Dr Jaka Primorac and Dr Paško Bilić, from the Department of Culture and Communications at IRMO, participated in the Sixteenth Congress of the European Sociological Association (ESA), which took place this year from August 24-30 in Porto, Portugal. This year’s Congress of the European Sociological Association was held at the University of Porto with the organisation of the Portuguese Sociological Association. The ESA Congress is held every two years, and this year, it gathered more than 4,000 sociologists from all over Europe and the world who presented their work within 800 panels, round tables and joint lectures.
Dr Jaka Primorac gave a presentation entitled ‘Tracing the precarity of film work: From organizations of associated labour, through semi-permanent work groups to gig jobs’ within the panel on ‘Labour, Precarity and Play’, while Dr Paško Bilić, gave a presentation on ‘Frankfurt School Legacy and the Critical Sociology of Media: Lifeworld in Digital Capitalism’ as part of the presentation of a special issue of the journal Critical Sociology that he edited together with colleague Dr Thomas Allmer from the University of Paderborn. Dr Primorac and Dr Bilić actively participated in the work of the Research Network for Sociology of Media and Communications (RN-18), and at the business meeting of the RN-18 network, Dr Bilić was elected as the head of the network, while colleague Primorac was elected as a member of the network’s board.
More about the program on the website of the Congress: https://www.europeansociology.org/conference/2024
IRMO scientists participated in the Congress as part of the work on the CULTMED project: https://kultura.irmo.hr/cultmed/
