ISA’s Research Committee 25 Language and Society. This is a reminder of the call for abstracts for the upcoming XIX World Conference of Sociology, to be held in Toronto (Canada), 15-21 July. In line with the general Congress theme, “Power, Violence and Justice: Reflections, Responses and Responsibilities”, the RC 25 theme will be “The Power of Language: Reflections on Current Issues of Justice, Violence and Regimes of Truth”. Submissions: https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2018/webprogrampreliminary/Symposium462.html
Below and in the attachment you will see the detail of Research Committee 25 sessions. Hope you find the proposed RC25 sessions of your interest according to your current scholarship. Abstract submission will be open till September 30 2017 (no extensions of the deadline will be allowed)
Amado Alarcón, Federico Farini and Keiji Fujiyoshi. RC 25 Language & Society of the International Sociological Association.
Abstract submission:
Research Committee 25 will be organizing 22 sessions during the ISA World Congress in Toronto (including the business meeting and Joint Sessions). To take part in the RC25 program, you must submit an abstract (300 words) through the ISA Online system. An overview of all RC25 sessions can be found on the ISA website.The deadline for abstracts submission is 30 September, 2017; no abstract cab be accepted by ani session organizer or the program coordinators after that date.
Acceptance, registration, membership and grants:
Notification of abstract acceptance will be sent to authors by 30 November, 2017. To be included in the program, the participants (presenters, chairs, discussants, etc.) must pay the ISA World Congress registration fees by March 20, 2018. Presenters who fail to register will be automatically deleted from the World Congress program. Please, note that about 10 ISA registration grants and RC25 registration grants (to be announced) will be available.
LIST OF SESSIONS WITHIN THE RC25 PROGRAM (click on the name for a description and organizers’ contact)
Populism in Political Discourses: The Language of Power and the Power of Language
Organizer: Erzsebet BARAT, University of Szeged, Hungary.
“Hot” and “Banal” Identifications: Tracing Exclusions Discursively
Organizer: Christian KARNER, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.
(Re)Negotiating Regimes of Truth: Knowledge, Power and Social Transformation
Organizers: Attila KRIZSÁN, University of Turku, Finland &
Frida PETERSSON, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Algorithms & Socio-Linguistics
Organizer: Natalie BYFIELD, St. John’s University, USA.
Conceptualizing Global Social Problems
Organizer: Roberta VILLALON, St John’s University, USA.
Disability Talk: How Words Lead to Barriers and Political Action
Organizer: Sharon BARNARTT, Sociology, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC, USA 20002, USA.
Flexible Multilingualism: Rethinking Theories and Concepts
Organizer: Rika YAMASHITA, Kanto Gakuin University, Japan.
Organizer: Stephanie CASSILDE, Centre d’Etudes en Habitat Durable, Belgium.
Institutional Interaction: Struggles over Knowledge and Legitimacy
Organizer: Marie FLINKFELDT, Uppsala University, Sweden.
International Family Migration and Normative Languages
Organizers: Francesco CERCHIARO, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy & Laura ODASSO, Laboratoire Méditerranéen de Sociologie LAMES, France.
Language Diversity, Power and Social Equality
Organizers: Cecilio LAPRESTA-REY, Universidad de Lleida, Spain & Everlyn KISEMBE DARKWAH, Moi University, Kenya.
Respresentation and Action: Performativity of Domination
Organizers: Lisandre LABRECQUE, CRESPPA, Centre d’études sociologiques et politiques, Canada & Guillaume OUELLET, CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l’Île-de-Montréal, Canada.
Social Media and Free/Hate Speech Debate
Organizer: Mieko YAMADA, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, USA.
Sociology and Language. Advances on Theory and Methods
Organizers: Federico FARINI, University Campus Suffolk, United Kingdom & Amado ALARCON ALARCON, University Rovira i Virgili, Spain
Organizers: Viviane RESENDE, University of Brasilia, Brazil & Rosimeire SILVA, University of Coimbra, Portugal.
‘Authentic’ and ‘Denaturalized’ Identities
Organizer: Mark SEILHAMER, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Organizers: Amado ALARCON ALARCON, University Rovira i Virgili, Spain & Taiwo ABIOYE, Covenant University, Nigeria & Frida PETERSSON, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. & Keiji FUJIYOSHI, Otemon Gakuin University, Japan.
RC25 joint sessions
Migration, Language Integration and Inequalities
RC25 Language and Society (host committee) / RC31 Sociology of Migration
Organizers: Cecilio LAPRESTA-REY, Universidad de Lleida, Spain. & Sara AMIN, School of Social Sciences, Fiji.
The Language of Multiple Belongings: An Intersectionality Perspective of Everyday Life
RC25 Language and Society (host committee) / RC05 Racism, Nationalism, Indigeneity and Ethnicit
Organizers: Stephanie CASSILDE, Centre d’Etudes en Habitat Durable, Belgium, stephanie.cassilde@cehd.be & Helma LUTZ, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.
Language and Work: Categorizations and Significations of Work and Employment
RC25 Language and Society (host committee) / RC30 Sociology of Work
Organizers: Stephanie CASSILDE, Centre d’Etudes en Habitat Durable, Belgium, stephanie.cassilde@cehd.be & Adeline GILSON, University of Tours, France.
RC25 joint sessions hosted by other ISA Research Committees
Joint session with RC53, Sociology of Childhood: Childhood at the Intersection of Discourses on Rights and Power: 30 Years after the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
Organizers: Loretta BASS, University of Oklahoma, USA.
& Federico FARINI, University Campus Suffolk, United Kingdom. & Angela SCOLLAN, Middlesex University in London, United Kingdom.
Joint session with RC32, Women in Society: Talking: An Act Against Gender Violence Organizers: Tinka SCHUBERT, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain & Natalie BYFIELD, St. John’s University, USA.
Joint session with RC15, Sociology of Health: Languages of Victims: Toward Advocating Contemporary Social Sufferings
Organizers: Keiji FUJIYOSHI, Otemon Gakuin University, Japan, & Masahiko KANEKO, National Defense Medical College, Japan.
We are looking forward to meeting you in Toronto!
RC25 Program Coordinators
Amado Alarcón, Rovira i Virgili University, amado.alarcon@urv.cat
Federico Farini, University of Northampton, federico.farini@northampton.ac.uk
Keiji Fujioshi, Miwako Hosoda, fjosh524@hotmail.com