TG04 Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty

Program Coordinators: Aiste BALZEKIENE (Kaunas university of Technology, Lithuania) and Jens O. ZINN (University of Melbourne, Australia)

Monday, 7 July 2025

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09:00-10:45


Risk Governance of Systemic Risks
Session Organizer: Kristin SCHARFFSCHER
Chair: Joschka PHILIPPS

11:00-12:45


Knowing Risk in the Anthropocene
Session Organizers: Maricarmen HERNANDEZ and Alejandro MÁRQUEZ MÁRQUEZ
Chair: Vrinda MARWAH

15:00-16:45


Organizational Accidents: The Impact of Fragmentation and Uncertainty on Professional Life in High Risk Contexts
Session Organizers: Jan HAYES and Sarah MASLEN

Tuesday, 8 July 2025

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09:00-10:45


Post-Truth Uncertainties in a Post-Eurocentric World
Session Organizer: Joschka PHILIPPS

11:00-12:45


Communicating Risk and Uncertainty I
Session Organizer: Anna OLOFSSON
Chair: Jurgita JURKEVICIENE

13:00-14:45


Methodologies and Methods in the Research of Risk and Uncertainty
Session Organizer: Aiste BALZEKIENE

15:00-16:45


TG04 Business Meeting

Wednesday, 9 July 2025

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09:00-10:45


Disasters, Resistance and Change: The Politics of Disaster Risk Creation
Session Organizers: Isabelle DESPORTES and Ricardo FUENTEALBA

Theorizing Risk and Uncertainty
Session Organizer: Jens O. ZINN

11:00-12:45


Examining Risks and Uncertainties across Geographical and Cultural Contexts in Multidimensional Crises
Session Organizer: Aiste BALZEKIENE

13:00-14:45


Communicating Risk and Uncertainty II
Session Organizer: Kristin SCHARFFSCHER

15:00-16:45


Migration, Risk and Uncertainty I
Session Organizer: Maria Grazia GALANTINO
Chair: Francesca MESSINEO

19:00-20:30


Narratives of Risk and Disaster in the Context of Climate Change
Session Organizer: Magdalena GIL
Chair: Magdalena GIL

Thursday, 10 July 2025

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09:00-10:45


Risk and Space: Spatial Dimensions of Risk Perception and Spatial Vulnerabilities
Session Organizer: Aiste BALZEKIENE
Chair: Aiste BALZEKIENE

11:00-12:45


Migration , Risk and Uncertainty II
Session Organizer: Anna OLOFSSON
Chair: Marvin Joseph MONTEFRIO

13:00-14:45


Navigating Risk and Uncertainty in Everyday Life I
Session Organizer: Jens O. ZINN
Chair: Jens O. ZINN

15:00-16:45


Navigating Risk and Uncertainty in Everyday Life II
Session Organizer: Charlotte FABIANSSON
Chair: Charlotte FABIANSSON

Friday, 11 July 2025

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09:00-10:45


Discourse and Language of Risk and Uncertainty
Session Organizer: Jens O. ZINN
Chairs: Jens O. ZINN and Jens O. ZINN

11:00-12:45


Religion and the New Climatic Regime
Session Organizers: Vincenzo PACE and Orivaldo LOPES JR
Chair: Vincenzo PACE

13:00-14:45


Social Inequality and Violence in the Risk Society
Session Organizer: Charlotte FABIANSSON
Chair: Charlotte FABIANSSON

15:00-16:45


Women's Knowledge and Justice in the Anthropocene: Intersections and Implications in the Polycrisis
Session Organizer: Fiorenza DERIU