The British Sociological Association - Giving Sociology a Voice

Our aim is to provide details of sociological events taking place worldwide, if you would like your event to appear in this listing please contact Donna Willis with details. The events are chronologically ordered for your convenience. Why not visit our Call for Papers page.

2009 Events

3-5 July 2009
8th Global Conference - Making Sense Of: Health, Illness and Disease
Mansfield College, Oxford, UK

3-5 July 2009
1st Global Conference - Times of our Lives: Making Sense Of Ageing
Mansfield College, Oxford, UK

4-7 July 2009
Emotion in Motion: The Passion of Tourism, Travel and Movement (2009)
Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

5-8 July 2009
Sixth Triennial Conference of the International Society for the Study of Reformed Communities (ISSRC)
Prague, Czech Republic

5–8 July 2009
15th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management: Meet old and new worlds in Research, Planning, and Management
The University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, Austria

6 July 2009

UCB Annual Conference - BSA Childhood Study Group - Seminar Event – Call for papers

Birmingham, UK

6-8 July 2009
4th Global Conference: Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace and Science Fiction
Mansfield College, Oxford, UK

6-9 July 2009
2nd Global Conference: Diasporas - Exploring Critical Issues
Mansfield College, Oxford, UK

6-10 July 2009
Early Career Summer School: Theory for a Global Age
University of Warwick, UK

7- 22 July 2009
The Graduate School of Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam Summer Institute: Popular Culture and the City
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

8 July 2009
Undertaking a Phd in Substance Misuse: A One-Day National Symposium
Oxford Brookes University, UK

8-9 July 2009

2nd Institutional Research Conference: Building a Community for Institutional Research in the UK and Ireland
Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK

9-11 July 2009
BSA Auto/Biography Study Group: XVIIIth Auto/Biography Summer Conference 2009 - Conference Theme: Documenting Realities
University of Leicester, UK

10–11 July 2009
Migrating Music: Media, Politics and Style - An international conference
University of London, UK

10-12 July 2009

8th Global Conference - Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship: Environmental Ethics, Sustainability and Education
Mansfield College, Oxford, UK

10-12 July 2009
1st Global Conference: Videogame Cultures and the Future of Interactive Entertainment
Mansfield College, Oxford, UK

13 July 2009

NCRM Ideas Workshop for Research Methods Teachers - FREE EVENT
The National Council for Voluntary Organisations, London, UK

13–14 July 2009
ACHRN Conference - Valuing Qualitative Research: Diversity and Debate in Alternative & Complementary Health - Call for Papers
University of York, UK

13-15 July 2009

The 6th International Critical Management Studies Conference: The Meaning of Work

University of Warwick, UK

13–17 July 2009
UCL Health and Society Summer School: Social Determinants of Health
University College London, UK

13-19 July 2009

The 2009 International Academic and Community on Animals and Society: Minding Animals

Newcastle, Australia

14-16 July 2009
3rd Global Conference - Visual Literacies: Exploring Critical Issues
Mansfield College, Oxford, UK

15 July 2009

NVivo8 Introductory 1 day hands-on workshop

University of Surrey, UK

15-17 July
Equal Opportunities 2009 Conference
Istanbul, Turkey

16 July 2009
Research Impact Conference - Organized by the Academy of Social Sciences
Royal Statistical Society, London, UK

16-18 July 2009

Capitalism in Crisis: What’s Next? Economic Regulation and Social Solidarity after the Fall of Finance Capitalism

Science Po, Paris, France

16-18 July 2009
2nd International Conference on Geographies of Children, Youth and Families: Diverse childhoods in international contexts: gender and other social and cultural differences
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

17-19 July 2009
5th Global Conference: Creative Engagements - Thinking with Children
Mansfield College, Oxford, UK

19-23 July 2008

IX ISQOLS Conference - Quality of Life Studies: Measures and Goals for the Progress of Societies

Florence, Italy

20 July 2009
2nd Annual One Day Conference of the BSA Ageing, Body and Society Study Group: 'Gender, Ageing and the Body' - Further details coming soon.
British Library, London, UK

20 July 2009
Introductory Workshop: Analysing Complex Sample Design in ESDS Government Datasets
University of Manchester, UK

22-23 July 2009
Centre for Qualitative Research Masterclasses 2009 - Meaning not Measurement: An introduction to qualitative research
Bournemouth University, UK

22-24 July 2009
2009 International Visual Sociology Association Conference
Cumbria, UK

23–26 July 2009
“Religion, Nature, and Progress” - 3rd International Conference of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature & Culture (ISSRNC)
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

27-31 July 2009

The Challenges of Religious Pluralism: The 30th Conference of the ISSR

Santiago de Compostela, Spain

28-29 July 2009
The First UK Postgraduate Science and Technology Studies (PSTS) Conference
University of Nottingham, UK

19-21 August 2009
Donner institute will arrange a Symposium: Pilgrimages Today
Åbo/Turku, Finland

23-25 August 2009
4th Annual International Ethnography Symposium: Practice, Politics and Ethics in Ethnographic Research
Island of San Servolo, Venice, Italy

25–26 August 2009
Workshop: The interface of citizenship, civil society and rule of law

University of Aberdeen, UK

26-28 August 2009

RGS-IBG Annual International Conference: Geography, Knowledge and Society
Durham University, UK

27–28 August 2009
PhD Summer School: The interface of citizenship, civil society and rule of law - Deadline for applications: 8 July 2009.
University of Aberdeen, UK

31 August-2 September 2009
Seventy Years On: New Perspectives on the Second World War
University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

1-4 September 2009
CRESC 5th Annual Conference 2009: Objects - What Matters? Technology, Value and Social Change
University of Manchester, UK

2-4 September 2009
Global Studies Association - Challenging globalization: new perspectives, alternative visions, emerging agendas
Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

2-4 September 2009
Workshops in Political Theory, 6th Annual Conference: Eurocentrism in Political Theory

Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

2-5 September 2009

ESA 2009: European Society or European Societies?
Lisboa, Portugal

3 September 2009
Youth, Media and Communication: A Joint BSA Youth Study Group and Media Study Group Seminar

Liverpool John Moores University, UK

3-4 September 2009
24th Cardiff Employment Research Unit (ERU) Annual Conference: New Directions In Organization Studies
Cardiff University, UK

3-5 September 2009

BSA Medical Sociology Group Annual Conference

University of Manchester, UK

3-5 September 2009
Exchanging Ideas on Europe 2009: Views from France, Views Beyond the Mainstream
Angers, Loire Valley, France

4 September 2009
The BSA Sociology of Sport Study Group Postgraduate Forum
The Chelsea School, University of Brighton, UK

7-9 September 2009
British Association for the Study of Religions Conference
Bangor University, UK

7-9 September 2009
Swiss Sociological Society: 2009 Conference

Geneva University, Switzerland

7-11 September 2009
Advanced Stata: Programming and other techniques to make your life easier
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK

9-10 September 2009
Fifth International Conference on Developments in Economics Education (DEE)
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, UK

9-11 September 2009
Society for Social Medicine 53rd Annual Scientific Meeting
University of Newcastle, UK

9-11 September 2009
ESRC Seminar Series - Retheorising Women’s Health: Shifting Paradigms and the Biomedical Body - Anomalous Bodies: Disability and Ageing
Queen's University Belfast, Ireland

9-12 September 2009
The Ninth International Conference - Social Context of Death, Dying and Disposal: Emotion and Identity in Death Dying and Disposal
University of Durham, UK

10 September 2009
IEAS Conference on Contemporary European and American Societies
Taipei, Taiwan

10-11 September 2009
13th International Research Conference - Dilemmas for Human Services 2009: Breaking Down the Barriers
Staffordshire University, UK

10-11 September 2009
Embodiment, Subjectivity and Ageing: Emerging Areas of Exploration
Newcastle University, UK

11 September 2009
Explorations in Ethnography, Language and Communucation: Focus on Data
Aston University, UK

11-13 September 2009
The National ATSS CPD Conference 2009: Success in Sociology
University of Northampton, UK

14-17 September 2009
European Association for the Study of Religions 9th Annual Conference: Religion in the History of European Culture
University of Messina, Italy

14-17 September 2009
7th Global Conference - Monsters and the Monstrous: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil
Mansfield College, Oxford, UK

14-17 September 2009
2nd Global Conference: Madness - Probing the Boundaries
Mansfield College, Oxford, UK

14-18 September 2009

The 14th Metropolis Conference - Migration and Mobility: National Responses to Cultural Diversity

Copenhagen Congress Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark

14-18 September 2009
ESSA 2009: The 6th Conference of the European Social Simulation Association
University of Surrey, Guildford, UK

15-17 September 2009
1st International Visual Methods Conference
University of Leeds, UK

16-17 September 2009
Turning Personal: An Interdisciplinary Conference
University of Manchester, UK

17-18 September 2009
BSA Theory Study Group conference : Have We Ever Been “Post”? - The Critiques of Sociological Knowledge
University of Warwick, UK

17-18 September 2009
International Conference - Educating Elites: Social Openness and Globalization
Sciences Po, Paris, France

17-19 September 2009
7 Annual ESPAnet Conference 2009 - The future of the welfare state: Paths of social policy innovation between constraints and opportunities
Urbino, Italy

18 September 2009
Stirling Conference on Social Network Analysis
University of Stirling, UK

18-19 September 2009
Consecrated Women: Crossing Boundaries
Bar Convent, York, UK

19-21 September 2009
3rd Global Conference: Fear, Horror and Terror
Mansfield College, Oxford, UK

19-21 September 2009
1st Global Conference: Villains and Villainy
Mansfield College, Oxford, UK

22-24 September 2009
1st Global Conference: Strangers, Aliens and Foreigners - A Diversity and Recognition Project
Mansfield College, Oxford

22-24 September 2009
5th Global Conference - Hope: Probing the Boundaries
Mansfield College, Oxford, UK

24-26 September 2009
International Darwin Conference
University of Bradford, UK

25 September 2009

International Youth Justice

University of Liverpool, UK

25–26 September 2009
4th Symposium on European Issues: What Will Be? Analysis and Visions for Europe
University of Klagenfurt, Austria

25-27 September 2009
1st Global Conference: Fashion - Exploring Critical Issues
Mansfield College, Oxford, UK

25-28 September 2009
3rd Global Conference: Multiculturalism, Conflict and Belonging
Mansfield College, Oxford, UK

3-9 October 2009
ISA International Laboratory for Ph.D. Students in Sociology - Theme: Possibility of Sociology in the Era of Globalization
Shonan Kokusai Village, Hayama, Japan

5-8 October 2009
International Summer School: “Migrants’ Networking”
Germany

11-13 October 2009
Religion and the News
Cumberland Lodge, The Great Park, Windsor, UK

15-17 October 2009

Music and Migration

University of Southampton, UK

16 October 2009

ESRC-sponsored Seminar Series: New Policy Spaces of Education
University of Surrey, UK

19-30 October 2009
Blackwell Compass Interdisciplinary Virtual Conference: Breaking Down Barriers
Location: Online

21–23 October 2009
International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Working with Children and Young People
Liverpool John Moores University, UK

22–24 October 2009
What are schools for? Visions and scenarios for the future of education and schooling
Wroclaw, Poland

26 October 2009
Solo Living Seminar
University of Edinburgh, UK

28 October 2009
A BSA Youth Study Group one-day event for postgraduates, co-sponsored by The British Library - Youth Transitions in Troubled Times

University of Kent, UK

30–31 October 2009
Alternative spiritualities, the New Age and New Religious Movements in Ireland: an interdisciplinary conference
National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland

6 November 2009
Rethinking Concepts: Families, Intimacies and Personal Relationships - BSA Families and Relationships Study Group Colloquium
BSA Meeting Room, London, UK

6-8 November 2009
1st Global Conference Bullying and the Abuse of Power: From the Playground to International Relations
Salzburg, Austria

6-8 November 2009
3rd Global Conference: Persons, Intimacy and Love
Salzburg, Austria

6-8 November 2009
5th Global Conference: Pluralism, Inclusion and Citizenship
Salzburg, Austria

6-8 November 2009
5th Global Conference: The Erotic - Exploring Critical Issues
Salzburg, Austria

10-12 November 2009
2nd Global Conference - Heavy Fundametalisms: Music, Metal and Politics
Salzburg, Austria

10-12 November 2009
3rd Global Conference: Interculturalism, Meaning and Identity
Salzburg, Austria

10-12 November 2009
6th Global Conference - Sexualities: Bodies, Desires, Practices (formerly Persons and Sexuality)
Salzburg, Austria

12-13 November 2009
ESF SCH/SCSS Exploratory Workshop: A Caring Europe? Care, Migration and Gender
Milton Keynes, UK

13-15 November 2009
Seventh Annual Irish Studies Conference - Fantasy Ireland: Imaginings and Re-Imaginings
University of Sunderland, UK

18–20 November 2009
2nd New Zealand Discourse Conference: Tilts and Shifts – Applying a Discourse Analysis Lens
AUT University, New Zealand

19-20 November 2009

Migration, Christianity and identity-construction (19th and 20th centuries)

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

19-22 November 2009
IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 2009
Rome, Italy

25-27 November 2009
Changing Roles, Responsibilities and Relationships in Learning and Teaching: The Future of Social Sciences in the University (Organised by: C-SAP)
Jurys Inn, Broad Street, Birmingham

26-27 November 2009
The Wire as Social Science Fiction?
Leeds Town Hall, UK

10-12 December 2009
Changing Cultures: Cultures of Change
University of Barcelona, Spain

11 December 2009
Learning and Skills Research Network (LSRN) annual conference: Keeping abreast of research in the Learning and Skills Sector
London, UK

2010 Events

January 2010 (date TBC)
ESRC Seminar Series - Retheorising Women’s Health: Shifting Paradigms and the Biomedical Body - Prosthetic bodies
Lancaster University, UK

11 February 2010
ESRC-sponsored Seminar Series: Lifelong Learning and Workspaces
University of Nottingham, UK

15-17 February 2010
1st Global Conference - Making Sense Of: 'Care' in Health Care
The Women’s College, Sydney, Australia

17-19 February 2010
1st Global Conference - Making Sense Of: Pain
The Women’s College, Sydney, Australia

15-17 March 2010

28th International Labour Process Conference
Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations, New Jersey, USA

13-15 April 2010
Trees and Forests in British Society
Edinburgh Conference Centre, Heriot Watt University, UK

20-23 April 2010
The VI Congress of the Association of Latin American Sociologists of Work (ALAST)
Mexico City

22–25 April 2010
International Conference on Sustainable Tourism: Issues, Debates & Challenges
Crete & Santorini, Greece

7-8 May 2010
John Douglas Taylor Conference: “The Archive and Everyday Life” Conference
McMaster University, Ontario, Canada

7-10 May 2010
TSCF Malta III conference on Social Capital in Practice
Mellieha, Malta

June 2010
ESRC-sponsored Seminar Series: Cyber-spaces and Virtual Learning
University of Southampton, UK

2-3 June 2010
6th Conference of the SIEF Working Group on Ethnology of Religion - Experiencing Religion: New Approaches towards Personal Religiosity
Warsaw, Poland

11-12 June 2010
Youth Policy and Youth Politics in the UK, the USA and France
Institut du Monde Anglophone, Paris, France

16-18 June 2010
CRFR International Conference 2010: Changing Families in a Changing World
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

30 June-2 July 2010
Beyond Citizenship: Feminism and the transformation of Belonging - An international and interdisciplinary conference
Birkbeck, University of London, UK

5-6 July 2010
2nd BSA Food Study Group Conference
The British Library Conference Centre, London, UK

6-8 July 2010

Leisure Studies Association Conference 2010: Diversity and Equality in Leisure, Sport and Tourism
Hosted by Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

11-17 July 2010

XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology: Sociology on the Move

Gothenburg, Sweden

September 2010 (date TBC)
ESRC Seminar Series - Retheorising Women’s Health: Shifting Paradigms and the Biomedical Body - Emergent identities
University of Liverpool, UK

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