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…
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…
Monday 7 December 2026, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm GMT, online and London, UK Over the last decades, state violence has intensified across Europe. Police powers have expanded, repressive migration regimes have become increasingly entrenched, and recurring moral panics continue to focus on the perceived “criminality” of migrants and racialised youth. This talk examines…
Wednesday 16 December 2026, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm GMT, 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 18 January 2027, 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm GMT, 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…
Thursday 25 February 2027, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm GMT, 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…
Wednesday 24 March 2027, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm GMT, 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…
Saturday 27 March 2027, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm GMT, online and London, UK Speaker: Professor Alysia Blackham (The University of Melbourne) The global #MeToo movement has created sustained impetus for reform of discrimination laws in the UK and Australia. In this shifting legal context, this lecture scrutinises the public/private divide that continues to…
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…