ISA Forum of Sociology

Plenary Sessions and Open Forum videos

Opening Ceremony

• Welcome Addresses
  Ulrike FELT, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Vienna, Austria; Barbara WEITGRUBER, Director General, Austrian Ministry of Science, Austria; Katharina SCHERKE, President of the Austrian Sociological Association, Austria; Rudolf RICHTER, University of Vienna, Austria
• ISA Presidential Address
• Margaret ABRAHAM, Hofstra University, USA
• 2018 ISA World Congress of Sociology, Toronto, Canada
• Patrizia ALBANESE, Ryerson University, Canadian Sociological Association, Canada
• Cultural performance O.I.T. Schrammel Quartet

Opening Plenary Session

• Session Organizer: Markus S. SCHULZ, New School for Social Research, New York, USA
  Chair: Michel WIEVIORKA, Maison des sciences de l'homme, France
• The Futures We Want: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World (Forum President's Address)
  Markus S. SCHULZ, New School for Social Research, New York, USA
• Relocalizing the National and Horizontalizing the Global
  Saskia SASSEN, Columbia University, USA
• The "Open Society" and Its Contradictions: Towards a Critical Sociology of Global Inequalities
  Stephan LESSENICH, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany
• Pueblos in Movement: Feminist and Indigenous Perspectives
  Nora GARITA BONILLA, ALAS, Costa Rica 
• Global and Transnational Futures
  Jan P. NEDERVEEN PIETERSE, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA

Plenary Session I: Facing the Multiple Crises in Europe and Beyond

Session Organizer and Chair: Brigitte AULENBACHER, Johannes Kepler University, Austria

Panelists:

• Klaus DOERRE, University of Jena, Germany, Beate LITTIG, Institute for Advanced Studies Vienna, Austria
• Maria MARKANTONATOU, University of the Aegean, Greece
• Annamaria SIMONAZZI, University of Roma, Italy
• Josef WEIDENHOLZER, European Parlament, Austria
• Michael BURAWOY, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Plenary Session II: Overcoming Boundaries and Polarizations Between Centers and Peripheries

Session Organizers: Joerg FLECKER, University of Vienna, Austria and Max HALLER, University of Graz, Austria
Chair: Max HALLER, University of Graz, Austria

• Social Polarisation
  Ursula HOLTGREWE, FORBA, Austria
• Exclusion through Citizenship and the Double Standards of Modernity/Coloniality
  Manuela BOATCA, University of Freiburg, Germany
• The Ruins of the Future. A Glance into Precariousness from inside the Crisis
  Benjamin TEJERINA, University of the Basque Country, Spain

Plenary Session III: Sociological Thought and the Struggle for a Better World

Session Organizers: Josef HOCHGERNER, Center for Social Innovation, Austria and Frank WELZ, Innsbruck University, Austria
Chair: Frank WELZ, Innsbruck University, Austria

• The Ever Expanding Social Field and the (in)Capacity of Sociology to Respond to New Challenges
  Margareta BERTILSSON, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Towards a Universal Social Science. Sociology in Dialogue with Neighboring Disciplines
  Dieter BOEGENHOLD, Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt, Austria
• Sociology Between Historicity and Present-Day Relevance: The Case of Early Austrian Social Thinking
  Gertraude MIKL-HORKE, Vienna University of Economy and Business, Austria
• Sociology in Times of Global Changes: How to Address a New Agenda for Transnational Studies?
  Celi SCALON, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 

Closing Plenary Session, Part I

Chair: Markus S. SCHULZ, New School for Social Research, New York, USA
Discussant: Alain TOURAINE, CADIS, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France 

• Imagining a Post-Islamist Democracy
  Asef BAYAT, University of Illinois, USA
• Black Lives Matter and the Status of the Africana World
  Akosua ADOMAKO AMPOFO, University of Ghana, Ghana
• Risks and Resilience in a Rapidly Unfolding World: What Does It Hold for Our Sociological Practice?
  Emma PORIO, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
• What Kind of a World Can Weather Climate Change?
  Todd GITLIN, Columbia University, USA

Closing Plenary Session, Part II

Chair: Markus S. SCHULZ, New School for Social Research, New York, USA

Discussant: Alain TOURAINE, CADIS, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France