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First ISA Forum of Sociology
Sociological Research and Public Debate
Barcelona, Spain
September 5 - 8, 2008


Research Committee on
Sociology of Leisure RC13

Main theme
Leisure and social transformation


Programme Coordinator
Ishwar Modi, University of Rajasthan, India, iiiss2005modi@yahoo.co.in

Organizing Committee
Ishwar Modi, Programme Coordinator and RC13 President, Veena Sharma, India, Co-coordinator and RC13 Secretary, Alan Law, Canada, Basawraj Gulshetty, India, Gisela Black Taschner, Brazil, Tarquin Bowers, Australia, Anna Hedenus, Sweden, Antti Honkanen, Finland, Rashmi Jain, India, Madhu Nagla, India, Kenneth Roberts, UK, Sushma Sood, India, Dirk Steinbach, Germany,  Francis Lobo, Australia and Teus J. Kamphorst, Netherlands.

Local Host
Jaume Farràs, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain, jfarras@telefonica.net

Venue of RC13 sessions:

Faculty of Communication Blanquerna
University of Ramon LLull
Valldonzella, 23
08001 Barcelona, map

Page last updated: June 2, 2008

Session 1: Presidential Session

Friday, September 5, 2008, 15:30-17:30
Chair: Ishwar Modi, President RC13, India International Institute of Social Sciences, Jaipur, India, iiiss2005modi@yahoo.co.in

Session 2: Leisure, social transformation and development

Sunday, September 7, 2008, 09:00-11:00
Faculty of Philosophy, Geography and History, University of Barcelona
Joint session of RC09 Social Transformation and Sociology of Development and RC13 Sociology of Leisure
Chairs: Frederick F. Wherry, University of Michigan, fwherry@umich.edu and Ishwar Modi, India International Institute of Social Science, iiiss2005modi@yahoo.co.in

Session 3: Leisure education in a changing world

Saturday, September 6, 2008, 09:00-11:00
Joint Session of RC13 Sociology of Leisure and RC04 Sociology of Education
Chairs: David Konstantinovskiy, Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia (RC04) scan21@mail.ru  and Robert A. Stebbins, University of Calgary, Canada (RC13) stebbins@ucalgary.ca

Session 4: Gender and leisure: Emerging patterns

Saturday, September 6, 2008, 15:30-17:30
Faculty of Philology, University of Barcelona
Joint Session of RC13 Sociology of Leisure and RC32 Women in Society
 Chairs: Esther Ngan-ling, Chow American University, USA echow@american.edu, Margaret Abraham, Hofstra University, USA, margaret.abraham@hofstra.edu and Nitza Davidovitch, University Center of Ariel, Israel, d.nitza@yosh.ac.il
This session examines the relationship not only between leisure and gender but also explores the status of leisure in the context of women from different cultural backgrounds. The issues of Women's Leisure may also be examined in the context of "Pleasure and the Pains of Gendered Leisure."

Session 5: Body and nature in leisure

Saturday, September 6, 2008, 11:30-13:30
Faculty of Philology, University of Barcelona
Joint Session of RC13 Sociology of Leisure and WG03 on the Body in the Social Sciences 
Chairs: Bianca Maria Pirani, University of Roma La Sapienza, Italy (WG 03) biancamaria.piran@alice.it  and Veena Sharma, India (RC13) veena@mail.w3c.com

Session 6: Leisure, religion and spirituality

Saturday, September 6, 2008, 15:30-17:30
Joint Session Research Committee Sociology of Leisure RC13 and Research Committee Sociology of Religion RC22
Chairs: Roberto Blancarte Pimentel, el Colegio de Mexico, Mexico, blancart@colmex.mx and Julia Harrison, Trent University, Canada, jharrison@trentu.ca

Session 7. Part I: Leisure in the age of technological transformation

Monday, September 8, 2008, 09:00-11:00
Joint Session of RC07 Futures Research, RC13 Sociology of Leisure and RC23 Sociology of Science and Technology
Chairs: Jaime Jiménez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, jjimen@servidor.unam.mx, Teus J. Kamphorst, Wageningen University, The Netherlands, teus.kamphorst@wur.nl, Scott North, Osaka University, Japan, north@hus.osaka-u.ac.jp

Session 7. Part II: Leisure Society: A dream or reality?

Monday, September 8, 2008, 11:30-13:30
Joint Session of RC07 Futures Research, RC13 Sociology of Leisure and RC23 Sociology of Science and Technology
Chairs: Jaime Jimenez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, jjimen@servidor.unam.mx , Markus Schulz, New York University, USA, markus.schulz@nyu.edu and Teus J. Kamphorst, Wageningen University, The Netherlands teus.kamphorst@wur.nl

Session 8: Leisure, health and wellbeing

Saturday, September 6, 2008, 09:00-11:00
Faculty of Philosophy, Geography and History, University of Barcelona
Joint session of RC13 Sociology of Leisure and RC15 Sociology of Health
Chairs: William C. Cockerham, University of Alabama-Birmingham, USA, wcocker@uab.edu, Ellen Annandale, Leicester University, UK eca7@leicester.ac.uk and Francis Lobo, Edith Cowan University, Australia, f.lobo@ecu.edu.au

Session 9: Leisure, deviance and alienation

Sunday, September 7, 2008, 11:30-13:30
Faculty of Philosophy, Geography and History, University of Barcelona
Joint session of Research Committee on Deviance an Social Control, RC29
Chairs: Biko Agozino, University of West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago ( RC29) bagozino@yahoo.com  and Alan Law, Trent University, Canada (RC13) alaw@trentu.ca

Session 10: Leisure and the aging societies

Sunday, September 7, 2008, 15:30-17:30
Joint Session of RC11 Sociology of Aging with RC13 Sociology of Leisure
Chairs:Sara Arber, University of Surrey, UK s.arber@surrey.ac.uk and Susan Shaw, Waterloo University, Canada, sshaw@healthy.uwaterloo.ca

Session 11: Open session

Saturday, September 6, 2008, 15:30-17:30
Chairs: Gisela Black Taschner, Sao Paulo Brazil, gisela.taschner@fgv.br and B.S.Gulshetty, Inamdar M.S.W. P.G. College, Gulbarga, Karnataka, India, drbsgul@rediffmail.com

Session 12: Business Meeting

Sunday, September 7, 2008, 15:30-17:30
Chair: Ishwar Modi, President RC13, India International Institute of Social Sciences, Jaipur, India, iiiss2005modi@yahoo.co.in

Session 13: Leisure, tourism and environment

Part I
Sunday, September 7, 2008, 09:00-11:00

Part II
Sunday, September 7, 2008, 11:30-13:30
Joint Session of RC13 Sociology of Leisure and RC24 Environment and Society
Chairs: Raymond Murphy, University of Ottawa, Canada (RC24) rmurphy@uottawa.ca and Jaap Lengkeek, University of Wageningen, Netherlands (RC50 Tourism)  jaap.lengkeek@wur.nl and Jan te Kloeze, WICE, Netherlands (RC50) jan.tekloeze@wur.nl  

Session 14: Leisure and work dichotomy in contemporary society: Does it exist?

Saturday, September 6, 2008, 11:30-13:30
Joint Session of RC13 Sociology of Leisure and RC30 Sociology of Work
Chairs: Diane Gabrielle Tremblay, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada,
tremblay.diane-gabrielle@teluq.uqam.ca and Luiz Octavio de Lima Camargo, Centro Universitario SENAC, Sao Paulo, Brazil, luiz.lcamargo@sp.senac.br

Session 15: Children, youth and leisure aspirations

Part I
Monday, September 8, 2008, 09:00-11:00

Part II
Monday, September 8, 2008, 11:30-13:30
Joint Session of RC13 Sociology of Leisure,  RC34 Sociology of Youth and RC53 Sociology of Childhood
Chairs: Ngan-Pun Ngai, the Chinese University of  Hong Kong (RC34), NPNGAI@swkgpa.msmail.cuhk.edu.hk  Doris Buehler-Niederberger, University of Wuppertal, Germany (RC53) buehler@uni-wuppertal.de and Ken Roberts, University of Liverpool, UK (RC13) kenneth.roberts18@btopenworld.com