Sessions

Besides the four keynote lectures, there will be one plenary book session and fourteen thematic parallel sessions.

The plenary book session will take the form of a conversation on the role of international and national organizations in the history of sociology, centred around Professor Jennifer Platt’s The British Sociological Association: A Sociological History (Durham: Sociologypress, 2003), with Dr Sanja Magdaleni, Stockholm University, and Ass. Professor Neil McLaughlin, McMaster University, as discussants. The book is about the development of sociology in Britain told through the story of its learned society, the British Sociological Association. Learned societies have been neglected in the history of the discipline, though they are a vital part of the social structure of academic life. The BSA has had its internal dynamics, but it has also been affected by external factors relevant to wider academic life, which range from government policies to the rise of feminism. These have had an important effect on all the social sciences, but their impact upon sociology has been particularly marked

The themes of the fourteen parallel sessions are:
Session I: Rise of European Sociology
Session II: Alternative Histories
Session III: Sociology and Communism
Session IV: Imperialism and Indigenous Knowledge
Session V: Nordic countries
Session VI: Sociology and Communism II
Session VII: Public Social Knowledge
Session VIII: Empirical Social Research and Statistics
Session IX: Power and Loyalties
Session X: Sociology of Octavio Paz
Session XI: Gender
Session XII: Geopolitics and Transnationalism
Session XIII: Concepts
Session XIV: Transatlantic Reciprocity

Click here for a full list of the fourteen parallel sessions.