In 2027, RCSL holds its annual meeting within the framework of the XXI ISA World Congress of Sociology, Gwangju, Korea, from 4 to 10 July 2027, organized under the theme Global Sociology in Turbulent Times.

RCSL sessions at the Gwangju Congress are being organized under the coordination of Masaki Iwasaki, RCSL 2027 Gwangju Programme Coordinator, and Pierre Guibentif, Vice-Programme Coordinator.

The Call for Abstracts is open from 3 August to 14 October at 23:59 UTC/GMT. See on this website the list of the sessions prepared for this call to be hosted by RCSL or organized in connection with RCSL. See also a similar list on the website of the XXI ISA World Congress.

Members of the RCSL 2027 Gwangju Programme Committee are:

Masaki Iwasaki (Chair),
Pierre Guibentif,
Hideaki Irie,
Seonwha Kim (Treasurer Korean Society for the Sociology of Law),
Soojin Kong (Professor at Chonnam National University, Gwangju, venue of the XXI ISA Congress),
Laura Lora,
Masayuki Murayama,
Susana Santos,
Dee Smythe,
Joao Velloso

About this meeting, see RCSL Newsletter 2026-1, p. 4-5, circulated to RCSL Members on 25 May 2026.

Further information about the RCSL 2027 programme in Gwangju will be published here in due course.

See also the Posts published on this website concerning this meeting.

This page created 26 May 2026, last updated 14 August 2026