To study the body as a subject in the social sciences

Statutes

President
Bianca Maria Pirani, University of Roma La Sapienza, Italy
biancamaria.pirani@uniroma1.it
Vice-President
Thomas S. Smith, University of Rochester, USA
Secretary
Nicola Porro, Cassino University, Italy
nicola_porro@fastwebnet.it
Board Members
Roberto Cipriani, University of Rome, Italy
Carlo Donolo, University 'La Sapienza', Italy
Devorah Kalekin Fishman, University of Haifa, Israel
Roberto Motta Cortez, Recife University, Brazil
Ivan Varga, Queen's University, Canada

Delegate
Bianca Maria Pirani, Italy
Alternate
Nicola Porro, Italy

Research Areas

1. Body and Knowledge
Coordinators
Bianca Maria Pirani
University of Roma ‘La Sapienza’, Italy
biancamaria.pirani@uniroma1.it
Ivan Varga
University of Queens, Canada
vargai@rogers.com

2. Bodies and Social Networking
Coordinators
Thomas Spence Smith
University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, NY, USA
tsmt@mail.rochester.edu
Bianca Maria Pirani
University of Roma ‘La Sapienza’, Italy
biancamaria.pirani@uniroma1.it

3. Bodies and Technologies
Coordinators:
Tatiana Mazali
Polytechnic of Turin – Cinema and Communication Engineering
tatiana.mazali@polito.it
Gianni Corino
University of Plymouth, UK
gianni.corino@plymouth.ac.uk
Bianca Maria Pirani
University of Roma ‘La Sapienza’, Italy
biancamaria.pirani@uniroma1.it

4. Bodies and Identities
Coordinators
Pierre Bouvier
University of Paris X, Nanterre, France
pbouvier@msh-paris.fr
Valérie Souffron
Université Paris 1
valerie.souffron@club-internet.fr

5. Body and Religion
Coordinator
Roberto Cipriani
University of Roma Tre, Italy
roberto.cipriani@tlc.uniroma3.it

6. Body Ethics
Coordinators
Sonia Giusti
University of Cassino, Italy
soniagiusti@libero.it
Ivan Varga
University of Queens, Canada
vargai@rogers.com

7. Bodies in Healt and Disease
Coordinators
Nicola Porro
Faculty of Motor Sciences, University of Cassino, Italy
nicola_porro@fastwebnet.it
Marvin Prosono
Missouri State University, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology, Springfield, Missouri 65897
mprosono@missouristate.edu

Official Presentation of the ISA WG03 collective book
The New Boundaries between Bodies and Technologies
Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2008
at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Roma “La Sapienza”
(November 2008-the day will be communicated as soon as planned)

WG03 Newsletter, Spring 2007 [pdf file ]
"Bodily Order. Mind, Emotion and Social Memory". Edited by Bianca Maria Pirani and Ivan Varga. Current Sociology, Volume 53, number 2, monograph 1, Sage publications.

The New Boundaries between Bodies and Technologies
Edited by Bianca Maria Pirani &Ivan Varga. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, New Castle upon Tyne: 2008.
ISBN9781847184993. 300pp. Hardback

First World Forum of Sociology
WG03 Selected Papers Voll.I-II

Mapping Bodies: the Bodily Factor in Social Networking
Edited by Bianca Maria Pirani & Thomas Spence Smith, University Press of America, Lanham, Maryland, United States (forthcoming)

The Body as Social Icon
Edited by Bianca Maria Pirani & Ivan Varga, University Press of America, Lanham, Maryland, United States (forthcoming)

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