75 Years of Sociology
BSA Annual Conference 2026
8-10 April 2026
University of Edinburgh, UK
Plenary Speakers
- Jason Arday
- Les Back
- Panel: Exploring the Commonalities, Solidarities and International Challenges for Global Sociology
About the Event
In April 2026, the BSA Annual Conference returns once more - an enduring fixture in the sociological calendar, and a gathering unlike any other. Held on the eve of the Association’s 75th anniversary, this year’s conference offers a moment to think sociologically with time: how we periodise change, how we inherit and rework ideas, and how our histories shape the contours of our present.
As we approach the BSA’s seventy-fifth year, we also welcome reflexive engagements with the discipline itself - its trajectories, tensions, boundaries, and blind spots. What have been sociology's dominant frames, and who has been left out of the telling? How has the discipline responded to shifts in political life, knowledge production, and the university - and where might it go next?
The Annual Conference is where we test early thoughts, return to unfinished ones, and give form to ideas that won’t quite sit still. It is an intellectual commons where scholars from every corner of the discipline meet - not only to speak, but to listen.
We look forward to welcoming you at the Conference.