CALL FOR PAPERS: Research Committee 25 Language & Society. III Forum of Sociology, International Sociological Association, July 10-14 2016 Vienna
The next III ISA Forum of Sociology is taking place 10-14 July 2014 in Vienna, Austria. In keeping with the ISA conference theme, “The Futures We Want: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World.”, the RC 25 theme for the III ISA Forum of Sociology 2016 is “Language and Representation: Struggles in the Global Age”.
Research Committee 25 will be taking part in 16 sessions during the Vienna conference (including the business meeting and Joint Sessions). An overview of all RC25 sessions can be found on the ISA website.
Abstract submission:
To take part on the conference you must submit you abstract (300 words) through the ISA Online system:
https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2016/cfp.cgi
Deadline for abstracts submission: 30 September, 2015
Acceptance, registration, membership and grants:
Acceptance notification letters will be sent to authors by 30 November, 2015.
Authors of accepted abstracts must be registered and, in regular sessions, be ISA/RC25 members before April 6th 2016.
A limited number of ISA registration grants will be available after abstracts acceptance. See:
http://www.isa-sociology.org/forum-2016/deadlines-and-rules-for-presenters.htm
PROGRAM SESSIONS
Academic discourse. Organizer: Maria Guadalupe González, Universidad Pedagógica, México, airamgt@yahoo.com
Classifications of Otherness. Organzers: Stephanie Cassilde, Centre d’Etudes en Habitat Durable, Belgium. stephanie.cassilde@cehd.be & Trinidad Valle, Fordham University, United States of America, valle@fordham.edu
Discourse in Practice: Microsociology of Social Exclusion and Control. Organizer: Frida Petersson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, frida.petersson@socwork.gu.se
Discourses on Risk. Organizers: Emmanuel Henrique Souza Rodrigues. Universidade de Brasília, emmanuel_neo@msn.com & Viviane de Melo Resende, Universidade de Brasília, viviane.melo.resende@gmail.com
Ethnic Minority Mobilization: Intersections of Distribution and Recognition. Organizers: Maria Martinez-Iglesias, Universitat Rovira I Virgili, Spain, maria.martinezi@urv.cat & Nadezhda Georgieva-Stankova. Trakia University, Bulgaria, nadya.georgieva.stankova@gmail.com
Representation, Agency and Identities in Media Arenas. Organizers: Attila Krizsán, University of Turku, Finland, atarkr@utu.fi & Lotta Lehti, University of Turku, Finland, lotta.lehti@utu.fi
Language Diversity and Social Cohesion. Organizer: Cecilio Lapresta, University of Lleida, Spain, clapresta@geosoc.udl.cat
Neutrality in Language Policy. Organizer: Mark Fifer Seilhamer, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, mfseilhamer@gmail.com
Sociological Studies of Language: Theory & Method. Organizers: Celine-Marie Pascale, American University, United States of America, pascale@american.edu & Amado Alarcón, Universitat Rovira I Virgili, Spain, amado.alarcon@urv.cat
Virtual Workplace Talk. Organizer: Johanna Woydack, Wirtschafts Universität Wienn – Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria, johanna.woydack@wu.ac.at
Language and Childhood Socialization.
Joint Session with RC53 [Sociology of Childhood] and RC25
Organizers: Federico Farini, Middlexex University, United Kingdom, f.farini@mdx.ac.uk (underline deleted). & Claudio Baraldi, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy, claudio.baraldi@unimore.it
Language on Health and Disease.
Joint Session with RC15 [Sociology of Health] and RC25
Organizers: Keiji Fujiyoshi, Otemon Gakuin University, Japan, fjosh524@hotmail.com & Miwako Hosoda, Seisa University, Japan, miwhosoda@gmail.com
Re-Imagining Gendered & Raced Representations in the Public Sphere.
Joint Session with RC 32 [Women in Society]. Oganizers: Roberta Villalón, St. Johns University, United States, villalor@stjohns.edu, & Natalie Byfield, St. Johns University, United States, byfieldn@stjohns.edu
RC25 JOINT SESSIONS HOSTED BY OTHER ISA RESEARCH COMMITTEES
Innovation in Discourse: Promotion, Defensiveness, Reflexivity and Hidden Fears.
Joint session with RC30 [Sociology of Work] [Host committee] and RC25.
Organizers: Peter Oeij, TNO, School of Management, Open University of the Netherlands & Stéphanie Cassilde, Centre d’Etudes en Habitat Durable, Belgium, stephanie.cassilde@cehd.be
The Use of Language and Silences in Coping with Everyday Nationalism, Racism and Sexism.
Joint session with RC05 [Racism, Nationalism and Ethnic Relations] [Host Committee] and RC25.
Organizers: Helma Lutz, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany & Stéphanie Cassilde, Centre d’Etudes en Habitat Durable, Belgium, stephanie.cassilde@cehd.be
PROGRAM COORDINATORS
Amado Alarcón, Rovira i Virgili University, amado.alarcon@urv.cat
Federico Farini, Middlexex University f.farini@mdx.ac.uk
Keiji Fujioshi, Miwako Hosoda, fjosh524@hotmail.com