The six Plenary Sessions will take place on Tuesday, 29 September 2026, and Thursday, 1 October 2026, each from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Three sessions will be held in parallel each morning.

Tuesday, 29 September 2026

Plenary Session 1
The Right Life in the Wrong One? Society's Futures between Individual Optimism and Collective Future Anxieties

Plenary Session 2
Imagining Social Futures

Plenary Session 3
Sociology as a Science of the Future? Methodological and Science Policy Perspectives

Thursday, 1 October 2026

Plenary Session 4
The Social Futures of Artificial Intelligence

Plenary Session 5
Capitalism without a Future or a Future without Capitalism? Visions and Aspirations in the Context of Contemporary Socio-Economic Transformations

Plenary Session 6
Simulation and Society – Sociology as an Experimental Science of the Future