Thursday 28 – Friday 29 May 2026, Larnaka, Cyprus 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, practitioners, and industry professionals to…
Tuesday 2 June 2026, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm BST, London, UK About the Talk: Universities, we are told, are too politicized. In this paper, I aim to identify when, and how, universities can and must take political positions. I articulate a democratic trust-based theory of university autonomy, and I explain what kind of…
Thursday 4 June 2026, 9:30 am – 4:30 pm BST, online and Newcastle, UK A British Society of Criminology hybrid conference presented jointly by the BSC Hate Crime & Victims Networks In a world where information, misinformation and disinformation can be created and shared speedily through online platforms, including social media, so to can abuse, hostility and violence…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…