Regular Sessions

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The titles of the accepted regular and special sessions are arranged in alphabetical order below. Below the titles you find links pdf documents containing further information about the session.

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A
The Anthropology of Everyday Life
Emilia Nercissians, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran, Teheran
Abstracts
List of participants, session 1
List of participants, session 2
List of participants, session 3

Armenian Society in Transition
Gevorg Poghosyan, Armenian Sociological Association, Armenian National Academy of Sciences
Abstracts
List of participants

B
The Body of the Nation: Sociology, Metaphor and the National Subject
1. Lauren Langman, Loyola University of Chicago; International Sociological Association
2. Marvin Prosono, Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri; International Sociological Association
Session organized by ISA RC 36
List of participants

C
Civilising and Decivilising Processes: Key Trends of the Twenty-First Century
1. Georgi Derlugian, Northwestern University, Chicago
2. Stephen Vertigans, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen
List of participants

Comparative-Historical Sociology Across Global, Regional, and Local Worlds
1. Willfried Spohn, University of Goettingen
2. Ewa Morawska, University of Essex
Abstracts
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Comparative Sociology and Area Studies: How Can Sociology Gain From the Interdisciplinary Knowledge of the World Regions?
1. Kazimierz M. Slomczynski, OSU, IFiS PAN, and Cross-National Studies: Interdisciplinary Research and Training Program (CONSIRT)
2. Irina Tomescu-Dubrow, OSU, IFiS PAN, and Cross-National Studies: Interdisciplinary Research and Training Program (CONSIRT)
List of participants

Conflict and Society
1. Janna Andreasyan, Yerevan State University, Yerevan
2. Adrine Babloyan, Yerevan State University, Yerevan
List of participants

Consumerism as a social phenomenon and the new forms of participation in global control trend
1. Mehdi Abedi, Islamic Azad University, Gonabad
2. Pierluigi Musarò, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Political Science, Bologna
List of participants

Contemporary Alienation; in the Light of Classical Interpretations
1. Lauren Langman, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois
2. Pirkkoliisa Ahponen, University of Joensuu, Joensuu
Session organized by ISA RC 36
List of participants

The Corporative Mechanisms in the NGO Interest Representation in Eastern Europe
1. Tamas Domokos, Echo Survey Sociological Research Institute, Szekesfehervar
2. Tamas Ruff, Echo Survey Sociological Research Institute, Szekesfehervar
List of participants

Creating and Dealing with Otherness: Ethnopolitical Conflict and Trauma in the Process of Storytelling and Visual Imagination
1. Roswitha Breckner, University of Vienna, Vienna
2. Gabriele Rosenthal, Georg-August-University of Goettingen, Goettingen
Abstracts
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Creative Cities and Cultural Policies in Comparison (Cancelled)
Kenichi Kawasaki, Komazawa University
List of participants

The Crises of Globalization
1. Lauren Langman, Loyola University of Chicago
2. Stephen Mennell, University College Dublin
Session organized by ISA RC 36
List of participants

D
Diaspora in the 21st Century Globalization
1. Habibul Haque Khondker, Zayed University
2. Emma Porio, Ateneo de Manila University
List of participants

E
Education at the Crossroads. In the Search for a New Sociology of Education Theory
Marta Zahorska, University of Warsaw
List of participants

Education in the 21st Century -- Alienation or Empowerment
Knud Jensen, The Danish Educational School, Aarhus University
Abstracts
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East Asian Community: Histories, Realities, and Visions
Seung Kuk Kim, Busan National University, Busan
Abstracts
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European Identity or Identities?  Evolving Views of 'Europa'
1. Robert L. Miller, Queen's University, Belfast
2. Markieta Domecka, Queen's University, Belfast
Abstracts
List of participants

European Values Meeting the New Economic, Political, and Social Challenges: Trivialities and Paradoxes in the Mirror of Sociology
Larissa Titarenko, Belarus State University, Minsk
Abstracts
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G
Gender, Generations and Identity. The Challenges of Intersectionality
1. Sofia Aboim, University of Lisbon, Lisbon
2. Lia Pappámikail, University of Lisbon, Lisbon
Abstracts session 1
Abstracts session 2
List of participants, session 1
List of participants, session 2

Gender Identity in National Framework
Hasmik Gevorgyan, Yerevan State University, Yerevan
List of participants

Globalization
1. Ulrich Ufer, Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen
2. Nico Stehr, Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen
Abstracts
List of participants

H
Heritage at the Crossroads
1. Jean-Louis Fabiani, Central European University, Budapest
2. Alexandra Kowalski, Central European University, Budapest
Abstracts session 1
Abstracts session 2
List of participants

I
IT and Society. Challenges and Opportunities
Karen Sargsyan, Center for Regional Integration and Conflict Resolution
List of participants

Intergenerational Cohesion and Cultural Context
Marc Szydlik, University of Zurich
List of participants

International Migration: Dividing and Uniting Families
Victor Agadjanian, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
List of participants

M
Mechanisms of Globalization: The Making of World Society
1. Boris Holzer, University of Lucerne
2. Tobias Werron, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld
Session organized by ISA RC 35 (COCTA)
Abstracts
List of participants

N
New Trends in Globalization
Jan Nederveen Pieterse, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Abstracts
List of participants

The New Urban Miseries as Obstacles to Social Cohesion and Personal Autonomy
Carlo Donolo, Sapienza University of Rome
List of participants

O
Open Innovation, Closed Societies
1. Steffen Roth, Berne Business School, Berne
2. Jari Kaivo-oja, Turku School of Economics, Turku
List of participants

P
Philanthropy, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Social Enterprise
Ani Muradyan, Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, Indinapolis, Indiana
Abstracts
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Political Mobilisation of Immigrant and Minority Groups in Western Europe
Michal Bodemann, University of Toronto
Abstracts
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R
Relating Out-migration from South Caucasus to the Russian Federation: Conceptual Approaches and Empirical Findings
1. Nikolai Genov, Free University Berlin
2. Tessa Hofmann-Savvidis, Free University Berlin
List of participants

The Relevance of the Classics for post-1989 Transformation Processes
Sven Eliaeson, Uppsala University, Uppsala
Abstracts
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Religion in a post Secular Age
Roberto Cipriani, Università Roma Tre, Rome
Abstracts
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The Role of Religion in the Post-Conflict Period in the West Balkan Region
Zoran Matevski, University Sts. Cyril and Methodius, Faculty of philosophy, Skopje
Abstracts
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S
Social Exclusion and Inclusive Understanding
R Rajesh, Bangalore University, Bangalore
Abstracts
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Social Exclusion and Social Capital - a Southern Perspective
Tina Uys, University of Johannesburg
Abstracts
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Social Transformations and Helping Professions
Jacquelin Delaru, Yerevan State University
Abstracts
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Social Trust
Masamichi Sasaki, Chuo University
Abstracts
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Society and Ecology: Problems and Priorities in a Transforming World
Irina A. Sosunova, International Independent University of Environmental and Political Sciences, Moscow
Abstracts
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The Society of New Capitalism and the Sociological Interpretation
Carlo Mongardini, University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome
Abstracts
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Sociological Schools and National Sociologies as Social Institutions
Maria Gornostaeva, Institute of Socio-Political Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
Abstracts
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A Sociology for Media Society. Approaches beyond Disciplinary Boundaries?
Marian Adolf, Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen
Abstracts
List of participants

The Sociology of Roma/Gypsies/Travellers – between Mainstream and Specialization
Thomas Acton, University of Greenwich, London
Abstracts
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Solidarity Economy: Perspectives and Experiences towards the Construction of Different Societies
Igor Vinicius Lima Valentim, Technical University of Lisbon/SOCIUS Research Centre, Lisbon; ECOSOL-CES Research Group, Coimbra
Abstracts
List of participants

The Spirit of Place, Trauma and Topophilia
Zbigniew Rykiel, Rzeszów University
List of participants

T
Terrorism: Challenges to South Asian Security
Raj Kishor Singh, A.C.A., University of Agra
List of participants

Transforming Institutions through Agency: Is Civil Society Possible?
Timothy D. Levonyan Radloff, State University of New York at Fredonia, Fredonia, New York
Abstracts
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V
Violence (Domestic, National and International)
Masoumeh Bagheri, Ahwaz Shahid Chamran University
List of participants

W
War and Society
1. Masahiro Ogino, Kwansei Gakuin University, Institute for Advanced Social Research, Nishinomiya
2. Ralf Futselaar, Kwansei Gakuin University, Institute for Advanced Social Research, Nishinomiya
Abstracts
List of participants

Waves of Modernities
Habibul Haque Khondker, Zayed University
List of participants

Y
Youth, Culture and Identity in the 21st Century
1. Lauren Langman, Loyola University of Chicago; International Sociological Association;
2. Vessela Misheva, Uppsala University, Uppsala
Session organized by ISA RC 36
Abstracts
List of participants, session 1
List of participants, session 2

Youth Transitions and the South Caucasus and other New Market Economies/Democracies
Heghine Manasyan, Caucasus Research Resource Centers (CRRC) -Armenia/Eurasia PartnershipFoundation (located at the Yerevan State University), Yerevan
List of participants

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