THE 39TH WORLD CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SOCIOLOGY TO BE HELD IN YEREVAN
AZG Armenian Daily
10/06/2009
Science
The 39th IIS World Congress will be held at Yerevan State University,
Yerevan, Armenia on June 11 – 14, 2009. The theme of the congress is
"Sociology at the Crossroads".
The five previous World Congresses of the IIS have highlighted dilemmas
of human existence and societal institutions in the contemporary
world. They have examined problems of social existence amidst processes
of globalization, cooperation and violent conflict. They have been
conducted in the spirit which guided the formation of the IIS, namely
that of an engagement and encounter between a variety of theoretical
positions among members of a truly international community of scholars.
The 39th World Congress will reaffirm that spirit. It will have
three broad foci, namely questions concerning the way sociology can
arrive at a reformulated understanding of dilemmas of humanity in
the contemporary era, including the nature of war and violence, of
political order and states and state-like entities, of religious and
cultural encounters, of processes of collective memories, traumas and
reconciliations, and of shifting conceptions of law, legal regulation,
human rights and international order.
The Congress will also highlight cutting-edge theoretical advances
in sociology and neighboring disciplines as well as teaching and
curricular developments of sociology and social science in general
in universities in the future.
The structure of the Congress is straightforward. The Congress will
open on Thursday afternoon, June 11, with two plenary sessions. Each
morning of the three following days, June 12-14, there will be two
plenary sessions. The afternoons will be devoted to sessions proposed
and organized by participants themselves.
The Congress is hosted by Yerevan State University (YSU) and organized
by Aram Simonyan, Rector of YSU, and Bjorn Wittrock, Principal
of SCAS and President of the IIS, together with Craig Calhoun,
New York University (NYU), and President, Social Science Research
Council (SSRC), New York; Yehuda Elkana, Central European University
(CEU); Lyudmila Harutyunyan, YSU; Peter Hedstrom, Nuffield College,
Oxford and Singapore Management University (SMU), Secretary-General,
IIS, and President, European Academy of Sociology; Hans Joas,
Max-Weber-Kolleg, University of Erfurt, University of Chicago, and
Vice-President, International Sociological Association; and Shalini
Randeria, University of Zurich and President, European Association
of Social Anthropologists.
The 39th World Congress of the IIS is jointly sponsored by YSU and
the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS).
The International Institute of Sociology (IIS) is a scholarly
organization which seeks to stimulate and facilitate the development,
exchange, and application of scientific knowledge to questions of
sociological relevance. Membership is open to all sociologists as
well as to scholars in neighboring disciplines.
Created in Paris in 1893 by Rene Worms, it is the oldest continuous
sociological association in existence. Since its foundation the goal
of the IIS has been to bring together sociologists from around the
world. It has a longstanding tradition of promoting discussions on
the most crucial theoretical issues of the day and on the practical
use of social scientific knowledge.
Every two years the IIS organizes a world congress in Sociology. These
congresses are vibrant intellectual events. At the 2008 World Congress
in Budapest, 768 delegates from 64 countries presented 663 papers.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
