The ISA Research Committee 16 (RC16) on Sociological Theory invites its members to contribute to the Sociological Theory RC16 Midterm Conference, to be held from July 2-4, 2025, at the Research Center Social Theory, University of Innsbruck, Austria.
CALL FOR PAPERS
We’re no longer moving forward into the future with confidence. The future is now coming in our direction, it seems, throwing its shadow on the present. From the economy and politics to technology and ecology, the accumulation of crises projects us into the future without any solution in sight. One of the tasks of sociology is to accompany major societal transitions and open up radiant futures. To do so sociology has, however, to reinvent itself, rethink its relations to the world, to other disciplines and to its own history. Thanks to its reflexivity, being both in and about social change in the long term, but also in the interstices of society, sociological theory has always been at the forefront of innovation. We invite innovative papers on the future of social and sociological theory, the world at large and their mutual implication in the collective construction of the past, present and the future. We welcome papers from all areas of sociological and social theory. Papers that reopen the temporal horizon, investigate social imaginaries and study transformative practices will be especially welcome.
Please, send your abstracts to Paul Joosse before the 31st of December. Email: pjoosse@hku.hk
REGISTRATION
Registration for conference attendance is open until tba (early bird registration) respectively tba, 2025.
Conference fees
regular: tba Euros (early bird) / tba Euros
student/PhD student: tba Euros (early bird) / tba Euros
Abstract submission
deadline: December 31, 2024
Registration
deadline: tba (early bird) / tba
