Raquel Sosa Elízaga

The XXVIIIth Congress of the Latin American Sociological Association took place from September 6 to 10 in Recife, Brazil 2011, attracting 4,578 participants and 9,716 registered students, professionals, researchers and teachers. Dozens of professors, students and fellows of the University of Recife and other Brazilian universities carried out an extraordinary collective effort to organize seven keynote lectures, nine integrative sessions, 25 thematic sessions...

Alongside the Executive Committee Meeting of the ISA in Mexico City, March 21-25, 2011, the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the National Autonomous University in Mexico City collected together prominent Mexican, Latin American and other international colleagues to debate inequality. In three lectures, the President of the Association, Michael Burawoy, Rolando Cordera and Göran Therborn explored the scope of the study of inequality, its origins...

The Program Committee for the 2014 Yokohama World Congress has been approved by the ISA Executive Committee. It was chosen with due regard to diversity by region, by gender, by area of specialty as well as for their scholarly distinction and expertise in the theme of the Congress: Facing an Unequal World: Challenges for Global Sociology. I look forward to the intensive and extensive international collaboration to make the Congress a great success. Committee...

First of all, I appreciate the honor of having the possibility of addressing my colleagues of the International Sociological Association. I have long wanted to make not only my voice heard, but also to know that our Association is willing to open up its resources, experience and professional capacities to give way to new challenges, and listen to many voices, both within and without the sociological community. I would like to say that I find that...