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

RC53 Sociology of Childhood

Program Coordinators: Anne RAMOS, Switzerland) and Valeria LLOBET (CONICET / UNSAM, Argentina)

Monday, 7 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Methodological and Ethical Challenges in Qualitative Fieldwork with Children (Part I)
Session Organizers: Lise MOGENSEN and Tobia FATTORE

Sociology of Resistance: Palestinian Society As a Case Study
Session Organizer: Dalal BAJES
Chair: Dalal BAJES

11:00-12:45

Methodological and Ethical Challenges in Qualitative Fieldwork with Children (Part II)
Session Organizers: Lise MOGENSEN and Tobia FATTORE

13:00-14:45

Reimagining Justice in Early Childhood Education: Multispecies Pedagogies for the Anthropocene
Session Organizer: Turkan FIRINCI ORMAN

Whose Knowledge Counts? Reflecting on Child-Led and Co-Produced Research with Children
Session Organizers: Kay TISDALL and Patricio CUEVAS-PARRA
Chair: Valeria LLOBET

15:00-16:45

Keynote Conference
Session Organizers: Valeria LLOBET and Spyros SPYROU

Tuesday, 8 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Childhood and Migration (Part I)
Session Organizer: Vida CESNUITYTE
Chair: Anne RAMOS

11:00-12:45

Childhood and Migration (Part II)
Session Organizer: Anne RAMOS
Chair: Vida CESNUITYTE

13:00-14:45

Perspectives on Linguistic Interaction and Meaning Negotiations in Multilingual Settings
Session Organizer: Nadja THOMA

15:00-16:45

A Dialogue from the South(s): Research Agendas on Childhood Studies
Session Organizers: Tobia FATTORE and Lucia RABELLO DE CASTRO
Chair: Lucia RABELLO DE CASTRO

19:00-20:30

RC53 Business Meeting
Session Organizer: Valeria LLOBET

Wednesday, 9 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Child Well-Being, Education, and School (Part I)
Session Organizer: Tobia FATTORE

11:00-12:45

Child Well-Being, Education, and School (Part II)
Session Organizer: Tobia FATTORE

13:00-14:45

Asian European Childhoods Beyond the “Model Minority” Myth: Perils, Paradoxes and Potentials
Session Organizer: Xiaorong GU

Early Smartphone Access: Navigating Parental Decisions and Adolescent Wellbeing in a Digital Age
Session Organizers: Brunella FIORE and Chiara RESPI
Chair: Donatella POLIANDRI

15:00-16:45

Intergenerational Justice As Radicalized Democracy
Session Organizers: Lucia RABELLO DE CASTRO and Paülah SHABEL
Chair: Lucia RABELLO DE CASTRO

Thursday, 10 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Exploring Narrative and Arts-Based Approaches in Childhood Studies
Session Organizer: Hamide Elif ÜZÜMCÜ

11:00-12:45

Vulnerabilities of Children and Older People: A Linking-Ages Perspective on Experiences of Violence
Session Organizers: Anne RAMOS and Anna Elisabeth WANKA

13:00-14:45

Childhood, Geontopower and the Anthropocene
Session Organizer: Veronica PACINI-KETCHABAW
Chair: Veronica PACINI-KETCHABAW

15:00-16:45

Authors Meets Critiques: Critical Children's Rights Research Companion
Session Organizers: Afua TWUM-DANSO IMOH and Lucia RABELLO DE CASTRO

Friday, 11 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Contested Everyday Temporalities. Children and Youth in Contemporary Changing Worlds.
Session Organizers: Ana MIRANDA and Valeria LLOBET

Researching Childhoods: Social Issues, Methodologies and Theoretical Approaches
Session Organizer: Hamide Elif ÜZÜMCÜ

11:00-12:45

Sociological Insights into Children’s Relationships with the Environment
Session Organizer: Hamide Elif ÜZÜMCÜ

13:00-14:45

(Un)Heard Voices: Children’s Perspectives on Sexuality
Session Organizer: Zenaida ANDREICA GHEORGHE
Chair: Bruna ALVAREZ MORA

15:00-16:45

Childhood and the Anthropocene
Session Organizer: Anne RAMOS