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

WG01 Sociology of Local-Global Relations

Program Coordinators: Virendra P. SINGH (Global Research and Educational Foundation India, India) and Deepthi SHANKER (Central University of Odisha, India)

Monday, 7 July 2025

09:00-10:45

The Role of International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs) in Promoting Social Justice in the Global South
Session Organizers: Augusto GAMUZZA and Marco CASELLI

11:00-12:45

Post-Globalization and Neo-Traditionalist Solidarities Among Brics Countries
Session Organizer: Dmitry IVANOV

15:00-16:45

WG01 Business Meeting

19:00-20:30

The Empires behind the Imperial Mode of Living
Session Organizer: Dr. Haimo SCHULZ MEINEN, PhD, MA

Tuesday, 8 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Ethnographing Access to Rights in the Anthropocene
Session Organizers: Lauriane DOS SANTOS and Leila DRIF

11:00-12:45

Women Empowerment in Globalizing World: Conceptual Issues and Empirical Reality
Session Organizers: Madhu SISODIA and Sudeep KAUR

13:00-14:45

Globalization, Democracies and the Rise of Authoritarianism in Contemporary World
Session Organizers: Virendra P. SINGH, Parvez Ahmad ABBASI and Shreepal CHAUHAN

15:00-16:45

Democratisation of Media Platforms in a Globalised World
Session Organizers: Sarvesh DUTT TRIPATHI and Vinay SHANKER

Wednesday, 9 July 2025

09:00-10:45

The Politics of Masculinities in Neoliberal South Korea
Session Organizer: Seungsook MOON

11:00-12:45

The Image of the Future As a Factor of Actual Social and Political Relations in a Hybrid Reality.
Session Organizer: Nataliya VELIKAYA

13:00-14:45

News Tendencies in the Global Work. Comparative Scales of Informality, Precarity and Unemployment
Session Organizers: Deepthi SHANKER and Dr. Francisco FAVIERI

15:00-16:45

The Crisis of Modernity and Changing World Order
Session Organizers: Virendra P. SINGH and Preeti TIWARI

Thursday, 10 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Reshaping Global Sociology to Focus on the Global Majority
Session Organizer: Caroline SCHOEPF

11:00-12:45

Social Contract: Evolution of Ideas and Practices
Session Organizer: Miroslava TSAPKO
Chair: Natalia BELOVA

13:00-14:45

The Cultural Pragmatics of the Environment: From Local to Global Challenges, Ideas, Identities, Inquiries, and Problems in Everyday Performances and Practices Part 1
Session Organizers: Charles BERTHELET and Marjolaine LAMONTAGNE LAMONTAGNE

15:00-16:45

Heuristic Methods for Studying the “Good Society” Model As the Basis for Integration Processes of Society Consolidation.
Session Organizers: Elena IRSETSKAYA and Preeti TIWARI

Friday, 11 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Anthropocene and the Global-Local Relations
Session Organizer: Deepthi SHANKER

11:00-12:45

Media, AI, and the Global South: Shaping New Narratives
Session Organizers: Atish PRASHAR and Pawan KOUNDAL

13:00-14:45

Visual Art and the Mediation of Climate Change Issues Beyond Populism: The Aesthetic Calculation of Global-Local Publics
Session Organizers: Anna SCHOBER, Martina TRITTHART and Florian GUCHER
Chair: Anna SCHOBER