Special Sessions

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During the 39th IIS World Congress of Sociology, 7 Special Sessions and 4 Round Table discussions will be held. The titles of the accepted special sessions are arranged in alphabetical order below. The titles are linked to pdf documents containing further information about the session.

Please contact the session convener(s) if you are interested in presenting a paper during one of the sessions.

After March 31, any late submissions of abstracts should be sent directly to iis2009@iisoc.org.
Late abstracts, as well as abstracts dealing with interdisciplinary and interthematic subjects that do not fit in any of the sessions may be placed in one of the General Sessions.

Information about organizing a session is presented here.

SPECIAL SESSIONS

Ethnography at the Crossroads: On the Rims of the Post-Soviet World
1. Barbro Klein, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS), Uppsala
2. Seteney Shami, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS), Uppsala; the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), New York
Abstracts session 1
Abstracts session 2
Abstracts session 3
List of participants, session 1
List of participants, session 2
List of participants, session 3

Farewell to the “Second World”? Many worlds or one world?
1. Sven Eliaeson, Uppsala University, Uppsala
2. Larissa Titarenko, Belarus State University, Minsk
List of participants

Genocide, Mass Violence and the Possibility of Reconciliation
1. Elisabeth Claverie, CNRS / EHESS (GSPM)
2. Richard Giragosian, Armenian Center for National and International Studies (ACNIS)
Abstracts
List of participants

Homeland and Hostland – the Armenian and Jewish Diasporas Compared
1. Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv
2. Richard Giragosian, Armenian Center for National and International Studies (ACNIS)
Abstracts
List of participants

Modernity and the Futures of Capitalism in Eurasia: Challenges for Inquiry and Teaching
1. Göran Therborn, Cambridge University
2. Andrey Rezaev, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg
Abstracts
List of participants

Nations at Civilizational Crossroads
1. Edward Tiryakian, Duke University, Durham, NC
2. Willfried Spohn, Free University of Berlin, Berlin
Abstracts
List of participants

Methodological Challenges in XXI Century Sociology
1. Sasaki Masamichi, Chuo University, Tokyo
2. Maria Zaslavskaya, Yerevan State University, Yerevan
3. Gohar Tadevosyan, Yerevan State University, Yerevan
Abstracts session 1
Abstracts session 2
List of participants, session 1
List of participants, session 2

ROUND TABLE DISCUSSIONS

Armenia: Release from the Chains of the Past?
1. Lyudmila Harutyunyan, Yerevan State University, Yerevan
2. Aram Simonyan, Rector of Yerevan State University, Yerevan
List of participants

Russia at the Crossroads: What Have We Learned about State Socialism and Its Aftermath?
Georgi Derlugian, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
List of participants

Iranian Social Sciences at the Crossroads
1. Iranian Sociological Association
2. Hossein Serajzadeh, Teacher Training University, Tehran; President of the Iranian Sociological Association
3. Emilia Nercissians, University of Tehran, Tehran
Abstracts session 1
Abstracts session 2
List of participants, session 1
List of participants, session 2

Terra Caucasus: A Region in Shaping
1. Levon Chorbajian, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA
2. Nikolai Genov, Free University Berlin, Berlin
List of participants

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