Symposium: (5th ISA Forum of Sociology (6-11 July 2025))

RC07 Futures Research

Program Coordinators: Markus S. SCHULZ (Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, Mexico) and Jan P. NEDERVEEN PIETERSE, USA)

Monday, 7 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Polycrisis: The New Geopolitical Dynamics
Session Organizer: Jan P. NEDERVEEN PIETERSE

11:00-12:45

Futures Research Special Session
Session Organizer: Futures RESEARCH-COMMITTEE

13:00-14:45

Dignified Aging in the Digital Age? (Part I)
Session Organizers: Ana VUKOVIC and Prof. Jelica STEFANOVIC STAMBUK
Chair: Ana VUKOVIC

The Future of Work : Challenges and Inclusive Solutions
Session Organizers: Hana FOUGHALI and Isabel DA COSTA

15:00-16:45

Dignified Aging in the Digital Age? (Part II)
Session Organizers: Ana VUKOVIC and Prof. Jelica STEFANOVIC STAMBUK
Chair: Prof. Jelica STEFANOVIC STAMBUK

Disaster Socialism?
Session Organizer: William CARROLL

19:00-20:30

Futures Research Workshop
Session Organizer: Jian-Bang DENG

Tuesday, 8 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Futures of the Anthropocene: Interrogating Anticipation
Session Organizers: Jan P. NEDERVEEN PIETERSE and Markus S. SCHULZ

11:00-12:45

Prefigurations of the Future and Community-Formation
Session Organizers: Eva GERHARZ and Sebastian GARBE

13:00-14:45

New Perspectives in Social Futures Research (Roundtable Session)
Session Organizer: Radhamany SOORYAMOORTHY

15:00-16:45

Futures of the Anthropocene: Social Movements and Political Imagination (Part II)
Session Organizers: Futures RESEARCH-COMMITTEE and Ligia TAVERA FENOLLOSA

19:00-20:30

Les Utopies Féministes Concrètes / Concrete Feminist Utopia
Session Organizer: Marine GAUSS

Wednesday, 9 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Aspirational Justice: Framing Desirable Futures in Vulnerable Contexts
Session Organizers: Evelyne BAILLERGEAU, Benedicte ZIMMERMANN and Vieujean OLIVIA

Discussing Futures of Globalization
Session Organizer: Ulrike SCHUERKENS

11:00-12:45

Futures of the Anthropocene: Social Movements and Political Imagination (Part I)
Session Organizers: Markus S. SCHULZ and Camila PONCE LARA

13:00-14:45

Disinformation and Framing Battles in the New Technomediatic Public Sphere
Session Organizer: Richard MISKOLCI

15:00-16:45

Futures Research: Open Themes / Investigación Sobre Los Futuros: Temas Abiertas / Recherche Sur Les Futurs: Thèmes Ouverts
Session Organizers: Radhamany SOORYAMOORTHY and Futures RESEARCH

Social Movements and the Future of Democracy in Latin America
Session Organizer: Ligia TAVERA FENOLLOSA

19:00-20:30

Exploring Systematically the Future - How to Capture the Unknown and Uncertain?
Session Organizers: Stefan VÖGELE, Simon BRAUNER and Hawal SHAMON

Thursday, 10 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Health Futures in Turbulence
Session Organizer: Julia ROZANOVA

11:00-12:45

Social Futures Research: New Perspectives
Session Organizers: Futures RESEARCH and Julia ROZANOVA

13:00-14:45

Digital Futures: Contesting Power and Visions (Part I)
Session Organizer: Markus S. SCHULZ

15:00-16:45

Digital Futures: Contesting Power and Visions (Part II)
Session Organizer: Markus S. SCHULZ

19:00-20:30

RC07 Business Meeting

Friday, 11 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Digital Futures: Contesting Power and Visions (Part III)
Session Organizer: Markus S. SCHULZ

11:00-12:45

Digital Futures: Contesting Power and Visions (Part IV)
Session Organizer: Markus S. SCHULZ

13:00-14:45

Digital Futures: Contesting Power and Visions (Part V)
Session Organizer: Markus S. SCHULZ

15:00-16:45

Alienation and Futures Research
Session Organizers: Dirk MICHEL-SCHERTGES and Mariolina GRAZIOSI