The 2022 Annual Meeting of the Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology 

LOUISVILLE, KY, OCTOBER 6-8, 2022 

CALL FOR CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION 

Call for Conference Participation – 2022 AACS Conference in Louisville, Kentucky

Deadline for submissions: June 15, 2022. 

In October 2022 (6-8), the AACS Annual Meeting will take place in Louisville, Kentucky. If COVID allows, we hope to have an in-person conference (while observing all applicable COVID protocols) as well as a virtual component.  

The program will consist of regular paper sessions where delegates will demonstrate innovative approaches to practicing sociology. We are also organizing keynote addresses by experts in clinical and applied sociology, professional development workshops, student-centered sessions, poster sessions and networking opportunities for all participants. 

We invite all applied, clinical, and engaged public sociologists, social and behavioral scientists, and professionals who use social and behavioral science in business and industry, government, and academia to submit an abstract or a proposal for a session. You can submit a proposal to participate in the conference in the form of a presentation, a demonstration or organizing a regular session or workshop. Submit here https://www.aacsnet.net/call-for-conference-participation-2022/  

Information needed to submit an abstract (or session) 

• Title of the Presentation (or Session) 
• A 250-word abstract of the presentation (or description of the session) 

• Name, affiliation/organization and contact details  
• Indication of your preference to participate in the In-person conference, the virtual component or either 

When submitting an abstract for a presentation, you should consider whether the topic of your presentation fits any of the following proposed sessions. If not, please select “other”, and we will develop additional sessions accommodating these abstracts. The list of proposed sessions follows below. You can find a session description by clicking on its title in the drop-down menu. 

List of proposed sessions 

• COVID, Health Care Providers, and Vaccine Distribution 
• Health Disparities and Global Health 
• Macro-Clinical Sociology: Healing Society 
• Renegotiating Citizenship and Social Capital 
• Unacknowledged Sociology – Doing Sociology in Business and Organizational Settings 
• Utilizing Applied and Clinical Sociological Skills in Developing a Racial Equity Diversity Inclusion (REDI)  Program Within a Non-Profit Organization 
• Whistleblowing and Social Justice 
• Women, Bullying, Work and Academic Success 
  

Conference venue: The Brown Hotel 

335 West Broadway, Louisville, KY, US 

The Brown Hotel is one of the classic hotels of the South. Listed on the  

National Registry of Historic Places, the hotel is situated right in the heart 

of Louisville. With recent renovations and classic charm, the Brown 

provides a memorable experience. 

Please direct conference-related inquiries to AACS Vice President Dr Tina Uys at aacsprogram@gmail.com 

XX ISA World Congress of Sociology 2023

After more than two years of online-only conferences, we are happy to announce that we are now in the early stages of planning for the ISA World Congress that will take place in Melbourne, Australia, from June 25 to July 1 2023. The conference will take a hybrid format (an in-person and virtual component). The theme of the Congress is Resurgent Authoritarianism: The Sociology of New Entanglements of Religions, Politics, and Economies.

We are asking for your participation in developing the RC46 programme for the World Congress. The first step is the Call for Sessions which will open for online submission via the Confex platform on May 2 and close on May 31, 2022, at 24:00 GMT. The second is the Call for Abstracts which will open for online submission via the Confex platform on July 1 and close on September 30, 2022, at 24:00 GMT. Based on our membership, the Research Committee in Clinical Sociology (RC-46) is allowed to arrange a maximum of 18 sessions at the World Congress. Each session lasts 110 minutes and can accommodate up to five papers leaving time for collective discussion.

We invite you to consider acting as a session organiser and submit a proposal for a session. We are particularly interested in sessions with research topics involving an open call for papers that would attract scholars from across the globe. You can organise your sessions in English, French or Spanish or combine these languages. The Call for Sessions link is now open on the Confex platform. Submit your 250-word proposal here: https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2023/cfs.cgi. Click “Research Committees” and then “RC46 Clinical Sociology.” The hard deadline is May 31, 24:00 GMT.

For further information about the conference, please consult https://www.isasociology.org/en/conferences/world-congress/melbourne-2023

I look forward to seeing lots of proposed sessions on the RC46 website!
Tina Uys
Vice-President (Programs)
RC46, International Sociological Association

RESEARCH COMMITTEE IN CLINICAL SOCIOLOGY (RC46) CALL FOR SESSIONS, ISA CONGRESS 2023, MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA

The dates for the ISA World Congress have now been finalised. The Congress will be held in Melbourne from June 25 – July 1 2023 (in a hybrid format). The theme of the Congress is Resurgent Authoritarianism: The Sociology of New Entanglements of Religions, Politics, and Economies.

Based on our membership, the Research Committee in Clinical Sociology (RC-46) has been awarded a total of 18 sessions at the World Congress. One of these will be a business meeting. I will be responsible for the coordination of the RC 46 programme.

THERE ARE TWO IMPORTANT STEPS IN FINALISING THE RC46 PROGRAMME FOR THE WORLD CONGRESS. THE FIRST IS THE CALL FOR SESSIONS WHICH WILL OPEN FOR ONLINE SUBMISSION VIA THE CONFEX PLATFORM ON MAY 2  AND CLOSE ON MAY 31, 2022, AT 24:00 GMT.

The second is the Call for Abstracts which will open for online submission via the Confex platform on July 1 and close on September 30, 2022, at 24:00 GMT.

In preparation for the Call for Abstracts, we invite you to consider acting as a session organiser and submitting proposals for sessions when the Call for Sessions link opens on the Confex platform on May 2, 2022.

We encourage you to think creatively about the format of the session you propose. In the past, sessions varied between traditional paper presentation sessions invited sessions, keynote speakers, author meets critics, roundtables and workshops. New ideas are welcome.

For further information, please consult https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/world-congress/melbourne-2023

I look forward to seeing lots of proposed sessions on the RC46 website!

Tina Uys

Vice-President (Programs)

RC46, International Sociological Association

Resurgent Authoritarianism: The Sociology of New Entanglements of Religions, Politics, and Economies

The global rise of authoritarianism, as well as populism, xenophobia, and racism, makes our task as sociologists more crucial than ever. This dilemma is assisted by the gradual symbolic thickening of public culture through combinations of extreme nationalist and religious fervour.

What is the best way to analyze global resurgent authoritarianism? In addition to dealing with the scars of the colonial era, a postcolonial approach should be supplemented with another approach; we need to find ways to diagnose and resist this resurgence. This approach should take into account how authoritarianism affects not only our societies but also our knowledge production. The self-centred and unspoken have become more important than the told and argued. We are concerned not only with the hard authoritarianism that heralds the brutalization of society and politics, but also the soft authoritarianism that often thrives in the shadow of neoliberalism, as the state moves deftly in the open or in secret to devise modes of governance that shore up its power against popular discontent.

A special interest of our Congress is how to disaggregate the Western, but also sociological, assumption of secularism as inherent in modern society and at the same time analytically dissociate the state from religion. While this separation is still a crucial pathway toward democracy and citizenship, the process needs to be problematized. We particularly look forward to discussing the promising avenues of inquiry within sociology and related disciplines about what has been termed ‘post-secular societies’ and ‘multiple secularities’.

Thus the XX ISA World Congress of Sociology will focus on how sociologists worldwide can (and do) contribute to the understanding of the resurgent authoritarianism and analyze the new entanglements of religions, politics, and economies. It will also focus on how sociologists engage (physically and critically) in the formidable social movements we are witnessing today in different parts of the world and in a renascent civil society.

The XX ISA World Congress of Sociology in Melbourne, Australia, June 25-July 1, 2023 will be in a hybrid format. Further details will be provided in due course.

Challenges of the 21st Century: Democracy, Environment, Inequalities, Intersectionality

RC 46 CLINICAL SOCIOLOGY AT ISA FORUM, PORTO ALEGRE, BRAZIL February 2021

RC46 Preliminary Programme

All times are Porto Alegre time

Tuesday, 23 February 2021

10:45 – 12:15: Session 1: Transitions in Cities and Challenges of Public Support

Chair: Melodye Lehnerer, C.S.P. College of Southern Nevada, USA

Presenters	Title
Suava ZBIERSKI-SALAMEH (Haverford Institute) Marek NOWAK (University of Poznan, Poland)	Socio-Ecological Consequences of Suburbanization in Postsocialist Urban System. Case of Poznan-Lubon, Poland
Isabelle RUELLAND (Univeristé de Montréal, Canada) Maria Lourdes RODRIGUEZ DEL BARRIO (Montreal University, Canada)	Les Espaces De Coconstruction De l’Action Publique En Santé Jeunesse Dans Le Territoire Du Nord De Montréal (Canada): Quels Défis Pour Le Dialogue Entre Les Jeunes, Les Intervenant.e.s Et Les Gestionnaires Des Milieux Institutionnels Et Communautaires?
S. Urvashi (India)	The Politics of Belonging and Security in India

Wednesday, 24 February 2021

All times are Porto Alegre time

09:00 – 10:30: Session 2: Priorities: Environmental Justice and the Central Inclusion of Women and Girls

Chair: Mariam Seedat-Khan, UKZN, South Africa

Presenters	Title
Nhlalo TSHUMA (Lupane State University)	Environmental Governance and the Invasive Water Hyacinth Weed: A Case Study of Lake Chivero in Harare, Zimbabwe.
Jan Marie Fritz (University of Cincinnati, USA and UJ, South Africa	Environmental Injustice: Incarceration in the United States
Bentina MATHIAS (Nnamdi Azikiwe University)	Modern Day Slavery: A Case of the Girl Child in Nigeria

10:45 – 12:15: Session 3: Certification: Validating the Work of Clinical Sociologists

Chair: Jan Fritz (University of Cincinnati, USA and UJ, South Africa)

Presenters	Title
Tina Uys (UJ, South Africa)	Certification: Process and Benefits
Mariam Seedat-Khan (UKZN, South Africa)	Certification: Thoughts from a Newly Certified Practitioner
Melodye Lehnerer (C.S.P. College of Southern Nevada, USA)	Certification: A Crucial Component in the International Discussion of Professionalism

14:15 – 15:45: Session 4: Panel Discussion: Accrediting Your Undergraduate or Graduate Program in Sociological Practice: A Workshop on Process, Benefits, and Outcomes By the Commission on the Accreditation of Programs in Applied and Clinical Sociology (CAPACS)

Chair: Amitra Wall (SUNY Buffalo State College, USA)

Presenters	Title
Michael FLEISCHER1, Norma WINSTON2, Elizabeth LYMAN3, and Allison WISECUP3, (1)Organizational Dynamics, Morristown, New Jersey, USA, (2)University of Tampa, USA, (3)Radford University, USA	Accrediting Your Undergraduate or Graduate Program in Sociological Practice: A Workshop on Process, Benefits, and Outcomes By the Commission on the Accreditation of Programs in Applied and Clinical Sociology (CAPACS)

16:00-17 :30 Session 5 Dispositifs De Recherche ET Intervention EN Sociologie Clinique: Alternatives D’action Dans Le Contexte De Travail Brésilien

Chair: Isabelle Ruelland, Université de Montréal, Canada

Presenters	Title
Matheus VIANA BRAZ (São Paulo State University, Brazil)	Groupes D’implication Et De Recherche En Sociologie Clinique : Faire Face a La Psychologisation Des Contradictions Sociales Dans Le Contexte Du Travail Bresilien
Lorenzo CATTANI (University of Bologna, Italy)	Labour Market Policies in Light of Female Employment and Political Mobilization: A New Framework
Jacques RHEAUME (Département de communication sociale et publique Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)	Une Entreprise d’Insertion Sociale Par Le Travail Pour Des Jeunes En Difficulté: Boulot Vers, Une Organisation Communautaire

Thursday, 25 February 2021

09:00 – 10:30: Session 6: Building Community: Religious Groups and Non-Governmental Organisations

Chair: Natalia Erokhova, RUDN University (Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia), Russia

Co-Chair: Margarita Kalashnikova, St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Humanitarian University, Russia

Presenters	Title
Ryoichi HORIGUCHI (Kindaï Université, Japan)	L’Histoire Vécue Et La Vie Retrouvée Des Lépreux : Une Pratique De l’Église Dans Un Sanatorium Pour Lépreux
Igor RYAZANTSEV (St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Humanitarian University) Маria LARINA (St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Humanitarian University, Russia)	Areas of Work with Disabled People in Christian Orthodox Organizations
Muhammed SULEMAN, University of Johannesburg, South Africa	Obstacles to Emancipation or Agents of Change? Muslim Religious Leaders Response to Adopting a Reconciliation at All Cost Approach in Dealing with the Issue of Domestic Violence Experienced By Muslim Married Women
Shaheeda ESSACK, (DoHET, South Africa)	Breaking the Cycle of Poverty: The Role of Non-Governmental Organizations in Reducing Inequalities in the Rural Eastern Cape in South Africa

14:15 – 15:45: Session 7: Histoires De Vie Collectives Et Action Communautaire. Collective Life Histories and Community Action

Chair: Jacques Rheaume, Département de communication sociale et publique Université du Québec à Montréal Canada

Presenters	Title
Miriam Boeri (Bentley University, USA)	Applied Ethnographic Research: Overcoming Challenges of Grounding Solutions to the Everyday Reality of Individuals and Communities
Camila Gabriel AMORIM, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, Brazil	Theory of Life History and Theory of Life Course: Convergences and Contributions to the Study of Infractional Trajectories of Boys and Girls
Patricia GUERRERO MORALES1, Ana HORMAZABAL (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile), Valentina URRUTIA (Pontificia Universidad Católica, Chile) and Pilar DIEZ YENSEN (Instituto de Humanidades, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile)	Análisis Del Rol En La Organización De Directores De Escuelas Públicas Chilenas: Una Apuesta Para Salir Del Management

Friday, 26 February 2021

09:00 – 10:30: Session 8: Analyzing and Addressing Problems at Work and at Home: Motherhood and Careers

Chair: Jacques Rhéaume, Université de Montréal, Canada

Presenters	Title
Paola STUKER (UFRGS, Brazil) Letícia SCHABBACH (UFRGS, Brazil)	Controversies about Female Focus and Conditionalities of the Bolsa Família Program in Brazil: Domestic Gender Relations, Motherhood and Violence
Olga Sanmiguel-Valderrama (Associate Professor in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Cincinnati, USA)	Where did I go? Reflections on Late Mothering
Kezia Batisai (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)	Care Policy Reform:  The Perceived and Real Impact on Career-Oriented Women

10:45 – 12:15: Session 9:  The History and Development of Clinical Sociology around the World

Chair: Jan Marie Fritz, University of Cincinnati, USA and UJ, South Africa

Presenters	Title
Jacques RHEAUME (Département de communication sociale et publique Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)	Clinical Sociology in North-America, the Quebec Experience. La Sociologie Clinique En Amérique Du Nord, l’Expérience Québécoise
Tina Uys (UJ, South Africa)	The Emergence of Clinical Sociology in South Africa
F. De Yzaguirre, R. Avendaño, and L. F. Ruíz	The Introduction of Clinical Sociology in Colombia and Spain: A Positive Academic Experience, Not without Difficulties

14:15 – 15:45: Session 10: Lecturing Diversity – Lessons from the Classroom

Chair: Charles Puttergill, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Presenters	Title
Aradhana MANSINGH (UKZN, South Africa)	What Makes South African Higher Education Different? a Review of the Changes in Higher Education and the Impact on Gender
Mariam SEEDAT-KHAN, Belinda JOHNSON; Moya BYDAWELL (UKZN, South Africa)	Learning to Acquire Knowledge in Large Classes
Vangile BINGMA (University of Pretoria, South Africa)	Lecturing Large and Diverse Classes at a South African University: Teaching Practices and Institutional Knowledge
Laura VAN RAEMDONCK, University of Antwerp, Belgium and Sara WILLEMS, University of Gent, Belgium	Insights for Diversity Education in Health Care: Testing a Conceptual Model on the Psychosocial Mechanisms of Diversity Competent Care within a Belgian Health Care Student Population

16:00-17:30: Session 11:  Théories Et Pratiques De Groupes En Amérique Latine : Quelles Contributions à La Réduction Des Inégalités Sociale De Pouvoir Dans Les Sociétés Du Nord?

Chair: Isabelle Ruelland, Université de Montréal, Canada

Presenters	Title
Patricia GUERRERO MORALES (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) Valentina URRUTIA (Pontificia Universidad Católica) Ana HORMAZABAL (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)	Desde El Sentido Del Trabajo, a La Agencia y La Capacidad De Actuar
Paulo BAREICHA (University of Brasilia) Christiane NUNES (University of Brasilia) Valdeci SOUZA (UDESC)	Sociologie Clinique Et Théatre: Contradictions Et Retombées De La Piéce De Théatre Macunaïma.
Carolina LUIZ (Interfaces Group- Collective Health and Mental Health- UNICAMP) Alice ANDRADE SILVA (Unicamp) Rosana ONOCKO CAMPOS (UNICAMP) Giovana PELLATTI (UNICAMP) Pablo CASTANHO (USP) Erotildes LEAL (UNICAMP, Brazil)	Implementation of a Psychosocial Outpatient Clinic for People Exposed to Violence in a University Hospital
Paulo BAREICHA (University of Brasilia) Christiane NUNES (University of Brasilia)	Implication Et Lien Dans La Recherche-Action Avec Des Groupes Socio-Éducatifs

Saturday, 27 February 2021

09:00-10:30 Session 12: Migrants/Refugees: Issues of Care, Integration, and Belonging

Chair: Johanna Zulueta, Soka University, Tokyo, Japan

Presenters	Title
Yvonne VISSING (Salem State University, USA)	Crisis for Children at the US-Mexico Border
Chiho OGAYA (Ferris University, Japan)	From Re-Integration to Re-Orientation: Experiences of Filipino Women Returnee from Japan through Two Decades of Reintegration Program of NGO
Laura VAN RAEMDONCK (University of Antwerp, Belgium) Sara WILLEMS (University of Gent)	Psychotherapy and Psycho-Educational Group Work to Unaccompanied Young Adult Refugees in an Institutionalised Communal Living Project: Recommendations Towards Culturally Sensitive Mental Health Services in Belgium

10:45-12:15: Session 13: Organisational Interventions during the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Chair: Tina Uys, Sociology, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Presenters	Title
Anthony Kaziboni (UJ, South Africa)	Anthropogenic Water Scarcity in South Africa – Causes and Solutions
Lesego PLANK (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)	The Insights of Single Black Middle Class Women from Soweto on Not Dating Undesirable Unemployed Men in the 4IR Society.
David du Toit (UJ, South Africa)	At Your Service Madam: A Sociological Investigation into the Rise of the Gig-Economy and the Need for on-Demand Domestic Service in South Africa

14:15-15:45: Session 14: Jeunes Et Santé Mentale, Interventions Institutionnelles Et Communautaires : Perspective Critique. Mental Health and Youth, Community and Institutional Practices: A Critical View

Chair: Patricia GUERRERO MORALES (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)

Presenters	Title
Alice ANDRADE SILVA (Unicamp) Rosana Onocko CAMPOS (UNICAMP) Carolina LUIZ (Unicamp) Analice PALOMBINI (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul) Giovana PELLATTI (Unicamp) Erotildes LEAL (UFRJ) Juliana A. DAINEZI (Unicamp, Brazil)	The Participation of Children and Youth in the Process of Implementing a Psychosocial Outpatient Clinic for People Exposed to Violence.
Flavia DE SOUZA (Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz – UESC (Ilhéus-BA, Brazil))	“A Holiday in Soweto”: Community Empowerment at KYP as an invitation to Clinical Sociology
Fernando DE YZAGUIRRE1, Karol Dayana IBAÑEZ1,2 and Lina Fernanda RUÍZ2, (1)Universidad del Atlántico, Colombia, (2)Sociocaribe, Colombia	Barriers and Facilitators: A Research – Intervention Project to Prevent the Dropout of University from a Clinical Sociology Perspective

Sunday, 28 February 2021

09:00 – 10:30: Session 15: BUSINESS MEETING

Chair: Emma Porio

This session will highlight the programs and activities of RC 46 officers/members in different regions of the world, including ways forward to the ISA World Congress 2022 in Melbourne, Australia.

10:45 – 12:15: Session 16: Care Policies and Gender Equality

Chair: Bila Sorj, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Presenters	Title
Brigitte AULENBACHER (Johannes Kepler University, Austria); Fabienne DECIEUX (Johannes Kepler University, Austria)	Social Investment, Child- and Elderly Care – a Polanyian Analysis of the Austrian Care Regime in Times of Marketization and Social Inequalities
Jasmin JOECKS (Universität Tübingen, Germany); Anna KUROWSKA (University of Warsaw, Poland) & Kerstin Pull	Informal Childcare Vs. Formal Childcare and Its Impact on Maternal Employment in Germany and Poland
Nadya GUIMARAES, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil and Helena HIRATA, GTM/CRESPPA,CNRS, France	Convergences and Divergences on Care Work. a Latin American Perspective
Karina BATTHYANY, FCS UDELAR, Uruguay	Social Relations of Care Work in Uruguay and Latin America.

 

ISA FORUM OF SOCIOLOGY

February 23-27, 2021

Deadline for submission of abstracts (max. 300 words) is November 12, 2020, 24:00 GMT

https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/forum/porto-alegre-2021/call-for-abstracts-2021

Because of the ongoing pandemic, the ISA Forum of Sociology is going digital. The ISA Research Committee on Clinical Sociology (RC46) has re-opened calls for abstracts and invites you to submit. The ISA Forum of Sociology of the International Sociological Association offers a unique forum to discuss current developments with a global scholarship.

Access RC46 session descriptions through the following link:
https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2020/webprogrampreliminary/Symposium612.html

The session time slots provided on this link are preliminary and will be adjusted once abstract submissions are complete to accommodate different time zones.

Submit your abstract to RC46 via the submission system: https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2020/cfp.cgi

Information about the Forum can be found at the following link:

https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/forum/porto-alegre-2021

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact the RC46 Program Coordinator Tina Uys (tuys@uj.ac.za)

Important issues regarding the ISA Forum

1. The ISA Executive Committee has decided that the IV ISA Forum of Sociology will be held online, starting on February 23, 2021.

2. Registration fees: Despite the increased costs involved, the ISA decided to reduce the registration fees by 50%, while maintaining the possibility of paying the full amount as a contribution to a solidarity fund to enable sociologists experiencing hardship to participate.

3. All activities that have been prepared will be maintained, and the abstracts selected for the Forum initially planned in July 2020 remain valid for the Online Forum to be held in February 2021. Presenters of accepted abstracts need to confirm their participation by October 15, 2020.

4. Between October 26 – November 12, 2020, the ConFex platform will be open for new abstracts.

5. November 12 2020: Deadline for new abstract submissions

6. December 15 2020: Presenters final registration deadline

Detailed information regarding deadlines for ISA Forum

The deadlines for arrangements for the conference are as follows. Please note especially the dates highlighted in red.

End of September to October 15:

• A message will soon be sent by the ISA to all the authors of selected abstracts inviting them to confirm their participation to the Forum and informing them about the possibility to update their abstract and title in the congress platform, in consultation with their session organizers or RC program coordinators, before October 15, 2020.
• Session Organizers and Program Coordinators are encouraged to contact the participants and to ask them to confirm their participation before October 15, 2020.
• Session Organizers and Program Coordinators will be granted access to the online platform (ConFex). Based on information about already cancelled presentations, they may upgrade “distributed papers” and papers presented at a roundtable to “oral presentation” in a regular panel. Session Organizers and Program Coordinator shall inform the concerned participants about the new status of their paper and ask them to confirm their participation in the Forum.
• RCs new calls for abstracts may start circulating during this period.

October 15 2020: Final day to confirm participation by authors of the already accepted abstracts. The abstracts that have not been confirmed by this date will be automatically deleted from the program.

Authors of confirmed abstracts have until December 15 to register at the “early registration rate”.

16 – 25 October 2020

• Based on the updated program, Session Organizers and Program Coordinators may reorganize panels, move some participants from one session to another and merge two sessions in order to open a new panel.
• Distributed papers or roundtable presentations may be upgrade to oral presentations during this period too.
• The ISA secretariat and the RC/WG/TG publish and circulate the calls for new abstracts. 5 ISA VP Research Letter # April 4 2020

October 26 – November 12 2020: Submission of new abstracts

The ConFex platform will be open for new abstracts.

• Authors may indicate in which session of the RC/WG/TG their proposal would better fit. – The new abstracts proposals will be submitted to a single “bucket” session for each RC. (i.e. all the new proposals will be sent to the same session. Program coordinators will then allocate them to specific sessions).
• Organizers of sessions with several withdrawals are encouraged to advertise their session and to invite colleagues who work on the session’s topic to submit abstracts.
• Invitations may be issued to speakers for Common Sessions and Semi-plenary Sessions to replace speakers who will not be able to attend the Forum.
• Program Coordinators should encourage presenters to pay registration fees before November 15, 2020 in order to have more clarity about sessions’ programs.

November 12 2020: Deadline for new abstract submissions

13 – 17 November 2020: Selection of the new abstracts by Session Organizers and Program Coordinators

18 – 22 November 2020: Program Coordinators re-arrange sessions based on the selected abstracts.

November 24 2020: Authors and co-authors are notified about the acceptance or rejection of their abstracts

December 15 2020: Presenters final registration deadline

Early registration fees will apply. Confex sends out the last reminder to register. Presenters who have failed to register will be automatically deleted from the program.

December 18 2020 – January 8 2021: Final modifications

• Session Organizers modify sessions based on withdrawal of non-registered presenters.
• Chairs and discussants are assigned from among the registered participants.
• Program Coordinators complete sessions’ schedule according to the conference timetable.

In case the type of an individual’s presentation is changed, or if a presentation is transferred to a different session, Confex will send notifications to authors with final session and presentation details after December 15, 2020.

January 27 2021: Online program published

AACS 2020 VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
October 5-9, 2020

  💥CALL FOR STUDENT PARTICIPATION💥
Undergraduate and Graduate Students Welcome
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: AUGUST 1

Do you have sociological scholarship, research, or creative activities (SRCA) that you would like to present? Join us in our Paper and SRCA Competitions by submitting your work to and presenting in our 1st ever virtual conference! A panel of judges will review all submissions/presentations and prizes will be awarded to top works.

Would you like to share your work with like minds while developing skills that bridge the gap between sociological knowledge and practice? Submit your work (completed or in progress) for our “3 Minute Thesis Competition” where you will present your work (using one PowerPoint slide only) to a non-academic audience, compete for a prize, and receive feedback from experts in the field!

Are you interested in using your sociological knowledge & skills to help solve a real-world problem for Home Suite Hope, a not-for-profit dedicated to serving homeless and single-mother led families? Sign up with a team of friends to compete in our Client Problem Solving Competition! Teams will present their solutions to Home Suite Hope’s Executive Director, who will choose the best solution. A plaque naming the winning team will be sent to their school. Students in the winning team will be able to see their academic insight applied “in action” and receive FREE AACS membership for 4 years or until they graduate, whichever comes first.

Would you like to network with other aspiring and experienced applied and clinical sociologists? Join us for a virtual social event! Visit http://www.aacsnet.net to become a member, submit a proposal (general submissions are due by August 1, 2020), become part of our mentoring program, or learn more!

Please direct conference related inquiries to Dr. Alison Marganski at aacsprogram@gmail.com

Challenges of the 21st Century:
Democracy, Environment, Inequalities, Intersectionality

RC 46 CLINICAL SOCIOLOGY AT ISA FORUM,

PORTO ALEGRE, BRAZIL,  FEBRUARY 23 – 27 2021

The new calendar and timeline of events the ISA has prepared for IV ISA Forum of Sociology in Porto Alegre, Brazil postponed to February 23-27, 2021. Please note the following important deadlines:

• 15 September – 15 October 2020: The authors of abstracts selected for the ISA Forum will be invited to confirm their participation to the Forum before October 15th, 2020. They may update their abstract and title, in consultation with their session organizers or RC program coordinators.
• 15 October 2020:  Final day to confirm participation by authors of the already accepted abstracts.
  * The abstracts that have not been not confirmed will be automatically removed from the program
• 16 – 25 October 2020: Publication of the calls for new abstracts proposals by the RC/WG/TG
• 26 October – 12 November 2020: Submission of new abstracts proposals via online platform
• 12 November 2020:  Deadline for new abstract submissions
• 24 November 2020: Authors are notified about the acceptance or rejection of their abstracts
• 15 December 2020: Presenters final registration deadline (early registration fees apply).

For queries about registration contact isaconf@confex.com
For queries about ISA membership contact isa@isa-sociology.org
To apply for ISA membership, go to http://www.isa-sociology.org/en/membership/individual-membership/
For general, accommodation, and visa information, please visit https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/forum/porto-alegre-2020 

CALL for ABSTRACTS

Only 2 months are left to submit abstracts to sessions organized by the Research Committee 46. Don’t miss the deadline, submit an abstract online before September 30, 2019, 24:00 GMT. You are invited to submit abstracts on-line via the Confex platform from 25 April. Abstracts must be submitted in English, French or Spanish. Only abstracts submitted on-line will be considered in the selection process. Remember that each presenter is limited to two papers. All presenters and session organisers are expected to be or become members of RC46. Use the following link to submit abstracts https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2020/cfp.cgi. You then click on BEGIN A SUBMISSION and select RC46 for our sessions. Or you can click on the following link that will take you directly to the RC46 session: https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2020/webprogrampreliminary/Symposium612.html

RC46 Porto Alegre ISA Forum Sessions

	Title	Organiser(s)
1	Environmental Justice in Applied and Clinical Settings	Sharon Everhardt
2	The History and Development of Clinical Sociology Around the World	Jan Marie Fritz
3	Dispositifs De Recherche ET Intervention EN Sociologie Clinique: Alternatives D’action Dans Le Contexte De Travail Brésilien	Matheus Viana Braz
4	The Return Home: Addressing Migrant Re-Integration	Johanna Zulueta
5	Care Policies and Gender Equality	Bila Sorj, Karina Batthyany
6	Violence Néolibérale, Normalité Souffrante Et Folie Du Travail	Thomas Périlleux
7	Histoires De Vie Collectives Et Action Communautaire. Collective Life Histories and Community Action.	Jacques Rheaume
8	Théories Et Pratiques De Groupes En Amérique Latine : Quelles Contributions à La Réduction Des Inégalités Sociale De Pouvoir Dans Les Sociétés Du Nord ?	Isabelle Ruelland
9	Jeunes Et Santé Mentale, Interventions Institutionnelles Et Communautaires : Perspective Critique. Mental Health and Youth, Community and Institutional Practices: A Critical View.	Danielle Desmarais, Maria Lourdes Rodriguez del Barrio
10	Organisational Interventions during the Fourth Industrial Revolution?	Tina Uys
11	Social-Ecological Transitions of Cities and Decreasing Public Spaces	Suava Zbierski-Salameh, Mariam Seedat-Khan
12	Children at the Border: Refugee, Unaccompanied and Immigrant Children and Youth	Yvonne Vissing
13	Identifying and Creating/Designing Democratization Spaces By NGOs, Local Government and Civic Groups	Suava Zbierski-Salameh
14	Building Community: Religious Organisations and Clinical Practice	Margarita Kalashnikova, Natalia Erokhova, Charles Puttergill
Joint session hosted by RC42
15	Lecturing Diversity – Lessons from the Classroom	Charles Puttergill
Invited sessions (abstracts cannot be submitted to these sessions)
16	RC46 Business Meeting: Open to all RC46 members & people interested in becoming members to discuss RC46 matters	Emma Porio
17	Certification: Validating the Work of Clinical Sociologists	Melodye Lehnerer

“The Profession of Sociological Practice”

October 17-19, 2019

Portland, Oregon

RC46 will meet in 2019 with the annual meeting of the Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology.  The meeting will be held on October 17-19 just outside of Portland, Oregon (USA). The AACS conference theme is “The Profession of Sociological Practice.”

 AACS pre-conference professional development workshops are available on Thursday afternoon for a modest additional charge for non-members.  Registration includes welcome and closing receptions, complimentary breakfasts by Embassy Suites with stay, keynote and presidential luncheons, and refreshments.

You can register for the conference here. RC46 members can register at the AACS membership rate. There is a special registration rate for members in category B and C countries. For more information, please visit AACS at https://www.aacsnet.net/, and explore the Conferences tab.

The 2019 meeting of RC46 and AACS will be held at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Portland Washington Square; 9000 SW Washington Square Road; Tigard, Oregon, 97223, USA

Tel (503) 644-4000.  Tigard (the name of the community) is just outside of Portland.

September 14th: Deadline for Registration at the Embassy Suites Portland Washington Square for AACS Rate. Make sure to use the AACS group discount code — XAA.

Please plan to be in Portland for the conference from October 17^th – 19^th. I am including the preliminary general schedule below to facilitate the process of making your travel plans.

Thursday October 17^th

8 am – 12 pm: AACS Board Meeting

1pm – 5 pm: Professional Development Workshops

5:30 pm – 7:30 pm – Welcome Reception with Poster Presentations

Friday October 18^th / Saturday October 19^th

8 – 8:45 am Breakfast*

*Note: – there is a hot buffet breakfast provided by the Embassy Suites hotel. People not staying at the conference hotel will be able to purchase vouchers from the hotel or from a limited AACS supply.

9 – 9:45 am Morning Plenary Speaker

10 – 11:15 am Sessions

*Note: There will be four to six sessions in each of the 8 session periods.

11:30 – 12:45 – Sessions

1 – 2:30 – Lunch and Speaker – Keynote (Friday) / Presidential Address (Saturday)

*Note: The luncheon banquets are included with your conference registration fee.

2:45 – 4 – Sessions

4:15 – 5:30 – Sessions

5:30 – 7:30 – Reception – Student Mixer with Trivia (Friday) / Awards Reception (Saturday)*

* Note: AACS is planning to host a reception with pupus (in Hawai’i where I live, that means finger food/appetizers) on Thursday night (full conference), Friday night (student mixer), and Saturday night (full conference). The receptions are included in your conference registration fee. Conference attendees who are staying at the Embassy Suites will also have access to a reception hosted by the hotel, which includes additional pupus and an open bar. These receptions will be in proximity to each other. The local committee is also working to plan an add-on excursion to a live music venue in downtown Portland on Friday night following the student mixer.

The preliminary conference programme is as follows (RC46 sessions are in bold). :

Education

Teaching Sociology – Applied and Otherwise Community Engaged and Action Oriented Education Engaging Students in Applied Sociology Through Activist Community Engagement Teaching and Learning:  Working with Incarcerated Persons as Applied Sociology Inter-disciplinarity: Applying the Sociological Imagination across Multiple Disciplines in a Senior Seminar Education and Success: Intersecting Factors Education and Social Justice

Health and Environment

Patient Care: Risks and Issues in Diverse Health Care Settings Veggies Against Barriers – An interactive Workshop on (Community) Gardening as Sociological Practice to Promote Social Change Social Location, Health, and Healthcare A Brief Therapeutic Poetry Writing Intervention for Youth who have Experienced Trauma Brainstorming the Sustainable Development Goals–Yes, We Do Have Concepts That Count! Examining the Health Care Institution Clinical sociology, citizen science and the environment

Organizations

Patient Care: Risks and Issues in Diverse Health Care Settings Working with Non Profits: Demonstrations Occupational Change and the Experience of Labor Analysis of Organizational Structure and Culture Sociology and the Experience Economy: Understanding and Improving Customer, Patient, and Employee Experience through Sociological Application

Social Problems/Social Change

Transitioning – Projects and Programs:  Working with Incarcerated Persons as Applied Sociology Clinical sociology interventions I Teaching and Learning:  Working with Incarcerated Persons as Applied Sociology Application of Family Studies Addressing Social Problems Policy, Crime, and Gender Evolving Politics in a Social Justice Movement: Lessons from Cannabis Legalization

Theory and Methods

Third Annual Jay Weinstein Session on the Use of Theory in Applied and Clinical Sociology Veggies Against Barriers – An interactive Workshop on (Community-) Gardening as Sociological Practice to Promote Social Change Methodology and Knowledge Production: Critical Approaches A Brief Therapeutic Poetry Writing Intervention for Youth who have Experienced Trauma Podcasting and Public Sociology: Alternative Forms of Knowledge Applied Methods for Social Problem Solving: Demonstrations Site Mapping Methodology for practitioners, academics, and students

Professional Practice

Yes BA Sociologists Can Find A Job & Here Are The Secrets Publishing Your Book Issues in Applied Sociology Learning from Each Other: Successes, Struggles, & Support Among Students Clinical sociology interventions II Journal of Applied Social Science: A Learning Resource to Make Students Aware of What Professional Sociologists Do WORKSHOP ON LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AND ENHANCEMENT

Here is a preview of our six Professional Development Workshops:

• AACS Keynote Speaker, Dr. Janet Mancini Billson, will conduct a workshop on “Systematic Focus Groups for Academic and Policy Research: An Introduction.”
• AACS President and CAPCS Chair, Dr. Michael Fleischer, will conduct the “2019 CAPACS Accreditation Review Committee (ARC) and Site Visit Team (SVT) Training Workshop” for new Commissioners who will be joining the CAPACS Board of Directors;
• AACS President-elect, Dr. Karen Albright, will conduct a workshop on “Grantsmanship for Qualitative and Mixed Methods Proposals”
• AACS Past President, Dr. Gary David, will conduct a workshop on “Crafting Your Sociological Brand”
• AACS Board Member, Dr. Miriam Boeri, will conduct a workshop on “Sharing Your Expertise: Media & Op-Ed Training”
• Dr. Lorella Palazzo will conduct a workshop on “Program Evaluation 101”

 

 

SOUTH AFRICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONGRESS 2019

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

WORK, LIFE & SOCIETY: MEANINGS, MANIFESTATIONS AND TRAJECTORIES OF THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN AFRICA

 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA, SUNNYSIDE CAMPUS, PRETORIA 15 – 17 JULY 2019

This 26th South African Sociological Association (SASA) Congress seeks to interrogate the meanings, manifestations and trajectories of the 4th Industrial Revolution within the African context and the global South at large. We invite papers that discuss, engage and challenge this revolution. The SASA Congress seeks to provide the space to interrogate its meaning for the continent struggling with continued structural challenges in terms of inequalities, food shortages, gendered power relations, environmental challenges, institutional degradation and systematic governance. These are among the developmental questions still facing the continent and the global South at large. The 4th Industrial Revolution is said to be automation of the highest level that will force the global economies and its workers to rethink their daily routines and general meaning of the work society. However, Sociologists have argued as early as in the1970s about the nature and influence of automation to society, life and work in general. Whether this 4th Indusial Revolution symbolises a ‘radical’ shift from the past or a continuation of the capitalist economic shifts which are simply part of the different forms of production remains to be seen.

THEMES FOR THE CONGRESS INCLUDE

Technological Histories in Africa; Land, Labour and Women; Information Technologies, Social Media, and Citizen Journalism; The Future of Work in Society; Skills and Human Development of the Future; Global Inequalities and the Digital Divide; Children, Family and Genetics; Youth, Politics and Entrepreneurship; Food, Social policy and Governance; Education, Science and Industrial Development; Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Technological Futures; Social Movements and Digital Technologies;Digital Storytelling and Creative Methodologies.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Prof Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga (MIT)

The author of Transient Workspaces: Technologies of Everyday Innovation in Zimbabwe (MIT Press, 2014), which received honourable mentions in the Turku Prize (European Society for Environmental History) and the Herskovits Prize (African Studies Association) in 2015. His second book is an edited volume entitled What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean from Africa? It explores STI in Africa from an archaeological, historical, philosophical, anthropological, STS, engineering, development, and policy-making perspectives.

 ABSTRACT SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

All abstracts should be submitted online. See SASA website for more details (http://www.sasaonline.org.za/sasa-2019-conference.html) Online abstract submissions open on 1 February 2019. Abstracts should be no more than 250 words, including full contact details and affiliation of all presenters.

CLINICAL SOCIOLOGY WORKING GROUP CONVENORS

 Prof Tina Uys tuys@uj.ac.za

 Dr Mariam Seedat Khan Seedatm@ukzn.ac.za