XXI ISA World Congress of Sociology 2027 – Call for Abstracts

XXI ISA World Congress of Sociology
Gwangju, Republic of Korea
July 4–10, 2027

Deadline for abstract submissions (max. 300 words): October 14, 2026

We are delighted to invite you to submit your abstracts for the XXI ISA World Congress of Sociology. The World Congress of the International Sociological Association offers a unique opportunity to discuss current research with a global community of sociologists and scholars from related disciplines.

The Research Committee on Sociology of Organizations (RC17) invites abstract submissions for the following themes. Click on the theme title to read the full Call for Abstracts.

• Business and Society Relations In Twenty-First-Century East Asia
  organized by Jiwook Jung
• DEI, Aging, and Corporate Responsibility: Organizations, Discrimination, and the Care of Older Adults
  organized by Soohan Kim
• Diversity and Organizations – Debates from Transnational, National or Regional Perspectives
  organized by Maja Apelt, Nina Hossain and Matthias Schneider
• Educational Organizations, Diversity, and Digital Technologies: Examining Inclusion and Exclusion
  organized by Svenja Hammer, Robert Aust and Caroline Vincent
• Forging Global Alliances: Food Security, Preparedness, and Agroecological Resilience In Turbulent Times
  organized by Allison Loconto and Hilde Bjørkhaug
• Governing Digital Transformation In Organizations
  organized by Angela Graf, Sabine Pfeiffer, Klarissa Lueg and Marco Blank
• Meta-Organizations and Alternatives to Dominant Orders
  organized by Héloïse Berkowitz, Florence Lanzi and Fabian Maier
• Micro-Sociology of Organizations: What Can It Offer?
  organized by Nadine Arnold and Lars Klemsdal
• Organization and Expertise: Producing, Stabilizing, and Contesting Knowledge
  organized by Kathia Serrano Velarde and Leopold Ringel
• Organization, De-Institutionalization, and Alienation: Education, Care, and Welfare and the New Authoritarianism
  organized by Dirk Michel-Schertges and Michael Grothe-Hammer
• Organizational and Algorithmic Rationalities: Decision-Making, Power and Control In Contemporary Organizations
  organized by Marco Joestingmeier and Uli Meyer
• Organizations Shaping and Being Shaped By Migration
  organized by Yingjian Liang
• Organizing Creativity with AI: Creative Industries, Organizational Fields, and the Reconfiguration of Expertise
  organized by Angela Graf, Sabine Pfeiffer and Marco Blank
• Organizing Education
  organized by Kathia Serrano-Velarde and Rebecca Ye
• Organizing Political Displacement: Expertise, Bureaucracy and the Neutralization of Conflict
  organized by Amel Boubekeur
• Organizing Waste for Livable Lives
  organized by Nadine Arnold, Héloïse Berkowitz, Simone Di Cecco, Karine Guiderdoni-Jourdain and Devi Vijay
• Organizing from the South: Coloniality, Emergences and Alternatives In Latin America
  organized by Alba González Vega, Lorena Litai Ramos and Ayde Cadena López
• Policy Change In Overorganized Societies
  organized by Patrick Castel and Henri Bergeron
• Professions and Organisations Facing Turbulent Times: The Role of Technology
  organized by Lia Tirabeni and Lara Maestripieri
• Racial Inequality In Organisations: The Role of Attitudes, Emotions and Organisational Culture
  organized by Carolin Schütze
• Senior Employment In Organizations
  organized by Christophe Baret, Tomohiko Moriyama and Kihong Kim
• Systems, Decisions, and Organization: From Cybernetic Legacies to Contemporary Challenges
  organized by Ayumi Higuchi and Michael Grothe-Hammer
• The AI-Magicalized Double Movement: Transforming Social Institutions
  organized by Jelica Stefanovic Stambuk and Nikola Lazic
• The Contested Worth of Academic Knowledge
  organized by Kate Williams and Liz Dean
• The Futures of Doing Research In the Social Sciences In the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI): What Can We Do? What Should We Do?
  organized by Inga Gaizauskaite, Michael Grothe-Hammer, Dirk Michel-Schertges and Markus S. Schulz
• The Organization of Ignorance
  organized by Robert Van Krieken
• The Social Regulations of Shared Objects and Spaces In Organizations
  organized by Nathalie Saadia Richebé and Lea Holm-Jensen

Abstracts must be submitted through the ISA Conference System and must not exceed 300 words. Please select the session that best fits your proposed contribution and consult the individual session page for its thematic focus and accepted language(s).

Deadline for abstract submissions: October 14, 2026, 23:59 UTC/GMT.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the RC17 Program Coordinators:

Michael Grothe-Hammer, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
michael.grothe-hammer@ntnu.no

Robert van Krieken, University of Sydney, Australia
robert.van.krieken@sydney.edu.au

We hope to see you in Gwangju!