Upcoming Conferences and Meetings in Europe

Barcelona, Spain  

The idea of the Forum gathers and redefines the traditionally organised Research Council conference and the interim conferences of Research Committees. It will be an event with two kinds of programs: a general program conceived as a dialogue between RCs and made up of the papers presented by the RCs’ delegates to the Research Council conference, and the parallel programs of the RCs organised by them.

The general theme is Sociological Research and Public Debate and a comprehensive plan of communication will be elaborated trying to project as much as possible the Forum towards the media and citizenry, and organizing a series of debates open to general public amongst prominent sociologists participating in the event, specialists of other disciplines and relevant actors of the public sphere.

The Forum is an initiative of Arturo Rodríguez Morató, ISA Vice-President for Research Council. It its organized by the ISA jointly with the Catalan Association of Sociology and the Spanish Federation of Sociology.

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Liège, Belgium

Organized by: Université de Liège

How are identities constructed? The conference aims to confront and/or combine theoretical answers advanced by various disciplines and multidisciplinary efforts.

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Lisbon, Portugal, Portugal

This Conference will provide a forum on the Portuguese Diaspora and on some of its most significant features as observed from a variety of disciplinary fields (literary, linguistic, sociological, historical, cultural, and others). The event will be open to participants world-wide interested in all forms of narrating the Portuguese diaspora across the media, discussing diasporic experience, and exploring the effects on both those who made it happen and those who remained behind. 1928 was chosen as a tentative temporal boundary and also as a way of celebrating the publication of Os Emigrantes by Ferreira de Castro, a key-novel about the Portuguese Diaspora in Brazil.

This Conference is a follow up of other similar events (1999; 2001; 2005) initially organized by Irene Maria F. Blayer. The 2005 Conference – International Conference on Storytelling and Cultural Identity / Congresso Internacional de Literatura Oral e de Identidade Cultural – was organized by Francisco Cota Fagundes and Irene Blayer and took place in Angra do Heroísmo, Terceira, Azores, Portugal. It was attended by over one hundred scholars and specialists from over forty countries and the five continents.

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