Monday 26 – Tuesday 27 October 2026, Brighton, UK Join us on 26 and 27 October for the Black at Sussex Conference: two days of learning, connection and celebration focused on Black experiences, knowledge, creativity and achievement across the University of Sussex community and beyond. The conference will bring together academics, students, staff, alumni,…
Thursday 5 – Friday 6 November 2026, Oshawa, Canada Hate and Extremism in a Polarized World November 5-6, 2026 Ontario Tech University, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada The Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism at Ontario Tech University is hosting its first biennial global conference on Hate Studies. The need for informed and meaningful dialogue on…
Friday 27 November 2026, 9:00 am – 1:30 pm GMT+1, online (Italy) The Universities of Strathclyde and Padua, together with Global Action for Trans Equality and Gruppo Trans, invite you to an online half-day conference on “Trans rights: the difficult path towards equality” on Friday 27th November, 8am-12:30pm. This is the annual conference of…
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…
Wednesday 2 – Friday 4 December 2026, Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand He kai kei aku ringa: there is food in my hands is a Māori whakataukī that speaks to resilience and hope. This inaugural Conference for the Social Sciences, offers us a way of thinking about knowledge as sustenance. Our whakataukī asks us to think…
Thursday 3 – Friday 4 June 2027, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany The European Conference on Social Media (ECSM) is a well-established academic conference, held annually for over a decade, with a focus on advancing research and dialogue around social media. The primary aim of ECSM is to provide a platform for scholars, researchers,…
Sunday 4 – Saturday 10 July 2027, Gwangju, Korea Global Sociology in Turbulent Times These are times when, once again, we feel that all that is solid melts into air. In a rising number of countries, state leaders are promoting distrust in science, and attacks on the social sciences are multiplying. Fake news circulates…