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

RC54 The Body in the Social Sciences

Program Coordinators: Monica MESQUITA, Ph.D. (NOVA University Lisbon | MARE Centre, Portugal) and Dulce Maria FILGUEIRA DE ALMEIDA (University of Brasilia, Brazil)

Monday, 7 July 2025

09:00-10:45

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

11:00-12:45

Bodies, (trans) Genders and Violences
Session Organizer: Dulce Maria FILGUEIRA DE ALMEIDA
Chair: Dulce Maria FILGUEIRA DE ALMEIDA

13:00-14:45

Embodied Global Politics
Session Organizers: Noelle BRIGDEN, Malasree Neepa ACHARYA and Cordelia RIZZO REYES
Chair: Malasree Neepa ACHARYA

Tuesday, 8 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Bodies and Emotions in Climate Change Crisis: The Role of Solidarity
Session Organizers: Victoria D'HERS and Angelica DE SENA
Chair: Victoria D'HERS

11:00-12:45

Embodiment in the Age of AI and Digital Culture: The Evolving Relationship between Bodies and Technologies
Session Organizer: Anabela DA CONCEIÇÃO PEREIRA
Chair: Anabela DA CONCEIÇÃO PEREIRA

13:00-14:45

Love As Collective Action: Bodies, Emotions, and Sensibilities (1)
Session Organizer: Adrian SCRIBANO

15:00-16:45

Bodies, Emotions and Sensibilities in the Present Time
Session Organizer: Dulce Maria FILGUEIRA DE ALMEIDA
Chair: Victoria D'HERS

Wednesday, 9 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Love As Collective Action: Bodies, Emotions, and Sensibilities (2)
Session Organizer: Monica MESQUITA, Ph.D.

11:00-12:45

Social Controls over Bodies and Human Rights
Session Organizer: Leticia SILVA RODRIGUES TEIXEIRA
Chair: Anabela DA CONCEIÇÃO PEREIRA

15:00-16:45

Teaching, Researching and Exchanging: Universities and Social Movements in Action Together
Session Organizers: Aline YURI HASEGAWA, Gabriela VILLEN and Leda GITAHY

19:00-20:30

The Body & Motion: The Impacts of Physical Activity on Physical and Mental Health and Well-Being
Session Organizer: Anabela DA CONCEIÇÃO PEREIRA

Thursday, 10 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Bodies and Justice in the Era of the Anthropocene: The Impact of Resonance and Social Energies
Session Organizer: Dietmar WETZEL
Chair: Dietmar WETZEL

11:00-12:45

Bodies in the Anthropocene: Ways of Justice and Corporeal Knowing
Session Organizer: Craig COOK

13:00-14:45

Violence & Body (Re)Visited: Reflecting Our Own Limits & Beyond
Session Organizers: Monica MESQUITA, Ph.D. and Dietmar WETZEL
Chair: Dietmar WETZEL

15:00-16:45

Bodies, (trans) Genders and Violences: Human Rights
Session Organizer: Dulce Maria FILGUEIRA DE ALMEIDA
Chair: Craig COOK

Friday, 11 July 2025

11:00-12:45

Body, Art, and Environment - Sacred Body, Living Nature
Session Organizers: Yara Aparecida COUTO and Monica MESQUITA, Ph.D.
Chair: Yara Aparecida COUTO

13:00-14:45

RC54 Business Meeting