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

WG11 Violence and Society

Program Coordinators: Myrna DAWSON (University of Guelph, Canada) and Sylvia WALBY (Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom)

Monday, 7 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Elder Abuse and Neglect
Session Organizer: Jolanta PEREK-BIALAS
Chair: Jolanta PEREK-BIALAS

State, Violence and Society: Border-Crossings, Migration, and State Power
Session Organizers: Margaret ABRAHAM and Evangelia TASTSOGLOU
Chair: Margaret ABRAHAM

11:00-12:45

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

Terrains of Possibility for Non-State Uses of Interpersonal or Intergroup Violence
Session Organizers: Karen MILLER and Colleen WOODS
Chair: Amy CHIN

13:00-14:45

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

Interrogating Femicide and Feminicide: From the Local to the Global
Session Organizers: Myrna DAWSON and Martín DI MARCO

15:00-16:45

State Violence and Society: Coercive Powers of States across Borders
Session Organizer: Margaret ABRAHAM
Chair: Shobha HAMAL GURUNG

19:00-20:30

Gendered Violence, Abuse and Exploitation in the Shadow of Bordering Regimes and Border Control
Session Organizer: Sundari ANITHA
Chair: Sundari ANITHA

Tuesday, 8 July 2025

09:00-10:45

The Impact of Violence: Its Consequences for Memory, Representation, and Trauma I
Session Organizer: Lynn RAPAPORT

11:00-12:45

The Impact of Violence: Its Consequences for Memory, Representation, and Trauma III
Session Organizer: Lynn RAPAPORT

13:00-14:45

Authors Meet Critics: Trafficking Chains: Modern Slavery in Society By Sylvia Walby and Karen Shire
Session Organizer: Heidi GOTTFRIED
Chair: Heidi GOTTFRIED

The Impact of Violence: Its Consequences for Memory, Representation, and Trauma II
Session Organizer: Lynn RAPAPORT

15:00-16:45

Gendered Violence and Social Regulation of Gender Relations: Family, Law and the State
Session Organizer: Elspeth MCINNES

Wednesday, 9 July 2025

09:00-10:45

State, Violence and Society: Between State and Justice
Session Organizer: Evangelia TASTSOGLOU
Chair: Evangelia TASTSOGLOU

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

State, Violence and Society: The Coercive Powers of States
Session Organizers: Margaret ABRAHAM and Evangelia TASTSOGLOU
Chair: Shobha HAMAL GURUNG

15:00-16:45

Palestinian Childhoods – Growing up in Contexts of Violence and Exclusion
Session Organizers: Ravinder BARN and Doris BUEHLER-NIEDERBERGER
Chair: Vassilis TSIANOS

Revisiting Revolutions: Debates and Trajectories
Session Organizers: Heidi GOTTFRIED and Valentine M. MOGHADAM
Chair: Heidi GOTTFRIED

19:00-20:30

WG11 Business Meeting

Thursday, 10 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Debates on Juvenile Criminal Issues (Part I)
Session Organizers: Carolina GONZÁLEZ LAURINO and Sandra LEOPOLD COSTABILE

11:00-12:45

Debates on Juvenile Criminal Issues (Part II)
Session Organizers: Carolina GONZÁLEZ LAURINO and Sandra LEOPOLD COSTABILE

13:00-14:45

Domestic Labour, Violence and Exploitation: Global Gendered Perspectives
Session Organizers: Shih Joo TAN and Sundari ANITHA

The Political Economy of Violence
Session Organizer: Ece KOCABICAK
Chair: Hakan SANDAL-WILSON

15:00-16:45

Violence in Contemporary Society: Examining Contributors to and Consequences of Increasing Polarization.
Session Organizers: Myrna DAWSON and Yans DIPATI

Friday, 11 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Violence and Society I: A Focus on Institutional, State and/or Political Violence
Session Organizer: Myrna DAWSON

11:00-12:45

Violence and Society II: Experiences of Violence in the Lives of Women and Children
Session Organizer: Martín DI MARCO

13:00-14:45

Challenges and Opportunities in Measuring Violence
Session Organizer: Oliver NAHKUR

Violence and Society IV: Examining Various Forms of Violence and Societal Responses
Session Organizer: Martín DI MARCO

15:00-16:45

Student Camps in Solidarity with Palestine. Protest Against the International Order in Light of a Genocide
Session Organizers: Marcela MENESES REYES and Camila PONCE LARA
Chair: Olga Alejandra SABIDO RAMOS