Assemblages: Theorizing the effects of aggressive policing within the context of the U.S. war on drugs.”
9th Ethnography and Qualitative Research Conference. University of Trento, Trento, Italy. June 2023. Panel Organizer: “Public Health in the Post-COVID era.” Paper: The Intersection of Police Trauma, Violence, and Public Health.
American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Chicago. Illinois, August 2021. Paper: “Using Student-centered Learning to Disrupt the School to Military to Prison Pipeline.”
8th Ethnography and Qualitative Research Conference, University of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy. June 2021. Panel Organizer: “Public Health Interventions: Global Problems, Local Solutions.” Paper: “The McKeesport Drug Overdose Project: Addressing the Intersection of Overdose, Crime, and Community.
American Society of Criminology (ASC), November 2020. Trappen, Sandra L., “Knowledge, Power, Positionality, and Criminal Justice Students” [Conference Session & Paper]. American Society of Criminology (ASC), Washington D.C., The United States. (canceled due to COVID).
American Society of Criminology (ASC), Atlanta, Ga, November 2018. Trappen, Sandra L., “Guns, Drugs, and the War at Home” [Paper].
7th Ethnography and Qualitative Research Conference, University of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy. June 2018. Trappen, Sandra L. “Knowledge Wars: The University Must Be Defended” [Paper].
Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association (CSA), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. May 31–June 2, 2018. Trappen, Sandra L. “Blood, Bullets, and Bodies: The Deer Hunter’s Political Economy of Violence” [Paper].
American Society of Criminology (ASC), Philadelphia, Pa. November 2017. Trappen, Sandra L., “College Students, Guns, and Social Identity” [Paper].
MEDIA
Guest panelist on “Self-medicated” a podcast about addiction and drug policy, October 2020.
Guest panelist on “Open Dialogue” – a discussion panel show produced by Accessible Media Inc.,(AMI) of Toronto, Canada. AMI is a not-for-profit multimedia organization, whose mission is to provide programming for Canadians who are blind, partially sighted, deaf, hard of hearing, mobility or print restricted. The program’s focus was war and disability. Experts discussed the physical and mental challenges soldiers face in combat, the injuries they sustain, and the barriers they face when returning home. Programming broadcast on cable TV, Bell Aliant 66, Rogers 196, Shaw & Telus 889, and Sirius XM channel 172 – October 2016.
Cultural Studies Association (CSA): Policing Crises Now, Villanova University, Philadelphia, Pa, June 2016.
Paper presented: “Middle-Range Theories and Long-Range Missiles: Science as Performance.”
Crossroads 2014. Joint conference sponsored by the Society for Cultural Studies, the Association for Cultural Studies (ACS), and the University of Tampere, Finland. July 2014. Trappen, Sandra L., “Bodies of War: Video Ethnography and Auto-Affection” [Paper].
Gender, Bodies & Technology: Performing the Human. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA. Trappen, Sandra L., “Making War, Making Bodies” May 2014.
SSSP Annual Meeting, New York, NY. August 2013.
Paper presented: “War, Medical Normalization, and Disability”
Minding the Body: Dualism and its Discontents, Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY. March 2013.
Paper presented: “The Body as the Scene of War”
Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, MA. March 2013.
Paper presented: “Ethical Issues & Military Research: Research Methods and the Human Terrain”
International Conference on The Body, Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY. April 2011.
Paper presented: “War, Traumatic Injury and Embodied Conflict”
Cultural Studies Association, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois. March 2011.
Paper presented: “Technoscience as Fetish: Making Weapons and Bodies”
Cultural Studies Association, University of California, Berkeley. March 2010.
Paper presented: “The Body at War: Between Discipline and Biopolitics”
Panel Discussant/Presider
Eastern Sociological Society, Military Sub-conference, March 23, 2013, Boston , MA
Panel Discussant: “Micro to Macro Military Issues”
Eastern Sociological Society, March 22, 2009, Baltimore, Maryland
Panel Presider and Discussant: “Military and Health”