Events

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…

19 Jun 2026

BSC HCN Virtual Writing Group

Friday 19 June 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…

20 Jun 2026

Hybrid Lecture – Saving Our Digital World

Saturday 20 June 2026, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm BST, online and London, UK   Is there a way to eliminate the inequalities and harms of commercial social media and the online world, and foster differently the human power to connect and communicate? Meet your speaker and chair: Adele Zeynep Walton is a British-Turkish journalist reporting on the…

22 Jun 2026

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

Monday 22 – Friday 26 June 2026, Skopje, North Macedonia Registration closes 15 May 2026   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 Dialogue and Cooperation…

06 Jul 2026

SASA 31st Annual Congress 2026 ‘Solidarity: Possibilities and Pitfalls’

Monday 6 – Thursday 9 July 2026, Johannesburg, South Africa Registration closes 15 June 2026.   We live in a contradictory moment where increased nationalism and economic de-globalization unfold alongside increased expressions of global political solidarity. From Congo to Sudan to Palestine, global solidarity has been an important and highly contested aspect of political action….

22 Jul 2026

BSC HCN Virtual Writing Group

Wednesday 22 July 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 Jul 2026

3rd International Conference on Global Criminology and Victimology (ICGCV-2026)

Wednesday 29 – Friday 31 July 2026, Vadodara, Gujarat, India   The International Conference on Global Criminology and Victimology (ICGCV) is a multidisciplinary event that brings together scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and experts from across the globe to deliberate and exchange ideas on various facets of crime, victimisation, and justice systems. The conference seeks to revitalise…

10 Aug 2026

BSC HCN Virtual Writing Group

Monday 10 August 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…

17 Sep 2026

2nd International Political Sociology Conference – Resentment, Fear, and Identity in Contemporary Society: Emotions and Social Transformations in the Reconfiguration of Political Action

Thursday 17 – Saturday 19 September 2026, Rome, Italy   Contemporary democracies are undergoing profound transformations that affect social structures, processes of political subjectivation, and the symbolic repertoires through which individuals interpret their position in the social world. These processes unfold as interconnected dynamics involving material and symbolic inequalities, the redefinition of collective belongings, and…

02 Dec 2026

International Conference: Social Pathologies: Developmental and Processual Perspectives on Contemporary Malaises

Wednesday 2 – Saturday 5 December 2026, Cork, Ireland   This in-person conference is a joint endeavour between University College Cork, the Norbert Elias Foundation, RC56 Historical Sociology of the International Sociological Association, and the Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization Research Network. The conference will address the historical dynamics of social pathologies. It is concerned with disease in a…

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