The Conference is run by RUSS and their faculty adviser, Dr. Stephanie Farmer, and offers students from schools across the state an opportunity to present their research.

The challenges the world faces in 2010 are daunting in both their scale and scope. Crises of economy, polity, environment and culture are multilayered and inter-connected – impacting community, city, national and global systems.  Generating social science discourses informed by principles of social justice is vital for addressing these multifaceted challenges.  The Department of Sociology, RU Sociological Society, and the Mansfield Institute for Social Justice and Transformation of Roosevelt University seek to bring undergraduate and graduate students together for a one day conference on Social Justice in a Changing World.  We seek to foster discussion on both the nature of challenges confronting local and global communities as well as possible solutions that can be pursued or are already being advanced by social justice movements.