Section events
The Section Sessions will take place from Tuesday, 29 September 2026, to Thursday, 1 October 2026, between 2:15 p.m. and 5:00 p.m., as well as on Wednesday, 30 September 2026, and Friday, 2 October 2026, between 9:00 a.m. and 11:45 a.m.
The Section Sessions are an integral part of the DGS Congress. The German Sociological Association (DGS) currently comprises 36 sections, each dedicated to different areas of sociological theory and methodology. Further information about the sections, their activities, and their events can be found on the official DGS website.
Language information: The English translations of the session titles are provided to help international participants navigate the programme. Please note that most section events will be held in German unless otherwise indicated.
Sek01:
Futures of Ageing and the Sociology of Ageing
Organisation: Ludwig Amrhein (Rosenheim), Luisa Bischoff (Frankfurt am Main), Anna Wanka (Vienna)
Sek36:
The Future of the Generational Contract: Giving and Taking in Times of Polycrisis
(in cooperation with the Section of Economic Sociology)
Organisation: Philipp Golka (Cologne), Andreas Jansen (Duisburg), Lisa Suckert (Antwerp), Isabell Stamm (Berlin), Anna Wanka (Frankfurt), Katharina Zimmermann (Hamburg)
Sek02:
Futures of Work and Gender Relations in Late Capitalism
(in cooperation with the Section of Women's and Gender Studies)
Organisation: Tine Haubner (Bielefeld), Nina Hossain (Göttingen), Mona Motakef (Dortmund), Virginia Kimey Pflücke (Cottbus-Senftenberg), Lena Weber (Mannheim)
Sek37:
Current Research on the Future of Work and Working on Futures
Organisation: Tanja Carstensen (Chemnitz), Norbert Huchler (Munich), Stefan Sauer (Kempten)
Sek03:
Futures of Education and Educational Systems
Organisation: Jana Heinz (Munich), Maria Keil (Tübingen), Mona Granato (Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training)
Sek38:
Current Research Projects in the Sociology of Education
Organisation: Martin Neugebauer (Karlsruhe), Janna Teltemann (Hildesheim), Oliver Winkler (Bamberg)
Sek04:
Biographical Research and Its Futures: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Section
Organisation: Eva Bahl (Bochum), Yvonne Berger (Rosenheim), Anna Schnitzer (Halle), Irini Siouti (Frankfurt am Main), Arne Worm (Göttingen)
Sek39:
Biographies in the Context of Contested Futures
Organisation: Eva Bahl (Bochum), Yvonne Berger (Rosenheim), Anna Schnitzer (Halle), Irini Siouti (Frankfurt am Main), Arne Worm (Göttingen)
Organisation: Alexandra Barmina (Helsinki), Antje Daniel (Vienna), Sebastian Garbe (Fulda)
Sek40:
The Future of Global Sociology: Decentralising and Contextualising Theory and Research
Organisation: Anett Bochmann (Berlin), Daniel Bultmann (Berlin), Johannes Becker (Mainz), Lucas Ce Sangalli (Bochum), Eva Gerharz (Fulda)
Sek06:
"Europe" Under Pressure: Futures of European Integration and Societal Integration
Organisation: Sören Carlson (Flensburg) and Daniel Drewski (Bamberg)
Sek41:
Current Research Projects in European Sociology
Organisation: Zsófia Ignácz (Frankfurt am Main), Susann Worschech (Frankfurt/Oder)
Sek07:
Current Research Projects in Family Sociology
Organisation: Ayhan Adams (Osnabrück), Bettina Hünteler (Berlin)
Sek42:
Loneliness Across the Life Course: Dynamics, Contexts, and Societal Challenges
Organisation: Anne-Kristin Kuhnt (Rostock), Gundula Zoch (Oldenburg)
Sek02:
Futures of Work and Gender Relations in Late Capitalism
(in cooperation with the Section of Work and Industrial Sociology)
Organisation: Tine Haubner (Bielefeld), Nina Hossain (Göttingen), Mona Motakef (Dortmund), Virginia Kimey Pflücke (Cottbus-Senftenberg), Lena Weber (Mannheim)
Sek43:
Futures of Gender Studies – Current Challenges
Organisation: Friz M. Trzeciak (Göttingen), Corinna Schmechel (Göttingen), Tina Spies (Kiel), Folke Brodersen (Gießen)
Sek08:
Imagined Future Orders of Youth
Organisation: Tim Böder (Frankfurt am Main), Paul Eisewicht (Münster), Marcel Eulenbach (Gießen), Carsten Heinze (Hamburg), Anja Schierbaum (Erfurt)
Sek44:
Broadening Horizons: Youth on the Move
Organisation: Oliver Dimbath (Koblenz), Michael Ernst-Heidenreich (Koblenz)
Sek09:
Cultural Sociological Perspectives on Aesthetics of the Future
Organisation: Oliver Berli (Ludwigsburg), Uta Karstein (Leipzig)
Sek45:
Thinking the Future from the End: Cultural Sociological Approaches to the Apocalypse
Organisation: Ulrich Bröckling (Freiburg), Lars Gertenbach (Osnabrück), Christine Hentschel (Hamburg)
Sek10:
Current Research in Rural, Agricultural and Food Sociology
Organisation: Anna Henkel (Passau), Matthias Kussin (Osnabrück), Jana Rückert-John (Fulda), Annett Steinführer (Braunschweig), Carla Wember (Frankfurt am Main)
Sek46:
Digital Foodscapes: Food, Technology, and Society in Transition
Organisation: Joachim Allgaier (Fulda), Tina Bartelmeß (Bayreuth), Katharina Graf (Frankfurt am Main), Tanja Schneider (Lyngby)
Sek11:
Futures of (Dis)Information
Organisation: Udo Göttlich (Friedrichshafen), Christina Laut-Berger (Bielefeld)
Sek47:
"Who Cares Who Speaks?" Futures of Scientific (Media) Expertise
Organisation: Anja Peltzer (Gießen), Matthias Wieser (Klagenfurt)
Sek12:
Current Contributions to Medical and Health Sociology
Organisation: Rasmus Hoffmann (Bamberg), Alina Schmitz (Dortmund)
Sek48:
The Healthcare System of the Future: Can Utopian Thinking Help Us Move Beyond the Crisis Narrative?
Organisation: Sandra Jaworeck (Bamberg), Nadine Reibling (Fulda)
Sek13:
Current Topics in Empirical Social Research
Organisation: Katharina Meitinger (Utrecht), Natalja Menold (Dresden), Verena Ortmanns (Bonn)
Sek14:
The Futures of Qualitative Social Research
Organisation: Laura Behrmann (Wuppertal), Tobias Boll (Mainz), Tobias Röhl (Zurich)
Sek50:
Social Theory and Qualitative Social Research: The Future of an Ambivalent Relationship
(in cooperation with the Section of Sociological Theory)
Organisation: Jonas Barth (Bremen), Laura Behrmann (Wuppertal), Johanna Fröhlich (Basel)
Sek15:
Futures of Post-Migrant (In)Visibility in the Immigration Society
Organisation: Helen Baykara-Krumme (Duisburg), Christian Meier zu Verl (Konstanz), Eunike Piwoni (Passau)
Sek51:
Migration as the Future of Work
Organisation: Gizem Fesli (Bayreuth), Nils Witte (Wiesbaden)
Sek16:
Current Developments in Modelling and Simulation
Organisation: Knut Petzold (Zittau/Görlitz), Marc Hannappel (Koblenz), Hawal Shamon (Jülich), Sabine Zinn (Berlin)
Sek52:
Analytical Perspectives on the Futures of Society: Models and Findings
Organisation: Marc Hannappel (Koblenz), Knut Petzold (Zittau/Görlitz), Hawal Shamon (Jülich), Sabine Zinn (Berlin)
Sek17: Organisations and Existential Problems
Organisation: Michael Grothe-Hammer (Trondheim), Kathrin Lutz (Mainz), Marc Mölders (Mainz), Kurt Rachlitz (Trondheim)
Sek53: The Organisation of Expertise – The Expertise of Organisation
Organisation: Sebastian Büttner (Erlangen), Thomas Laux (Chemnitz), Leopold Ringel (Bielefeld)
Sek18: Futures of Participation: Changing Practices
Organisation: Antonia Schirgi (Graz), Jan-Peter Voß (Aachen)
Sek54: New Conceptions of "Citizenship" for a Political Sociology of Transformation
Organisation: Stephan Scheel (Lüneburg), Helge Schwiertz (University of Hamburg)
Sek19: What’s the Problem? Professionalism and the Construction of Societal Problems
Organisation: Tobias Sander (Hildesheim), Christiane Schnell (Frankfurt am Main), Hannu Turba (Essen)
Sek55: The Future of Professions and Professionalism? Research on Professions and Its Interpretations of Current and Future Developments
Organisation: Anna Bauer (Brussels), Sandra Decker (Munich), Andreas Langer (Hamburg), Regine Müller (Düsseldorf)
Sek20: New Approaches in the Sociology of Law
Organisation: Henning de Vries (Marburg)
Sek56: Climate Litigation and the Negotiation of Societal Futures
Organisation: Markus Ciesielski (Saar), Philipp Degens (Frankfurt am Main), Lea Frerichs (Hamburg), Hannah Vermaßen (Erfurt)
Sek21: Society Between Sacralization and Conflict: Perspectives from the Sociology of Religion
Organisation: Thomas Kern (Bremen), Insa Pruisken (Bremen)
Sek57: Utopia, Dystopia, Apocalypse – Religious and Secular Visions of the Future and Their Interrelations
Organisation: Lena Dreier (Münster), Robert Schäfer (Basel)
Sek22: Welfare Development: Trends, Expectations, Concerns
Organisation: Jan Delhey (Magdeburg), Stephanie Heß (Magdeburg)
Sek23: Power, Difference & Conflict: Future Orders as Presentations of the Possible
Organisation: Dörte Negnal (Siegen)
Sek58: Fragile Futures – Self-Concepts in Problematized Contexts
Organisation: Carmen Figlestahler (Hildesheim), Franz Zahradnik (Münster)
Sek24: Current Research Projects on Social Structure and Social Inequality
Organisation: Corinna Kleinert (Bamberg), Tim Sawert (Mainz)
Sek59: Fading Landscapes? Demographic Change and the Future of Social Structure
Organisation: Andreas Haupt (Karlsruhe), Reinhard Pollak (Mannheim)
Sek25: Forum for Social Policy Research
Organisation: Stefanie Börner (Jena), Katrin Menke (Bochum), Hannah Zagel (Dortmund)
Sek60: Digital Divides in Social Policy (Research)
Organisation: Christopher Grages-Karabiner (Bremen), Julia Höppner (Kassel), Simone Scherger (Bremen)
Sek26: The Ecological Is a Social Is a Generational Question: Precarious Futures, Challenged Generational Relations, and Emancipatory Potentials for Change
Organisation: Christoph T. Burmeister (Kiel/Berlin)
Sek61: Childhood as Safeguarding the Future: Measuring, Intervening, and Normalising in the Datafied Society
Organisation: Tanja Betz (Mainz), Nicoletta Eunicke (Mainz), Jessica Schwittek (Essen)
Sek27: Don’t We All Do Body, in a Way? Futures of the Sociology of the Body
Organisation: Clemens Eisenmann (Konstanz/Siegen), Babette Kirchner (Göttingen), Ajit Singh (Essen), Lisa Wiedemann (Hamburg)
Sek62: Bodies (in) the Future
Organisation: Clemens Eisenmann (Konstanz/Siegen), Babette Kirchner (Göttingen), Ajit Singh (Essen), Lisa Wiedemann (Hamburg)
Sek28: Past Futures – Future Pasts: Historical Sociology and the Historiography of Sociology of the ›Next Society‹
Organisation: Clemens Albrecht (Bonn), Lars Döpking (Rome), Oliver Römer (Göttingen)
Sek63: Who’s Next? Canonisation in Sociology Between Editions and Digital Infrastructure
Organisation: Sebastian Klauke (Kiel), Tatjana Trautmann (Kiel), Alexander Wierzock (Essen)
Sek29: Relationships of the Future: On New Forms of Social Networking
Organisation: Philip Roth (Cologne), Heike Krüger (Aachen/Cologne)
Sek64: Current Contributions to the Collection and Analysis of Social Networks
Organisation: Philip Adebahr-Maskow (Halle-Wittenberg), Malte Doehne (Zurich), Lydia Repke (Mannheim)
Sek30: Sociology as Heir to Modernity: The Future Pasts of Sociological Theory
Organisation: Fabian Anicker (Düsseldorf), Katharina Block (Rostock), Ulf Bohmann (Chemnitz), Katharina Hoppe (Frankfurt am Main), Daniel Witte (Aachen)
Sek50: Social Theory and Qualitative Social Research: The Future of an Ambivalent Relationship
(in cooperation with the Section Methods of Qualitative Social Research)
Organisation: Jonas Barth (Bremen), Laura Behrmann (Wuppertal), Johanna Fröhlich (Basel)
Sek31: Current Issues in Urban and Regional Sociology I
Organisation: Ryanne Flock (Würzburg), Jakob Hartl (Halle), Anna Steigemann (Regensburg), Jan Üblacker (Würzburg-Schweinfurt)
Sek65: Section Urban and Regional Sociology: Current Issues in Urban and Regional Sociology II
Organisation: Ryanne Flock (Würzburg), Jakob Hartl (Halle), Anna Steigemann (Regensburg), Jan Üblacker (Würzburg-Schweinfurt)
Sek32: Trends and Topics in Environmental and Sustainability Sociology
Organisation: Rubén Kaiser (Jena), Christiane Schürkmann (Mainz), Elisabeth Süßbauer (Berlin), Marco Sonnberger (Stuttgart)
Sek66: The Future in Conflict: Militarisation as an Obstacle to Socio-Ecological Transformation?
Organisation: Rubén Kaiser (Jena), Christiane Schürkmann (Mainz), Elisabeth Süßbauer (Berlin), Marco Sonnberger (Stuttgart)
Sek33: Current Research in Economic Sociology
Organisation: Philipp Golka (Cologne), Lisa Suckert (Antwerp), Isabell Stamm (Berlin), Katharina Zimmermann (Hamburg)
Sek36: The Future of the Intergenerational Contract: Giving and Taking in Times of Polycrisis
(in cooperation with the Section Ageing and Society)
Organisation: Philipp Golka (Cologne), Andreas Jansen (Duisburg), Lisa Suckert (Antwerp), Isabell Stamm (Berlin), Anna Wanka (Frankfurt), Katharina Zimmermann (Hamburg)
Sek34: Future Expectations and Their Consequences in Science, Technology and Society
Organisation: Petra Ahrweiler (Mainz), Sascha Dickel (Mainz), Anne K. Krüger (Berlin), Marc Mölders (Mainz), Jan-Felix Schrape (Stuttgart)
Sek67: ›Knowledge of the Future‹ and Its Production in Science, Technology and Society
Organisation: Simon Egbert (Bielefeld/Hamburg), Stefanie Raible (Linz, AT), Cornelius Schubert (Dortmund), Julia Schubert (Frankfurt am Main)
Sek35: Zukunft des Wissens – Öffnung und Schließung gesellschaftlicher Möglichkeitsräume
Organisation: Michael R. Müller (Chemnitz), Silke Steets (Berlin), Julia Wustmann (Dortmund)
Sek68: Gegenwärtige Zukünfte – revisited. Zur (Wissens-)Soziologie der Zeitdiagnosen
Organisation: Oliver Dimbath (Koblenz), Theresa Vollmer (Wien)
