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

RC38 Biography and Society

Program Coordinators: Maria POHN-LAUGGAS (University of Bochum, Germany) and Giorgios TSIOLIS (University of Crete, Greece)

Monday, 7 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Present without Past? on the Relevance of Historical Research for Sociological Investigation of the Present, Part I
Session Organizers: Gabriele ROSENTHAL and Lucas CÉ SANGALLI
Chair: Giorgios TSIOLIS

11:00-12:45

Biographical Research on Precarity in the Era of Permacrisis
Session Organizers: Giorgios TSIOLIS and Irini SIOUTI
Chair: Giorgios TSIOLIS

13:00-14:45

Ambiguous Subjects in a Global Generation. Understanding Youth from Biographical Approaches, Part I
Session Organizers: Joschka PHILIPPS and Gérard AMOUGOU
Chair: Gérard AMOUGOU

15:00-16:45

Narrations of Gendered (In-)Justice in Migration Processes
Session Organizers: Ursula APITZSCH and Minna-Kristiina RUOKONEN-ENGLER
Chairs: Ursula APITZSCH and Minna-Kristiina RUOKONEN-ENGLER

19:00-20:30

Immigration Policies, Global Inequalities, and Knowing (in)Justice As Biographical Knowledge
Session Organizers: Ursula APITZSCH and Lena INOWLOCKI
Chair: Lena INOWLOCKI

Tuesday, 8 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Individual, Family and Group Experiences with Return Migration and Returnees - a Cross-National (Comparative) Perspective
Session Organizers: Steve TONAH and Maria POHN-LAUGGAS
Chair: Maria POHN-LAUGGAS

11:00-12:45

The Nexus between Migration and Enslavement
Session Organizers: Lucas CÉ SANGALLI and Charles MURATA
Chair: Lucas CÉ SANGALLI

13:00-14:45

"Decolonization" Meets Qualitative-Interpretative Research
Session Organizers: Maria POHN-LAUGGAS and Victoria TABOADA GOMEZ
Chair: Victoria TABOADA GOMEZ

15:00-16:45

Ambiguous Subjects in a Global Generation. Understanding Youth from Biographical Approaches, Part II
Session Organizers: Joschka PHILIPPS and Gérard AMOUGOU
Chair: Joschka PHILIPPS

19:00-20:30

Research Infrastructures, Data Reuse and Secondary Analysis in Biographical Research and Oral History
Session Organizers: Giorgios TSIOLIS and Nikolaos NAGOPOULOS
Chair: Johannes BECKER

Wednesday, 9 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Present without Past? on the Relevance of Historical Research for Sociological Investigation of the Present, Part II
Session Organizers: Gabriele ROSENTHAL and Lucas CÉ SANGALLI
Chair: Lucas CÉ SANGALLI

11:00-12:45

Inspecting Lives of Those Who Harm – Joint Session WG11 ‘Violence and Society’ & RC38 ‘Biography and Society’
Session Organizers: Dabney EVANS and Martín DI MARCO

13:00-14:45

Exploring Intersections between Biographical Research and Religion
Session Organizers: Johannes BECKER, Marian BURCHARDT and Mar GRIERA

15:00-16:45

Speaking and Silencing of Violent Experiences As a Social Issue in Biographical Research and Oral History
Session Organizers: Eren YETKIN and Lena INOWLOCKI
Chair: Eren YETKIN

19:00-20:30

RC38 Business Meeting

Thursday, 10 July 2025

09:00-10:45

The Social Challenges of Care in Contemporary Societies
Session Organizer: Johanna SAGNER TAPIA
Chair: Johanna SAGNER TAPIA

11:00-12:45

Transnational Generations – Memories and Knowledge Transmission of/in Migration and Exile, Part I
Session Organizers: Eva BAHL and Fira CHMIEL
Chair: Eva BAHL

13:00-14:45

Migration, Belonging and Family History
Session Organizers: Johannes BECKER and Leticia MUÑIZ TERRA
Chair: Catharina PEECK-HO

15:00-16:45

Citizenship, Biography and Family History
Session Organizers: Johannes BECKER, Catharina PEECK-HO and Leticia MUÑIZ TERRA
Chair: Johannes BECKER

Friday, 11 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Transnational Generations - Memories and Knowledge Transmission of/in Migration and Exile, Part II
Session Organizers: Fira CHMIEL and Eva BAHL
Chair: Eva BAHL

11:00-12:45

Locating Women’s Leadership in Their History and Territory: Emerging Forms of Knowledge in the Face of Environmental and Climate Change
Session Organizers: Anke KAULARD and Victoria TABOADA GOMEZ
Chair: Constanza PARRA

13:00-14:45

Creative Methods in Biographical Research
Session Organizers: Irini SIOUTI, Michaela KOETTIG and Minna-Kristiina RUOKONEN-ENGLER
Chair: Michaela KOETTIG

15:00-16:45

Becoming an Activist in the Age of Polycrisis: The Biographical Experience of Advocating Social Change
Session Organizers: Kamil LUCZAJ, Katarzyna WANIEK and Kaja KAZMIERSKA
Chair: Kamil LUCZAJ