In 2025, RCSL holds its annual meeting within the framework of the V ISA Forum of Sociology, Rabat, Morocco, 6-11 July 2025, organized under the heading Knowing Justice in the Anthropocene.
Introduction
Timeline
Organization – RCSL Rabat Programme Committee
Programme
Provisional Programme – Call for Papers (archive page)
Practical Information about the V ISA Forum Abstract Submission System
See also the Posts published on this website concerning this meeting.
Introduction
The International Sociological Association (ISA), to which RCSL belongs, organizes 2025 in Rabat an international Forum of Sociology. An ISA Forum of Sociology is a world gathering of researchers in sociology ambitioning to contribute to global public debates with practically relevant inputs. The 2025 topic, Knowing Justice in the Anthropocene, might be translated in the following question: how to develop a better knowledge – and a better distributed knowledge – about place and role of mankind in the biosphere to which it belongs.
Instead of having a separate meeting in 2025, RCSL will participate in that ISA Forum (for details about this decision, see RCSL Newsletter 2024(1), p. 6). The main reason for this is that the topic Knowing Justice in the Anthropocene, building on the notion of justice, directly connects to our research domain, and it challenges us to give emphasis to environmental issues, currently not among the issues highlighted by RCSL structure of working groups.
Timeline
The three first steps in the preparation of the Forum are (see also the ISAforum25 Guidelines, p. 6: https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/forum/rabat-2025/v-isa-forum-guidelines ):
Until 1st of July 2024: Call for sessions. Interested RC-Members are invited to propose Paper presentation sessions, Roundtable sessions, or Poster sessions.
Until 31 July 2024: RC Programme Coordinators have to finalize the list of the RC Sessions, ie in our case the draft programme of RCSL activities at Rabat, to be designed after selection, by the RCSL Rabat 2025 Programme Committee, of the session proposals received.
Until 15 October 2024: Call for abstracts.
Until 30 November: Selection and relocation of abstracts.
Until 15 December: Final sessions scheduling (see the complete programme).
31 January 2025: Deadline for applications for V ISA Forum grants covering the registration costs. See the Call for Applications on this website.
Until 22 March 2025: Registration of presenters (Important note: ISA has opened a Call for Grants covering the cost of this registration).
9 May 2025: publication of the Online V ISA Forum Programme.
Organization
RCSL Programme Coordinator for the Rabat ISA Forum is Pierre Guibentif, RCSL President.
Members of the RCSL Rabat 2025 Programme Committee are:
Alysia Blackham, Podgórecki Prize 2020
Pablo Leandro Ciocchini, RCSL Board, Chair of the RCSL Newsletter Editorial Committee
Melissa Crouch, Podgórecki Prize 2022
Stefanie Lemke, RCSL Secretary
Laura Noemi Lora, Elected Member of the RCSL Executive Board
Masayuki Murayama, RCSL President 2014-2018
Ulrike Schultz, RCSL President 2018-2023
Germano Schwartz, Elected Member of the RCSL Executive Board
Programme
This page last updated 7 January 2025