REALITY LOST?
How to Recapture an Increasingly
Elusive World
June 19-21, 2025

22nd Annual Conference of the International Social Theory Consortium
Hosted by the
Center for Social Theory
University of Tennessee-Knoxville (Online)

FINAL PROGRAM
Conference Theme
Global civilization has been undergoing increasingly rapidly accelerating transformations, so much so that it is not an exaggeration to observe that reassessments of everything existing are required. Most of the working assumptions that have informed social research and social theory have become questionable, and the future may well be more uncertain than ever before, with proliferating threats, on the one hand, and new technologies like A.I. whose implications are impossible to predict, on the other.
Submissions

Submit an abstract, paper, or session proposal by
May 31, 2025.

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Submit to
istc2025@socialtheory.org

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The conference was held entirely
ONLINE
and is
OPEN
SUBMISSION.
Present Challenge
We encourage a broad range of themes presenters may address.  The guiding frame should pertain to the goal of narrowing the gulf between phenomena theorists are trying to understand or illuminate, and the concepts employed toward this end.  One of the main challenges researchers and scholars have been facing have to do with the difficulty to keep up with the pace and directions of social change, and the increasing obsolescence of most concepts that were developed during the last two centuries.
ORGANIZERS:

Harry F. Dahms
University of Tennessee-Knoxville
hdahms@utk.edu

Daniel Krier
Iowa State University
krier@iastate.edu

Krešimir Žažar
University of Zagreb, Croatia
kzazar@ffzg.unizg.hr