Kurdistan in Sociological Perspective: Social Transformation and Global Connections
KISA is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for its First International Conference, scheduled to take place during the first week of December 2026 in Erbil/Hawler, the capital of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
This two-day international conference will bring together Kurdish, Kurdistan-related, and international sociologists, social researchers, graduate students, academic leaders, higher education officials, university leadership, and invited dignitaries from the Kurdistan Regional Government. As a scholarly, non-partisan, and not-for-profit association, KISA seeks to build a strong bridge among Kurdish sociologists, researchers, and international scholars interested in Kurdish society, Kurdistan, the Kurdish diaspora, and comparative sociology. This inaugural conference aims to establish KISA as an academic hub for sociological research, dialogue, publication, and international collaboration.
The conference invites original research papers, theoretical reflections, methodological contributions, and comparative studies that examine social change in Kurdistan, Kurdish societies, the Kurdish diaspora, and related regional or global contexts. Contributions may be empirical, theoretical, comparative, historical, qualitative, quantitative, mixed-methods, or policy-oriented.
Social transformation, Kurdish identity, nationalism, collective memory, language, culture, family, youth, everyday life, community relations, generational change, and Kurdish national consciousness.
Subjective well-being, life satisfaction, health, education, housing, public services, social development, and measurement of social conditions.
Ethnic inequality, gender, class, minority rights, discrimination, citizenship, social exclusion, and rights-based research.
Consequences of war, political violence, displacement, militarization, trauma, security, reconciliation, and post-conflict reconstruction.
Displacement, refugee experiences, diaspora identity, integration, transnational networks, and Kurdish communities abroad.
Higher education, sociology teaching, academic freedom, civil society, social movements, urbanization, and democratic transformation.
Paper proposals should include:
Panel proposals should include a panel title, a 300-word panel description, organizer information, and 3–5 proposed papers with English abstracts.
Please submit abstracts and panel proposals to info@kurdistansociology.com with the subject line: "KISA 2026 Conference Submission — [Author Last Name]".
