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INDEX of Authors, Conveners and Chairs (updated: June 23)

SCHEDULE Regular, General and ISA Sessions (updated: June 12)

Please note that this is the final schedule. Sessions cannot be rescheduled!


REGULAR and ISA SESSIONS:
(for General Sessions, please see below.)

A New Way of “Making Society” between Local Participation and Societal Culture: the Role of the Third Sector in Europe



Addressing Racial and Ethnic Equality through Education



Aesthetical Methods and Social Theory – Session I



Aesthetical Methods and Social Theory – Session II



Agent-Based Social Simulation – Session I



Agent-Based Social Simulation – Session II



Alienation in a Global Age ISA RC 36



Archives, Accountability, and Democracy in the Digital Age



Assessing the Global Reality of NGOS



Balancing Public and Private Roles in Care for the Elderly



Capitalism or Capitalisms in the 21st Century – Session I



Capitalism or Capitalisms in the 21st Century – Session II



Challenges to Human Security in South Asia



Changing Family Relations in Post-Socialist Societies – Session I



Changing Family Relations in Post-Socialist Societies – Session II



Civil Society and Contentious Politics – Session I



Civil Society and Contentious Politics – Session II



Civil Society and Contentious Politics – Session III



Civil Society in Comparative Perspectives – Session I



Civil Society in Comparative Perspectives – Session II



Civilizations, Religions, Secularizations – Session I



Civilizations, Religions, Secularizations – Session II



Civilising and Decivilising Processes: Key Trends of the Twenty-First Century – Session I



Civilising and Decivilising Processes: Key Trends of the Twenty-First Century – Session II



Civilising and Decivilising Processes: Key Trends of the Twenty-First Century – Session III



Clash of Civilizations and Return of Religions?



Comparative Area Study between Localities and Contextualities: Cases from Europe and Asia



Comparative Urban Studies: Visions and Challenges for the XXI Century



Computational and Experimental Approaches to Cooperation in Human Societies



Convergences and Divergences in Substance Use Habits



Corporate Social Responsibility and the Function of Trade Unions – Session I



Corporate Social Responsibility and the Function of Trade Unions – Session II



Critical Theory in the East and the West. On the Challenges of Critical Theory in Different Projects of Modernity – Session I



Critical Theory in the East and the West. On the Challenges of Critical Theory in Different Projects of Modernity – Session II



Continental Drift: Is the Centre of Modernity Shifting to (East) Asia)? ISA RC 35



Dalit Leadership in India



Development of Marginal Groups/Communities in South Asia in the Post-liberalisation Era – Session I



Development of Marginal Groups/Communities in South Asia in the Post-liberalisation Era – Session II



East Asian Values Within Global Society: Shared Value, Conflict and Risk



Education of Minorities and Immigrants



Educational Integration: Between Standards of Forms and Recognition of Achievements



Embodying Sociology: Body Technologies, Techniques, and Pedagogics – Session I



Embodying Sociology: Body Technologies, Techniques, and Pedagogics – Session II



Emotions and Bureaucratic Organizations



Emotions, Identities and Civic Society – Session I



Emotions, Identities and Civic Society – Session II



Emotions, Identities and Civic Society – Session III



Emotions: Theory and Methodology



Equal Citizenship in the Multicultural Society – Session I (



Equal Citizenship in the Multicultural Society – Session II



Equality and Difference in a Multicultural Society - Session I



Equality and Difference in a Multicultural Society - Session II



European Religious and Political Values Re-examined within the Global Context – Session I



European Religious and Political Values Re-examined within the Global Context – Session II



Experimental Studies in Sociology – Session I



Experimental Studies in Sociology – Session II



Exploring Networks and Social Exclusion: A View from the South – Session I



Exploring Networks and Social Exclusion: A View from the South – Session II



First Post-Communist Era Younger Generation: Moving from the National to European and Global Contexts



Forms of Life: Governing Technological Convergences



Global and Local Professionalism: Tensions, Challenges and Implications



Globalisation and the (De-)/(Re-)Construction of Roma/Gypsy/Traveller Identities – Session I



Globalisation and the (De-)/(Re-)Construction of Roma/Gypsy/Traveller Identities – Session II



Globalisation and the (De-)/(Re-)Construction of Roma/Gypsy/Traveller Identities – Session III



Globalisation and the (De-)/(Re-)Construction of Roma/Gypsy/Traveller Identities – Session IV



Globalization and Life Course Patterns in Modern Societies - Towards Increasing Life Course Inequality?



Globalization in Contemporary Societies – Session I



Globalization in Contemporary Societies – Session II



Health and Mortality in the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe ISA RC 15



Human Security and Human Rights



Imperial Democracy in the Third World: Past in the Present



Inquiries in the Sociology of Morality: Past, Present, and Future



Integration of Eastern Europe with the European Union: Sociological Aspects, Theoretical Approaches



Intellectuals, Religion, and the Public Sphere in Europe and the US



International Civil Society: Human Rights, International Non-Governmental Organizations and Valorized Diversity



International Mobility of the Highly-skilled: Global Trends, Local Impacts



Is Another Sociology Possible? ISA RC 36



Jewish Diasporas in the Contemporary World: New Migrations, New Minorities, Memories and Counter-Memories



Learning, Knowledge and Competences: From the Local to the Global – Session I



Learning, Knowledge and Competences: From the Local to the Global – Session II



Medical Services in Transition: Searching for Sustainability



Methodological Cosmopolitanism and Its Critics



Migration and Globalization in Eastern Europe since the 1980s



Migration, Cosmopolitanism and Identity: Exploring Impacts of Temporary Labor Migration



Modernities and Post-modernities in East Asia



Multiple Cosmopolitanisms: Intersections of Globalization, Transnationalism and the Nation-State



Nationalism in a Post National World – Session I ISA RC 36



Nationalism in a Post National World – Session II ISA RC 36



New Ways in the History of Sociology and Other Social Sciences ISA RC 08



People in Their Social and Economic Context – Session I



People in Their Social and Economic Context – Session II



Post-Colonialism, Multiple Modernities and Historical-Comparative Sociology ISA TG 02



Postcommunist Capitalism(s)



Post-Communist Reconstruction in Central and Eastern Europe: The Second Decade – Session I



Post-Communist Reconstruction in Central and Eastern Europe: The Second Decade – Session II



Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and the Globalization of Medical Knowledge



Practices of Justification, Practices of Resistance



Psychosociology: Sociological Perspectives on Mental Health – Session I



Psychosociology: Sociological Perspectives on Mental Health – Session II



(Re-)Asserting Collective Memory in a Global Age



Registration and Control – Elements for a Kerberology



Re-Imagining Praxis: Legacies and Changing Constellations



Scale, Space, and Place in East Asian Development



Schooling, Complex Justice and Human Rights in a "Glocalism" Age



Science, Technology, and Social Justice; Access to Scientific and Technical Knowledge and Inequality; Science, Technology and Global Inequality



Semiotics of Verbal and Non-verbal Behaviour in Global Context



Social and Environmental Accountability: Delivering Results Through Civil Societies for Risk Management



Social Identity as Underpinning the European Union Project?



Social Mechanisms and Analytical Sociology – Session I



Social Mechanisms and Analytical Sociology – Session II



Social Trust from Comparative Perspectives



Sociological Approaches of Cultural Labour and Creative Work – Session I



Sociological Approaches of Cultural Labour and Creative Work – Session II



Sociology of Islam: An Inventory



Sociology of Mass Communication: The Role of the Media in the International Context



Sociology of Money, Credit and Banking – Session I



Sociology of Money, Credit and Banking – Session II



Sociology of the Holocaust



Social-Psychology: Past, Present, and Future ISA RC 51



Sustainable Society/Development in a Glocalized World



The Dialectics of Discrimination in the Twenty First Century



The Family in the 21st Century – Session I



The Family in the 21st Century – Session II



The Global and The Local: Doing Sociology in the Light of Global Ethnography



The Politics of Comparison



The Politics of Proximity: Mobility/Immobility in Practice – Session I



The Politics of Proximity: Mobility/Immobility in Practice – Session II



The Politics of Science: Cultural Understandings of Risk and Health Policy



The Role of the Religion in Peace and Conflict in the Balkan Region – Viewed thru the Context of the Processes of Globalism and Localism



The Social Making of Health Disparities



The Sociology of Suicide in an Indian Context



Transcultural Encounters in the Context of Globalization: Problems and Possibilities



Transnational Culture, Local Culture: Interaction, Adaptation, Resistance – Session I



Transnational Culture, Local Culture: Interaction, Adaptation, Resistance – Session II



Two-way Glocalization Effects of Immigrants' Integration Into Host- and Their Transnational Engagements in Home-Societies: Towards the Incorporation of the Study of (Im)Migration into the Mainstream Social Science Research Agenda



Universal Social Knowledge and National Sociologies – Session I



Universal Social Knowledge and National Sociologies – Session II



Violence: Is It Possible to Connect the Local to an Universal Perspective of Analysis?



Welfare Attitudes in a Comparative Perspective



Whistleblowing, Organisational Citizenship and Trust



World of Manga and Manga in the World: The Japanese Pop Culture as a Global Phenomenon



World Society, Multiple Modernities and Civilizational Analysis ISA TG 02



GENERAL SESSIONS:

Age, Time, and Subjectivity

CHAIR: Balazs Vedres (Central European University, Budapest)

Faizunnisa, Azeema (University of Hawaii, Honolulu) - Preparing the Future of Pakistan: A Study on Time Use Patterns of Pakistani Youth

Formadi, Kati (University of Pannonia) - Work and Private Life in Rural Tourism

Knottnerus, David and Jason S. Ulsperger (Oklahoma State University, Stillwater; Arkansas Tech University, Russellville) - Elder care and Bureaucratic Rituals of Neglect

Sappington, Rodney (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD) - Risk and Self-Care on the Internet


Globalization and the Regulation of the Social

CHAIR: Daniel Monterescu (Central European University, Budapest)

Kiser, Edgar and Eric Gleave (University of Washington) - Norms of War: An Institutionalist Account

Lalaki, Despina (New York University, New School for Social Research) - Democracy, the New World Order and Classical Scholarship

Martin, George (Montclair State University) - A Social-Ecological Consideration of Urban Climate Change Policy Development

Mizukami, Tetsuo (Rikkyo University, Tokyo) - A Civic Movement Assisting in the Settlement of Foreigners in Japan


Migration and Multiculturalism

CHAIR: Vlad Naumescu (Central European University, Budapest)

Acton, Thomas (University of Greenwich) - Universalising Religious and Cultural Particularisms: The Effects of Renewed International Migration on the Engagement of Gypsies/Roma/Travellers with World Religions Since 1989

Bhasi, Sudheesh (Macquarie University) - Faith and Social Capital: Exploring Religious Influence among Indian Immigrants in Multicultural Australia

Mookheree, Harsha N. (Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville) - A Comparative Study of the American Values in the Context of Globalization: A Cross-Cultural Study of the University Students of West Bengal (India), Cairo (Egypt) and Tennessee (USA)

Shim, Young-Hee (Hanyang University, Seoul) - "Mutual Adaption" among Internationally Married Couples in Korea: Focusing on the Effect of Visiting Migrant Women's Families


Social Imagination and Social Theory

CHAIR: Alexandra Kowalski (Central European University, Budapest)

Ashmore, Malcolm and Olga Restrepo (Loughbourough University; Universidad National de Colombia, Bogotα) - Creationism 'Is not Science' but Intelligent Design 'Is Religion': From Demarcation Criteria to Rhetorical Analysis in the US Evolution Trials

Halewood, Michael (University of Essex) -The Materiality and Sociality of the Body in 21st Century Sociology. Irigaray and Whitehead on Overcoming the Natural-Social Divide

Larana, Enrique (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) - Risks, Frames, and Emotions in the Emergence of Contemporary Movements