Tina Uys

The Tenth ISA Doctoral Laboratory took place in the secluded environment of the University of Johannesburg Island in the Vaal Dam near Vereeniging in South Africa, November 8-11, 2011. A diverse group of twelve students from places as far apart as China, Iran, Europe, the USA, Mexico and Brazil were selected from 50 applicants. They were joined by two South African students. Their mentors were also quite diverse namely: Jan Marie Fritz from the USA, Chin...

The piece written by Piotr Sztompka follows his review of a three-volume set of conference papers presented at a meeting of the International Sociological Association (ISA) Council of National Associations in Taiwan in 2009. Sztompka’s review was published in Contemporary Sociology along with a response by Michael Burawoy, the organizer of that meeting and the former ISA Vice-President for National Associations. The theme of the Taiwan meeting...

It was with great excitement (and some trepidation) that I embarked on a 29-hour journey from South Africa to attend the Third World Congress of Turkic Sociologists held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, 21-24 September. Not only were had there been reports in the newspapers about ethnic violence between the Uzbeks and Kyrgyz in the South of Kyrgyzstan, and bride kidnappings, but I also did not have a visa – just a letter from the organizers that my visa...