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Date and Location

Date and Time: July 13, 2014 (Sun.) 10:00am to 5:00pm (The exact time is subject to change)

Location: Room # F 201 in Annex Hall, Pacifico Yokohama, Yokohama, Japan (http://www.pacifico.co.jp/english/facility/annex/index
.html
venue of the ISA World Congress)

On-Site Registration Fees: 10 US dollars, 7 Euros, or 1000 Japanese yen
Language: English

In conjunction with the International Sociology Association World Congress (http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2014/), we are pleased to announce the pre-ISA Conference on Social Movements, scheduled in Yokohama, Japan, on July 13, 2014. Together with RC47 and RC48 of the ISA, the conference is designed to be a transnational event wherein students, researchers, and scholars studying social movements will convene from around the world to meet, share research interests, and engage in lively discussions.

With rapid socioeconomic and cultural
transformations in the last few decades, we now face a set of new academic challenges.
Academic gatherings, such as conferences, meetings, and forums, have increasingly been held, functioning as a venue to discuss issues common to us all. Interestingly, no academic meetings of a global magnitude have been held so far that pay exclusive attention to social movements.
Social movements vary, with diverse issues, motives, strategies, resources and surrounding environments, across countries and continents. The pre-ISA Conference on Social Movements has been conceived of as, and is designed to become, a platform where social movement researchers in the world gather, meet, present their own work, and exchange.

Following the morning plenary session, we will have a session on social movements in Asian/East Asian countries. In social movement studies, much attention has been paid to social movements and collective action in the European and American continents. In this session, we will introduce social movements in Asian/East Asian countries. This will widen the landscape of social movements, and renew our interest in the social movement studies.
The following session is designed to be an occasion for socializing. It is a space wherein students and scholars of social movements come together to introduce respective research activities. It will help

us develop our research network.

The conference is scheduled on July 13 to synchronize with the opening of the XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology. It will share the venue with the ISA World Congress. We invite fellow researchers doing research on social movements. The conference aims to offer social movement scholars from around the world a chance for networking that will extend into

future academic collaborations.

n Schedule (Tentative)
10:00-10:30: Keynote speech & Welcome Message
Michael Wieviorka (former president of ISA)
Benjamin Tejerina (president, RC48)
Antimo Farro (president, RC47)
10:30-12:15 Session 1: Future of Social Movement
Research
To be announced later.
12:15-13:15 Lunch
13:15-15:00 Session 2: Social Movements in Asia
Introducing social movements in Asian countries
15:15-17:00 Session 3 (Roundtable):
Self-Introductory Presentations
Participants introducing themselves,
creating academic networks

n Who Can Attend
Scholars, researchers, and students interested in and doing research on social movements.

n Requirements:
Power Point Slides for Self-Introduction Roundtable Session (15:15-17:00) intends to be a “getting to know each other” space.

Each of the participants will have 3 minutes to present herself and her work (4 slides per person).
The time is too short to present a synthesis of one’s research, but it is enough to connect researchers from different continents with similar research interest or perspectives.

Each participant is required to prepare a four-slide power point presentation for self-introduction. Self-introduction slides include who I am (1-page demographic information), what I do, and what I have done, and what research interests I have and what I want to do in the future, together with the contact.

A 1-page demographic information should include:
(1) Name & Nationality, (2) Contact (e-mail address , etc.; can disclose if so desired), (3) Affiliation (university & department, institute, organization, etc.),
(4) Position (professor / graduate student /independent

researcher, etc.), (5) Keywords of your research:
up to 5 words, and (6) A short message (if desired).

The conference organizing committee will collect the self-introduction slides from all participants, and compile them into a booklet.

The deadline for submission is May 30, 2014, 24:00 (JST).
Please send self-introductory power point slides to the conference office Japan at:
socialmovementconference@gmail.com

Please note:
(1) The power point slides have to be sent in .

ppt format, with the title “Last name - First name.ppt”
and in an e-mail with the subject heading of “pre-ISA Social movements Conference”.

(2) The office will not take power point data with
5 slides and more.

(3) We will compile a booklet in the printout format,

rather than keeping all the personal information in a digital format, simply because it will be safer.
All the power-point slides sent to the office will completely be discarded once the compilation work is done

n Visa Information

Please visit the official website of XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology at:
http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2014/visa.htm

n Conference Organizers
Benjami Tejerina, Antimo Farro,Dai Nomiya, Geoffrey Pleyers, Emanuele Toscano, Breno Bringel, Eiji Hamanishi

n Conference Office Japan
Dai Nomiya (Sophia University, Japan)
David Slater (Sophia University, Japan)
Taisuke Fujita (Nagasaki University, Japan) Yohei Katano (Tottori University, Japan) Kyoko Tominaga (Japan Society for the Promotion of
Science)
Ryoko Kosugi (Tohoku University, Japan)
Yosuke Tatsuno (Sophia University, Japan) Risa Murase (Sophia University, Japan)

n Supporting Organizations
Research Committee 47, ISA
Research Committee 48, ISA
Sociological Consortium Sub Committee,
Science Council of Japan
Sociological Forum Japan (SOF-J)

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David H. Slater, Ph.D.
Director of the Institute of Comparative Culture Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology Faculty of Liberal Arts, Graduate Program in Japanese Studies Sophia University, Tokyo