Events

04 Jun 2026

2026 Annual Plymouth Critical Criminology Conference – Rage Against the ‘Machines’: Feeling and Challenging Systems of Normalisation and Oppression

Thursday 4 June 2026, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm BST, Plymouth, UK   Drawing on Sara Ahmed’s figure of the feminist killjoy, this conference understands rage not as a failure of civility but as confirming evidence that something is wrong. The killjoy refuses the happiness scripts that sustain systems of domination, exposing how comfort, order,…

08 Jun 2026

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

Monday 8 – Tuesday 9 June 2026, Ljubljana, Slovenia Registration closes 10 May 2026   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 attitudes but…

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…

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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