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

WG08 Society and Emotions

Program Coordinators: Cecile VAN DE VELDE (Université de Montréal, Canada) and Jingting ZHANG (Shanghai International Studies University, China)

Monday, 7 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Gender and Emotions in the ‘New’ Far Right: ‘Re-Constructing’ Gender and Masculinities
Session Organizers: Begonya ENGUIX GRAU and Alexandre PICHEL-VAZQUEZ

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

11:00-12:45

Emotions and Affects in School Settings: Sociological Insights for Their Understanding. (Part I)
Session Organizers: Mariana NOBILE and Aina TARABINI

Poverty, Social Policies and "New Commodifications" (1)
Session Organizers: Eva SOTOMAYOR and Angelica DE SENA

13:00-14:45

Cold Emotions: Experiencing the Violence of War through Social Media
Session Organizer: Paola REBUGHINI

Social Love and Solidarity between Emotions and Actions: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges for Social Research
Session Organizers: Gennaro IORIO, Maria Carmela CATONE and Angela DELLI PAOLI

15:00-16:45

Emotions and Affects in School Settings: Sociological Insights for Their Understanding. (Part II)
Session Organizers: Mariana NOBILE and Aina TARABINI

Sociology of Emotions in China and Contemporary Issues
Session Organizer: Jingting ZHANG

19:00-20:30

Empathy and Social Relations
Session Organizers: Gennaro IORIO and Vincenzo AURIEMMA

Tuesday, 8 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Towards a Sociology of Hope
Session Organizer: Adrian SCRIBANO

11:00-12:45

Emotions at Work: Stress, Self-Management and Digital Dynamics
Session Organizers: Pedro LISDERO, Mustafa Berkay AYDIN and Cagdas CAGDAS CEYHAN

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

19:00-20:30

Touch and the Emotions from a More-Than-Human Perspective: Discoveries in Frogs, Cats, Primates, … and Humans
Session Organizer: Jingting ZHANG
Chair: Nicolas ARENAS

Wednesday, 9 July 2025

09:00-10:45

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

Towards a Sociology of Hope (2)
Session Organizer: Paul WARD
Chair: Alexandre ZARIAS

11:00-12:45

Affect, Emotions, Feelings, Senses, Sensibilities: Conceptual Consistencies and Inconsistencies (1)
Session Organizers: Mark PATERSON and Nicolas ARENAS

Sensibilities in Women: Experiencies of Mothers, Workers and Wifes
Session Organizers: Gabriela VERGARA and Lois Liao LOIS LIAO

13:00-14:45

Wandering Emotions
Session Organizer: Juan A. ROCHE CARCEL

19:00-20:30

Politics of Emotions in the Era Capitalocene: Exploring the Universe of End-of-the-World Sensibilities
Session Organizers: Adrian SCRIBANO and Horacio MACHADO ARAOZ

Thursday, 10 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Food, Eating and Emotions (1)
Session Organizer: María Victoria SORDINI

Personal Branding for Professors-Researchers
Session Organizers: Mounya CHAHBOUNE, Mouna HILMI and Sanâa BOUAROUROU

11:00-12:45

Embodiment, Emotions, and Religiousness (Part I)
Session Organizers: Arely del Carmen TORRES MEDINA, Susana Alejandra SOTOMAYOR and Hilda MAZARIEGOS HERRERARA

Poverty, Social Policies and "New Commodifications" (2)
Session Organizers: Eva SOTOMAYOR and Angelica DE SENA

13:00-14:45

Emotions and Consumption in the Digitalized World: The Case of Influencers on Social Media
Session Organizers: Maria MAIRANO and Jingting ZHANG

15:00-16:45

Affect, Emotions, Feelings, Senses, Sensibilities: Conceptual Consistencies and Inconsistencies (2)
Session Organizers: Nicolas ARENAS and Mark PATERSON

19:00-20:30

WG08 Business Meeting

Friday, 11 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Emotions in Social Movements: New Approaches and Methodological Innovations
Session Organizers: Cecile VAN DE VELDE and Karla HENRIQUEZ OJEDA

11:00-12:45

Food, Eating and Emotions (2)
Session Organizer: María Victoria SORDINI

13:00-14:45

Embodiment, Emotions, and Religiousness (Part II)
Session Organizers: Arely del Carmen TORRES MEDINA, Susana Alejandra SOTOMAYOR and Hilda MAZARIEGOS HERRERARA