Call for papers: ESA Research Network15 (Mid-Term Conference)

Confirmed keynote speakers

Carmen Leccardi – Senior Professor at Milano Bicocca University, past President of the European Sociological Association

Jan Aart Scholte – Professor of Global Transformations and Governance Challenges at Leiden University

Call for papers

The close succession of crises that have characterized recent years (e.g. the economic crisis of 2008, the migration crisis that followed the Arab Springs, the climate emergency, the Covid-19 pandemic, and the war in Ukraine) requires updated sociological reflection on the theme of globalization. On the one hand, in fact, these crises appear, in their causes and consequences, as processes of a genuinely global nature which transcend the capacity for action of individual states or other local actors, and, as such, require responses that are equally global. On the other hand, the global emergence or sharpening of threats, divisions and clashes open worrying scenarios of uncertainty for the future, and require a rethinking of the sociological tools used to study the social reality in which we are immersed. This Mid-Term Conference of ESA Research Network 15 “Global, Transnational and Cosmopolitan Sociology” calls for papers dealing theoretically, methodologically, and empirically with all topics related to the global, transnational and glocal dimension of present social and political life. We welcome all kinds of papers that deal with how the local, the transnational and the global are entwined and simultaneously define the meanings of one another, and how individuals, organizations or states try to (or should) manage old and new threats and challenges which face either humankind as a whole or specific parts of our planet.

Key dates

·       Submission of abstracts (max 300 words) and panel proposals by 24th February 2023

·       Notification of decision on abstract and panels by 13th March 2023

·       Confirmation of participation and fees payment by 3rd April 2023

Abstracts and panel proposals should be sent to: ESARN15Conference.Milano@unicatt.it