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29 Dec 2025

Call for Papers – International Conference ‘Social Pathologies: Developmental and Processual Perspectives on Contemporary Malaises’

**Deadline for abstract submission 15 May 2026** Conference to be held 2-5 December 2026 in Cork, Ireland   Papers are invited for a major international conference in University College Cork, Ireland, taking place on 2nd – 5th December 2026. The conference theme is: Social Pathologies: Developmental and Processual Perspectives on Contemporary Malaises. This in-person conference is a joint…

31 Jan 2026

Call for Papers – 4th World Conference for Religious Dialogue and Cooperation ‘Religion as a Weapon of War: In the Past, Present and Future’

*Deadline for submission Wednesday 15 April 2026* Conference to be held 22-26 June 2026 in Skopje, North Macedonia   Following the exceptional success from a scientific and organizational perspective achieved at the First and Second European Conference for Religious Dialogue and Cooperation, as well as at the First, Second and Third World Conference for Religious…

31 Jan 2026

Call for Papers – Special Issue of Social Sciences ‘Exposing the Extent of Online Hate Crimes and Hate Speech, and the Barriers and Challenges in Responding to Them’

*Deadline for submission Saturday 26 September 2026*   Dear Colleagues, Our growing reliance on the processes of globalisation presents enormous benefits to societies in terms of the movement of cultures, peoples, and economics, with opportunities for wealth, knowledge, and growth, but simultaneously presents threats, fear, conflict, and greater risks of both criminality and harm for…

02 Mar 2026

Call for Papers – 1st Annual Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Change Conference ‘From Enforced Disappearance to Border Violence. New Directions in the Study of Necropolitics’

*Submission Deadline Friday 15 May 2026* Conference to be held 7-9 September 2026 in Bilbao, Spain   Across the world, escalating border violence, enforced disappearances, systematic neglect, and state-sanctioned killing continue to shape the lived realities of millions. These intertwined forms of structural, political, and symbolic violence demand new analytical tools and collaborative responses capable…

02 Mar 2026

Call for Papers – 19th Slovenian Social Science Conference ‘Dialogues on Social Transformations in a Divided and Diverging World’

*Submission Deadline Tuesday 31 March 2026* Conference to be held 8-9 June 2026 in Ljubljana, Slovenia   Managing social transformations towards a more socially and environmentally sustainable future has become even more challenging in a world increasingly characterised by: social and political fragmentation and polarisation with people divided not only in terms of values and…

15 Apr 2026

PGR/ECR Webinar – Improving the Police Response to Hate Crime: Police Officer Perspectives and Procedural Justice

Wednesday 15 April 2026, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm BST, online (UK)   Guest Speaker:  Dr Luke Hubbard, University of Law Victims of hate crime consistently report dissatisfaction with the police response to their victimisation. Drawing on interviews with police officers in England and Wales conducted as part of his PhD, Luke’s talk will explore officers’ experiences of…

22 Apr 2026

Hate Crime Research Group Webinar – Intergenerational Experiences of Racialised Policing

Wednesday 22 April 2026, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm BST, online (UK)   This hate crime research group webinar will focus on ‘Intergenerational Experiences of Racialised Policing’ with Dr Bisi Akintoye, Lecturer School of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, University of Roehampton If you have any questions, please contact the chair of this webinar, Dr Irene…

23 Apr 2026

BSC HCN Virtual Writing Group

Thursday 23 April 2026, 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm BST, online (UK)   The British Society of Criminology Hate Crime Network facilitates online writing groups for academics, PhD students, early career researchers and anyone with writing goals! The writing groups will be held on Microsoft Teams and be an opportunity for informal, relaxed feedback on…

29 Apr 2026

Virtual Lecture – Meet the author: Disability, Gender, Bodies and Boundaries How Disabled Women Experience Ableist Intrusions

Wednesday 29 April 2026, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm BST, online (UK)   Join us on Wednesday 29 April 2026, 12.00-1:00 pm BST (online) for a presentation + Q&A on Disability, Gender, Bodies and Boundaries: How Disabled Women Experience Ableist Intrusions with Dr Hannah Mason-Bish. About the Book In this deeply empirical and theoretically rich volume, Dr Hannah Mason-Bish…

06 May 2026

BSC HCN Virtual Writing Group

Wednesday 6 May 2026, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm BST, online (UK)   The British Society of Criminology Hate Crime Network facilitates online writing groups for academics, PhD students, early career researchers and anyone with writing goals! The writing groups will be held on Microsoft Teams and be an opportunity for informal, relaxed feedback on…

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