17
Sep
2026
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…
09
Oct
2026
Friday 9 – Saturday 10 October 2026, Banff, Alberta, Canada There is little doubt that the world we are living in is going through a major transformation, driven by powerful economic, political, cultural, and social forces, and reflected through many unprecedented developments at global, regional, national, and local levels. This includes new wars, economic…
02
Dec
2026
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…
02
Dec
2026
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…
03
Jun
2027
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,…
04
Jul
2027
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…
