Sari Hanafi - Sociologies in Dialogue

Sari Hanafiis currently a Professor of Sociology at the American University of Beirut and editor of Idafat: The Arab Journal of Sociology (Arabic). He is the President of the International Sociological Association (20182022), previously its Vice President and member of its Executive Committee (20102018). Recently he created the Portal for Social Impact of Scientific Research: Targeting Research in/on the Arab World (PSISR). He was the Vice President of the board of the Arab Council of Social Science (20122016). He holds a PhD in Sociology from the cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris (1994). He is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters on the sociology of religion; sociology of (forced) migration; politics of scientific research; civil society, elite formation and transitional justice. Among his recent books is: Knowledge Production in the Arab World: The Impossible Promise. (with R. Arvanitis) (in Arabic, Beirut, CAUS and in English, London, Routledge, 2016). He is the winner of the 2014 Abdelhamid Shouman Award and the 2015 Kuwait Award for Social Science.Chin-Chun Yiis a distinguished research fellow at the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Dr Yi's recent research interests are changing families in Chinese and East Asian societies and the growth trajectories of youth from early adolescence to young adulthood. She has served as the principal investigator of research projects in family and youth studies, and leads a team composed of researchers of different ranks. Chin-Chun Yi has been an active member of the ISA since 1990, and was the president of RC06 from 2014 to 2018, as well as the ISA executive committee member of Research Council (20102018). She also has numerous experiences with editorial work including serving on the editorial board of Journal of Comparative Family Studies, International Sociology, The Sociological Quarterly, Sociological Inquiry, and Sociology, and as the guest editor for Journal of Family Issue, and Current Sociology. Among the edited books, Dr Yi has published The Psychological Well-being of East Asian Youth (Springer, 2013); Family and Marriage: Taiwan Social Change from 19852005 (co-edited with Y.H. Chang, in Chinese, Academia Sinica, 2012); Changing Female's Family Status in Chinese Societies: A Comparison among Taiwan, Tianjin, Shanghai and Hong Kong (co-edited with Y.H. Chen, in Chinese, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 2006). She also led and edited special issues in English academic journals on youth and family over the last two decades.