Exploring Emotions and Social (In)justice: Meanings, Imaginings, (Re)framings
A BSA Emotions Study Group Event
18 June 2026 (13.00-17.00 BST) and 19 June 2026 (09.30-13.00 BST)
Online
About the Event
Emotions are at the very heart of our social lives, with research on emotions within sociology (and cognate fields) recently developing a particularly keen interest in the complex interplay between emotions and social (in)justice. This is especially against the backdrop of intensifying interconnected and multi-faceted crises (from the local through to the global) in recent years.
Call For Papers
We invite researchers working on or around any area of sociological work on emotions to submit abstracts that examine the tensions, synergies and discontinuities between emotions and social (in)justice.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- Social and political crises (including times of social/political unrest and in/security)
- Decolonisation
- Activism (within and without the academe)
- Marginalisation
- Migration and belonging
- Racism, ethnicity, nationalism
- Gender and sexuality
- Spaces of possibility
- Health and illness
- Emotions through time, place and space
- Employment and economy
- Family, care and care-work
- Environment and climate
- Theorising emotion and affect
- Methodological considerations
In order to make participation as accessible as possible, the symposium will take place over two half days, with one half-day session in the afternoon (Thursday, 18 June), and one in the morning (Friday, 19 June). If you have strict scheduling limitations, please indicate in your abstract submission email whether you are only available for a morning or an afternoon session. We will do what we can to accommodate these requests.
Papers should be maximum 15 minutes (plus 5 minutes for questions), and we welcome diverse and creative forms of presenting. Postgraduates and early career researchers are especially encouraged to contribute.
Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words to the organisers by midday BST on Monday, 11 May 2026.
Registration
This event is free to attend, however, registration is required.