Information on Applying for a Plenary Presentation

The six Plenary Sessions will take place on Tuesday, 29 September 2026, and Thursday, 1 October 2026, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., with three sessions running in parallel each day.

To apply for a plenary presentation, please submit your proposal (maximum 5,000 characters, including spaces) by 31 March 2026 to both reviewers listed in the respective Call for Papers.

Of the maximum two presentations that one person may give during the congress, only one may be a plenary presentation.

Each plenary session will include four presentations.

For review committees:
The selected plenary sessions must be submitted via the Converia congress platform by 11 May 2026.

• The Right Life in the Wrong One? The Futures of Society between Individual Optimism and Collective Future Anxieties (PDF)
• The Social Futures of Artificial Intelligence (PDF)
• Imagining Social Futures (PDF)
• Capitalism without a Future or a Future without Capitalism? Visions and Aspirations in the Context of Contemporary Socio-Economic Transformations (PDF)
• Simulation and Society – Sociology as an Experimental Science of the Future (PDF)
• Sociology as a Science of the Future? Methodological and Science Policy Perspectives (PDF)