ISA World Congress of Sociology

Opening Ceremony and Presidential Address

Chair: Myrna DAWSON, President-Elect of the Canadian Sociological Association, Canada

• Welcome to Turtle Island
  Alan Harrington, The Red Urban Project, Montreal First Nations dancers from Québec and Ontario represent many Indigenous Nations from across Turtle Island – known today as North America. Young Ogichidaa will accompany.
• Land Acknowledgement
  Myrna DAWSON, President-Elect of the Canadian Sociological Association, Canada
• Opening
  Amy DESJARLAIS, Knowledge Keepr, Beaver Clan, Wasauksing First Nation, Canada
• Welcome Addresses
  Margaret ABRAHAM, President of the International Sociological Association, USA; Patrizia ALBANESE, Chair of the Canadian Local Organizing Committee, Canada; Rima WILKES, President of the Canadian Sociological Association, Canada
• Message to the world from the Canadian Sociological Association
  Howard RAMOS, Past President of the Canadian Sociological Association, Canada
• ISA Award for Excellence in Research and Practice
  presented by Margaret Abraham, President of the International Sociological Association
• ISA Worldwide Competition for Junior Sociologists
  Winners presentation by Elena Zdravomyslova, Coordinator, Member of the ISA Executive Committee
• 2020 ISA Forum of Sociology
  Presented by Hermilio Santos, Chair of the Local Organizing Committee, Porto Alegre, Brazil
• 2022 ISA World Congress of Sociology
  Presented by Dan Woodman, Katie Hughes and Jo Lindsay, Local Organizing Committee, Melbourne, Australia
• ISA Presidential Address. Power, Violence and Justice: Reflections, Responses and Responsibilities
  Margaret ABRAHAM, President of the International Sociological Association, USA
• Closing Remarks and Guidance to the Reception in Exhibition Hall A

Presidential Session 2: Structures of Power, Violence and Justice

• Caretaking Relations, Not American Dreaming: #IdleNoMore, #BlackLivesMatter, and #NoDAPL
  Kim TALLBEAR, University of Alberta, Canada
• Theorizing Violence: Neoliberalism, Gender, and the Increase in Violence
  Sylvia WALBY, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
• Universities as Sites of Power, Violence (and Justice?)
  Nandini SUNDAR, Delhi School of Economics, India
• Western Jihadism in Sociological Perspective: The Urban and National Dimensions
  Farhard KHOSROKHAVAR, EHEES, France

Presidential Session 3: Building a More Just World

Session Organizer and Chair: Margaret ABRAHAM, Hofstra University, USA

• Feminism, Motherhood, and the Globalization of Reproduction: What is Justice?
  Mary ROMERO, Arizona State University, USA
• Claves críticas para comprender las tensiones entre transformación y conservación de la tierra comunal: parentesco, uso y propiedad de la tierra
  Gladys TZUL, Instituto Amaq, Guatemala
• What is Justice for a Victim of Femicide? Challenging the Concepts of Rights and Justice from a Context of Disposability of Female Bodies
  Montserrat SAGOT, Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica
• Confronting the Destruction of Social Rights through Considerations on the Crisis of the European Social Model and Options to Tackle It
  Roland ATZMUELLER, Johannes Kepler University, Austria

Plenary Session 4: Colonial and Contemporary Land Appropriation and Dispossession: In Search of Justice

Session Organizers: Margaret ABRAHAM, Hofstra University, USA and Patrizia ALBANESE, Ryerson University, Canada
Chair: Patrizia ALBANESE, Ryerson University, Canada

• Dispossession, Justice, and Social Science: ‘In the beginning all the world was America’
  Gurminder BHAMBRA, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
• Australian Indigenous Dispossession: The Link between Land and Social Justice
  Margaret WALTER, University of Tasmania, Australia
• Extractivism, dispossession and gendered transformations of territoriality
  Maria Cristina CIELO, FLACSO, Ecuador

Plenary Session 5: Globalization, Structures of Violence and Everyday Life

Session Organizers: Celi SCALON, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Vineeta SINHA, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Chair: Vineeta SINHA, National University of Singapore, Singapore

• "Feeling Race": The Field Of Racialized Emotions In Trump America
  Eduardo BONILLA-SILVA, Duke University, USA
• Everyday Violence and the Privatization of Coercion
  Maznah MOHAMAD, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Socio-ecological Violences, Resistances, and Orders
  Jose Esteban CASTRO, National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Argentina
• Symbiosis of Terrorist Tactics and High Tech
  Randall COLLINS, University of Pennsylvania, USA

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Plenary Session 6: Migration and Displacement: Beyond Borders and States

Session Organizers: Sari HANAFI, American University of Beirut, Lebanon and Vineeta SINHA, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Chair: Sari HANAFI, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

• Migrating Beyond Borders and States among informal South Asian Migrant Workers in South
  Africa Pragna RUGUNANAN, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
• Gender, Violence and Precarity in Displacement
  Evangelia TASTSOGLOU, Saint Mary's University, Canada

Plenary Session 7: Violence and Inequalities: Racism, Xenophobia and Exclusion

Session Organizers: John HOLMWOOD, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom and Mokong Simon MAPADIMENG, University of Limpopo, South Africa
Chair: Mokong Simon MAPADIMENG, University of Limpopo, South Africa

• Violence, Inequalities and Exclusion in Latin American Sociology
  Gabriel KESSLER, Universidad Nacional de La Plata-Conicet, Argentina
• Resisting Xenophobic Violence in South Africa: thinking the character of popular politics
  Michael NEOCOSMOS, Rhodes University, South Africa
• Surveilling Blackness in the 21st Century USA: Modernity/Coloniality, Objectivity and Contemporary Forms of Injustice
  Natalie BYFIELD, St. John's University, USA
• What's It Like After Fifty Years: Multiculturalism in Canada at the Crossroads
  Frances HENRY, University of Toronto, Canada

Plenary Session 8: Power of Social Movements for Justice and Resistance to Oppression

Session Organizers: Markus S. SCHULZ, New School for Social Research, USA and Benjamin TEJERINA, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Chairs: Benjamin TEJERINA, University of the Basque Country, Spain and Markus S. SCHULZ, New School for Social Research, USA

• When repression fails
  Bert KLANDERMANS, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands
• The irrepressible anticapitalism of movements for social justice, or why every struggle has a Left Wing
  Jeff GOODWIN, New York University, USA
• Fighting for social justice in Guerrero, Mexico: Creating alternatives to the state’s failure to provide security and justice
  Ligia TAVERA FENOLLOSA, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Mexico

Plenary Session 9: Gender and Intersectional Violence

Session Organizers: Rosemary BARBERET, City University of New York, USA and Evangelia TASTSOGLOU, Saint Mary's University, Canada
Chair: Evangelia TASTSOGLOU, Saint Mary's University, Canada

• Violence as a Saturated Site of Intersecting Power Relations
  Patricia HILL COLLINS, University of Maryland, USA
• Gender Violence against Girls and Adolescents in Mexico
  Sonia FRÍAS, National Autonomous University, Mexico
• The Moral Crusade on 'Gender Ideology': Conservative Alliances against Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Latin America
  Richard MISKOLCI, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil
• The Violence of Erasure and the Significance of Excavating the Histories of the Oppressed
  Grace KHUNOU, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Plenary Session 10: The Justice System: Power, Violence and Responsibility of Civil Society

Session Organizers: Kalpana KANNABIRAN, Council for Social Development, India and Marina KURKCHIYAN, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Chair: Marina KURKCHIYAN, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

• Access to Justice in Contexts of Precarious State Institutions
  Arturo ALVARADO MENDOZA, El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico
• The Sociology of Law as Public Sociology: How Can Empirical Research Enhance Justice
  Vadim VOLKOV, European University at Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation
• Justice for Victims of Crime
  Jo-Anne WEMMERS, Universite de Montreal, Canada
• The Arc of Justice in the Era of Routinized Violence
  Bandana PURKAYASTHA, University of Connecticut, United States

Plenary Session 11: What Security, Whose Security? States, Corporations, and Publics

Session Organizers: John HOLMWOOD, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom and Sawako SHIRAHASE, University of Tokyo, Japan
Chair: Sawako SHIRAHASE, University of Tokyo, Japan

• Continuities and Discontinuities in Security Deliberations in Contemporary South Africa: Archival Reflections
  Elrena VAN DER SPUY, University of Cape Town, South Africa
• State and Counterrevolution
  Waldon BELLO, University of Philippines, Philippines
• Israeli State Security and the Palestine Issue
  Elia ZUREIK, Queen’s University, Canada
• Violence: Theory, Phenomenology and Public Policies
  Jose-Vicente TAVARES-DOS-SANTOS, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil